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RFK Jr’s Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and Human Services has no concern for disparities.  Following...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Candidate Quality

The New York Times and Siena released another batch of polls this morning across a swath of red states. The...

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Text • Christopher Mathias, Kate Riga and Allegra Kirkland

The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus

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Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI

We’ve been following this conversation here in The Editors’ Blog about what AI is, what it can do and whether...

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Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him

Cuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that smacks of retaliation, Federal Housing Finance Agency director...

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A State That Enshrined Abortion Into Its Constitution Is Now at Risk of Losing It

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 • Josh Marshall

Yet More …

We’re seeing article after article now restating in slightly different ways the same basic point about the AI infrastructure boom:...

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Text • John Light

JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesn’t ‘Belong in America’

A New Chapter in Vance’s Effort to Police Who’s American JD Vance visited Florida yesterday, stumping for candidates in races...

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Text • Christopher Mathias

Chris Rufo — Known For ‘DEI’ and ‘CRT’ Panics — Tries to Make ‘the Indian Question’ a Thing

To the degree that a “respectable” or “moderate” right exists today in America, Christopher Rufo is considered part of it....

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Text • Josh Marshall

Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From

A friend sent me this new Bain Capital study on the growth required to match the current levels of capital...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Calls for Investigations Into Trump’s Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up

‘Nearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is False’ Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary...

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Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trump’s Attempts to End American Democracy 

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt a lot like old-school Republican politics: boring, procedural...

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Trump DOJ Doubles Down on Attacking Judges

Blanche Targets Minnesota Judges Under the pretext of an ethics complaint against all but one of the active federal judges...

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Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. It’s More ‘a Confession,’ Experts Say

Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...

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Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment

A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize Congress’ Power Yesterday afternoon, TPM’s Emine Yucel got...

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Text • Nicole LaFond, Emine Yücel and Hunter Walker

Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Husted’s Campaign: ‘A Proxy for Corruption’

‘They Are the Party of Data Centers’ Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has some major data center skeletons in his closet...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power

A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump administration achieve new anti-immigrant policy objectives, including preventing...

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Text • Emine Yücel

Senate Dems Will Attempt to Stop Trump White House’s Latest Illegal Pocket Rescission 

Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) will try to...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines

In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, I’ve mainly focused on what it can do, what it is, what...

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Text • David Kurtz

Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat

Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of our time — whether the federal judiciary will...

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Republicans Can’t Stop Talking About Banning Trans Athletes

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

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Text • John Light

5 Points About a Senator’s Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury

By now, I assume you’ve read about what happened. Maybe you’ve seen the video. But yesterday was one of those...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself

‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the Trump administration and confirming reports that the Trump...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values

This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting Dan Osborn (“Nebraska Values PAC”) against Sen. Pete...

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Text • Kate Riga

Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices

The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they...

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Text • Hunter Walker

New Evidence Shows Just How Badly One Republican Senator Beclowned Himself in the Jack Smith Hearing

TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former...

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A Critical Moment for the Rule of Law

This morning the full D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals heard oral arguments on whether the Trump administration will be subject...

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Text • Lisa Song

‘A Massive Power Grab’: White House Proposal Threatens Funding That Helps Disabled Americans Vote

This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Perfect Storm, Brought to You by Donald Trump

As I noted a week ago, we can’t know whether the current polls will be predictive of the November election...

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Text • Allegra Kirkland

TPM Live: Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves?

The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this week. With the midterms just around the corner,...