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• Shefali Luthra

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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• John Light

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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• Nicole LaFond

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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Josh Marshall

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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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...

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• Kate Riga

Kagan and Barrett Go to the Hill: Three Takeaways

Justices Elena Kagan and Amy Coney Barrett made a rare appearance before congressional appropriators Tuesday as the Supreme Court seeks...

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• Josh Marshall

Fine-Tuning the ICE Murder Machine

As I noted yesterday, after the killings of Good and Pretti in Minneapolis last winter, ICE/DHS shifted strategy, trying to...

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• David Kurtz

The Federal Cover-up of Three Minnesota Shootings Finally Unravels

‘Now We Have All the Evidence’ The first hints that the Trump administration might be softening its position of refusing...

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• Jay Willis

How Lindsey Graham Built the Trump Supreme Court

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. I...

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• John Light

The Brief: Get Ready for Trump’s 2026 Disinformation Deluge 

Its Time to Flood the Zone With Shit Again Trump announced Monday evening that he’s hauling out an old trick...

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• Nicole LaFond

Judge Orders Sanctions Against Blanche, Says Trump Tried to ‘Manipulate the Judicial Process’ With IRS Settlement

Sanctions Against Blanche A judge has reached the same conclusion as many others about President Trump’s attempt to loot the...

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• Josh Marshall

The ICE Murders Surge

We’ve discussed a number of times that the high-profile/high-violence occupations of blue cities in 2025 and early 2026 were never...

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• Emine Yücel

The Unofficial List of Republicans Who May Throw Their Hat in the Ring to Replace Lindsey Graham 

Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) died Saturday evening from a “brief and sudden illness” at the age of 71. The longtime...

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• Grace Panetta and Shefali Luthra

The Race to Unseat Susan Collins Is Resetting Around Abortion

This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra and Grace Panetta of The 19th. Meet Shefali and Grace and read...

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• Josh Marshall

We Need Your Help To Do This

We had a solid first week of this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive. But we have a long way...

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• David Kurtz

Trump Shoots Messenger for Exposing His Risky New Air Force One Fiasco

Don’t You Dare Say the New Air Force One Has No Clothes Just 18 months into Trump II, the president...

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• Layla A. Jones

Right-Wing Groups Just Got a Big Win on the Census

A new Trump administration prohibition on privacy protections at the Census Bureau appears to be teeing up a fight that...

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• John Light

The Brief: Trump Says Graham’s Final Conversation With Him Was About the SAVE Act

Voter Suppression Looms Large in Push to Replace the Senator We heard a lot in the day after Lindsey Graham...

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• Bryce Covert

A Day at Court With Immigrants Fighting Their Cases Alone

When I walked up to 290 Broadway early on a late June morning, an imposing building in New York City...

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• Josh Marshall

Lindsey Graham Always Needed a Daddy

There’s not a lot I have to add to the reporting on Lindsey Graham’s sudden and unexpected death. He died...