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DeSantis to Call Special Session on Redistricting

December 1, 2025 at 6:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) announced his intention to call a special legislative session on congressional redistricting in the spring of 2026, the Floridian reports.

Said DeSantis: “Yeah, yeah, so we’re going to redistrict. The issue is that there is a Supreme Court decision that we are waiting on – the argument in October about Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that impacts Florida’s maps, so we’re going to do it next Spring.”

Elise Stefanik Breaks with Mike Johnson

December 1, 2025 at 5:17 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY), a member of the House Republican leadership, said on social media that the “deep state is alive and well” and that Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) is getting “rolled by House Democrats.”

Vanity Fair Expected to Let Olivia Nuzzi’s Contract Lapse

December 1, 2025 at 4:37 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Semafor: “Editor Mark Guiducci and other leaders at Vanity Fair are concerned for and about their new star, Olivia Nuzzi. At first, Condé Nast wasn’t commenting on the salacious allegations her former fiancé, reporter Ryan Lizza, was making via his serialized Substack. Some at the company initially downplayed Lizza’s depictions of Nuzzi’s relationship with politician Mark Sanford as Washington inside baseball that wouldn’t make much of a dent on the West Coast, where she would be starting work.”

“But now, just weeks after Vanity Fair published an excerpt of Nuzzi’s book, it’s increasingly unlikely she’ll be a fixture on its print masthead. Lizza’s latest accusations go beyond mixing business with pleasure: He says she tried to sabotage others’ reporting on then-presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr.”


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How Trump Will Try to Mess with the Midterms

December 1, 2025 at 4:31 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Seth Masket: “It’s become sort of a common lament by some on the left that there probably won’t even be elections in 2026, no less 2028, and thus American democracy is functionally over. This is not just doomerism, but uninformed doomerism; canceling elections just isn’t what modern autocrats do.”

“What Trump will try to do, rather, is make sure that the surge in Democratic voters that will likely show up won’t have much power to change things — that is, he’ll try to make elections matter less — and he’ll try to do so in a number of pernicious yet predictable ways.”

Trump Tries to Avoid an Upset

December 1, 2025 at 4:00 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

New York Times: “Speaker Mike Johnson, who flew in from Washington early Monday, called President Trump and put his phone on speaker…”

“The phone call, coupled with the convergence of political heavyweights, underscored just how much Republicans appear rattled by the Tuesday election for what would normally be a safe conservative seat in Tennessee’s Seventh Congressional District.”

“It is the final special election of 2025 and, as Mr. Johnson told reporters, ‘we think what will happen here will be a bellwether for the midterms next year.'”

For members: An Early Test of a Midterm Wave

Darrell Issa Mulls Run in Texas

December 1, 2025 at 3:55 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) is considering running for a House seat in Texas if the Supreme Court upholds the state’s redraw of its congressional map, Punchbowl News reports.

Issa was drawn out of his San Diego-area seat in California’s mid-decade redistricting effort.

White House Confirms Hegseth Ordered Second Strike

December 1, 2025 at 2:53 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt confirmed on Monday that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth authorized the second, follow-up strike on an alleged drug boat in the Caribbean in September following a bombshell Washington Post report that claimed he ordered the military to “kill everybody,” The Hill reports.

For members: Trump Leaves Hegseth on the Brink

Nine Indiana Republicans Targeted in Swatting Attacks

December 1, 2025 at 2:26 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“At least nine elected Republicans in Indiana have been the target of swatting attacks in the weeks since President Donald Trump publicly pressured state lawmakers to pass new congressional maps that would benefit Republicans,” NBC News reports.

Top Nancy Mace Adviser Quits

December 1, 2025 at 2:12 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A top consultant to Rep. Nancy Mace’s campaign for South Carolina governor announced his resignation Monday, saying the gubernatorial hopeful has “decided to turn her back on MAGA,” Politico reports.

Said Austin McCubbin: “My name has been used publicly, while going back on her word to pay me, to trade on my Team Trump status and to work on her behalf with the White House, and I am 100% breaking with her campaign out of loyalty to the President.”

Jeffries Will Try to Force Vote on Obamacare Subsidies

December 1, 2025 at 1:43 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries wrote in a Dear Colleague letter that House Democrats are introducing a discharge petition for an up-or-down vote on a three-year extension of the Obamacare credits.

Washington Post: “Republican leaders have found themselves in a familiar place: pledging to make major changes to the Affordable Care Act, citing rising health care costs and a looming deadline — but far from agreeing on how to do it.”

Trump Leaves Hegseth on the Brink

December 1, 2025 at 1:30 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The Washington Post detonated a political bombshell over the weekend with a report alleging that Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered U.S. forces to kill survivors of a drone strike on suspected drug smugglers — a charge that, if true, would constitute a clear war crime.

The story appears to have finally rattled some normally stalwart Republicans.

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At Least 470 Targets and Counting

December 1, 2025 at 1:07 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Reuters: “At least 470 people, organizations and institutions have been targeted for retribution since Trump took office – an average of more than one a day. Some were singled out for punishment; others swept up in broader purges of perceived enemies.”

Trump to Hold Meeting on Venezuela Tonight

December 1, 2025 at 1:02 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“President Donald Trump will hold a meeting at the White House on Monday evening about next steps on Venezuela, as the administration intensifies its pressure campaign on the country,” CNN reports.

An Early Test of a Midterm Wave

December 1, 2025 at 12:34 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

At the end of Donald Trump’s first year in office, Republicans were stunned to find themselves fighting — and ultimately losing — a U.S. Senate special election in deep-red Alabama.

Eight years later, the GOP is reliving that same uneasy feeling.

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Why the Gulf Monarchs Shower Trump With Gifts

December 1, 2025 at 12:24 pm EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Franklin Foer: “Until Donald Trump, no U.S. president had ever yielded to royal temptations from abroad. But in his second term, Trump has discarded that old inhibition in its totality. Since 2022, the Trump family has been promised hundreds of millions of dollars—in the form of investments, real-estate licensing deals, even an airplane—from Gulf monarchies and the business entities they control.”

“During his second term, and especially during Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s recent visit to Washington, Trump has rewarded his benefactors with sweeping geopolitical favors. Their huge investments in his family’s businesses are hard to describe as anything other than the spectacular subversion of American sovereignty, wherein the nation’s foreign policy reads as a thank-you note to the president’s biggest financial boosters.”

“Really, Trump is adopting the governing style of his backers. In the Gulf states, hardly any distinction exists between public and private interests; the royal family governs the state and dominates the economy.”

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Don Jr. Closes the Gap with JD Vance

December 1, 2025 at 11:43 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Donald Trump Jr is emerging as a potential choice to succeed his father on the Republican ticket in 2028, at least according to one poll,” The Independent reports.

“JD Vance would still appear to be the front runner to take on the mantle for the GOP, pollsters McLaughlin and Associates say. But their latest survey of voters in November shows his favorability has fallen to 34 percent, after consistently dropping for several months.”

Swiss Overwhelmingly Reject Inheritance Tax

December 1, 2025 at 11:40 am EST By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

“Swiss voters on Sunday overwhelmingly rejected a proposal to impose a 50 percent inheritance levy on the super-rich, in a contentious referendum that came as governments around the world wrestle with how to tax the wealthy,” the Financial Times reports.

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