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...
Utah’s Senate president now acknowledges Republicans were too late in finishing this vote before midnight, and therefore the bill failed. By only several seconds. x.com/RobertGehrke...
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...
This is functionally what the Supreme Court also does to Democratic presidents and will continue to do until we reform the court
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.
Oil intensity
Why the US is particularly vulnerable to oil price shocks...
www.nytimes.com/2026/03/09/o...
Utah Republicans also rushed through a new law to thwart voters from removing their signatures from the pro-gerrymandering initiative if the removal form had prepaid postage.
Opponents sent prepaid forms amid reports that Republicans were tricking voters into signing www.sltrib.com/news/politic...
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:
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
If I’m reading this correctly, this is just federal races and you removed the races with uncontested general elections from both the general and primary aggregates, right?
North Carolina Republicans won the governor’s office in 2012 & used the election boards to suppress voters by cutting early voting & removing polling places from colleges/Black communities.
They had no problem with gubernatorial control until Dems won & reversed that. Now the GOP is doing it again
In December 2024, as part of hurricane relief legislation, the Republican-controlled legislature stripped the Democratic governor’s power to choose the majority of the state election board, as well as the 100 county election boards, handing that power to the elected Republican state auditor. Supporters of the change have argued that they reflect the state founders’ intention to keep the governor’s office weak after having suffered the abuses of British monarchs. The state auditor, Dave Boliek, has said his appointments would “uphold the law and put their focus toward counting legal votes, efficient tabulation and consistency across counties.” Those boards have already made small but significant changes like removing polling places at some universities, including North Carolina A&T State, a historically Black institution. Board members cited cost efficiency, among other reasons, for the decision.
Describing the GOP takeover of NC elections this way & only citing the GOP’s arguments is absurd.
They’ve tried to strip the governor’s power since Dems won in 2016 & did it in a lame-duck session after losing in 2024. Courts had previously blocked it & voters opposed a GOP constitutional amendment
Image of a New York Times web version story preview. Headline: Trump Wants to ‘Take Over’ Elections. These States are Prime Targets. Subheadline: President Trump thinks Republicans should control voting procedures in parts of the United States. But where? Here are some possibilities.
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...
Oh no I posted that after you asked. That Politico newsletter has an aggressive paywall, so I can understand the confusion
Seems like the Colorado House Speaker could (and should) preempt this with an impeachment threat. www.denverpost.com/2026/03/04/j...
