After yesterday’s mass shooting at a Texas elementary school, Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) spread a false and transphobic claim that the suspected shooter was a “transsexual leftist illegal alien,” Insider reports.
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President Trump’s drift away from the isolationist posture that powered his campaign has coincided with a growing fascination with Secretary of State Marco Rubio. According to NBC News, Trump was…
Walter Mead: “One would be a clear and damaging American defeat. If a mix of global pressure and domestic opposition forces the Trump administration to end the conflict before full…
“Sometimes a lawsuit is more than a lawsuit. Sometimes it’s a campaign attack,” the Atlanta Journal Constitution reports. “Republican Rick Jackson filed a defamation suit against Lt. Gov. Burt Jones…
Mississippi rolled out a controversial method statewide last July to perform the routine job of checking voters’ residences: using unverified credit data to remove 50,000 voters from the voting rolls,…
“A conservative Wisconsin Supreme Court justice first elected in 2007 announced Monday that she will not seek a third 10-year term next year, giving liberals another chance to expand their…
“U.S. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said the United States is conducting its most intense day of strikes inside Iran with the most fighters, bombers and strikes, during a press conference…
“New kinds of aircraft, sorts of ‘flying cars’ that can take off and land with little space like helicopters but function like airplanes, will start operating in U.S. airspace as…
EuroIntelligence: “In Donald Trump’s war with Iran, his most serious enemies aren’t Mojtaba Khamenei, or even the Revolutionary Guards. They are Brent and West Texas Intermediate. Absent of any genuine…
President Trump said Cuba is in “deep trouble” on a humanitarian basis and that Secretary of State Marco Rubio was dealing with the issue which may or may not be…
Washington Post: “Typically, even partial government shutdowns cause panic that consumes Congress, overshadowing other issues. That just hasn’t happened during this partial shutdown.” Save to Favorites
Senate Republicans want to move fast on Sen. Markwayne Mullin’s (R-OK) nomination to lead the Department of Homeland Security, with a confirmation hearing already scheduled for March 18, Punchbowl News…
Paul Krugman: “Donald Trump talked a lot of nonsense about energy during the 2024 campaign. But in fairness, some of the underlying premises behind ‘drill, baby, drill’ were accepted by…
“NASA is hiring new talent to rebuild its ‘core competencies’ and meet the agency’s aggressive moon deadlines,” the Houston Chronicle reports. “This push could reinvigorate the workforce and help NASA…
“The Trump administration agreed to stop pursuing a breakup of Live Nation and Ticketmaster as part of a settlement that blindsided state attorneys general in the middle of a trial,”…
“President Donald Trump is considering easing oil sanctions on Russia and releasing emergency crude stockpiles as part of a package of options aimed at curbing spiking global oil prices amid…
“Most Americans think gasoline prices are going to rise in coming months following President Donald Trump’s decision to launch military strikes on Iran, and many expect a protracted conflict,” according…
“Former CBS Miami journalist Eliott Rodriguez announced a run for Congress Tuesday in hopes of ousting Miami Rep. María Elvira Salazar,” the Miami Herald reports. “Rodriguez’s campaign is leaning into…
“I think Madison never imagined or envisioned a Congress with no ambition. This is a Congress without ambition. This is a Congress without really a belief structure in defending legislative…
“President Donald Trump began his second term with a promise to cut ‘billions and billions of dollars’ in government spending, empowering Elon Musk’s Department of Government Efficiency to eliminate programs…
“In the days after President Trump launched U.S. forces in an attack against Iran, support for the strikes is far lower than what it has been at the beginnings 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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