JFK’s grandson Jack Schlossberg, one of the leading primary contenders for New York’s dark blue 12th Congressional District, tweeted in December 2024 that he opposed D.C. statehood. D.C. voted 85% for statehood in a 2016 referendum. House Dems passed it unanimously in 2021 x.com/JBKSchlossbe...

Commentary: If you are one of Ohio’s nearly 8 million registered voters, Sec. of State Frank LaRose just gave your full name, address, date of birth, driver’s license and partial Social Security number, to Trump's Justice Department. ohiocapitaljournal.com/2026/03/11/s...

This is a direct response to Utah courts overturning the GOP’s congressional gerrymander after voters passed a ballot initiative to ban gerrymandering. Republicans already passed a law to pack the Utah Supreme Court earlier this year

New: Gov. Polis’ office has told lawmakers that he will hold off on intervening in Tina Peters’ sentence until after the Colorado Court of Appeals weighs in. Delay comes as every Democratic state lawmaker signs a letter urging Polis not to reduce her prison term: www.denverpost.com/2026/03/11/t...

This sounds like a senator who knows he’s doomed in the primary runoff without Trump’s endorsement. Cornyn was McConnell’s number 2 for years & narrowly lost the race to succeed him as GOP leader. Him actually wanting to give future Dems the power to pass bills with simple majorities seems dubious

New: The groups Trump made the biggest inroads with in 2024 are the ones most likely to disapprove of how he's doing as POTUS. That includes Black, Latino, working class, and young voters. So much for the new multi-racial, working-class Republican Party? www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-borr...

PlanScore just added scenarios to play with the implications of various swings in vote share for US House elections. For instance, it thinks current generic ballot (7 point shift from 2024 = D+5 generic ballot) implies about 230 seats for Democrats. planscore.org#!predict7D-u...

Ogles is a vile bigot who’s also doing performative cruelty to win his primary. 1) he won a gerrymandered seat 2) local news busted him for pathologically lying about his entire life story 3) his 2026 GOP primary & Dem challengers crushed him in fundraising 4) Dems could beat him if renominated

Dems overperformed by a 17-point margin in Georgia's 14th Congressional District special election primary. The combined party vote is 60-40 Republican in a district Trump won 68-31. All candidates ran on one ballot, and Democrat Shawn Harris will face Republican Clayton Fuller in the April 7 runoff

Because you sickos love this, here's the updated flip count in legislative seats since the start of Trump's second term, following tonight's Dem win in New Hampshire: Democrats: 28 Republicans: 0 docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

NEW: Confidence in the Supreme Court has dropped to a new low, according to the latest NBC News polling. Details: www.nbcnews.com/politics/sup...

Dems overperformed by a 17-point margin in Georgia's 14th Congressional District special election primary. The combined party vote is 60-40 Republican in a district Trump won 68-31. All candidates ran on one ballot, and Democrat Shawn Harris will face Republican Clayton Fuller in the April 7 runoff

I talked to dozens of experts in government, academia, cybersecurity, and industry about exactly this scenario last year and not only did not one of them think I was being alarmist, many brought it up unprompted and many said there was zero chance it hadn’t already happened

This is just astonishingly great reporting. All of the crises the White House has claimed over the last 14 months were planned in advance. All of them. And however much contempt you have for media outlets who reverently relayed Trump's claim to have no relation to Project 2025, it isn't enough.

The Kentucky GOP is using a bait and switch bill to make judicial elections partisan. Ten years ago, NC became the first state to adopt partisan judicial races in 100 years. Ohio followed. Now KY?

The war on Iran is causing gas and oil price explosions. Our research shows: Fossil fuel prices are the most important prices for inflation and inequality. Energy price shocks are redistribution shocks. The poorer you are, the larger the share of income you spend on essentials.

This is not true—driver’s licenses aren’t acceptable under the SAVE Act without additional proof of citizenship. The fact that they keep doing this sleight of hand should make clear that the SAVE Act is not something that “every American gets”

“On February 27, citing budgetary constraints, the State Board instructed county boards of elections to stop distributing voter registration forms in bulk – a long-established practice all over the country. Cost concerns aside, the directive likely violates the National Voter Registration Act.” #nc

Few people asked for this and few people like it. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/10/u...

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...

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.