How the War in Gaza Mobilized the American Left nytimes.com/2024/04/12/us/… via Katie Glueck Katie Benner Sheera Frenkel

News: RJC wading into a Republican House primary in Indiana:

nytimes.com/2024/04/04/us/…

New: Two right-wing Israeli journalists traveled to Palm Beach, Fla., a little over a week ago, hoping to elicit from Donald J. Trump a powerful expression of support for their country’s war in Gaza.

Instead, one of them wrote that what they heard from Mr. Trump at Mar-a-Lago…

can't wait to read!!

NEW: What the beat-up-Biden effigy -- at a Ted Nugent-headlined event -- tells us about the changing nature of the Republican Party in Johnson County, Kansas, once a GOP stronghold but increasingly a Democratic power center

w/ Katie Bernard
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Huge sum: Biden team brings in $10 million in the 24 hours after the State of the Union via Kristen Welker and Scott Bland nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…

#SOTU HISTORY:

Senators who give responses to SOTU addresses delivered by presidents: Jan. 25, 1983, Joe Biden:

'As Franklin Roosevelt said during the recovery from the Great Depression: just 4 words are important'

clip bonus: in background spot future Delaware Sen Ted Kaufman

reupping this one, with Anjali Huynh :

If Trump Drives Haley From the Race, What Will Her Voters Do in November? nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/…

Joe Biden’s Superfans Think the Rest of America Has Lost Its Mind
w/ Rebecca Davis O'Brien
nytimes.com/2024/03/04/us/…

WASHINGTON (AP) — Mitch McConnell will step down as the Senate's Republican leader in November, ending a record run in the powerful post.

“Biden is too old. And I think Donald Trump is horrible.”

If Trump Drives Haley From the Race, What Will Her Voters Do in November? W/ Anjali Huynh nytimes.com/2024/02/24/us/…

UPDATE: Children’s Mercy confirms it is treating 12 patients from the rally.

Eleven are children, and nine have gunshot wounds. kctv5.com/2024/02/14/1-d…

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Suozzi's win buoyed Democrats’ spirits and offered a model on one of the party’s thorniest challenges: immigration.
fun to reunite with the great Nicholas Fandos on this:

nytimes.com/2024/02/14/nyr…

New: Eight Words and a Verbal Slip Put Biden’s Age Back at the Center of 2024

W/ Reid J. Epstein and Katie Glueck nytimes.com/2024/02/09/us/…

can't wait to read (and pre-order!)!!

Not only did Rep. Gallagher Press Office vote against impeachment. He took to the WSJ editorial page to say why he did it -- and how Republicans were wrong for pursuing it:

'Impeachment not only would fail to resolve Mr. Biden’s border crisis but would also set a dangerous new precedent that…

from Friday- there's an effort underway in Michigan to encourage voters to vote 'uncommitted' in the Dem primary in protest of Biden's approach to Israel/Gaza

nytimes.com/2024/02/02/us/…

If you care about good government, you should care about the role of money & influence in politics.

3 of the best journalists on that beat — Brody Mullins, Julie Bykowicz & Jeanne Cummings — were among the layoffs at the The Wall Street Journal yesterday.

This is bad for media, but also for democracy.

Trump claims again that he won in 2020. But an incumbent with a challenger scoring more than 40% against him in NH would be seen as wounded and weak. (Ask LBJ or Bush 41.) Instead, Trump claims a big victory because he's not actually an incumbent even though he plays one on TV.