Washington Post: “Little by little, after an initial phase of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to Trump is beginning to wake up.”


Washington Post: “Little by little, after an initial phase of stunned confusion, the broader resistance to Trump is beginning to wake up.”
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“A judge has dismissed indictments against New Jersey Democratic power broker George Norcross and his five co-defendants, potentially ending a case that rocked New Jersey politics and boosted the profile…
“Federal agencies must develop plans to eliminate employee positions, according to a memo distributed by President Donald Trump ‘s administration that sets in motion what could become a sweeping realignment…
“We just won back the House.” — Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI), quoted by the Washington Post, as she walked off the floor after House Republicans passed their budget resolution.Save to…
“President Trump said on Tuesday that he would strip security clearances from lawyers at a prominent Washington law firm aiding a former special counsel who investigated him and end any…
White House adviser Peter Navarro “has proposed expelling Canada from the Five Eyes intelligence-sharing network as Donald Trump increases pressure on the country he talks about turning into the 51st…
“President Volodymyr Zelensky said he had reached a deal with the U.S. over Ukraine’s mineral resources but many details remain to be worked out before any money starts flowing,” the…
“The Washington Post‘s Opinion Section editor David Shipley resigned after owner Jeff Bezos mandated the section prioritize two topics, personal liberties and free markets, and not publish dissenting views in…
U.S. Agency for International Development employees were notified late Tuesday they would be given 15 minutes to collect their belongings from their offices as the Trump administration forges ahead with…
“A school-age child has died of measles in West Texas, the first death from the disease in a decade in the United States,” NBC News reports. “The child had not…
President Trump shared what appeared to be an AI-generated video depicting his vision of “the Riviera of the Middle East” if his plan to “take over the Gaza strip” comes…
Alex Cooper — the most popular female podcaster in the world — sat down with Monica Lewinsky on her “Call Her Daddy” podcast for an hourlong conversation about her affair…
Apple said it would fix a “bug” occurring on some iPhones in which its text-to-speech transcription software is sometimes replacing certain words with an “r” consonant—including “racist”—with “Trump,” the Wall…
A new Hart Research poll found 71% of voters who backed Donald Trump said cutting Medicaid would be unacceptable. Voters overall were even more opposed to it, with 82% saying…
The White House stripped the news media of its longstanding role in managing the presidential press pool. It’s a move that gives the Trump administration direct control over which journalists…
Alex Thompson and Jake Tapper are releasing Original Sin, an unsparing look at Joe Biden’s “decline, its cover-up, and his disastrous choice to run again,” Axios reports. “Biden, his family,…
Rogé Karma: “The answer is that two seemingly incompatible things are happening in the job market at the same time. Even as the unemployment rate has hovered around 4 percent…
“Propelled by shows like Jesse Watters Primetime and The Five delivering over four million viewers, Fox News Channel will end February with its highest-rated start to the year ever, with several programs setting…
“Republican leaders from both sides of the Capitol will on Wednesday endeavor to settle on a unified GOP plan for approaching government funding negotiations with Democrats ahead of the March…
“When President Joe Biden put $42 billion behind making high-speed internet accessible across the US, he committed to doing it the old-fashioned way – with miles upon miles of fiber-optic…
Politico: “Shortly before the Covid-19 pandemic began in the United States in 2020, Musk traveled to Washington to meet with Trump about building a Tesla gigafactory in Mexico instead of…
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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