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Text • Layla A. Jones

Truth Social’s New Plan to Make Money May Be ‘Egregious,’ But Will Face Little Oversight

By now, you may have heard that the company behind Truth Social, Trump Media and Technology Group, plans to sell...

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Text • Josh Marshall

We Really Need Your Help

We’re now ten days into this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive. Just over half way to our goal we’re...

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Text • Josh Marshall

State Sovereignty and Trump’s War Against the Constitution

In press conference comments today, Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin threatened that state election officials could face jail time if...

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Text • David Kurtz

In Major Shift, Trump Admin Prioritizes ‘Left-Wing Terror’ Over Islamic Extremism

Inside Rubio’s Confab on Lefty Terrorism The Trump administration’s effort to create a new bogeyman of left-wing terrorism has now...

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The Brief: Trump’s Primetime Address Backfires

Thanks for reading this last month as we soft-launch what we’re now calling “The Brief.” I’m taking a week off...

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Text • Hunter Walker

The ‘Doom’ Computer Game Was Part Of Trump’s Wild And Baseless ‘Election Security Nightmare’

Things got really weird during President Donald Trump’s big speech on “election security” Thursday night.  The centerpiece of the event...

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Text • Josh Marshall

A Must Read and Truly Horrifying Story

The AP has just posted a detailed investigation into the background of David Brouillette, the recently hired ICE agent who...

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Text • John Light

Trump’s Big Speech

The big announcement of a “prime-time,” “Oval Office” “address” was typical Trump, encouraging Americans to live in his world. In...

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Text • Josh Marshall

How Politico’s Negligence and Ignorance Helped Float Another DHS Lie

Voting rights, voter intimidation and the politics of voting have been central themes of TPM reporting going back more than...

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Text • Kate Riga and Nicole LaFond

If Fetterman Were Going to Change Parties, He Might Act Like He’s Acting Now

Sen. John Fetterman (D-PA) is re-arousing suspicion that he may intend to switch parties, something he’s tepidly denied he’ll do...

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Text • Hunter Walker

Can the New Progressive Wave That’s Reshaping the Democratic Party Win in a Rural Red State?

As a smoke jumper, Sam Forstag fought a relentless game of inches.  The job is a hard one. Firefighters who...

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Get Ready for a Conspiracy Theory-Laced Speech From Trump Tonight

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! We’re gearing up for President Trump’s address tonight, which has been billed as...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Georgia GOP Silent Amid Revelations About Senate Nominee’s White Nationalist Son-in-Law

GOP Senate hopeful Rep. Mike Collins’ flirtations with antisemitism now extend beyond his social media posts, past several of his...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Where Your Dollars Go

I hope you’ve gotten a chance to read Josh Kovensky’s exclusive from yesterday. The guy DOJ has assigned to lead...

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Text • David Kurtz

What Happened Outside The Blanche Hearing Was More Important Than What Happened Inside

The Bizarre Todd Blanche Split Screen Perhaps never before has a nominee for attorney general come before the Senate with...

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Why Everyone Will Bring Ken Paxton’s Abortion Record Up in His Senate Race

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

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The Brief: Trump’s Campaign to Prosecute the Left Gets Weirder

Blanche’s Top Prosecutor of Political Violence Marched at Jan. 6 TPM’s Josh Kovensky revealed yesterday that a top federal prosecutor...

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Blanche Does Cagey Dance on DOJ Independence: Dept of Justice Is ‘Under the Executive Branch’

There was no question heading into Wednesday’s confirmation hearing for acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that Blanche would receive little...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

EXCLUSIVE: Trump DOJ’s Top ‘Antifa’ Prosecutor Marched With Crowd on Jan. 6

On Jan. 6, 2021, a man approached the Capitol who looked like many others in the crowd that day: white,...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Trump Demands an AI Data Center in Every Pot

As many have noted, opposition to AI data centers is one of the very few issues that cuts across political...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Full National Emergency?

CNN is reporting new information about a sprawling and intensive leak investigation at the White House, with officials being asked...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Trump Administration May Add Immigration Status Question on Census to Influence Apportionment, Experts Warn

President Donald Trump may have learned from his last go at manipulating the decennial census to include a citizenship question:...

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250 In Sight

Thanks to everyone who’s contributed so far in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund drive. We can’t thank you enough....

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Text • Emine Yücel

Cornyn Says He’s Undecided on Blanche Over Acting AG’s Response to Questions About Slush Fund

Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) indicated to CNN Wednesday that he was undecided on voting to confirm acting Attorney General Todd...

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Text • Khaya Himmelman

ODNI Nominee Clayton’s Answers on Election Integrity Are Too Cute by Half

In exchanges with multiple Democratic senators during a Wednesday Senate Intelligence Committee confirmation hearing, Director of National Intelligence nominee Jay...

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Text • Joe Ragazzo

Almost Gone

If you haven’t heard, we’re hosting our next event Wednesday July 29 at Crystal Lake in Brooklyn. We’re partnering with...

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Text • Shefali Luthra

Idaho Voters Will Get the Chance to Overturn One of the Strictest Abortion Bans in the Country

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

What Price for the Soul of Democracy?

What I Got Wrong Writing about politics every day inevitably leads to an internal mental landscape full of regrets, self-recrimination,...

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Text • John Light

The Brief: The Future of Trump’s Retribution Campaign Goes Before Congress

Todd Blanche and Jay Clayton Are on the Hill Two figures who will play decisive roles in the future of...

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Text • Kate Riga and Nicole LaFond

Republican Senators Are MAGA Conspiracy Theorists Now 

There is an ever-shrinking gulf between the right-wing fringe and elected Republicans in their certainty that even easily explainable events...