Sentencing hearings for two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys group have been rescheduled after the judge canceled Wednesday’s proceedings because of a medical issue, CNN reports.
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Former Rep. Michael Grimm (R-NY) sustained injuries over the weekend in an apparent horse riding accident, the Staten Island Advance reports. “Grimm represented Staten Island in the House of Representatives…
Timothy Snyder: “The people who watched Trump’s television ads… had not been harmed by a transgender person, or by an immigrant, or by a woman of color. The magic lies…
Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) is the latest Trump-friendly voice to pledge his vote for Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) as Senate Majority Leader, Axios reports. Save to Favorites
Will Bunch: “The American mainstream media, and its vital watchdog role that once made it a trusted, major institution in a flawed yet functioning democracy, imploded in 2024, and it…
We’re being inundated with articles on what caused Democrats to lose the presidential election so badly. The fingers are being pointed at Joe Biden, the border, inflation and even Liz…
The 2024 electoral map is now complete with every state decided. Save to Favorites
Former Rep. Anthony Weiner (D-NY) is thinking about mounting another political comeback attempt – this time in the New York City Council, City & State New York reports. “Even by…
Ruy Teixeira: “The Democratic coalition today is not fit for purpose. It cannot beat Republicans consistently in enough areas of the country to achieve dominance and implement its agenda at…
CNN: “Pick one word to describe Republicans and Donald Trump, the focus group moderator asked, and one word to describe Democrats and Kamala Harris. ‘Crazy,’ said the White woman in…
“If you try to win elections by talking to the elites of this country, you’re going to get your ass kicked. Trump is not the disease. He is the symptom….
Dan Pfeiffer: “Poring through the aftermath of a brutal defeat, Democrats are now in their worst position in at least 20 years. Republicans have the White House and the Senate…
“Nearly four years ago, the Biden administration and Congressional Democrats made a $1.9 trillion bet in the form of the American Rescue Plan. They lost, as it contributed to a…
“Democrats are having a full-blown identity crisis,” Politico reports. “Days after Kamala Harris’ defeat, the extent of their party’s failure is becoming increasingly clear. It’s bad enough that Democrats are…
Helen Lewis: “One of the mysteries of this election is how the Democrats approached polling day with a set of policies on gender identity that they were neither proud to…
“The Russian military has assembled a force of 50,000 soldiers, including North Korean troops, as it prepares to begin an assault aimed at reclaiming territory seized by Ukraine in the…
NOTUS: “There had been rumblings about the financial situation since September, said one Democrat. Another said the campaign had missed its fundraising goal in September, after money slowed in August…
Axios: “A fierce divide has emerged from the early autopsies of Democrats’ election disaster: Was it policy — or culture — that doomed the party with working-class Americans?” “Joe Biden…
“Despite calls from some liberal activists for Justice Sonia Sotomayor to step down while Democrats can fill her seat before political power changes hands in January, she has no plans…
CNN: “Democrats’ shell shock is real, and not just because top Harris aides were telling Biden senior staff and former President Barack Obama aides past 9 p.m. on Tuesday that…
“Besides the Harris campaign and its affiliated political action committees, few economic or political sectors placed larger bets than organized labor on Vice President Kamala Harris’s winning the presidency,” the…
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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