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TPM Live: Talking Don Jr.’s Corrupt Wedding, McConnell’s Return and Sports Stuff

Another weird week in American politics is coming to a close, and TPM investigative reporter Hunter Walker is joining publisher...

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Text • David Kurtz

Kennedy Center Saved From Demolition—For Now

JFK Memorial Remains Closed Dispensing with the need for an emergency hearing, U.S. District Judge Christopher R. Cooper of D.C....

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Exclusive: Census Bureau Directs Staff to Keep Quiet During Comment Period for Controversial New Rule

Leadership at the Census Bureau has ordered staff to halt all external events related to the 2030 Census amid the...

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Text • Hunter Walker

Trump’s ‘Willie Horton’ Moment Featured a Story White Nationalists Are Obsessed With

President Donald Trump painted a terrifying picture during his rally in North Carolina on Wednesday night. Standing on stage at...

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Text • John Light

The Attorney General Hits the Campaign Trail for GOP Candidates

The Administration Finds a New Way to Scoff at Watergate Earlier this week, one of our TPM reporters let me...

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Text • Teddy Amenabar

What to Know About Mail-In Voting for the 2026 Midterms

This article was first published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive their biggest...

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Text • Josh Marshall

We Need to Talk about AI, the ‘Rationalists’ and ‘Longtermism’

As I’ve suggested in recent posts I’m finding it quite challenging to make sense of this roiling debate about AI...

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Florida GOP Rep Up for Reelection Says Voters ‘Feel Betrayed’ By Trump’s Immigration Assault

A Republican member of Congress who is running for reelection in a Florida House district that is not considered to...

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New Whistleblower Report Finds Fed Agents Likely Broke State Laws in Pursuit of Trump’s Conspiracy Theories

Agents Instructed To ‘Misrepresent Themselves’ Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Democrats released another damning whistleblower report this week....

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We Asked 28 GOP Officials If They’d Denounce the GOP Nominee Who Marched With Nazis in Charlottesville

This week I asked 28 current and former Republican Party officials in Florida whether they would denounce an unrepentant white...

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Fugitive ICE Agent Arrested in Minnesota

Mary Moriarty Finally Nabs Her Fugitive Minnesota law enforcement arrested fugitive ICE agent Christian Castro yesterday after he returned to...

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Exclusive: Commerce Overruled Treasury Concerns in Push to Narrow Census Count 

Before the Trump administration issued its rule aiming to reshape the Census around accruing political power for the right, it...

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The GOP’s Bill to ‘Rip House Seats From Dem States’

A New Republican Bill Brings Efforts to Meddle With Apportionment Into Focus TPM has covered apportionment for years — in...

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Johnson Sends House Members Home Until After the Midterms, Avoiding Massie’s Vote to Impeach Hegseth

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is being accused of running away from a bipartisan effort to hold an impeachment vote...

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The Ohio Republican Begging the Senate to Help Him Get Out of the Data Center Mess He Helped Create

Big Tech Skeletons Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) was appointed to fill Vice President JD Vance’s vacant Senate seat after Vance...

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The ‘Protect Women in Sports’ Gang Eyerolls at Uproar from AI Video of Sideline Reporter Being Slapped

As if we needed further proof, the right again this week revealed its pearl-clutching about the dangers posed to women...

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AI Isn’t Conscious But Are Its Feelings Getting Hurt?

I just noticed this Politico piece which contains a poll they just conducted about AI and the odds that AI...

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Text • Layla A. Jones

Trump’s Threats to Stop Trade Couldn’t Keep the Fed from Hiking Interest Rates

The Federal Reserve opted to raise interest rates by one-quarter of a percent, or 25 basis points, in a unanimous...

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Trump: If I Can’t Have the Kennedy Center, No One Can

The Grinding Long Haul of Trump II The news this week is littered with examples indicating that accountability for the...

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Tierra Walker Died After She Couldn’t Get an Abortion. Her Family Is Suing Ken Paxton.

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

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Trump Cooks Up New Conspiracy Theories About the Butler Assassination Attempt

Trump Asserts (Without Evidence, of Course) That the Biden Administration Tried to Murder Him One thing I would not have...

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Text • Grace Panetta

The Epstein Reckoning Hits the Midterm Campaign Trail

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

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Text • Josh Marshall

Back Inside the Silicon Valley Class War

If you’re a subscriber to Wired.com I want to suggest that you read this piece: Why the Postpandemic Tech Bust...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Patel Won’t Rule Out FBI Agents At the Polls Because … He Got Tired of Dems Asking About It?

FBI At the Polls Bc I’m Annoyed FBI Director Kash Patel appeared before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday and...

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GOP Mad at Candidate For Doing Xenophobia The Wrong Way

Bo French wasn’t always this way. When he first ran for statewide office in Texas in 2016, he was an...

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Text • Josh Marshall

Trying to Make Sense of the AI Experts When No One Knows What’s Going On

I wanted to share a few more thoughts with you about this roiling public debate about AI and the dangers...

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Text • Jay Willis

Samuel Alito: Disenfranchising Millions of Voters Is No Big Deal If Mister Trump Wants It

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

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Text • Josh Marshall

Yep, the Anti-Trump Wave Is Building

Conventional wisdom holds that a midterm election only fully comes into focus after Labor Day. That’s when a critical slice...

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Text • David Kurtz

Trump II Sends Democracy Worldwide Into a Tailspin

What the World Is Saying About Us Sometimes it helps to hear what our friends are saying about us to...

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Text • Allegra Kirkland

YouTube Live at 2 PM ET: Chris Mathias on the Charlottesville Marcher Poised to Take Office in Florida

ICYMI, TPM’s new reporter Chris Mathias just published a new investigation revealing that the Republican nominee for a seat in...