New for @politico.com: Can a Democratic Dynasty survive in this red state? My profile of Beau Bayh, son of Evan, grandson of Birch. www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Something to read this weekend: @adamwren.bsky.social's latest Friday Read.

Kamala Harris and Pete Buttigieg take the stage in NYC today, offering an early glimpse at a possible 2028 clash. Our @meganmesserly.bsky.social and @adamwren.bsky.social break down the early 2028 dynamics on today's #PlaybookPod. 🎧 politi.co/4sudkNs

Lesson #8,010 on why in @jbpritzker.bsky.social office we do not try and appease the Trump administration

Our MARCH ISSUE is live: Me and @joelanderson.bsky.social on James Talarico and the Democrats' quest to win in Texas. With contributions from @gregcasar.bsky.social and @adamwren.bsky.social open.spotify.com/episode/4AUt...

New: Rahm Emanuel, headed to NH and SC this week, is prepping a presidential campaign that’s a rolling rebuke of his own party. Can he really win in 2028? “The answer to that is: It’s a jump ball,” he told me. “Even for the frontrunner, it’s a jump ball.” www.politico.com/news/magazin...

Jason Isbell live solo show with just a guitar and stories—like Jordan dropping 50 with no help, like Messi dribbling alone to goal, like Federer on center court; the crowd, silent in the presence of greatness.

New: Hasan Piker is driving a wedge in the Democratic Party. @playbookdc.bsky.social surveyed 14 potential '28 Dem candidates, asking whether they would appear on a livestream with Piker if invited. Only 3 definitively said they would. My interview w/ Piker: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Scoop in @playbookdc.bsky.social: @searchlightinst.bsky.social is out today with a new plan and polling aimed at helping Dems take GOP ground lost on immigration. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

My profile of Rob Sand, the red-state Democrat who has Iowa Republicans swooning. www.politico.com/news/2026/03...

Via Politico's playbook and @adamwren.bsky.social: A new Talarico campaign memo shows him beating Paxton AND Cornyn in #TXSen. Cornyn is even more disliked than Paxton in Texas. Likely Republican primary voters strongly prefer Paxton over Cornyn. www.politico.com/playbook

I wrote the first national profile of @jamestalarico.bsky.social — 2023. I think it holds up well. Read: www.politico.com/news/magazin...

“A perfect storm is lining up for Texas Democrats,” @mmckinnon.bsky.social tells @adamwren.bsky.social. “They have a nominee who can appeal to moderates and soft Republicans. Talarico could be Moses who leads the Lone Star Democrats out of the desert they’ve been in for 35 years.”

Here's @adamwren.bsky.social's @jamestalarico.bsky.social profile from June of 2023.

New Bench endorsements today first reported by @adamwren.bsky.social in @playbookdc.bsky.social

Maryland Gov. Wes Moore: "I don't answer to the Democratic Party." "There is no political party that made me. In fact the Democratic Party put millions of dollars to try to stop me from winning," @iamwesmoore.bsky.social told @adamwren.bsky.social at our Governors Summit.

Scoop in @playbookdc.bsky.social: @jamestalarico.bsky.social raised $2.5 million in the 24-hour period post Colbert.

To folks on here: America is careening toward a post-literacy moment faster than I realized, but this is a screenshot of a tweet excerpting a Times article I neither reported nor wrote.

Exclusive @politico.com: Ahead of a three-day swing in battleground Michigan, Rahm Emanuel is rolling out his fourth(!) policy proposal (transitioning military members in civilian life into the trades). What’s he up to? www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

From 2017 through at least 2025, @DemGovs took in more than $1.2m over 46 donations from a longtime ICE contractor that runs some of its most criticized detention facilities. DGA spox says they’re keeping the money: www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Exclusive @playbookdc.bsky.social: Democratic campaign groups are reckoning with their yearslong past of banking hundreds of thousands of dollars from a longtime ICE contractor. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Me on the death of the Washington Post sports section. This isn't a day to be nostalgic. It's a day to be angry. www.theringer.com/2026/02/04/m...

Here's who the Washington Post just laid off.

Wrote about the most fascinating Democratic primary in the county. www.politico.com/news/2026/02...

As @adamwren.bsky.social flagged, Kelly sent $5 million to of that cash pile to candidates, state parties and party committees. Kelly was already a money printer. He's now a money bomb. www.politico.com/news/2026/01...

Bluesky no longer “hot?”

“I’m not into Democrats sitting on the 30th floor of a Manhattan highrise in their Lululemon outfit with their Yeti cup, talking about, ‘We should go to places that we don’t go’ and then never go,” Emanuel told @playbookdc.bsky.social. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

.@PeteButtigieg takes the stage at the Detroit Auto Show.

Scoop in @playbookdc.bsky.social: @jamestalarico.bsky.social is launching his first statewide ad—backed by 7 figures in Dallas-Fort Worth, Houston, and on statewide cable. youtu.be/lSZ26-ZJiTs

Need to read this from @politico.com's @adamwren.bsky.social and @andrewjfhoward.bsky.social.

What Indiana GOP State Sen. Greg Walker texted the White House when they asked him to meet with the president: www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

New: Going into the Oval Office in August, Indiana House Speaker Todd Huston didn't back redistricting & had heard the chatter about whether his daughter Liz, an assistant White House press secretary, would be used as leverage in the plot to redraw America. How it went down in the Oval:

New: Trump’s political operation trained its eyes on a coast-to-coast redistricting project far earlier than has been known, emerging as part of an analysis of looming political threats and opportunities even before he was sworn in this January. www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Looking forward to it.

Some Democrats are concerned about liberal candidates’ ability to connect with voters in purple and red states. Our @adamwren.bsky.social and @andrewjfhoward.bsky.social discuss what it means for the midterms on today’s #PlaybookPod. 🎧 youtube.com/watch?v=WCL0i1i1PGs

After almost 19 years, @politico.com's newspaper comes to an end with tomorrow's edition. I've been at the helm of the newspaper for over a decade, and it's been an opportunity unlike anything I would've gotten to do at another organization. I'll miss the newspaper, but I'm not going anywhere.

Zooming out on the president's recent string of losses, via @playbookdc.bsky.social:

“Trump 2.0 appears at the nadir of its power,” @adamwren.bsky.social writes in Playbook

"I cannot think of another time when the administration wanted something this badly, and failed this catastrophically to get it from Republicans." @samsteindc.bsky.social, @sonnybunch.bsky.social, and @adamwren.bsky.social on how Indiana Republicans defied Trump and rejected his redistricting push.

"Indiana Republicans have withstood immense pressure from President Donald Trump — and ignored threats on their lives — to defeat his plan to redraw the state’s congressional map ..." By @adamwren.bsky.social / @politico.com

🚨🎧 Enjoyed hosting yesterday’s Today Explained — about emerging cracks in the GOP First Midwest king @adamwren.bsky.social on the WH's bumpy pressure campaign to redistrict Indiana Then @lacaldwelldc.bsky.social on the flood of GOP retirements from Congress and why everyone hates Speaker Johnson

🚨New: Indiana Republicans ignored threats on their lives and rejected President Donald Trump’s demand that they gerrymander the state’s House map to help protect the party’s majority in next year’s midterms.

Whether Turning Point still has the sway to accomplish its vision faced a test Friday. They turned out morethan 200 people, a relatively sparse crowd compared to the 1,000 who gathered to see @petebuttigieg.bsky.social for an anti-redistricting rally in September. t.co/YKyXACmdZo

Indiana Senate Republican Greg Walker “said he would have reported the alleged violation to federal authorities “if I thought that there was anyone of integrity in Washington that would follow through on my accusation ..” @adamwren.bsky.social #redistrict dailyjournal.net/2025/11/26/s...

I asked Susan Orlean how Tina Brown motivated writers at the New Yorker. "Terror," she explained. Full interview here: open.spotify.com/episode/5pGy...

SUSAN ORLEAN is on the podcast tomorrow. After asking Orlean about how she broke into the New Yorker and Resting Reporter Face and Tina Brown's motivational techniques, Bryan asked about three favorite Orlean stories. They are...

New @playbookdc.bsky.social: MAGA’s leader spurns MTG as he embraces Mamdani. “A world turned upside down,” as MAGA macher Steve Bannon put it to me. www.politico.com/newsletters/...

Scoop: Barack Obama huddled with nearly three dozen freshman House Democrats at the Capitol Hill home of Rep. Rosa DeLauro at a Wednesday night event hosted by former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

NEW: An Indiana Senate Republican who President Donald Trump called out in a Truth Social post Sunday for not backing the White House’s plan to draw new congressional maps was later targeted by a swatting, according to local authorities. t.co/PWrWcuna1k