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“Corey Lewandowski doesn’t want to clock out of his temporary government gig. So, administration officials believe, he’s avoiding clocking in,” Axios reports. “Lewandowski, a longtime and controversial Trump adviser, is…
“A former Republican candidate for a State House seat in New Mexico was sentenced to 80 years in prison on Wednesday for orchestrating a politically motivated shooting spree against four…
A looming court decision could shape the future of President Trump’s aggressive push to use federal power in local crime crackdowns. The case stems from a three-day trial in federal…
“President Donald Trump will ask Congress to pass a ‘D.C. security fund’ as part of his push to remake the capital city, a hugely controversial effort that has seen him…
Ashwin Ramaswami (D). who unsuccessfully ran for a state Senate seat in November, has filed a lawsuit against his Republican opponent, state Sen. Shawn (R) for making “outrageous, false, and…
“I think FDR would recognize him…The whole campaign was about affordability.” — Former New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio, in an interview with Time, on Zohran Mamdani.Save to Favorites
Time: “Before 2025, basically no one knew who Mamdani was. Over the course of eight months, the democratic socialist and backbench state assemblyman went from local long shot to likely…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) warned Republicans in a speech that “God will pull the plug on us” if the United States stops supporting Israel. Said Graham: “Israel is not the…
“Russian President Vladimir Putin said Thursday that the United States is taking action to stop the war in Ukraine, in a meeting with Russian top officials ahead of Friday’s summit…
“Donald Trump’s Navy and Air Force are poised to cancel two nearly complete software projects that took 12 years and well over $800 million combined to develop, work initially aimed…
Washington Post: “Political leaders in Washington and Austin have assumed that the five newly drawn congressional districts — which Trump would have won by at least 10 percentage points in…
“A growing number of blue cities and states across the country, from Washington state to Rhode Island, are looking at ways to wring more revenue from their richest taxpayers,” the…
“First lady Melania Trump demanded that Hunter Biden retract comments linking her to sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and threatened to sue if he does not,” the AP reports. “Trump takes…
“Even before talks begin, President Vladimir Putin’s meeting with President Donald Trump at a U.S. military base in Alaska on Friday is advancing the Russian’s goal of redrawing the global…
Wall Street Journal: “About 80% of donations from the communications and electronics sector in the last election cycle went to Democrats, with a similar ratio at big tech companies like…
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent is “calling for a ban on single-stock trading by members of Congress, a push that could supercharge legislative efforts to ban the practice that have gained…
Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer is “quietly pressing former Rep. Mary Peltola (D) to plunge into the Alaska Senate race,” Axios reports. Save to Favorites
“Residents in one Washington, D.C., neighborhood lined up Wednesday to protest the increased police presence after the White House said the number of National Guard troops in the nation’s capital…
“People in this bucolic corner of England were already a bit testy about hordes of visiting Americans in recent years,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “Then the most high-profile one…
“California Gov. Gavin Newsom faces a major hurdle in his quest to revamp his state’s congressional lines, according to a new poll: Californians’ deep support for its current independent redistricting…
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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