“Darkness is good. Dick Cheney. Darth Vader. Satan. That’s power. It only helps us when they get it wrong. When they’re blind to who we are and what we’re doing.”
— Trump strategist Stephen Bannon, in an interview with The Hollywood Reporter.
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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) said that President Biden doesn’t have the “energy of Donald Trump” after meeting with him for the first time in Biden’s presidency, The Hill…
Pro-Trump lawyer Lin Wood’s bid to bring “chaos” to South Carolina’s GOP was halted on Saturday when he failed to unseat the party’s chairman after baselessly accusing the incumbent of…
A group of high-profile scientists published a letter calling for renewed investigation into the origins of COVID-19 — including the theory that it spilled out of a Chinese virology lab….
Associated Press: “Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm says the nation is ‘over the hump’ on gas shortages following a ransomware cyberattack that forced a shutdown of the nation’s largest gasoline pipeline….
The Verge: “China landed its first pair of robots on the surface of Mars on Friday, state-affiliated media confirmed on social media, becoming the second country to do so successfully….
Playbook: “The CDC’s surprise decision this week to drop its recommendation that vaccinated Americans wear masks in public spaces was the best news some of us have received in months.”…
Dan Balz: “The removal of Cheney as chair of the House Republican Conference has been described as part of a Republican Party civil war, and certainly it reflects divisions within…
President Biden has “a short fuse” at times and is reportedly susceptible to “flares of impatience,” especially when aides and advisers are unable to answer his many hyper-detailed questions, the…
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“Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and her husband have two active homestead exemptions, which is against Georgia law,” WSB reports. “A homestead exemption is a big tax break any Georgia…
“Last year, former President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unveiled their peace plan for the Middle East at the White House. Now, 16 months later, the question…
Federal Election Commission filings show that the leadership PAC controlled by House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy — Majority Committee PAC, or McPAC — paid one of GOP pollster Frank Luntz’s…
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“When Rep. Matt Gaetz attended a 2019 GOP fundraiser in Orlando, his date that night was someone he knew well: a paid escort and amateur Instagram model who led a…
“I never said anything I believe is inappropriate… If I just made you feel uncomfortable, that is not harassment. That’s you feeling uncomfortable.” — New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D),…
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) says she regrets voting for former President Trump during the 2020 election, The Hill reports. Said Cheney: “I was never going to support Joe Biden and…
Tony Blair: “Joe Biden’s victory in the United States apart, progressive politics across the globe is badly placed: four election defeats for the UK Labour Party and no one betting…
Rep. David Cicilline (D-RI) is asking his colleagues to sign onto a resolution that calls for censuring members who claim the fateful day was “not an insurrection” and who are…
Henry Olson: “By Monday, five red states — Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, Montana and South Carolina — had announced that they were pulling out of the federal program. That number has…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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