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‘Prediction’ Markets Get Trounced in Hong’s Defeat

We went late into the evening waiting for absentee ballots in Milwaukee County last night. But Milwaukee County executive David...

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The Latest Wave of Primary Results Is in — Here’s What to Know

John Light has a run-down of results from last night’s major primaries in South Carolina, Wisconsin and Minnesota in this...

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We Finally See the Trump Administration’s Sweeping Census Power Grab Emerge

A Very Important Story (With Some Wonky Details) TPM’s Layla A. Jones and Josh Kovensky published a major story yesterday...

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Trump-Backed Election Denier Mike Lindell Loses Minnesota GOP Gubernatorial Primary

Pillow magnate and election denier Mike Lindell lost a high-stakes Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary on Tuesday, despite receiving an endorsement...

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Upset Brewing In Wisconsin

The Democratic Wisconsin governor’s primary is looking a bit like a replay of the near upset in Michigan but with...

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Ralph Norman Doesn’t Completely Embarrass Himself

Late-Sen. Lindsey Graham’s (R-SC) sister Sen. Darline Graham Nordone (R-SC) and Rep. Ralph Norman (R-SC) will both advance to an...

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Republicans’ Red-Scare-Meets-Islamophobia Midterms Strategy Gets More Desperate

Nancy Mace Mixes Her Faux Feminism With Fresh Islamophobia In today’s edition of Where Things Stand, I want to unpack...

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Your Dollars at Work

We’re almost to our goal of raising the critical sum of $500,000 in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive....

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Text • Layla A. Jones and Josh Kovensky

READ: A New Draft Rule for the Census Seeks Sweeping Changes to How Political Power Is Allocated

The Trump administration is planning to dramatically reshape the data the Census Bureau collects, setting the stage for an audacious...

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The King and His Shiny Objects

It’s sitting right there in front of us. But it’s still worth noting. The political stories of the moment are...

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Trump Uses Press Corps as Decoy to Evade Iran Threat

Air Force None By now, you’ve surely ingested most of the details from the bombshell WaPo report on the elaborate...

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The Big Last Push

Dear TPMers, We’re now more than 90% of the way toward our goal in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund...

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Mike Lindell Has a Real Shot at Becoming Minnesota’s Republican Candidate for Governor

Mike Lindell’s Big Moment Amid the wall-to-wall coverage of Wisconsin Democratic gubernatorial candidate Francesca Hong’s personal evolution or possible lack...

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Dr. Phil and a Texas Oil Firm Go to Greenland With a Suspicious Agenda. Signs Point to Trump’s Imperialist Visions.

Of Course Dr. Phil Is Involved There hasn’t been a ton of new reporting on a suspiciously-timed and blatantly Trump-linked...

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Trump-Backed Election Denier Expected to Secure GOP Nomination for Wisconsin Governor

Facing little opposition, Rep. Tom Tiffany (R-WI), an established election denier who voted against certifying President Joe Biden’s 2020 victory...

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We’re Goin’ Live to Talk Trump’s Blue State Retribution at 1 PM ET

This afternoon, Emine Yücel, Josh Kovensky and John Light will join me on our YouTube channel to discuss their investigation...

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Houston, We Have A Problem … What’s Up With the National DSA?

Sometimes I write a post which is about information that is not new or secret but new to me. This...

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First at TPM: Judge Orders Immigrant Released After Surreal Journey Through Trump’s Gulag Archipelago

The Bureaucratic Hellscape of Trump Authoritarianism This morning I want to focus your attention on another especially Kafkaesque example of...

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Iran Says: ‘Desperate Orange Man Comes To Us Begging with Tears in His Eyes’

One of our great doctrines here in the Editors’ Blog is that all power is unitary. Lose or gain it...

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Max Miller Has Chosen to Brazen It Out, Setting Up Experiment for GOP

MAGA’s Ohio Albatross The deadline for the Republican Party to certify a replacement for Rep. Max Miller (R-OH), who has...

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How Cleta Mitchell Continues to Make Herself Relevant in the Election-Meddling Universe

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Did Big Sun Take Out Andy Ogles?

Very interesting piece. According to Politico a big reason Rep Andy Ogles, one of the slimiest and terrible members of...

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Text • Kate Riga

Trump Won’t Take No for An Answer from Allies on Supreme Court

In the last 48 hours, President Donald Trump has revived two issues on which the Supreme Court ruled against him...

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Let’s Finish This

We’re getting near our goal for this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive. We call it a goal. It’s more...

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Most of Our Ideas About Party Divisions Are Bullshit — Let’s Discuss

A week ago I wrote about a new CNN poll and how it showed Democrats were pretty evenly divided over...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Kevin Hassett Thinks Ignoring the Dismal Jobs Numbers Makes Them Disappear

On top of the fact that the U.S. economy lost 23,000 jobs in July, a deep dive into the jobs...

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A GOP Primary Loss Couldn’t Have Happened to a Nicer Guy: The Andy Ogles Story

Good Riddance It takes a lot to be among the most odious Republican members of this Congress. Let me reacquaint...

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With Blanche Nomination in Limbo, All Eyes Are Once Again on a Senator Trump Has Scorned

Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) said she will oppose Todd Blanche’s nomination for Attorney General in a Friday morning social media...

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Ogles Gets Primaried

I mentioned this in my morning post today, but one of the weirdest, Trumpiest, vehemently anti-immigrant and scandal-plagued members of...