“German WhatsApp users are spreading far-right propaganda through the use of stickers and chain letters but the company is doing little to nothing to stop it, despite local laws forbidding the use of Nazi imagery,” BuzzFeed News reports.


“German WhatsApp users are spreading far-right propaganda through the use of stickers and chain letters but the company is doing little to nothing to stop it, despite local laws forbidding the use of Nazi imagery,” BuzzFeed News reports.
“President Biden said he would maintain longstanding U.S. policy toward Taiwan, a day after triggering global confusion when he said the U.S. would respond militarily to any effort by China…
“How precarious is Senate Democrats’ majority? Just ask Colorado’s Michael Bennet,” Politico reports. “The low-key Democratic senator hails from a state that President Joe Biden won by 13 points. His…
Pennsylvania Senate candidate David McCormick (R) filed suit to try to force the state to count undated absentee and mail-in ballots in the very tight primary between him and Mehmet…
If the polls are correct, Donald Trump is set to suffer a humiliating endorsement loss in Georgia’s Republican gubernatorial primary today, Politico reports. “The Republican base is poised to take…
“If Trump is alive, Biden is running.” — A longtime adviser to President Biden, quoted by New York magazine, on the 2024 presidential race. Save to Favorites
“One of Donald Trump’s most steadfast aides acknowledges in a new book that the president lost the 2020 election and says he was ill-advised by campaign staff and the election…
New York Times: “With such an important race in the balance, one that could decide the Senate majority, the state of Mr. Fetterman’s health is of intense public interest. Yet,…
New York Times: “Already though, many of the thousands of migrants crossing each day are being let in — of the record 234,088 migrants who arrived in April, nearly half…
A new AP-NORC poll finds Americans “are becoming less supportive of punishing Russia for launching its invasion of Ukraine if it comes at the expense of the U.S. economy, a…
“Democrats are set to blow through the soft Memorial Day deadline for reaching a deal with Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) on a slimmed-down budget reconciliation bill to raise taxes, fight…
“Former Detroit police Chief James Craig (R) and businessman Perry Johnson (R), two of the top candidates for the Republican nomination for governor, didn’t submit enough valid petition signatures to…
Texas Tribune: “Fourteen Republican members of the state House of Representatives have pledged to introduce bills in the coming legislative session that would bar corporations from doing business in Texas…
“A private Christian university is considering strictly limiting the free speech rights of its students when it comes to sexuality and gender, from how they behave to what they wear…
“Former Sen. David Perdue ended his Trump-inspired campaign for governor of Georgia with a racist appeal to Republican primary voters on Monday, accusing Stacey Abrams, the Black woman who is…
New York Times: “Offhand remarks that vary from the official talking points have become a feature, not a bug, of the Biden presidency, as he demonstrated again on Monday when…
“Congressional ethics investigators said on Monday that they had gathered “substantial” evidence that Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-TX) improperly used campaign donations to pay for unlimited access for himself and his…
“Rep. Sean Patrick Maloney’s (D-NY) decision last week to leave behind his current congressional district to campaign for a colleague’s safer seat infuriated fellow Democrats, who saw the actions as…
The House Ethics Committee is furthering its review of alleged ethics violations by Rep. Alex Mooney (R-WV) — a top ally of Donald Trump — after receiving new allegations, including…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky compared Russia’s repeated attempts to take his life to the film “Groundhog Day,” Axios reports. Said Zelensky: “I wake up in the morning and it’s still…
A Tory MP has been arrested on suspicion of rape – but has not yet been identified by either the media or Parliament, The Sun reports. This was all Scotland…
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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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