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Today’s Press Conference Promises to Be Epic

May 30, 2025 at 10:09 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

President Trump and Elon Musk are set to appear together at a 1:30 p.m. ET press conference in the Oval Office today—an event that promises to be even more combustible by a damning new New York Times investigation.

The report details Musk’s extensive drug use, raising urgent questions about his role as a trusted adviser to the president.

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Backlash Presidents

May 30, 2025 at 8:19 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A provocative new book set for release this fall, Backlash Presidents by political scientist Julia Azari, offers a sobering framework for understanding Donald Trump.

Azari’s central thesis is striking: Most presidents preserve the racial status quo. But when one dares to challenge it, the result isn’t necessarily lasting progress — it often clears a path for a successor driven by resentment, lawlessness, and norm-breaking.

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A Lot Unhappens, Too

May 30, 2025 at 6:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

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Trump is actually losing more than he’s winning. And we’re not sure anyone is going to miss Elon Musk.

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The Resistance Is Working Better Than You Think

May 28, 2025 at 11:30 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

For all the bluster and bravado, Donald Trump is losing. A lot.

Despite reclaiming the White House and commanding a Republican-controlled Congress, Trump’s presidency has hit a wall in the federal courts.

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For Your Weekend Listening

May 24, 2025 at 8:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members.

Republicans pass a massive tax bill in the dead of night. And Donald Trump holds a dinner for buyers of Trump coin.

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Weekly News Quiz

May 23, 2025 at 11:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

We had a month of political news in just the last week.

How well were you paying attention?

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The End of Independent Agencies as We Know Them

May 23, 2025 at 10:54 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In the four months since Donald Trump returned to the presidency, few events have had as seismic an impact as the Supreme Court’s decision yesterday to gut the independence of federal agencies.

In a sweeping opinion, the conservative majority effectively dismantled a 90-year-old precedent that insulated expert regulators from direct presidential control.

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Obama’s Base Is Slipping Away From Democrats

May 23, 2025 at 8:37 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Ever since Donald Trump squeaked out his victory in the 2016 presidential campaign, political analysts have marveled at his strength among white working class voters.

This has long been a trouble spot for Democrats.

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Night Moves

May 23, 2025 at 6:00 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The latest episode of Trial Balloon is live for members.

Republicans pass a massive tax bill in the dead of night. And Donald Trump holds a dinner for buyers of Trump coin.

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A Few Thoughts on the Bill Republicans Just Passed

May 22, 2025 at 7:43 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Republicans muscled through a sweeping budget reconciliation bill in the early hours of the morning — capping off a chaotic night of closed-door dealmaking, frantic vote-counting, and relentless arm twisting on the House floor.

The final vote came just before sunrise, after GOP leaders spent the night corralling holdouts, rewriting sections of the bill on the fly, and making last-minute concessions to both hardliners and swing-district Republicans.

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No Surrender

May 21, 2025 at 12:32 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Bruce Springsteen didn’t just kick off his Europe 2025 tour with rock anthems — he opened with political fire.

For two straight nights, the iconic singer delivered blistering speeches onstage, condemning Donald Trump and his administration as “corrupt, incompetent and treasonous.”

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Democrats Are Losing Young People

May 21, 2025 at 10:36 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

A new postmortem on the 2024 election by the Democratic data firm Catalist delivers a sobering warning: The party’s biggest problem is with young voters.

Support among voters under 30 dropped from 61% in 2020 to just 55% in 2024. That’s still a majority, but the trend is moving in the wrong direction. And it’s not just white voters.

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Rules Committee Debates Bill That’s Not Even Finished

May 21, 2025 at 7:26 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

The House Rules Committee has been meeting since 1 a.m. ET this morning in a desperate attempt to advance what President Trump calls a “big, beautiful bill” to the House floor.

There’s just one problem: The bill isn’t done yet.

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Trump’s Trade Contradictions

May 20, 2025 at 2:58 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Donald Trump has made tariffs central to his economic agenda, insisting they will both revive American manufacturing and generate massive new revenue streams.

But the logic behind those claims doesn’t hold up. In fact, his trade policy is built on a pair of contradictions.

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Biden Didn’t Think Harris Could Win

May 20, 2025 at 2:23 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

One of the more revealing threads in Original Sin, the new book by Jake Tapper and Alex Thompson, is how little confidence Joe Biden and his top advisers had in Kamala Harris.

Biden never believed Harris could beat Donald Trump.

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Trump Bulldozes the Rule of Law

May 20, 2025 at 10:39 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

In 1973, Americans were stunned to learn that President Richard Nixon had tried to obstruct justice—crossing a line that even his closest allies couldn’t defend.

That moment led to a bipartisan consensus: There had to be a clear wall between the White House and the Department of Justice.

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The Legacy Joe Biden Won’t Get to Shape

May 19, 2025 at 1:03 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

Presidential legacies are strange things. They rarely settle in real time. More often, they’re molded by events long after a president leaves office—sometimes decades later.

But for Joe Biden, time may not offer that luxury.

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Republicans Hope No One Is Watching

May 19, 2025 at 11:03 am EDT By Taegan Goddard Leave a Comment

House Republicans appear to be banking on the idea that if a budget is adopted in the middle of the night, no one will notice the damage.

They’re trying—again—to pass what Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) has called a “big, beautiful bill” that reflects Donald Trump’s agenda. But the only thing clear so far is how carefully they’re trying to hide it.

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goddard-bw-snapshotTaegan 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.

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Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.

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