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Text • Layla A. Jones

Data That Would Measure the Effectiveness of Key Trump, GOP Policies Has Gone Missing Ahead of the Midterms

Most American households were not eagerly awaiting a set of tax data that was supposed to come out from the...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

DOJ Charges 28 People In Big Show of Cracking Down on Noncitizen Voting Ahead of Midterms

‘We Are Not Impressed by Their Case’ The Trump administration’s Justice Department has escalated its pre-midterm crusade against California, using...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

Steve Bannon Casts Bo French as the Future of the GOP

Steve Bannon has spent years trying to make himself the face of resurgent white resentment in America, championing the Trump...

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Text • Josh Marshall

‘Let Them Fight!’—Maybe It’s Grenell’s Turn In the Barrel Edition

In my earlier posts on the Habba-Grenell mutual self-immolation spectacle, I’d told you that while Ric Grenell is as nasty...

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Text • David Kurtz

Judge Rebukes Trump DOJ for Pushing Her to Recuse

Trump Calls Judge ‘Crazed Lunatic’ Over the past week, the East Potomac Park case has morphed from another of President...

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Text • John Light

Tom Homan Shares the Omar Plan

Homan States Explicitly That Denaturalization is an Option On Saturday, Tom Homan, President Trump’s “Border Czar,” made explicit what had...

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Text • Mike Rothschild

How Trump’s ‘Grand Conspiracy’ Investigation Failed to Become the New QAnon

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...

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Text • Robert H. Frank

Why Current Polling Averages May, in Fact, Understate Democratic Support

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Significant polling errors most often result when late-deciding...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Powers Jostle Over Oil Prices and US Midterms

Today’s world would be a fascinating object of study if one weren’t also living in it. The price of energy...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Alina Habba May Have Made a Costly Mistake

Last week, as part of the emerging ‘Layla Coda’ moment around President Trump, I flagged this story about a nasty...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Feud In Dolly Parton’s Inner Circle Reveals Arms Deal with Haitian Police

I’m thinking this nephew guy has turned out to be a problematic figure … The company in question, Fencebridge, was...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Data Centers

Fascinating nugget of data from an Economist deep dive cross-referencing polling data with the location of datacenters: “Voters across the...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Friends Don’t Let Friends Watch the Early Vote

One collection of data people obsess over in the weeks before a big election is the early vote – a...

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Text • Hunter Walker, Derick Dirmaier and Allegra Kirkland

Stephen Miller Is Anchoring the Trump Administration’s Nightmare Blunt Rotation

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Text • Josh Marshall

More MAGA-Under-Pressure, ‘Layla’-Coda Updates

Following up on the MAGA-under-pressure, intra-MAGA knife fights breaking out, whack everybody front. From this morning’s Politico Playbook … PLAYBOOK...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Some Caveats on Dems Retaking the Senate

Democrats’ prospects across the board look about as good as they have at any point in the 2026 election cycle,...

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Text • Joe Ragazzo

The TPM Friday Show

We’re going live at 1 p.m. ET today to talk about one of TPM’s true passions: Grifting in the USA....

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Text • David Kurtz

Trump DOJ Takes Election Interference to Next Level

Do You Get Morning Memo Via Email? Beginning next week, we’re going to be using a new email provider to...

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Text • Jeremy Kohler

Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter...

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Text • John Light

White Nationalist Attempts Mass Shooting at Hindu Temple While Indian-American Congressman Was Inside

‘We Were Very Fortunate That Something Much, Much Worse Did Not Happen’ For years, but with increasing ferocity lately, the...

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Text • Hunter Walker

How a Tejano Singer Found Himself at the Heart Of Democrats’ Path to a Midterm Majority

Bobby Pulido is in the middle of everything.  The famed Tejano singer is trying his hand at politics in his...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Is the Layla Coda Playing at the White House?

Earlier this week we saw former Don Jr fiance Kimberly Guilfoyle summarily canned because she became a scandal lightning rod,...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Wisconsin Election Officials Forced to Issue Guidance About How to Deal With Fed Agents at Polls

Of Course a 2020 Fake Elector Is Involved in This Saga As key members of the Trump administration refuse to...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

The Omar Case Encapsulates MAGA’s Attack on Citizenship

The Trump administration has flailed at each of its major priorities. That includes, so far, its attempt to instill effective...

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Text • Jason Blazakis

Trump’s Move to Rename Artificial Intelligence to ‘Super Intelligence’ is About Much More Than It Seems

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. President Trump has in recent days doubled down...

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Text • Khaya Himmelman

Federal Judge Finally Invalidates DOJ’s Nationwide Voter Roll Crusade Just Weeks Out From the Midterms

‘DOJ Cannot Run Roughshod Over Longstanding Laws’ Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! We are starting off with some...

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These GOP Candidates Are Backing Away From Abortion Bans They Once Endorsed

This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on...

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Text • David Kurtz

Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls

A Quick Heads Up For transparency reasons, I like peeling back the curtain on any changes we make to Morning...

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Text • Josh Marshall

What’s Up in Mississippi?

“Democrats have been way too timid and modest in their expectations in the past. There’s a real chance for something...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Josh Goes Back to the Big Senate Data Dive to Obsess About Polling Error

Back in August I did a write-up on a deep dive on polling error put together by Republican consultant/pollster Pat...