“I’m for everything, I’ve said that from the beginning.”
— Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking about “constitutional carry” and rolling back gun regulations.
Save to Favorites“I’m for everything, I’ve said that from the beginning.”
— Gov. Ron DeSantis, speaking about “constitutional carry” and rolling back gun regulations.
Save to FavoritesJust for members: The latest edition of . This issue is a House Overview with a fresh look at the fight for the House. The path to control is easier for…
“Wyoming is a supermajority state, with Republicans making up 86 of the state’s 93 legislators,” USA Today reports. “But uniformity doesn’t mean unity, as the widening chasm between the state’s…
“Speaker Mike Johnson informed Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer that the House will send the impeachment articles against Department of Homeland Security Alejandro Mayorkas to the Senate on April 10,”…
Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky spoke with Speaker Mike Johnson on Thursday, the wartime leader said, as the House mulls how to proceed on additional aid funding for Kyiv, Politico reports.Save…
“Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s running mate has been a harsh critic of in-vitro fertilization, while funding alternative research on extending women’s reproductive years,” Politico reports. Nicole Shanahan has denounced IVF…
“FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried was sentenced Thursday to 25 years in prison for fraud tied to the collapse of his digital exchange, capping his meteoric rise and fall,” the Wall…
Coming soon: The Kremlin’s Noose: Putin’s Bitter Feud with the Oligarch Who Made Him Ruler of Russia by Amy Knight. “The riveting story of Vladimir Putin and the oligarch Boris…
Former Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) said the Republican party is currently threatening democracy and that the nation is undergoing a political shift, USA Today reports. Said Cheney: “Certainly, what’s happening…
“Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes on Wednesday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court summoned…
The White House announced a new rule to curb so-called “junk health insurance,” rolling back a Trump-era expansion of short-term health insurance plans, CNN reports.Save to Favorites
“A judge ruled Wednesday that the Georgia Republican Party’s first vice chairman, Brian Pritchard, violated state election laws when he voted nine times while serving probation for a felony check…
On Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s website is a campaign event created by a supporter called “the Save RFK Jr. Rally” which demands that he fire his campaign manager — who…
“Kari Lake, a Republican Senate candidate in Arizona who has amplified former president Donald Trump’s false claims about rigged elections, has decided not to defend statements she made about a…
“House Democrats are adding four more candidates to their ‘Red to Blue’ program as they attempt to flip enough Republican-held seats to take the House majority,” Axios reports. “All four…
“President Joe Biden is widening a critical window for low-income Americans to join Obamacare, in a move aimed at reinforcing a central element of his reelection bid: That he presided…
Washington Post: “Richard Grenell’s intervention highlights the extraordinary role he has carved out in the three years since Trump left the White House. From Central America to Eastern Europe and…
“In December, Donald Trump called for the end of mail-in voting in presidential elections. In February, he told Michigan voters that ‘mail-in voting is totally corrupt.’ He later told Fox…
Congress passed over $71 million in earmarks in the recent minibus spending legislation for lawmakers who ultimately voted against the package, Punchbowl News reports.Save to Favorites
“It was an explosive claim from Donald Trump, just weeks before his Manhattan criminal trial is set to begin: He assailed the judge’s daughter on Wednesday, saying she had used…
“Few politicians have commanded the loyalty of the religious right like former President Trump, whose decision to begin selling $60 Bibles for Holy Week has outraged his critics — but…
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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