If Jared Polis caves to extortion and pardons an unrepentant insurrectionists, he should be impeached and removed. But everyone involved would probably be better off in Colorado Dems brandished the threat, and Polis backed down. www.offmessage.net/p/impeach-ja...

The top 100 GOP donors gave over half of all GOP funds in the 2024 cycle

“The Times analysis found 300 billionaires and their families donated more than $3 billion—19% of all contributions—in federal elections in 2024. The billionaire families gave an average total of $10 million each in 2024, roughly equal to what 100,000 typical political donors gave, combined.“ Gift:

New, from me: Trump's retribution against Anthropic is over the top. But it should cause Democrats to think about how they will deal with contractors like Musk or Ellison when they return to power. What do you do with vendors working to oppose you? 🧵 donmoynihan.substack.com/p/procuremen...

My latest @npr.org story: The Republican push to alter the #2030Census may lead to a radical shift in redistricting for state legislatures — drawing districts that don’t take into account children and non-U.S. citizen adults www.npr.org/2026/03/09/n...

Since 2016, Republican legislators in several states have stripped the governor’s powers after losing control of the office to Democrats: North Carolina, Michigan, Wisconsin, Kentucky, etc. Iowa Republicans may be taking things a step further and doing it preemptively

This is a very good sign for North Carolina Democrats this fall. (Of course, correlation ≠ causation)

Utah Republicans have recently advanced several major power grabs: 1) They packed Utah’s Supreme Court after the courts replaced their congressional gerrymander with a fairer map. 2) They’re trying to put an initiative on November’s ballot that would re-legalize gerrymandering. 3) And now this:

Another conservative justice on the Wisconsin Supreme Court, Annette Ziegler, just announced she'll retire ahead of next year's elections. Her announcement comes just weeks before conservatives are trying to defend a different open seat. Liberals could emerge with a 6-1 majority by 2027.

If an official commits an impeachable offense and nobody acts to impeach, it is no longer an impeachable offense. People who oppose impeachment as “pointless” because it seems unlikely to result in removal do not understand this very simple point and seem unwilling to even try to understand it.

Why the US is particularly vulnerable to oil price shocks... www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...

What are we even doing here? The bulk of this is like four trillion dollar regressive tax cut that doesn’t help the poorest families at all and helps the richest the most. To make it less regressive, he adds like another two trillion in progressive tax cuts that targets families with kids.

Utah Republicans have passed a bill that would let GOP cities secede from the only big blue county, where Dems may gain full control of county govt in 2026. Salt Lake County has 1/3 of Utah’s residents, but that could drop considerably—unless courts block this for violating the legislative deadline

No mention in the headline/subhead that Trump’s takeover plot is wildly unconstitutional. The story is better & discusses GOP election subversion but still doesn’t note a fed takeover is unconstitutional (or that NC’s GOP takeover attempts were ruled illegal until they flipped the NC Supreme Court)

President threatens to block all legislation in order to disenfranchise large numbers of married women, others donmoynihan.substack.com/p/the-save-a...

Seems like the Colorado House Speaker could (and should) preempt this with an impeachment threat. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/j...

Iran is substantially larger than Iraq and Afghanistan combined is also probably useful info.

61 years ago today at the foot of the Edmund Pettus Bridge, Selma, Alabama.

In the latest sign that Florida Republicans will go through with re-gerrymandering the congressional map when they reconvene on April 20 for a special session called by Gov. Ron DeSantis, legislators have advanced a bill to delay the candidate filing period from April to June

New York Dems are reportedly still expected to push for a constitutional amendment that would let them redraw the congressional map in 2028 to counter GOP gerrymanders. Dems could target 3-4 seats currently held by GOP. Dems must pass it both in 2026 & 2027, then win voter approval in November 2027

The New York Times reports on how congressional candidates are courting cash from the cryptocurrency industry, which has already spent millions backing their preferred candidates in this year’s earliest Democratic primaries

Of the five GOP reps who got drawn out by Prop 50: Valadao: Staying and fighting Kiley: Moving to another district that he’ll probably still lose (as an independent???) Calvert: Trying to backstab Young Kim Issa: Retiring LaMalfa: Dead

In the second half of 2025, one man accounted for almost 40% of all money donated to political parties in the UK: a crypto-billionaire who lives in Thailand. Britain desperately needs to rewrite its party funding rules. observer.co.uk/news/the-sen...

Indiana Republican Blake Fiechter, who was running against a GOP senator who opposed redistricting but dropped out after less than a month, now says he's back in the race after a meeting with Trump at the White House www.facebook.com/blake.fiecht...

SCOOP: A prosecutor who helped build the Georgia election interference case against Trump is running to unseat the appeals court judge whose ruling helped bring the case to an end. Will Wooten will challenge Trent Brown, who wrote the opinion disqualifying Fani Willis. Me for @ajc.com (link in 🧵👇)

Georgia Democrats are running in 204 state legislative races, contesting 88% of House seats and 82% of Senate seats – Democrats’ highest number of qualified candidates and contested seats in at least three decades, according to the state party

[Republican also passed new gerrymanders in Missouri, North Carolina, and Ohio] Ruffini: Doesn’t look like anything to me

It's remarkable how low this number can get and still keep going down

After nearly a decade measuring American public support for political violence, @nathankalmoe.bsky.social and I have published a somewhat comprehensive guide to measuring these attitudes. This includes historical comparisons and responses to common critiques. doi.org/10.1093/poq/...

Wow, a huge bipartisan coalition passed a bill in the Missouri House to allow anyone who is not presently incarcerated to vote. More than half the states allow this, but Democrats have led this in the last decade. Haven't seen a GOP-led chamber pass this in that time. Big deal.

With a sudden surge of open House sets on the GOP side, we're once again in record territory. Democrats have slowed the pace recently.

Iceland will hold a referendum on Aug. 29 to decide whether to relaunch its stalled talks to join the EU, its government said today.

NEW: Believe it or not, it’s that time of year: the Wisconsin Supreme Court election is next month. Liberals have a huge opportunity: if they win, they can lock down the majority of this court thru 2030. That means they’d have it in the next presidential race, a big democracy guardrail. Share:

There are a lot of cynical responses to this that are possible, even appropriate, but this finding is an indication of both how we got here & a window into how dire the democratic crisis. Co governance is pretty hard if you assume bad faith from most of your fellows *especially* if it’s warranted.

Online gambling companies are the 21st century equivalent of Big Tobacco—with the bonus of insider trading corruption and providing fuel for election conspiracy theories

An original Nashville sit-in member, along with Diane Nash, James Bevel, and John Lewis. Trained in non-violence by James Lawson. At age 21, he signed a will before the Freedom Rides, knowing he could die. May his soul be at peace, and may we all have such courage in the face of oppression.

Oh wow. North Carolina Republican Bob Rucho—whose name is on the caption of the infamous 2019 SCOTUS case that greenlighted partisan gerrymandering, Rucho v. Common Cause—has resigned from the state Board of Elections after violating a ban on board members donating to political candidates.

👇👇👇 “Proportional systems also have a unique advantage when applied to the U.S. context: It is possible to achieve fair representation for voters of color without race-conscious districting. In fact, [PR] makes gerrymandering functionally impossible if enough seats are elected per district.”

this is not an amount of money any individual or household should be able to have and we have to abolish both billionaires as a group and the economic system that makes them possible

A story that really deserves more national attention: Kansans are fighting a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses & birth certificates, depriving them of required voter ID shortly before the 2026 primary election 🧵 www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

excellent deep dive into all of the ways that the Trump administration has used the federal budget to keep punishing critics and trying to bend them to his will. FWIW, this is precisely how Viktor Orban crushed the opposition in Hungary 15 years ago. The national budget is a powerful weapon.

A majority of Harris voters lived in Trump states. A majority of Trump voters in 2020 lived in Biden states. Democrats have won 42-46% of the vote in the South in every presidential election over the past three decades. States and regions of the country aren’t monoliths

Free and fair elections are the cornerstone of our democracy. But right now, they’re under attack. Several Republican-controlled states have redrawn their congressional maps to give themselves an unfair advantage in the midterm elections.

NEW: Clemency for Tina Peters would be unprecedented, based on my analysis of Gov Polis' 25 commutations. Peters hasn't shown remorse, taken accountability, or sought to restore harm. No Polis commutation was for a harsh sentence alone and Peters' would be the shortest by 30+ yrs

NEW: Governor Jared Polis (D) tells me Tina Peters would have to show appropriate contrition for her crimes to receive clemency. Polis is clearly leaning strongly toward it. Our conversation tonight on @nexton9news.bsky.social at 6pm on 9NEWS/streaming on 9NEWS+.

🚨 Virginia Democrats may succeed in implementing their new 10-1 congressional map targeting 4 Republicans this year after the VA’s top court let the April 21 referendum proceed. Litigation remains ongoing, but this removes a major hurdle. Interactive map+data davesredistricting.org/maps#viewmap...

Really interesting thread--I did not know that FDR was clear that he was increasing the number of Supreme Court Justices so that he could actually enact the New Deal.

There’s been much talk of Texas’ new 30-8 GOP gerrymander backfiring, but it’s likely nowhere close. The GOP may lose several seats they drew to win yet still be no worse off than before. Dems would have a good shot at a majority without gerrymandering but might win 14/38 seats at best on this map

Polis should be impeached if he does this. This would be little different than granting clemency to a January 6 insurrectionist

I agree, quite apart from the merits of the case. Alito could only defend the Supreme Court's authority to intervene by grievously misrepresenting the facts. The reality is that there's no plausible argument SCOTUS had the power to do what it did. Why didn't that matter to six justices?