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Back to SearchAugust 8, 2025: Trump’s ‘law and order’ gambit comes for D.C.
Last night, the White House announced that it will use federal law enforcement officers to patrol Washington D.C. in a striking escalation of the administration’s antagonism towards the city’s locall…
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August 7, 2025: Dems’ new dividing line
As the humanitarian disaster in Gaza shifts American politics and opinions about Israel, the entire issue is quickly becoming the Democratic Party’s first foreign policy litmus test of the 2026 and 2…
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August 6, 2025: The next big gerrymandering fight
The White House is turning the screws on red-state elected officials to gerrymander new electoral maps and squeeze more GOP seats into existence ahead of the 2026 midterms. And the next big flashpoin…
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August 5, 2025: August heats up
Today, the biggest story in Washington is about what’s happening everywhere else: from redistricting fights in Texas and California, to town halls in Nebraska and Michigan, to just a general unsettle…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
August 4, 2025: The mess with Texas
Today, you can find Texas’ Democratic state legislators in Illinois, New York and Massachusetts. Where you won’t find many of them is Texas. That’s because they fled the state yesterday in an attempt…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago
From 'The Conversation': Rep. Sarah McBride Won’t Be Baited by GOP ‘Provocateurs’
Freshman Rep. Sarah McBride (D-Del.) is the first out transgender member of Congress. Within days of her election this past November, she faced attacks from Republican colleagues who tried to draw he…
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August 1, 2025: Liberation Day, Part III
With the markets closed and the August 1 deadline having passed overnight, President Donald Trump followed through on his pledge to impose a wave of new tariffs. But Trump is far from finished. The p…
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July 31, 2025: Joe Biden’s next act
For more than five decades, Joe Biden led an incredibly public existence. But now, in his post presidency, he’s entered a quieter, lonelier stage of life. He’s staffed by only one or two aides and Se…
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July 30, 2025: How to gerrymander your way to a House majority
We’re halfway between the usual once-in-a-decade redrawing of congressional maps. So why are we talking about redistricting in 2025? As the White House looks for ways to keep its Republican House maj…
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July 29, 2025: Trump’s turning point on Gaza
For a decade, President Donald Trump’s MAGA movement has bulldozed through GOP orthodoxy on everything from the national debt to immigration to trade to Russia. Now, there are fresh signs that it cou…
Published on 4 months, 2 weeks ago