Some personal news: I'm breaking out as a freelance reporter! I'll still be covering retail news and consumerism. But I'm making a slow turn toward international issues. Please send tips, pitches, freelance opportunities to [email protected]

If you can’t sit for the full 12 hours I do suggest the first bit where Alex pledges to a scarf. x.com/dburghart/stat…

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People are having fun with this story and look, I know, but a small group can do big things. If you've got 'constitutional' or far-right lawmen or makers in your town and they're having a real-world impact, or plan to with the election, I'd love to hear about it. SEND ME TIPS.

Also read David Gilbert who did time with me yesterday and is just the kind of fella you want to spend 12 hours with at a constitutional sheriff's convention.

NEW: In a city that bills itself as 'Superman's hometown,' a pastor is calling on his flock to fight 'the enemy' in the place where Satan has been waging his attack: At the public library.

My latest on the cultural fissures tearing through America. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/m…

Also big thanks to Jessica Pishko, author of the forthcoming book about sheriffs, The Highest Law in the Land, for giving me a crash course. Seems like this is a topic we should all know way more about.

Yesterday I attended a conference in Las Vegas for a far-right sheriffs group. It drew a parade of felons, disgraced politicians, election deniers, conspiracy theorists and, in the end, even a few sheriffs. My dispatch from the fringe: nbcnews.com/news/us-news/c…

I'll be covering Trump's criminal trial in New York for NPR, beginning today. Here's a listening and reading list while we're waiting for the jury to be selected.

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Just finished reading The Power Broker and the central theme is men are huge babies.

Failure to uphold & enforce election-integrity policies and expand non-English staffing to monitor disinfo, political deepfakes & other harmful content will be catastrophic to free & fair elections worldwide. From me, Maria Ressa, Center for Countering Digital Hate Check My Ads: freepress.net/news/press-rel…

When Connie Vickers discovered a city council candidate had white supremacist ties, she went into action. “I didn’t know that it would [make a difference] or not,” Vickers said. “We all came together for one reason.” #Velshi #SmallActs msnbc.com/ali-velshi/wat…

Was just sitting around with a bunch of very smart folks at a conference and chatting about how eclipses were once thought as harbingers of doom and was feeling so grateful for astronomy and the scientific revolution then opened this app

Voters in Enid, Oklahoma, decided by a nearly 20-point margin Tuesday to remove a City Council member over his ties to white nationalist groups.

Brandy Zadrozny spoke with Enid voters.

Wait so are all the people who pay for blue checks gonna be so mad because it seems like it might make these people mad

Watch the full video, including Alex Wagner's interview with Brandy Zadrozny here: youtube.com/watch?v=DXoEo_…

What a day in Enid, Oklahoma nbcnews.com/news/us-news/o…

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A year of Evan Gershkovich's life has been stolen

A year of weddings, of spikeball on the beach, of beers in Berlin, of New Year w/ mayo-filled salad; of reporting on monumental Russian changes

Today I had the honor to write about my friend Evan in WSJ:

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