3+ day, 15+ hour ago   (265+ words) It also narrows the list of immigrants the Census Bureau would classify as U.S. residents, as President Donald Trump’s administration seeks to wield the decennial population count to benefit Republican states. The administration is using the rule to remake how the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago   (369+ words) This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at Balls and Strikes. Earlier this year, President Donald Trump issued an executive order directing the Postal Service to overhaul mail voting…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (633+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. One of the weirder side plots last week in the extradition fight between Minnesota and Texas over ICE agent Christian Castro was news that…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (202+ words) One central focus for DHS was an anti-ICE protest at a church. It led to the highly controversial indictment of dozens of demonstrators and two journalists who were covering the protest, Don Lemon and Georgia Fort. DHS sought reams of…...

2+ week, 3+ day ago   (1466+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. I’m keenly aware that at a certain point the numerous wrongful deportations by the Trump administration begin to blur together into an indistinguishable mass…...

2+ week, 4+ day ago   (849+ words) Federal law enforcement’s undercover campaign to surveil Minneapolis protesters included monitoring a makeshift memorial to Alex Pretti, joining a neighborhood rapid response Signal group, and having an undercover agent vote for an activist group to endorse abolishing prisons, new documents…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (344+ words) House Democrats are gearing up for investigations into the Trump administration’s push to investigate left-wing political protests. House Oversight Committee Ranking Member Rep. Robert Garcia (D-CA) asked Attorney General Todd Blanche on Monday for records relating to DHS and DOJ’s…...

2+ week, 5+ day ago   (720+ words) Talking Points Memo The Pending Supreme Court Decision Hanging Over the Midterms The Administration Makes Plans as the Justices’ Silence Continues This morning dispatch seeks to round up some of the things we’re following coming into the day. But for…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (439+ words) Tucked in at the bottom of a bombshell document released last week detailing DHS’ undercover operations in Minneapolis is a curious note. “This case has also been accepted under CUC Op Keyhole,” it reads. “In my 30 years, the only time…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (1061+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Today we begin with a particularly striking example of the bleak inanity of executive branch immigration courts under President Trump, first flagged by Politico’s…...