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Follow Up About Political Giving
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/follow-up-about-political-giving
Published: October 23, 2026 23:39
Following up on my morning post about the Democratic political contribution infrastructure, I had a number of TPM Readers write...
TPM Live: Itâs Scary Out There
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/tpm-live-its-scary-out-there
Published: October 23, 2026 16:24
Halloween is right around the corner, and it sure seems like monsters are running the country. This week Iâm joined...
DOJ Sues to Block Alaska Senate Certification if Republican Loses
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-sues-to-block-alaska-senate-certification-if-republican-loses
Published: October 23, 2026 16:23
The Justice Department asked a federal judge on Friday to stop Alaska from certifying the winner of the stateâs Senate...
How To Clean up and Improve the Democratic Fundraising Colossus
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/how-to-clean-up-and-improve-the-democratic-fundraising-colossus
Published: October 23, 2026 15:44
The New Republic has a new piece out by Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach called How the Consulting Class is...
Trump DOJ Plays Dirty Pool In California Election Case
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-doj-plays-dirty-pool-in-california-election-case
Published: October 23, 2026 15:00
The Sound of Silence In its attack on the midterm elections in California, the Trump DOJ has taken an extraordinary...
Trumpâs DOJ Is On A Denaturalization Crusade. Ilhan Omar Is Just One Of Its Targets
Published: October 23, 2026 13:26
This article is part of Cafe, TPMâs home for opinion and news analysis. It first appeared at Balls and Strikes. Around...
Trump, Vance, RNC Demand Republicans Stop Criticizing Ramaswamy Ad
Published: October 23, 2026 12:18
Republican Party Adds New Plank to Its Platform: Ramaswamyâs Ad Was âSo Goodâ For a day or so, Republicans expressed...
Rampant MAGAworld Self-Dealing Hits a Snag
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/rampant-magaworld-self-dealing-hits-a-snag
Published: October 22, 2026 21:21
Blind Loyalty Not Enough? President Trump has made it clear in the firings of both his former Department of Homeland...
New Developments in the Expanding âWedgewoodâ Polling Scandal!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-developments-in-the-expanding-wedgewood-polling-scandal
Published: October 22, 2026 20:00
Iâm not sure where to start with this. The latest news is some mix of Webistics, Jukt Micronics and Animal...
2027, Checks and Balances and Court Reform
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/2027-checks-and-balances-and-court-reform
Published: October 22, 2026 19:26
Here is one of those things we can see on the horizon and it will be important to be ready...
Missouri Republicans Try To Trick Voters Out of Abortion Rights
Published: October 22, 2026 17:58
Hello, and Welcome Back To The Franchise Dobbs fallout may have dropped out of the headlines, but existential state-level battles...
Donald Trumpâs Reality-TV Presidency Has Entered its Desperate Gimmick Phase
Published: October 22, 2026 17:38
This article is part of Cafe, TPMâs home for opinion and news analysis. Donald Trump fancied himself an expert on television...
Some Ohio Republicans Embrace, Some Scurry Away from Appalling Ramaswamy Ad
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-republicans-vivek-ramaswamy-amy-acton-ad
Published: October 22, 2026 16:38
The Ramaswamy campaignâs new ad featuring Democrat Amy Actonâs mother, in which she repeatedly denounces her daughter as a liar,...
Your Election Interference Fears Were 100% Justified
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/your-election-interference-fears-were-100-justified
Published: October 22, 2026 15:40
This Is Not a Drill ⌠Repeat ⌠NOT a Drill The Trump administration has launched a full-blown attack on...
Trumpâs FCC Chair Wants You To Know That the Polls Are âFakeâ
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/trumps-fcc-chair-wants-you-to-know-that-the-polls-are-fake
Published: October 22, 2026 12:16
Brendan Carr Threatens News Broadcasters Over âFake Pollsâ Brendan Carr, Trumpâs attack dog at the FCC, is warning the polls...
13 Contests TPM Will Be Following Especially Closely on Election Day
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/13-contests-tpm-will-be-following-on-election-day
Published: October 22, 2026 10:00
Thereâs a lot to pay attention to this year. With Democrats putting up seemingly fantastical numbers in the polls, the...
Panic in the Final Stretch
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/panic-in-the-final-stretch
Published: October 21, 2026 22:33
One interesting dimension of the âWedgewood Pollsâ story I discussed last night is that Republican leaders are latching on to...
Trumpâs Desperate Data Center Pivot
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/where-things-stand/trumps-desperate-data-center-pivot
Published: October 21, 2026 21:09
Donâs âDividendsâ Republican incumbents and candidates facing data center outrage back home have been trying to get President Trump to...
Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About FDRâs Court-Packing Plan
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/clearing-up-some-misconceptions-about-fdrs-court-packing-plan
Published: October 21, 2026 17:55
This article is part of Cafe, TPMâs home for opinion and news analysis. The Overton window on expanding â or packing...
DOJâs List of Noncitizen Voters Exposed As Crap
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/dojs-list-of-noncitizen-voters-exposed-as-crap
Published: October 21, 2026 15:09
That Didnât Take Long The top election official in Los Angeles County has done a preliminary review of the Trump...
Todd Blanche Gets Sucked Into Trump Worldâs Pre-Midterms Drama
Published: October 21, 2026 12:18
Laura Loomer and Todd Blanche Are Fighting Josh Marshall has been chronicling the many ways that Trump world is descending...
New Entrant Pollster Was Publishing All Fake Polls
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/new-entrant-pollster-was-publishing-all-fake-polls
Published: October 21, 2026 04:24
A crazy, crazy story unfolding tonight in the online virtual terrain of political social media and poll-watching. Itâs late. But...
GOP Abandons Republican Incumbent Who Broke With Trump on Blue State Retribution
Published: October 20, 2026 21:44
Subtle Trump Distancing May Not Be Enough Republican Rep. Thomas Kean Jr (R-NJ) may be best known on the national...
This Week on Polltober: Are We Seeing the Midterms Clearly?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/this-week-on-polltober-are-we-seeing-the-midterms-clearly
Published: October 20, 2026 21:14
On this weekâs episode of The Polltober Show, Kate and Josh discuss whether the story of the midterms can be...
Trump Appointees Asked a Federal Cybersecurity Agency to Secretly Acquire a Voting Machineâand Hack It
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-admin-hack-voting-machine
Published: October 20, 2026 17:16
This article first appeared at ProPublica. A few months into President Donald Trumpâs second term, political appointees at the Department...
Itâs the AI Economy ⌠Weâre Just Living In It
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/its-the-ai-economy-were-just-living-in-it
Published: October 20, 2026 17:04
I corresponded with a TPM Reader from the tech world recently who marveled at the political salience of data centers...
The Trump DOJ Is Now the Greatest Threat to Free and Fair Elections
Published: October 20, 2026 15:13
Open and Ongoing Ratfuckery The Trump DOJ â corruptly deployed by the White House as an unprecedented election interference tool...
Dem Candidate In Arizona: My Rape Was Not A âHoaxâ Concocted for Votes
Published: October 20, 2026 14:06
Bernadette Greene-Placentia would like you to know the story of her rape is not an âOctober Surprise.â She did not...
Democrats Have Big Plans for Elon Musk
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/democrats-have-big-plans-for-elon-musk
Published: October 20, 2026 12:09
Democrats Get Ready to Probe DOGE Ahead of the 2024 election, Elon Musk and Tucker Carlson joked on a livestream...
Data That Would Measure the Effectiveness of Key Trump, GOP Policies Has Gone Missing Ahead of the Midterms
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/trump-midterms-treasury-statistics-of-income-publication
Published: October 20, 2026 10:00
Most American households were not eagerly awaiting a set of tax data that was supposed to come out from the...
DOJ Charges 28 People In Big Show of Cracking Down on Noncitizen Voting Ahead of Midterms
Published: October 19, 2026 21:54
âWe Are Not Impressed by Their Caseâ The Trump administrationâs Justice Department has escalated its pre-midterm crusade against California, using...
Steve Bannon Casts Bo French as the Future of the GOP
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/steve-bannon-casts-bo-french-as-the-future-of-the-gop
Published: October 19, 2026 18:20
Steve Bannon has spent years trying to make himself the face of resurgent white resentment in America, championing the Trump...
âLet Them Fight!ââMaybe Itâs Grenellâs Turn In the Barrel Edition
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/let-them-fight-maybe-its-grenells-turn-in-the-barrel-edition
Published: October 19, 2026 16:52
In my earlier posts on the Habba-Grenell mutual self-immolation spectacle, Iâd told you that while Ric Grenell is as nasty...
Judge Rebukes Trump DOJ For Pushing Her To Recuse
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/judge-rebukes-trump-doj-for-pushing-her-to-recuse
Published: October 19, 2026 15:21
Trump Calls Judge âCrazed Lunaticâ Over the past week, the East Potomac Park case has morphed from another of President...
Tom Homan Shares the Omar Plan
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/tom-homan-shares-the-omar-plan
Published: October 19, 2026 12:20
Homan States Explicitly That Denaturalization is an Option On Saturday, Tom Homan, President Trumpâs âBorder Czar,â made explicit what had...
How Trumpâs âGrand Conspiracyâ Investigation Failed to Become the New QAnon
Published: October 19, 2026 10:30
In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...
Why Current Polling Averages May, in Fact, Understate Democratic Support
Published: October 19, 2026 10:30
This article is part of Cafe, TPMâs home for opinion and news analysis. Significant polling errors most often result when late-deciding...
Powers Jostle Over Oil Prices and US Midterms
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/powers-jostle-over-oil-prices-and-us-midterms
Published: October 19, 2026 03:31
Todayâs world would be a fascinating object of study if one werenât also living in it. The price of energy...
Alina Habba May Have Made a Costly Mistake
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/alinna-habba-may-have-made-a-costly-mistake
Published: October 18, 2026 23:03
Last week, as part of the emerging âLayla Codaâ moment around President Trump, I flagged this story about a nasty...
Feud In Dolly Partonâs Inner Circle Reveals Arms Deal with Haitian Police
Published: October 17, 2026 18:33
Iâm thinking this nephew guy has turned out to be a problematic figure ⌠The story here is about a...
Data Centers
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/data-centers
Published: October 17, 2026 17:45
Fascinating nugget of data from an Economist deep dive cross-referencing polling data with the location of datacenters: âVoters across the...
Friends Donât Let Friends Watch the Early Vote
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/friends-dont-let-friends-watch-the-early-vote
Published: October 17, 2026 14:04
One collection of data people obsess over in the weeks before a big election is the early vote â a...
Stephen Miller Is Anchoring the Trump Administrationâs Nightmare Blunt Rotation
Published: October 17, 2026 12:00
More MAGA-Under-Pressure, âLaylaâ-Coda Updates
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/more-maga-under-pressure-layla-coda-updates
Published: October 16, 2026 17:27
Following up on the MAGA-under-pressure, intra-MAGA knife fights breaking out, whack everybody front. From this morningâs Politico Playbook ⌠PLAYBOOK...
Some Caveats on Dems Retaking the Senate
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/some-caveats-on-dems-retaking-the-senate
Published: October 16, 2026 16:52
Democratsâ prospects across the board look about as good as they have at any point in the 2026 election cycle,...
The TPM Friday Show
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-tpm-friday-show
Published: October 16, 2026 16:00
Weâre going live at 1 p.m. ET today to talk about one of TPMâs true passions: Grifting in the USA....
Trump DOJ Takes Election Interference to Next Level
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-doj-takes-next-step-in-its-election-interference
Published: October 16, 2026 15:48
Do You Get Morning Memo Via Email? Beginning next week, weâre going to be using a new email provider to...
Frustrated by Losses in the Courts, Missouri Republicans Want to Change How Top Judges Are Selected
Published: October 16, 2026 14:06
This story was originally published by ProPublica, a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up for Dispatches, a newsletter...
White Nationalist Attempts Mass Shooting at Hindu Temple While Indian-American Congressman Was Inside
Published: October 16, 2026 12:14
âWe Were Very Fortunate That Something Much, Much Worse Did Not Happenâ For years, but with increasing ferocity lately, the...
How a Tejano Singer Found Himself at the Heart Of Democratsâ Path to a Midterm Majority
Published: October 16, 2026 12:00
Bobby Pulido is in the middle of everything. The famed Tejano singer is trying his hand at politics in his...
Is the Layla Coda Playing at the White House?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/is-the-layla-coda-playing-at-the-white-house
Published: October 15, 2026 22:41
Earlier this week we saw former Don Jr fiance Kimberly Guilfoyle summarily canned because she became a scandal lightning rod,...
Wisconsin Election Officials Forced to Issue Guidance About How to Deal With Fed Agents at Polls
Published: October 15, 2026 21:21
Of Course a 2020 Fake Elector Is Involved in This Saga As key members of the Trump administration refuse to...
The Omar Case Encapsulates MAGAâs Attack on Citizenship
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/the-omar-case-encapsulates-magas-attack-on-citizenship
Published: October 15, 2026 20:20
The Trump administration has flailed at each of its major priorities. That includes, so far, its attempt to instill effective...
Trumpâs Move to Rename Artificial Intelligence to âSuper Intelligenceâ is About Much More Than It Seems
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/trump-ai-super-intelligence
Published: October 15, 2026 19:41
This article is part of Cafe, TPMâs home for opinion and news analysis. President Trump has in recent days doubled down...
Federal Judge Finally Invalidates DOJâs Nationwide Voter Roll Crusade Just Weeks Out From the Midterms
Published: October 15, 2026 18:05
âDOJ Cannot Run Roughshod Over Longstanding Lawsâ Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! We are starting off with some...
These GOP Candidates Are Backing Away From Abortion Bans They Once Endorsed
Published: October 15, 2026 18:03
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on...
Trump DOJ Now Targeting Ballots, Not Just Voter Rolls
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-doj-now-targeting-ballots-not-just-voter-rolls
Published: October 15, 2026 15:31
A Quick Heads Up For transparency reasons, I like peeling back the curtain on any changes we make to Morning...
Whatâs Up in Mississippi?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/whats-up-in-mississippi
Published: October 15, 2026 14:08
âDemocrats have been way too timid and modest in their expectations in the past. Thereâs a real chance for something...
Josh Goes Back to the Big Senate Data Dive to Obsess About Polling Error
Published: October 15, 2026 12:56
Back in August I did a write-up on a deep dive on polling error put together by Republican consultant/pollster Pat...
The Gang Gets Back Together to Save John Eastman
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/the-gang-gets-back-together-to-save-john-eastman
Published: October 15, 2026 12:25
Eastman Wants Vindication As Donald Trump tried to overturn the election in 2020, John Eastman was everywhere â filing lawsuits...
News Of The Day
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/news-of-the-day
Published: October 15, 2026 12:11
âAccording to sources who spoke to WBTV on the condition of anonymity, the text thread between some Charlotte-Mecklenburg police officers...