Good morning, A convicted election denier sat in the Oval Office this week to talk about “plans” for the midterms.

Good evening, The United States hasn’t held a public execution since 1936.

On October 8, 1871, dry conditions and strong winds drove deadly fires through the Midwest.

On October 7, 2016, in the run-up to the 2016 election, the Washington Post broke the story of the so-called Access Hollywood tape, a video from 2005 in which Donald Trump told television host Billy B...

Another autumn morning in Ukraine. 5:59 AM A good day to prune my garden. To cut away branches of feelings that have drained my energy for too long. To trim the leaves of thoughts that dried and ...

People we’d like to see banned from government.

Republicans still turn a blind eye to the Jan 6th attack on the U.S. Capitol

Republicans gave him the reason. Wait until you meet the river guide.

Judging from his social media posts, Trump is panicking.

Last night, on October 4, U.S.

On Friday night, just before 11:00, Trump announced that his administration “will, immediately, begin sending ‘Checks’ of nearly $100 to over 20 MILLION wonderful Seniors to help pay for their Medicare Part B premiums, which we have already reduced by significant amounts.

On Saturday, October 3, the Power to the People festival, organized by Rock & Roll Hall of Fame guitarist Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave, took over the stage at the Merriweathe...

Trump held a campaign rally tonight in Mobile, Alabama, the city where, as Shawn McCreesh of the New York Times recalled, his MAGA rallies really took off in August 2015, when more than 30,000 people ...

These were years when I had every reason to have very little faith left in people. Then I opened this page and read you. For four years I asked you not to forget Ukraine. So many days I was embarra...

John Hudson of the Washington Post reported this evening that the Trump administration is openly defying Congress, taking $52 million in military assistance lawmakers appropriated for European and Mid...

A Washington Post headline today read: “U.S.

The scene that unfolded today at a hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee was a snapshot of politics in the U.S.

It has become routine for Trump to spend the weekend posting wildly on social media, and this weekend was no exception.

The White House airs Trump campaign ads paid by you

Also: Trump’s own judge holds the regime in contempt, election deniers lose in Colorado, and MAGA’s Kansas City map dies. Plus, the first of our 12 GOP Senate investigations drops tomorrow.

September 28, 2026

Good morning, evening.

Zelenskyy at the UN: "Ukrainians understand that this winter could be very harsh for us, but in response we will have no choice but to make it harsh for Russia too"

Also: Nevada checks DHS’s “noncitizens” and finds citizens, a judge throws out Trump’s lawsuit against a pollster, and Illinois writes the AI rules Washington won’t.

September 27, 2026

In our Intel Briefing this week, we dive into four big topics:

A Reason To Smile

and the American people are paying for it

Trump explains to the Chinese president how he’s destroying democracy

Also: Trump tells the UN he’s keeping Venezuela’s oil, bans three newsrooms and loses in court, and Republicans can feel November coming.

Also: North Carolina’s ballot trap under fire, data centers get the grid upgrade bills in California, and 260,000 shorted DoorDash workers win more than $115 million

Your weekend reminder that the fight is working

Trump’s war on the free press is continuing.

Trump spent his day kowtowing

I learned late this afternoon that, in addition to being Dolly Parton Day, today is National Lobster Day, honoring the cultural and economic history of the lobster industry.

Yesterday, William Turton, Avi Asher-Schapiro, Molly Redden, and Kirsten Berg of ProPublica published a blockbuster story reporting that the anti-corruption group of the Federal Bureau of Investigatio...

After a hearing yesterday about Trump’s Friday ban of CNN, MS NOW, and Politico from the White House campus, very early this morning—I was still awake writing yesterday’s letter—U.S.

Donald Trump's super PAC plans to spend up to $500 million to buy the midterm elections. Megadonors from both parties — almost all billionaires — have spent another $1.8 billion. ENOUGH. Get big mon...

You know what I’ve been saying about Iowa…LFG!

Ahead of President Trump’s meetings with the Chinese President, three big things should be on the agenda:

In 1945, still reeling from World War II, representatives from 50 nations reached back to the U.S.

Also: four places moved to stop data centers last week, a court struck down the regime’s six-hour deportation rule, and thousands linked arms around the Kennedy Center

and continues his attacks on our Free Press

Thousands of people gathered outside the John F.

makes a run for it

His own judge killed his scheme, FEMA’s cuts stopped, the Kennedy Center still isn’t named after him—and five more.

On September 19, 1676, three hundred and fifty years ago today, Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned Jamestown, the capital of the Virginia Colony.

Seven years ago, on September 15, 2019, after about a six-week hiatus during the summer, I wrote a Facebook post that started:

Progressive Mexico.