Republican operatives have deployed a massive network of fake local news sites to weaponize “critical race theory” in political campaigns, Popular Information reports.
Save to FavoritesNew York Times: “Senior military officials are weighing a possible deployment of a combat brigade from the Army’s 82nd Airborne Division and some elements of the division’s headquarters staff to…
“Less than 48 hours before the U.S.-Israeli strike on Iran began, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spoke by phone to President Donald Trump about the reasons for launching the kind of…
Punchbowl News: “Senate Budget Committee Republicans are meeting early this week to discuss a second reconciliation bill.” “Senate Budget Committee Chair Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) has called the meeting as talks…
Peter Wehner: “The president has cultivated and encouraged the ugliest passions within the GOP, dousing the embers of hate with kerosene.” Save to Favorites
“The U.S. Supreme Court has heard arguments over whether states can continue to count late-arriving mail ballots — an election issue targeted by President Donald Trump,” the AP reports. “In…
The Associated Press quotes Mohammad Bagher Qalibaf: “No negotiations have been held with the US, and fake news is used to manipulate the financial and oil markets and escape the…
Let’s assume — generously — that the U.S. is actually negotiating with senior Iranian officials. That raises a more basic question: What, exactly, could Donald Trump say that anyone in…
Time: “President Donald Trump is poised to skip the Conservative Political Action Conference this week, breaking with an annual tradition that has helped define his political rise and cement his…
CNN: “Donald Trump’s White House spokespeople have a favorite two-step reply when reporters ask them to comment on one of the president’s false claims.” “First: They say, ‘President Trump is…
CNN: “If you only watched Fox News over the weekend, you didn’t hear about President Donald Trump’s widely condemned reaction to Robert Mueller’s death.” “Since then, Fox News has mentioned…
“The unsettling reality is that with this president, Americans in wartime are in the unprecedented position of having to suspect that the enemy’s version of events is more likely to…
An Israeli official told Axios that U.S. envoys Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner had been speaking with the speaker of the Iranian parliament, Mohammad Bagher Ghalibaf. President Trump did not…
Wall Street Journal: “President Trump has rejected one of the possible offramps for the standoff over funding the Department of Homeland Security, leaving an impasse unresolved that has led to…
Bloomberg: “Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni is on track to narrowly lose a national referendum to overhaul Italy’s judicial system, which has become a vote on the leader herself.” “About 54.4%…
President Trump took questions from reporters: REPORTER: Whose idea was that to put ICE in the airports? TRUMP: Mine. That was mine. That was like the paper clip. Do you…
Tara Palmeri: “Over the weekend, I spoke with Republican sources in the administration, on Capitol Hill, and on K Street about what they are really saying behind closed doors about…
President Trump’s handling of the Iran conflict over the weekend has a distinctly familiar feel. The impulsiveness. The bravado. The habit of chasing shiny objects while the broader strategy drifts…
President Trump took questions from reporters: REPORTER: Iran’s foreign ministry says you’re not telling the truth when it comes to productive conversations to end the war. TRUMP: Well, they’re gonna…
Referring to the U.S. talks with an unnamed Iranian leader, President Trump says the Strait of Hormuz will be open very soon “if this works,” Bloomberg reports. Trump says the…
President Trump claimed once again that the U.S. is speaking with a “top person” in Iran who is not the Supreme Leader, Bloomberg reports. He said Iran wants “very much…
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.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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