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Matt Fuller

@mepfuller.bsky.social
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Director of Congress at MSNOW. Past Lives: NOTUS | The Daily Beast | HuffPost | Roll Call | CQ | King Nebuchadnezzar II

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Kansas Reflector @kansasreflector.com · 12h
Roger Marshall’s complicated history of blurring the line between taxpayer dollars and campaign cash | via @journalist-sherman.bsky.social and @mepfuller.bsky.social #ksleg
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Roger Marshall’s complicated history of blurring the line between taxpayer dollars and campaign cash • Kansas Reflector
In a joint investigation, Kansas Reflector and MS NOW obtained audio recordings, photos, videos, screenshots of text messages and calendar items from 2020 — when Marshall first ran for his Senate seat...
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
I have also debated “raw milk” with him.
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 19/05/2026
Tom Massie's theory of Congress, in a worthwhile profile from @mepfuller.bsky.social of how he was never quite as much his own man as he'd like to think (but Justin Amash was). www.ms.now/news/thomas-...
He suggested that, among the roughly 220 Republicans in the House, there are 30 that are “just bad people.”

He said those 30 people were motivated by money or helping special interests. “Totally grifting, or totally owned by a corporation, that are gonna come back and be a lobbyist for Monsanto,” he said.

And then, he said, there are “30 people who wake up every day and they’re principled.” 

“They want to do the right thing,” he continued. “They still believe in what they campaigned on. They’re up here trying.”

“That leaves 160 that are NPCs,” Massie said, referring to Non-Player Characters. “They are following whoever prevails. They salute the speaker. And they are onboard every day. You don’t have to worry about those votes.”

But the good news, Massie said, was that if “the 30 good guys can become predominant and capture the speakership, we get a 160 for free.”

“Thirty trying to do the right thing. Thirty trying to do the wrong thing. And 160 along for the ride,” he said, though he clarified that, among the 30 principled Republicans, most of them “get their lunch money stolen before lunch.”
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 06/03/2025
One interesting wrinkle of reconciliation: You have two major GOP factions with entirely different ideas of what the final bill will look like. Both groups are counting on Trump to screw the other guy. And no one knows who will be *the other guy*. www.notus.org/congress/rep...
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Republicans Made Conflicting Deals on Reconciliation. They’re Counting on Trump to Resolve It.
Conservatives insisted they need major spending cuts in the reconciliation bill. Vulnerable Republicans said they couldn’t stomach those cuts. For the bill to pass, both factions have to vote for it.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 02/03/2025
What a contribution!
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Anna Kramer @annackramer.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
If you're helping to fill out that big spreadsheet from OMB, trying to decide whether a federal program has DEI elements or whether it gets in the way of energy production or any of the other qs, I would love to know how it's going. Signal below 👇
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Claire Heddles @claireheddles.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt’s 2022 congressional campaign failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of illicit campaign contributions. To this day, she hasn’t paid back the money. www.notus.org/whitehouse/t...
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Trump's White House Press Secretary Reveals Her Failed Campaign Spent $200K in Illicit Contributions
On Thursday, Karoline Leavitt’s failed congressional campaign amended every FEC filing it had ever made to reveal that she failed to disclose hundreds of thousands of dollars in excessive contribution...
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
The day the Starbucks changes from the Christmas cups back to normal is my own personal “nature is healing.” The days are getting longer. The nights are getting shorter. The Masters is practically here.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 05/01/2025
On a scale of 1 - “Tiny Vessels”-to-“Transatlanticism,” “Nightswimming”-to-“Brick” is a 9. And if you can understand what I’m talking about, you are beautiful but you don’t mean a thing to me.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 04/01/2025
After Donald Trump got the Freedom Caucus to fold, there's some new hope that this may be the way for Republicans to govern: Chart out a path, accept the chaos and resistance, then have Trump twist arms. Some really interesting reporting in here: www.notus.org/congress/tru...
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Trump Shows House Republicans the New Template for Governing
Trump ultimately pushed the speaker vote in Johnson’s direction. Now, the question is whether he can do that for legislation.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Folks, you have to love the United States House of Representatives. www.notus.org/congress/hou...
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House Freedom Caucus Denies Mike Johnson the Speakership on the First Ballot
It doesn’t look like Johnson will get the speakership without some more backroom dealing.
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wint @dril.bsky.social · 29/12/2024
Carter has passed. An accomplished man. A brilliant legacy. Although for many of us he died years ago when he refused to condemn, gamer gate
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hayley alexander @hayleyalex.bsky.social · 26/12/2024
He just loves the touch of oak on this fumé blanc
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
The quick shot of Kevin McCallister shoving fireworks into his backpack in 2 really is some Chekhov’s gun shit.
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hayley alexander @hayleyalex.bsky.social · 23/12/2024
Just saw a group of 5 teen goths getting their photo taken with a real bearded Santa. Who said Mall Culture is dead?
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Important shutdown development here: Democrats are publicly insisting that they're not coming back to the negotiating table on a spending deal, but if you listen carefully and talk to the right people... They're open to a narrower deal. www.notus.org/congress/dem...
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Democrats Quietly Signal Openness to a Narrower Spending Deal
“Democrats need to stay here to vote and shut the fuck up,” Rep. Sydney Kamlager-Dove told NOTUS. “Stop revealing the game plan.”
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
Can you imagine the Facebook posts if Barack Obama, a month before he took office, called for eliminating the debt ceiling on George W. Bush’s watch?
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
WASHINGTON — It feels like 6 p.m.
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Samuel Larreal @bueninvierno.bsky.social · 10/12/2024
Immigration was a political loser for Democrats this election, even as the party adopted GOP positions on border security. Now, congressional Democrats are trying to figure out how to move forward on the issue—and if the lesson is to move further right. www.notus.org/congress/dem...
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Democrats Wonder Whether the Lesson of 2024 Is to Shift Further to the Right on Border Security
“We saw what happens when we have a broken immigration system and people want to come to this country,” Rep. Salud Carbajal said. “It’s important to keep the asylum system in place, but one that works...
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Gosh @historygosh.bsky.social · 05/12/2024
This should be required reading for all incoming Members and staff. It explains a lot about how Congress actually works (or doesn't) currently. www.notus.org/congress/pos...
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‘Postal-Naming Destruction’: The Least Controversial Thing Congress Does Is Becoming Controversial
More and more of what Congress does on a day-to-day basis is naming post offices. Some members want to end the practice.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
Glut of people viewing my Spotify Wrapped story on Instagram, dearth of people liking my Spotify Wrapped story on Instagram.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
You don’t understand: *My* Spotify Wrapped is important.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
He died doing what he loved: Requesting edit access.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
GOP senators aren't just open to Kash Patel leading the FBI, an agency he's said he'd like to shut down and reopen as a "museum to the Deep State"; many are enthusiastic about it. www.notus.org/congress/all...
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All Senate Republicans Sound Open to Kash Patel. Many Are Enthusiastic About Him.
Kash Patel has said he’d like to “shut down” the FBI headquarters and reopen it as a “museum of the deep state.” But Patel’s vows are hardly sounding disqualifying for the Republican senators who will...
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hayley alexander @hayleyalex.bsky.social · 01/12/2024
My favorite part of Wicked was making everyone in my group discuss the parallels to fascism as we left the theater
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 28/11/2024
The best Thanksgiving tradition I have: open.spotify.com/track/4OjKHy...
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Alice's Restaurant Massacree
Arlo Guthrie · Alice's Restaurant · Song · 1967
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hayley alexander @hayleyalex.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
🗣️ Be!👏 Regressive!👏 🗣️Be-ee!👏 Regressive!👏
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 27/11/2024
Me, to my 2-year-old nephew: “Stop being so thumotic.”
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 24/11/2024
Literally opened up Twitter, saw this Elon post at the top of my feed (despite never following the guy), and came straight over to Bluesky.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
might fuck around and | 👀 | \ / ____| |_____ / ✊__/ \_✊ And post lyrics to Bon Iver’s seminal album, For Emma, Forever Ago.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s literally one of the most poignant words in existence.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Not to go too liberal arts on The Tragedy of Matt Gaetz, but the moment he realized he was not going to be Attorney General — his anagnorisis — he was probably sitting in some senator's office in the Hart building, surrounded by Republican staffers who didn't even vote for Trump.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
A very damning story about Matt Gaetz: www.notus.org/trump-transi... (Do people click on links in Bluesky? I don’t know! This is a good story to try!)
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Matt Gaetz May Have Just Killed the Ethics Report, but Court Filings Paint a Damning Picture
Unreported facts referenced in court depositions make it clear that Gaetz sent thousands to young women, attended sex parties where a 17-year-old was present and kept tabs on witnesses throughout the ...
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
It’s a joke…about that tweet that ends with “Should we invite Bella Hadid?” Sorry, I thought everyone was as broken as me.
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
I’ve been on Twitter for so long that the Bluesky feed seems…alien. Where is all the conservative propaganda? Why am I not seeing all of Elon Musk’s dumb quote tweets? Where is Bella Hadid??
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Matt Fuller @mepfuller.bsky.social · 21/11/2024
Is this—is this the good site?
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