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Text • John Light

Republicans’ New Plan to Save the Senate: Start a Race War in Minnesota

As polls show Republicans doing poorly in safely red states, the party is looking toward blue states in which its...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate 

Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won the 2020 election, said tariffs were making trade...

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Text • Emine Yücel

Trump Mails Americans Checks Ahead of Midterms, Seeking to Compensate for What His Party Did to Healthcare

President Donald Trump has in recent weeks unveiled multiple schemes to send checks to millions of Americans, adding letters explaining...

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Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug

A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming attack on mifepristone — much thirsted for by...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Oh Hey, More AI Stuff – Is This Our Reliable Narrator?

Yet another update on the running AI discussion. Here’s an interview Ezra Klein did with a guy named David Robinson....

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Text • Hunter Walker

Democrats Issue Stark Election Warning: ‘I’d Be Shocked If He Didn’t Try To Cheat’

The alarm bells are ringing. Five House Democrats appeared at a shadow hearing on Wednesday during which they warned that...

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Docs Reveal New Details About Dramatic Admin Efforts to Substantiate the Non-Citizen Voting Myth

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! With just weeks until the midterm elections, the Trump administration is, unsurprisingly, still...

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New Details Emerge on Stephen Miller’s Meddling at the Trump DOJ

The Tip of the Politicization Spear Since the dawn of Trump II, Stephen Miller has been the barely hidden hand...

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Text • Jay Willis

Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works

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

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Text • Josh Marshall

The AI Panic and the Hunt for Reliable Narrators

This is an update to my post from Tuesday about the “existential risk” panic. A good friend of mine reached...

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Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collins’ Orbit

How Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right extremists in Georgia Republican candidate Mike Collins’ orbit...

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Do Me This Favor

If you ever spend time on Youtube I hope you’ll take a moment to subscribe to our Youtube page which...

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Text • Kate Riga

Trump Admin Keeps Digging for Info About Trans Kids in Blue States

A ‘Bad Faith’ Crusade The Trump Justice Department went to court Wednesday to continue its fishing expedition for the most...

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Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the Light

Donald Trump’s manic building and naming spree has been a core feature of his second term in office. And that’s...

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Desperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red Seats

Worse Than 2006? Republican political consultants are practically falling over each other to make the most dire pronouncements about the...

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Trump Wants the Fed to Rescue Him Ahead of the Midterms. That’s Probably Not Going to Happen.

President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to exert control over the Federal Reserve’s economic policy. His...

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Tina Peters Has Trump’s Ear on the Midterms

Ed Martin Tells All (Sort of) President Donald Trump is, apparently, being advised on the midterms by former Colorado elections...

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Text • Jackie Wilhelm

Welcome to Polltober! A TPM YouTube Exclusive Series

You have questions, we have answers. Since TPM readers are as obsessed with political minutiae as our reporters are, we’re...

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Text • Kate Riga

Alito Says He’s Staying Put as Democrats Plan Judicial Blockade 

Alito’s October Surprise Justice Samuel Alito said that he plans to stay on the bench through the current Supreme Court...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?

For years, and especially in the last month or so, we’ve been collectively inundated with an AI industry which, uncannily...

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Text • Allegra Kirkland

We’re Launching a Special New YouTube Series Around the Midterms!

You have questions, we have answers. Since TPM readers are as obsessed with political minutiae as our staffers are, we’re...

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Court Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJ’s Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen Voting

Judge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very important ruling last week, a federal judge in...

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Senator Regrets Confirming Pete Hegseth, Becomes Latest to Confess He Made a Mistake

Welcome, Thom, to the Senate ‘Oops’ Caucus Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has a book to promote. In it, he revealed...

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Sign Of The Times … Texas Edition

It’s surprising to see Donald Trump campaigning in Texas a month before a midterm election, as he will this week....

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Text • Emine Yücel

Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts?

In recent weeks, as the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has floated novel ways to steamroll Congress,...

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Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About ‘Hunting’ Humans

Editor’s note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday this week, so other TPM staffers will be...

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Turkish and Pakistani Troops to Saudi Arabia

Hard to know quite what to make of this, or how much to make of it. But we’re getting what...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Memories of the Hastert Years … and the Ironies of History

It’s hard to know what to say about former Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, whose death at the...

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Text • David Kurtz

With Four Weeks to Go, Dems Are in the Driver’s Seat

In the Stretch Run … With voting coming to a close four weeks from tomorrow, Morning Memo will be shifting...

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Text • John Light

Things Get Messy in Georgia After Election Board Director Writes Letter to Todd Blanche

Georgia Election Board Employee Allegedly Goes Rogue, Requests Federal Intervention Last week, a letter surfaced from the Georgia Election Board,...