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Why the GOP ‘love-bombed’ John Fetterman
Shame is back, and deployed when it’s most convenient.
Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Todd Rose knows your private opinions
“It seems pretty obvious that a free society doesn’t really function if we just can’t even say what we think,” the think tank founder told Semafor.
Graham Hughes/Reuters
In states, some Democrats back anti-trans bills
Democrats in conservative districts are choosing to vote against LGBTQ equality groups, and the last Democratic president.
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Arrest boosts Newark mayor as he runs for governor
The episode is testing Ras Baraka’s theory that the party’s voters want to pick fights that moderates want to avoid.
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The 120 Days of Martin
As the effort to confirm Trump’s interim DC attorney fizzles, the city is still waiting for its fighting prosecutor.
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JB Pritzker: ‘I put my money where my mouth is’
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker on immigration, oligarchy, antisemitism, and 2028.
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‘I was in charge and he won’
The former president described a winnable election that was lost by factors out of his control.
Trump’s falling in polls. Why aren’t Democrats benefiting?
There’s a handful of critical reasons why the opposition party remains remarkably unpopular right now in public opinion surveys.
The great deliverable of Trump’s first 100 days? Revenge.
Karoline Leavitt’s recent “new media” briefings have laid bare President Trump’s priorities — and those of his biggest cheerleaders.
Greg Grandin: Would be ‘great’ if someone tried to ban book
Greg Grandin’s new history of America(s).
Democrats are all but done with Trump impeachment talk
Activists demand it, but the party’s electeds say they’ve learned it doesn’t work.
Native American woman gets a chance to topple Hogg at DNC
Kalyn Free wants new vice chair elections, alleging bias against “women of color.”
Illinois governor makes the case for a fighting Democratic Party in New Hampshire
Gov. JB Pritzker had harsh words for the “do-nothing Democrats” who’d hoped that “a simple defense of norms and decorum” would convince Republicans to change.
Sebastian Gorka on Trump’s new war on terror
“We will not be using the counterterrorism enterprise against those who politically disagree with us,” Gorka told Semafor’s Shelby Talcott.
Dems start aligning around El Salvador boycott
It’s a new strategy for pushing back against the country, where the White House has deported migrants.
More Democratic incumbents face rising younger challengers
In the post-Biden era, it’s all about age as elderly m face emboldened opponents.
While fighting Trump deportations, Democrats still avoid ‘abolish ICE’
A powerful progressive slogan in 2018 has all but vanished from the party’s messaging, even as it takes on the president’s aggressive migration agenda.
A new ‘war on terror’
Once upon a time, Republicans got a lot of mileage from accusing their opponents of being objectively pro-terrorism.