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Text • Josh Kovensky, Layla A. Jones, Derick Dirmaier and Joe Ragazzo

Nick Shirley and the White House Make Their Relationship Official 

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Text • Josh Marshall

Follow Up About Political Giving

Following up on my morning post about the Democratic political contribution infrastructure, I had a number of TPM Readers write...

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TPM Live: It’s Scary Out There

Halloween is right around the corner, and it sure seems like monsters are running the country. This week I’m joined...

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Text • Josh Kovensky

DOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification if Republican Loses

The Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to stop Alaska from certifying the winner of the state’s Senate...

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Text • Josh Marshall

How To Clean up and Improve the Democratic Fundraising Colossus

The New Republic has a new piece out by Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach called How the Consulting Class is...

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Text • David Kurtz

Trump DOJ Plays Dirty Pool In California Election Case

The Sound of Silence In its attack on the midterm elections in California, the Trump DOJ has taken an extraordinary...

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Text • Madiba K. Dennie

Trump’s DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its Targets

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at Balls and Strikes. Around...

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Text • John Light

Trump, Vance, RNC Demand Republicans Stop Criticizing Ramaswamy Ad

Republican Party Adds New Plank to Its Platform: Ramaswamy’s Ad Was ‘So Good’ For a day or so, Republicans expressed...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Rampant MAGAworld Self-Dealing Hits a Snag

Blind Loyalty Not Enough? President Trump has made it clear in the firings of both his former Department of Homeland...

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Text • Josh Marshall

New Developments in the Expanding “Wedgewood” Polling Scandal!

I’m not sure where to start with this. The latest news is some mix of Webistics, Jukt Micronics and Animal...

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Text • Josh Marshall

2027, Checks and Balances and Court Reform

Here is one of those things we can see on the horizon and it will be important to be ready...

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Missouri Republicans Try To Trick Voters Out of Abortion Rights 

Hello, and Welcome Back To The Franchise Dobbs fallout may have dropped out of the headlines, but existential state-level battles...

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Text • Brian Lowry

Donald Trump’s Reality-TV Presidency Has Entered its Desperate Gimmick Phase

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump fancied himself an expert on television...

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Some Ohio Republicans Embrace, Some Scurry Away from Appalling Ramaswamy Ad

The Ramaswamy campaign’s new ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s mother, in which she repeatedly denounces her daughter as a liar,...

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Text • David Kurtz

Your Election Interference Fears Were 100% Justified

This Is Not a Drill … Repeat … NOT a Drill The Trump administration has launched a full-blown attack on...

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Text • John Light

Trump’s FCC Chair Wants You To Know That the Polls Are ‘Fake’

Brendan Carr Threatens News Broadcasters Over ‘Fake Polls’ Brendan Carr, Trump’s attack dog at the FCC, is warning the polls...

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13 Contests TPM Will Be Following Especially Closely on Election Day

There’s a lot to pay attention to this year. With Democrats putting up seemingly fantastical numbers in the polls, the...

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Panic in the Final Stretch

One interesting dimension of the “Wedgewood Polls” story I discussed last night is that Republican leaders are latching on to...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

Trump’s Desperate Data Center Pivot

Don’s ‘Dividends’ Republican incumbents and candidates facing data center outrage back home have been trying to get President Trump to...

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Text • Mark Tushnet

Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About FDR’s Court-Packing Plan

This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. The Overton window on expanding — or packing...

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Text • David Kurtz

DOJ’s List of Noncitizen Voters Exposed As Crap

That Didn’t Take Long The top election official in Los Angeles County has done a preliminary review of the Trump...

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Text • John Light

Todd Blanche Gets Sucked Into Trump World’s Pre-Midterms Drama

Laura Loomer and Todd Blanche Are Fighting Josh Marshall has been chronicling the many ways that Trump world is descending...

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New Entrant Pollster Was Publishing All Fake Polls

A crazy, crazy story unfolding tonight in the online virtual terrain of political social media and poll-watching. It’s late. But...

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Text • Nicole LaFond

GOP Abandons Republican Incumbent Who Broke With Trump on Blue State Retribution

Subtle Trump Distancing May Not Be Enough Republican Rep. Thomas Kean Jr (R-NJ) may be best known on the national...

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Text • Jackie Wilhelm

This Week on Polltober: Are We Seeing the Midterms Clearly?

On this week’s episode of The Polltober Show, Kate and Josh discuss whether the story of the midterms can be...

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Text • Andy Mannix and Doug Bock Clark

Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machine—and Hack It

This article first appeared at ProPublica. A few months into President Donald Trump’s second term, political appointees at the Department...

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Text • Josh Marshall

It’s the AI Economy … We’re Just Living In It

I corresponded with a TPM Reader from the tech world recently who marveled at the political salience of data centers...

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Text • David Kurtz

The Trump DOJ Is Now the Greatest Threat to Free and Fair Elections

Open and Ongoing Ratfuckery The Trump DOJ — corruptly deployed by the White House as an unprecedented election interference tool...

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Dem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A ‘Hoax’ Concocted for Votes

Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an “October Surprise.”  She did not...

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Democrats Have Big Plans for Elon Musk

Democrats Get Ready to Probe DOGE Ahead of the 2024 election, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson joked on a livestream...