“Senior leadership at the Secret Service confiscated the cellphones of 24 agents involved in the agency’s response to the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol and handed them over to the Department of Homeland Security’s Inspector General,” NBC News reports.
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Quinta Jurecic: “A president does not have the constitutional authority to send the country to war on his own. Trump is, as he writes in his letter, the commander in…
President Trump said that he needs to be personally involved in selecting Iran’s next leader — just as he was in Venezuela, Axios reports. He acknowledged that Mojtaba Khamenei, son…
“President Donald Trump appears to be leaning toward endorsing Sen. John Cornyn in the Texas GOP Senate primary, issuing a stark warning to state Attorney General Ken Paxton,” Politico reports….
Axios: “In counties across Texas, Democratic voters made up a dramatically larger percentage of the electorate than in 2024 — with big increases in hot battlegrounds such as mostly Hispanic…
Hanna Rosin: “The advantage of a gut-driven war decision is that it can yield sudden dramatic results. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei had been a brutal Iranian dictator for nearly four decades….
New York Times: “When President Trump gave reporters a brief update this week on the accelerating bombing campaign against Iran, he said: ‘We’re doing very well on the war front.’”…
“Arab states in the Persian Gulf are running dangerously low on interceptors to take down Iranian-fired missiles,” CBS News reports. “Governments in the region have asked the U.S. to expedite…
The Economist: “The lopsided encounter embodies the American and Israeli campaign as a whole. At the political level, American officials have offered dubious and sometimes contradictory rationales for war, as…
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“President Donald Trump is privately furious with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem for suggesting in her Senate Judiciary Committee testimony on Tuesday that he gave advance approval of…
“President Donald Trump’s massive East Wing ballroom project is poised to get its final approval from a government commission that oversees planning for federal buildings and land in the nation’s…
The House voted to scuttle an effort by Rep. Nancy Mace (R-SC) to shed more light on sexual misconduct allegations against members of Congress, NBC News reports. “Mace, a conservative…
Montana politics took a sudden turn just minutes before the candidate filing deadline. Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) abruptly withdrew his name from the ballot despite having already filed to seek…
A new Emerson College poll of the 2026 U.S. Senate race in Georgia finds Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) with an edge over potential Republican opponents. Ossoff leads Rep. Buddy Carter…
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“Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) owes his defeat in this week’s Republican primary to a billionaire megadonor who was hellbent on ending Crenshaw’s career,” Axios reports. “Texas banker Robert Marling’s role…
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“The Trump administration, bracing for more U.S. casualties and considering whether to put troops on the ground in Iran, has begun reaching out to Tehran’s domestic opposition as potential allies…
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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