2+ day, 11+ 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…...

2+ day, 14+ 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, 14+ 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…...

4+ day, 14+ hour ago   (100+ words) Talking Points Memo TPM LIVE: What the Heck Is the Trump Admin Trying to Do With the Census? As part of their overarching plan to reduce the power of blue states and promote myths about noncitizen voting, the Trump administration…...

5+ day, 19+ hour ago   (547+ words) Election experts are examining the new U.S. Postal Service rules for mailed ballots, and finding that under them, getting ballots in the mail could take weeks — or even years — rendering the program unworkable for an actual election. “If it took one…...

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, 2+ day ago   (803+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. At least two DOJ election monitors allegedly tried to interview voters and access voting machines in Cheyenne during last week’s primary election in violation…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago   (625+ words) As part of President Trump’s pretextual war on fraud, he anointed Vice President JD Vance as his “fraud czar” to, essentially, find creative ways to withhold federal funding from blue states and cities. This is being done under the guise…...

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   (552+ words) Americans across the political spectrum are outraged and staunchly opposing the development of new AI data centers — and the fossil fuel-burning gas plants that run them — in rural and urban communities across the country alike. So naturally, the Trump administration’s…...