3+ day, 13+ hour ago   (771+ words) Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! Despite the fact that the U.S. has entered the “quiet period” — the 90 day window before an election during which state election officials are federally barred from “systematically” removing people from voter rolls — the Trump…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (338+ words) The Supreme Court stayed a Missouri federal court order Thursday, blocking a maximal Republican gerrymander for the 2026 midterms — at least for now. Chaos ensued. People Not Politicians, the group fighting the gerrymander, quickly appealed the federal district court ruling up…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (757+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. News that the Trump DOJ is escalating its attack on state election officials first emerged, I believe, in Salt Lake City yesterday, where Utah’s…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (215+ words) Readers of The Brief are likely aware of what’s going on with Missouri’s election maps, and of a character at the center of that drama, secretary of state Denny Hoskins. But as the chaos around a gambit he pulled off…...

4+ day, 3+ hour ago   (342+ words) The president framed this extraordinary offer as a result of unprecedented “tremendous economic success.” “In history we’ve never had anything like what’s happening,” Trump said. In keeping with the effort to paint his policies as actually good for the economy,…...

4+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1007+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. President Trump’s concerted assault on free and fair elections is happening on so many fronts that it’s hard for a casual observer to keep…...

4+ day, 19+ hour ago   (291+ words) A set of dueling federal court decisions sets the stage for the kind of legal flurry we can expect between now and the midterms. As Kate Riga reported for TPM, Justice Brett Kavanaugh, who oversees appeals for the federal judicial…...

5+ day, 9+ hour ago   (240+ words) The Supreme Court on Tuesday denied Missouri Republicans’ attempt to jam through a new gerrymander that would leave Democrats with only one House seat to their seven. Minutes later, U.S. District Judge Stephen Clark — a Trump appointee — handed down a…...

5+ day, 13+ hour ago   (1392+ words) Talking Points Memo Making Sense of That Big Story Saying Netanyahu Was Warned About Oct 7 It’s best to think of this piece as three separate revelations. The first is that — all according to this article — Israel and Hamas in 2023 were…...

5+ day, 16+ hour ago   (999+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. As I sat down this morning to try to catch you up on the state of play of the various Trump administration threats to…...