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It can't be the case that whether we get democracy or fascism, the rule of law or authoritarianism, reform or systemic corruption rides on the result of each election. Yet, here we are.
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With Four Weeks to Go, Dems Are in the Driver’s Seat
In the Stretch Run … With voting coming to a close four...
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A Georgia Election Board employee has allegedly gone rogue and requested that the feds intervene in his state's election.
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Things Get Messy in Georgia After Election Board Director Writes Letter to Todd Blanche
Georgia Election Board Employee Allegedly Goes Rogue, Requests Federal Intervention Last week,...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 3h
Because of federal rules, children covered by Medicaid won't be able to access vaccines that are no longer recommended by the federal government, even as children with private insurance will.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 03/10/2026
Candidate Quality
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Candidate Quality
The New York Times and Siena released another batch of polls this...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 03/10/2026
The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus
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The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus
[Essay] This election cycle is rife with “slopaganda” — that is, AI-generated “slop” used for political propaganda. In a fascinating recent piece in the…
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Josh Marshall: Given how much pent-up desire there was in the world of Big Tech to throw money at things that were manifestly silly, it's hardly surprising that they were willing to spend unimaginable sums once something turned up that actually seemed real.
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Remember the Metaverse? Tech’s Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
The shock budget cuts are just a continuation of a retaliation campaign by Pulte against internal watchdogs that’s been going on for a year.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Checking in On the House of Mouse
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Checking in On the House of Mouse
Josh is out on vacation and producer Jackie is subbing in! This...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
In 2024, Missouri voters approved a measure to enshrine abortion rights in the state constitution. Republican lawmakers are now trying to make Missouri the only state in the country whose constitution explicitly ~bans~ abortion.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Yet More …
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Yet More …
We’re seeing article after article now restating in slightly different ways the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
JD Vance said Angie Nixon doesn't "belong in America" during speech in Florida to bail out Ashley Moody and Byron Donalds.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 02/10/2026
Rufo often gets treated as a "respectable" conservative. His latest podcast episode — framing Indian-Americans as a problem in need of solving — is more evidence that he shouldn't be.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From
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Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenue’s Gonna Come From
A friend sent me this new Bain Capital study on the growth...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Raskin and Whitesides sent a letter to the Government Accountability Office (GAO) and the U.S. Office of Special Counsel (OSC) on Tuesday to look into the reported shuffling of funds.
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Calls for Investigations Into Trump’s Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up
‘Nearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is False’ Rep. Jamie Raskin...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
What Hoskins did was not Trumpian fire and brimstone, bellowing about the criminality of Democrats and immigrants to try to overturn elections. It’s the unsexy, quietly effective cheating made possible by placing party loyalists in key bureaucratic positions.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
The GOP ran for decades on attacking the nuts and bolts of governance. There is no such set of priors or rhetorical commitment from Democrats.
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
In order to execute their illegal pocket rescission scheme, the Trump White House is breaking federal laws, “openly saying that they did illegal activities to get here,” experts tell TPM.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 01/10/2026
Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) gave the green light to Russ Vought's latest effort to seize Congress' power of the purse, saying that all government spending should be reduced.
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Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Vought’s Latest Impoundment
A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
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Rusty Republicans and Ruthless Democrats
Kate and Josh talk September surprises for some Republican incumbents, SCOTUS’ return...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
The bill would have merely *encouraged* our nation's Big Tech oligarchs to cover the cost of rising utility expenses tied to data centers and AI model training.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
An IRS proposal to add a citizenship and work authorization question to a crucial tax form coincides with Census Bureau efforts that would use tax information to exclude most immigrants from the 10-year population count.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
The proposed bill would also prevent the president from attempting to use a pocket rescission in the future.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
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Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, I’ve mainly focused on...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Yesterday's developments in three important Trump II cases are datapoints in favor of a tentative working theory that appeals courts are slowly coming around to the urgency of the current moment.
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Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
They’re campaigning on keeping them out of sports, even in states where trans students have been blocked from competition for years.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 30/09/2026
Schmitt's staff may have set their boss up for a big day around his big moment. But, to echo another famous conspiracy theorist, the intel on this wasn't 100%.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Democrats are aggressively sounding the alarm about the matter, arguing it is not just the usual Trump corruption but likely "illegal propaganda."
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Dems Vow to Investigate Trump’s Taxpayer-Funded Midterms Ads Promoting Himself
‘Shockingly Corrupt’ PSAs House and Senate Democratic appropriators are unleashing on the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
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Rusty Red State Candidates With Rusty Values
This afternoon I saw an ad being run by a SuperPAC supporting...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration to continue deporting people to countries where they have no ties and where they may face violence.
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Supreme Court Cosigns One of Trump’s Most Inhumane Immigration Practices
The Supreme Court on Tuesday cleared the way for the Trump administration...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
TPM has found fairly definitive evidence proving Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO) misread text messages when he attempted to corner former special counsel Jack Smith during a congressional hearing on Tuesday.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The top line: The en banc court is likely to rule against the Trump administration and allow U.S. District Judge James Boasberg to proceed with a contempt of court inquiry.
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
@emineirmakyucel.bsky.social and @jragazzo.bsky.social talk about Mike Johnson's claim that this was the "most productive" Congress ever, GOP infighting, and what will happen if the Dems retake the House: www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS05...
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Congress Is Leaving Town. What Do Lawmakers Have to Show for Themselves? | TPM Live
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
A new rule from the Office of Management and Budget would prohibit anyone from using federal grant money for voter registration drives. It’s part of the Trump administration’s broader efforts to restrict voting access.
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‘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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Josh Marshall: Two things appear to be moving in unison, on a downward trajectory: consumer confidence and the Republican position on the national generic ballot.
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Perfect Storm, Brought to You by Donald Trump
As I noted a week ago, we can’t know whether the current...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
STARTING NOW: Emine Yücel has chronicled all the congressional drama this session. Join her on YouTube Live to hear about how the Senate is spending its final week on the Hill, how GOPers are planning to mobilize their demoralized voters + more
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The House has already left town. The Senate is heading home this week. Join TPM's congressional reporter Emine Yücel for a chat about what Congress has actually done — and failed to do — this session:
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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...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The mother of all "investigate the investigators" retributions in south Florida suffered another major blow with the resignation of Kurt Olsen as its top prosecutor.
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The Biggest Trump Retribution Scheme Is Coming Apart at the Seams
Blanche Overpromises and Underdelivers The mother of all “investigate the investigators” retributions...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The White House is steamrolling Congress' power of the purse — its constitutional power to decide how taxpayer money is spent — zeroing out programs that legislators wrote into law while pouring money into airing Trump campaign ads on television
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Russ Vought Takes a New Path Toward Overriding Congress
Programming Note I’ve been gone for two days! I forgot to say...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
The insurgent left does not share Tea Party’s reactionary fervor to remake, or remove, much of the U.S. government. And the Tea Party movement was largely suburban or rural and, most importantly, white.
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Why All the Handwringing About a ‘Tea Party of the Left’ Was So Misguided
This article is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. As...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 29/09/2026
Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition
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Roger Marshall May Rue The Day: Arresting Pregnant Moms Edition
I’m figuring this will end up as a big mistake. You probably...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Kean is facing a tough reelection challenge from Democrat Rebecca Bennett, a former Navy helicopter pilot, in a race rating that Cook Political Report recently switched from a "toss up" to "lean Democratic."
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Vulnerable GOPer Breaks With Trump’s Retribution Crusade Against Blue States
‘I Will Challenge Anybody Who Gets in My Way’ My colleagues and...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@terrigerstein.bsky.social: If workers for just this one company in this one city are owed $115 million dollars, just imagine how much workers are owed everywhere else. talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/whats-m...
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What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement
This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
@joshkovensky.bsky.social joined @jaredlholt.bsky.social and @michaelehayden.bsky.social of the Posting Through It podcast to talk about the influencer grifters boosting the Trump admin's agenda open.spotify.com/episode/59Tb...
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144: Content Creators for the Authoritarian State feat. Josh Kovensky
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
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US Tax Dollars Now Used to Secure Deals for Trump Family Cronies
This has gotten very little attention, as far as I can tell....
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
The Trump administration was found in contempt of court Friday for wrongfully deporting a Salvadoran young man last month for the second time — after he had already been unlawfully deported in March, then returned to the U.S., before being removed again.
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Judge Finds Trump Admin in Contempt of Court Again for Wrongful Deportation
Three Different Court Orders Violated The Trump administration was found in contempt...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Losing Money But Making It Up in Volume? More News from the AI Front
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Losing Money But Making It Up in Volume? More News from the AI Front
Here’s our text for the day on the LLM/AI “boom”, which is...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 28/09/2026
Despite decades of precedent, Republicans have long aimed to count students at their parents’ homes instead of where they reside during the academic term. The pandemic created the perfect opportunity for Republicans to pursue this agenda.
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How Republicans Used the Pandemic to Try to Upend Census Residency Rules
The census makes politics. Representatives are allocated to states based on the...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 27/09/2026
An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
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An Important Note on Silicon Valley AI Models (LLMs)
I want to flag your attention to this note written by computer...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 26/09/2026
Another Factor: Bad Candidates
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Another Factor: Bad Candidates
Here’s a secondary issue we’re currently seeing in a number of races...
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TPM @talkingpointsmemo.com · 26/09/2026
Your Moment of Trump Zen
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Your Moment of Trump Zen
Yesterday, after a federal court forced the White House to readmit three...
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