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

New in @playbookdc.bsky.social: @mallorymcmorrow.bsky.social picks up her first Senate endorsement from @martinheinrich.bsky.social.

Exclusive: Graham Platner is shaking up his campaign amid a swirl of controversy, bringing in a longtime friend to function as his Maine Senate campaign’s new manager, hiring a compliance firm and sending non-disclosure agreements to staffers. t.co/ObW3h6XZ3q

NEWS: Indiana Senate Republicans say they do not have votes to pass mid-cycle redistricting despite a pressure campaign from the White House, according to a spokesperson for Senate President Pro Tempore Rodric Bray. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

DNC Chair @kenmartin.bsky.social loves his job. It still makes him want to pull his hair out. Read the wide-ranging interview with our @adamwren.bsky.social, where Martin discusses Dem prospects in NJ and VA, as well as the party’s redistricting challenges👇

Scoop: President Donald Trump’s mid-cycle redistricting push is on the verge of stalling in Indiana, top state Republican officials have warned the White House. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

News: Mallory McMorrow has shifted her stance on the war in Gaza and now believes it is a genocide. Her remarks isolate Rep. Haley Stevens in the field as the only remaining Democratic Michigan Senate candidate not to classify it as such. www.politico.com/news/2025/10...

When Bernie Sanders and AOC dropped their videos on the stakes of the shutdown, it inspired wishcasting among Dems that they could be the voice of the party in this moment. Our @adamwren.bsky.social and @meganmesserly.bsky.social discuss on today's #PlaybookPod 👇 🎧 ow.ly/trwu50X4VKp

James Talarico, who has been running for Senate for three weeks, out-raised Colin Allred, who has been running for three months—raising more than $6.2 million Allred’s more than $4.1 million.