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The Rise of the Union Right
Annie Lowrey: “Exit polls indicate that nearly half of union households voted Republican in 2024, up from 43 percent in 2016 and 37 percent in 2000. Other polling shows that…
New Jersey Ballot Access May Get More Difficult
Just for members: A new issue of Ballot Access News. New Jersey threatens to make ballot access more difficult… What Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s vote totals mean… A roundup of…
Victoria Sparz Not Ready to Vote for Mike Johnson
Rep. Victoria Sparz (R-IN) says she needs to be convinced to re-elect Mike Johnson as speaker. Save to Favorites
Elon Musk Wears Down Global Resistance to Starlink
Bloomberg: “Worries that the world’s richest person would subvert sensitive state-run telecommunications channels around the globe are being replaced by attempts by government officials trying to tap economic incentives.” Save…
Trump Backs Mike Johnson for Speaker
President-elect Donald Trump offered his “complete and total endorsement” of Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) on Monday, days before a House vote on Friday to elect a new Speaker, The Hill…
Court Upholds Trump Verdict in E. Jean Carroll Case
“A federal appeals court panel on Monday upheld a jury’s verdict finding President-elect Donald Trump liable for sexually abusing advice columnist E. Jean Carroll and ordering him to pay $5…
Immigration Courts Backlog Could Slow Mass Deportation
Time: “On the campaign trail, Donald Trump promised to launch the ‘largest deportation’ in American history. But actually getting that done will require billions of dollars to hire thousands of…
Some Thoughts on This Week’s Speaker Election
The 119th Congress officially begins at noon on Friday and we’re once again faced with the prospect of a contested election for Speaker. The math is brutal for Republicans: Join…
Jimmy Carter’s Parting Gift for Trump
“Former President Jimmy Carter left one last parting gift for president-elect Donald Trump after his death at 100 on Sunday. According to the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, the American…
An Unlucky President
Paul Krugman: “Jimmy Carter was a very good man — something that seems especially poignant to think about as we enter an age of kakistocracy, in which being a terrible…
Sununu Insists Trump Hasn’t Changed the GOP
New Hampshire Gov. Chris Sununu (R) said he does not think President-elect Donald Trump has permanently changed the GOP, The Hill reports. Said Sununu: “We’ve always been a spectrum in…
Biden Announces $2.5 Billion for Ukraine
President Biden announced that the United States would offer almost $2.5 billion in defense assistance to Ukraine, a move that will bring an “immediate influx of capabilities” as the country…
Get Ready for an All-Out War on the Debt Limit
“GOP leaders are staring down two bad options to solve President-elect Donald Trump’s debt-limit problem, after failing to execute his demand to lift the federal borrowing cap in the last…
The Misunderstood Consequences of Carter’s Presidency
Gerald Seib: “Carter had been running a Georgia peanut farm just a few years before his improbable victory in 1976. At a time that the presidency had long been passed…
A Very Unproductive Congress
“If measured by the number of bills signed into law, the 118th Congress was by far the most unproductive since at least the 1980s,” Axios reports. “That is not the…
When Jimmy Carter Turned TV Into a Pulpit
James Poniewozik: “Other presidents were more celebrated for their on-screen presences, but in 1979 he gave one of the White House’s most astonishing televised speeches.” Save to Favorites
Carter Was the Odd Man Out in the Presidents’ Club
New York Times: “Mr. Carter had a hot-and-cold relationship with the fellow members of the exclusive club of presidents — more cold than hot, in fact. From his re-election defeat…
Trump Blasts GOP and McCarthy Over Debt Ceiling
President-elect Donald Trump on Sunday harshly criticized the House GOP, and former Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), for voting to raise the debt ceiling in 2023 through Jan. 1, 2025, The…
Quote of the Day
“We’d all do well to try to be a bit more like Jimmy Carter. Everytime he was summoned, he stepped up.” — President Biden, quoted by the New York Times….
Biden Says Jimmy Carter to Receive State Funeral
President Joe Biden said he’ll order a state funeral in Washington for Jimmy Carter, calling the former Democratic president who died Sunday “an extraordinary leader, statesman and humanitarian,” Bloomberg reports….
