Not the odds, but the stakes. That's my shorthand for the organizing principle we most need in journalists covering the 2024 campaign. Not who has what chances of winning, but the consequences for American democracy. Not the odds, but the stakes.

RIP Maryanne Trump, who famously said of her brother: “All he wants to do is appeal to his base. He has no principles. None. None. .. His goddamned tweet and lying, oh my God. I’m talking too freely, but you know. The change of stories. The lack of preparation. The lying. Holy

If Trump becomes president again, after all we know ,and you supported his campaign you will have participated in the end of American democracy. You will not be rewarded by your leader beyond a rush you might seek for upending civility. You aren't part of his plan. He is the

Steve Martin Historian and great author David McCullough tried to warn us in 2016. Worth a listen. youtu.be/TeJspCC_IwY?si…

SCOTUS can adopt all the new rules it wants to but unless they deal with recently exposed abuses by Justice Thomas, it will not restore public confidence in the Court. If they're serious about ethics, they'll take this situation seriously.

I really want to know how anyone can still think that Trump should be anywhere near the White House ever again after this. Jenna Ellis told prosecutors in Georgia, during a proffer, that Dan Scavino told her: "The boss is not going to leave [The White House] under any

@grimsr3ap3r79 Brian Krassenstein Turncoats like this?

I prefer presidents who aren't delusional.🤷‍♀️

This is the government voters will choose if they choose Trump next November. wapo.st/47smwrt

These are grave human rights abuses in the works if Trump is reelected. nytimes.com/2023/11/11/us/…

I continue to be deeply troubled by the openness with which Donald Trump expresses an anti-democratic vision for his hoped-for future presidency and the reporting about just how far along the planning is. open.substack.com/pub/joycevance…

Kyle Griffin Lisa Rubin Trump is flirting with fascist thuggery more & more. And the Republican party is going along with it, even defending it.

It's more important than ever to pay attention to Trump because he is explicitly telling us how he intends to end democracy. More here: joycevance.substack.com/p/trump-drops-…

It's surprising there wasn't a protective order already in place. The court still has the ability to inquire into how these disclosures were made & whether any lawyers violated ethics rules.

Kevin McCarthy pushes into a colleague who voted against keeping him as speaker. Now this from a GOP Senator. Don't tell me Trump isn't normalizing violence in our civil discourse. This is how it starts.

Yesterday, Speaker Johnson suggested Trump could ignore rulings by 61 courts & defy our Constitution because Trump supposedly “believed” he won. Mike knows the election was not stolen and that a President who defies the rulings of our courts & attempts to seize power is a tyrant.

Worth noting about the leading Republican candidate: The Colorado judge found that Trump engaged in insurrection & intended the J6 violence, and his defense witness, Kash Patel, was not credible when he claimed Trump called up 10,000 National Guard.

[email protected] I'm hoping my Twitter followers will follow me on Threads. I'll reciprocate. We gotta get out of this place. Elon Musk has a lot of power and he's misusing it to move our society in the direction of ignorance, intolerance and autocracy.