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    NewsNation 18 minutes ago
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    Mediaite 25 minutes ago
  • What remains uncertain as key talks to end the war in Gaza begin
    PBS 26 minutes ago
  • Illinois leaders sue to stop Trump’s Guard deployment plan after Portland ruling
    South China Morning Post 29 minutes ago
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    Wall Street Journal 34 minutes ago
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    PBS 37 minutes ago
  • How Rachel Goldberg-Polin turned her pain into advocacy
    USA Today 43 minutes ago
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    NewsNation 43 minutes ago
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  • Prosecutor resists Trump pressure to criminally charge New York AG James: MSNBC
    CNBC 48 minutes ago
  • Argentina Sells Dollars for 5th Day as Treasury Drains Reserves
    Bloomberg 52 minutes ago
  • Comer withdraws Comey subpoena in Epstein case
    NewsNation 52 minutes ago
  • Report warns extremists increasingly using AI to intensify antisemitic propaganda
    CBS News 55 minutes ago
  • Missing New York politician's name to still appear on ballot
    NewsNation 55 minutes ago
  • ‘Not an open rebellion’: Sanchez questions Miller calling protesters ‘street terrorists’
    CNN 59 minutes ago
  • LISTEN LIVE: Supreme Court hears case on Colorado’s conversion therapy ban
    PBS 1 hour ago
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    NPR 1 hour ago
  • WATCH LIVE: Senate convenes as government shutdown enters 6th day
    PBS 1 hour ago
  • Manosphere Influencers Who Boosted Trump Are Now Cooling on Him
    Rolling Stone 1 hour ago
  • Supreme Court cases that could expand Trump's power
    NewsNation 1 hour ago
  • Commercial Aviation May Soon Feel Shutdown’s Impact, Official Warns
    New York Times 1 hour ago
  • Trump says US truck imports to face 25% tariff from November 1
    Financial Times 1 hour ago
  • Venezuela warns of alleged ‘extremist’ plan to attack US embassy complex
    South China Morning Post 1 hour ago
  • No National Guard in Portland after judge's ruling
    NewsNation 1 hour ago
  • Madagascar Leader Appoints Military Man as New Prime Minister
    Bloomberg 1 hour ago
  • Jeffries challenges Johnson to prime-time debate about shutdown
    NewsNation 1 hour ago
  • Judge Poised to Free Abrego Garcia if Officials Can’t Supply Deportation Plans
    New York Times 1 hour ago
  • Voting underway in California on new maps that could swing House control
    PBS 1 hour ago
  • Trump Gave a Partisan Speech to Navy Troops, to Mixed Reactions
    New York Times 1 hour ago
  • Jane Goodall said she would launch Trump and Musk on one-way trip into space
    The Guardian 1 hour ago
  • Trump Aimed Shutdown Cuts at Democrats, but G.O.P. Districts Are Hit, Too
    New York Times 1 hour ago
  • The federal government is shut down. Here's what that means across the country
    NPR 1 hour ago
  • US Treasury names Frank Bisignano as chief of IRS
    Financial Times 1 hour ago
  • Video About 750,000 workers furloughed as shutdown enters day 6
    ABC News 1 hour ago
  • Trump administration mulling $10 billion aid package for farmers, sources say
    CBS News 2 hours ago
  • France in crisis as prime minister quits hours after cabinet unveiled
    USA Today 2 hours ago
  • What we know now about the Supreme Court's new term defining Trump's power
    USA Today 2 hours ago
  • Trump’s AI Czar David Sacks Rebuffs Criticism of China Stance
    Bloomberg 2 hours ago
  • Karoline Leavitt Rips ‘Shocking’ Texts From Dem Candidate in Virginia: ‘He Was Threatening to Kill His Opponent!’
    Mediaite 2 hours ago
  • Sen. Andy Kim to Speaker Johnson: ‘Get your House colleagues back to DC… let’s talk’
    CNN 2 hours ago
  • US Supreme Court rejects challenge by Turkey’s Halkbank to prosecution
    South China Morning Post 2 hours ago
  • 'Sick' texts from Democratic AG candidate could threaten Spanberger chances in Virginia
    USA Today 2 hours ago
  • Pressure grows on Virginia’s Democratic nominee for attorney general to drop out over resurfaced text messages
    CNN 2 hours ago
  • Wesley Hunt Enters Texas G.O.P. Senate Race, Complicating Path for Cornyn
    New York Times 2 hours ago
  • Who is Judge Immergut? Trump Appointee in Oregon Blocks Troop Deployment.
    New York Times 2 hours ago
  • 10/6: Face the Nation
    CBS News 2 hours ago
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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.

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.

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