Rep. Seth Moulton (D-MA) was spotted in his hometown of Marblehead, Massachusetts, taping a presidential announcement that’s expected within a week, Axios reports.
Moulton’s key issues will be foreign policy, national security and defense.
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The Democratic National Committee is mostly avoiding a formal autopsy of the 2024 election, steering clear of examining the pivotal decisions that shaped the Biden-turned-Harris campaign. But a new presentation…
Iran’s generals have tightened their grip on the country in the weeks after the Israeli air strikes, The Telegraph reports. Save to Favorites
“Speaker Mike Johnson doesn’t have any plans to put a non-binding resolution on the floor this week before the August recess — or possibly ever — that would call for…
This will be a must-read: The Game Changer: How Harry Reid Remade the Rules and Showed Democrats How to Fight by Jon Ralston. “He was, in his own words, willing…
“California could lose as many as four congressional seats in the 2030 apportionment,” the San Francisco Chronicle reports. “A recent report from the National Democratic Redistricting Committee choes earlier forecasts…
Rep. Chip Roy (R-TX), who enthusiastically backs President Trump’s mass deportation agenda, told NOTUS he’s “going to bat for” one immigrant that he knows who was arrested because he deemed…
The judge currently handling Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s (R) divorce case has decided to shield the records in the case from public disclosure, KUTX reports. Save to Favorites
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) “appeared to send a pointed message to President Donald Trump: If the Department of Justice does not release more information on disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein,…
“The Trump administration is formally arguing before a federal oversight body that it has unilateral authority to fire many federal employees at any time, seeking to unwind decades of precedent…
New York Times: “Mr. Trump has fired or demoted more than 20 inspectors general or acting inspectors general since he took office six months ago, hobbling offices that for years…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio ordered the State Department to “stop commenting on the fairness, integrity and legitimacy of foreign elections, a major shift away from a decadeslong practice of…
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A White House official tried to wave away the Jeffrey Epstein controversy, telling Politico this morning that “no one outside the Beltway is talking about it anymore.” But Brian Stelter…
A public letter from NASA employees on Monday urges leaders of the space agency not to carry out deep cuts sought by the Trump administration, the New York Times reports….
Congress is barreling toward a September 30 deadline to fund the government, and this week is shaping up to be a critical moment in the appropriations battle. While all twelve…
“As smoke and debris swirled over the Syrian presidential palace, the chatter in the West Wing grew louder: Benjamin Netanyahu is out of control,” Axios reports. Said one White House…
President Trump went after Sen. Adam Schiff (D-CA), attacking the former lead House impeachment manager as a “thief” and sharing an apparent tax document to make his case that Schiff…
Sen. Lindsay Graham (R-SC) warned Russian president Vladimir Putin on Fox News that President Trump is about to put a “whoopin’ on your ass.” Said Graham: “The game has changed…
Former Epstein lawyer Alan Dershowitz — who the Wall Street Journal also said sent Jeffrey Epstein a drawing for his 50th birthday — told Fox News that it’s unlikely that…
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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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