2023: TALKING POINTS MEMO (322)

JANUARY

Ginni Thomas And Liz Cheney Spar Over 2020 Election

Santos Once Boasted About Being ‘Head Guy For New York City’ At Alleged Ponzi Scheme

New House In Session: Speaker Vote Underway

House GOP Enters Day 2 Of Self-Induced Spectacle With No Speaker

Republicans’ Self-Own Game Continues On Day 3 Of No House Of Representatives

Radicalization Of GOP Remains On Full Display As House Heads Toward Historic 12th Vote

McCarthy Finally Gets Gavel After Losing 14 Speakership Votes

Fulton County Special Grand Jury Completes Trump Investigation

Porter Announces 2024 Senate Bid, Raising Questions About Feinstein’s Future

Long Island GOPers Call On Santos To Resign

Warren Gets Behind Porter In Her 2024 Senate Bid

Santos Finds An Ally In Gaetz

Campaigns Linked To Santos Left Donors Feeling Ripped Off After Questionable Credit Card Charges

All In The Family

Complaints About Culture War And ‘Demonic’ Forces Fueled Alleged New Mexico Shooter’s Political Campaign

Morning Memo: Has There Ever Been Anyone Like George Santos Before?

Conspiracy Spiral: Alleged Shooting Mastermind Emerges As Central Figure In New ‘False Flag’ Theories

Morning Memo: Weak-Kneed Hill Dems Fold In Face Of GOP Onslaught Over Biden Docs

Senate Republicans Wish House GOP Well In Their Debt Ceiling Fight And That’s About It

‘People’s Convoy’ Trucker Protest Movement Says It Has Been Taken Over By Text Message ‘Scammers’

Schiff Announces Senate Bid For 2024, Joining Already Crowded Field For Feinstein’s Seat

Loneliness And Cupcakes: How Santos Is Spending His First Few Weeks In Congress

Albanian Firm Ties Indicted Former FBI Official To Yet Another Disgraced Former Agent

What Defaulting On Our Debt Would Actually Look Like

McCarthy Now Seems To Say Social Security And Medicare Cuts Are ‘Off The Table’ In Debt Ceiling Negotiations

The Man Behind George Santos

FEBRUARY

College Board Strips Down African American Studies Course After DeSantis Loudly Rejects It

Pelosi Says She Will Get Behind Schiff If Feinstein Retires

Leaked Audio And Staff Dispute Show Chaos Inside George Santos’ Office

The Years Of Vitriolic Misogyny At The Heart Of The Paul Pelosi Attack

Supreme Court Case May Be Moot As North Carolina Court To Rehear Major Election Suit

Porter Reminds Newsom Of His Vow To Fill Feinstein’s Seat With A Black Woman

Matt Gaetz Quietly Named To House GOP’s New Sham Subcommittee

House Republicans Weaponize Themselves With New Committee On Government Weaponization

How The Fake Electors Scheme Explains Everything About Trump’s Attempt To Steal The 2020 Election

Republicans Have Wanted To Cut Medicare And Social Security For Decades

Morning Memo: Making Sense Of The Trump Classified Docs Case

RonJohn Backs Scott In His Feud With McConnell Over Social Security Cuts

The Key Election Of 2023 Is Slipping Quietly Under The Radar

Judge Releases Excerpts of Fulton County Grand Jury Trump 2020 Report

Democrats Dismiss Solvency Fearmongering While Offering Social Security Fix

A Ballot Initiative Incentive Seeks To Lure Out Republican Voters For Critical Wisconsin Court Election

Who Can Ruin Their State The Best?

Santos Finally Admits He’s Been ‘A Terrible Liar’

George Santos Allegedly Has A New Treasurer. It’s Been A Journey.

Morning Memo: The Devil’s Bargain Kevin McCarthy Struck With Tucker Carlson For Jan. 6 Footage

‘An International Conspiracy’: Lawsuit Follows A Half Century Of Pain And Questions For Malcolm X’s Family

Alaskan Who Sued To Boot Oath Keeper From Office: We Tried To ‘Not Give Him A Platform For This Kind Of Stuff’

GOP Rep. Ogles Admits He Misrepresented His College Major

Judge In Georgia Special Grand Jury Case Weighs In On Foreperson Media Tour

MARCH

McCarthy On Defense, Says Jan. 6 Footage Will Be Screened Before It’s Given To Tucker

Michigan Man Charged With Threatening To Kill All The State’s Jewish Elected Officials

Attorney Ben Crump Says His Team Has Obtained ‘Consequential New Evidence’ Related To Malcolm X’s Death

TPM’s The Weekender: The Far Right Is Feuding With The Even Further Right At CPAC

House Dem Report: It’s Official, Jim Jordan’s ‘Weaponization’ Panel Is A Sham

In A Bid For Total Control, GOP Declares War On Civil Servants

Abbott Has Spent Nearly $1 Billion To Complete Trump’s Wall. He’s Just Getting Started.

Right-Wingers Have A New, Dependable Strategy To Game The Courts. Can It Be Stopped?

House Dems Dare GOP To Show Their Hand On Budget Cuts

As Election Deniers Target A Voter Roll Maintenance Program, Texas May Be Next State To Withdraw

House Freedom Caucus Says It’ll ‘Consider’ Helping Raise Debt Limit If Each And Every One Of Its Demands Are Met

Trump-Appointed Judge Tries To Keep Hearing In Major Abortion Pill Case Secret

Here’s What Happened When Judge Kacsmaryk Told Lawyers About Secret Hearing In Mifepristone Case

Four Big Questions Framing The SVB Blowup

Reporter Describes Being Fired By Axios After Being Targeted By Ron DeSantis’ Media ‘Machine’

Morning Memo: A Case Study On The Epidemic Of Bothsidesism In Journalism

Trump Says He Will Be Arrested On Tuesday And Calls On Supporters To Protest

Trump Allies Use Expected Indictment To Try To Turn GOP Against DeSantis

Morning Memo: The ‘Radical Left’ Has Infiltrated The Phone Lines Now Too

North Carolina’s Lt. Guv. Is A Facebook Brawler Who Railed Against Gays, Blacks, And Jews

Bragg’s Office Slams GOPers’ Demand For Testimony

Morning Memo: Casualties Of Carlson Come For Revenge

Alvin Bragg Tries To Avoid Political Drama, But It Keeps Finding Him

Texas Has Been Spending Federal COVID Money On A Big Border Display Of Force

Ex-Fox News Producer Asks To Correct The Testimony She Gave In Dominion Case

The Many Levels Of McCarthy’s Newest Debt Ceiling Nonsense

Morning Memo: House GOP’s Newly Revealed Backchannel Comms With Trump

Utah Republicans Try To Accuse Romney Of Treason In Upcoming Censure Vote

Trump Shatters Glass Ceiling Of Indictments For Presidents

APRIL

Now That Trump’s Been Indicted, Jim Jordan Wants To Defund The Police

Trump Will Soon Be Arraigned In Manhattan, Bragg Expected To Speak

Dan Kelly Throws Emotional Tantrum After Losing Wisconsin Supreme Court Race

Five Points On Idaho’s Newly Passed, First-Of-Its-Kind Abortion Ban

Clarence Thomas: C’Mon, They’re My Friends

Dueling Opinions Cast Uncertainty Over Future Of Abortion Drug

The Right’s Classroom Culture Wars Are An ‘Attack’ On Students

Reappointed Tennessee Dem Expelled By GOP Calls On State House Speaker To Resign

Trump Attorneys Ask For A ‘Cooling Off’ Delay In E. Jean Carroll Lawsuit Trial

Garland Says DOJ Will Seek Emergency Relief From Supreme Court After 5th Circuit Mifepristone Ruling

How A Rural California County Became A Petri Dish For The Big Lie

Washington Judge Tears Apart Right-Wing Texas Counterpart Amid Abortion Drug Legal Frenzy

‘Invasion’: Texas GOP Struggles Over What Crisis To Manufacture At Border

Trump Faces Wave Of Bad News In Mar-a-Lago Probe

Oklahoma Newspaper Catches Local Officials Discussing Killing Reporters, Lynching Black People

Feds Accuse Kremling Of Backing Bizarre Influence Ops In US

Florida GOP ‘Fed Up’ With DeSantis’ Pre-2024 Agenda

Florida GOPers Flex Dinner With Trump After Snubbing DeSantis

Thomas Replaced Thurgood Marshall’s Vision With One More Amenable To The Powerful Than The Powerless

SCOTUS Freezes Lower Court Rulings While Mifepristone Case Plays Out

Tucker Carlson Is Out At Fox News

Senate Dem Asks GOP Mega Donor For Details About Gifts To Clarence Thomas

Morning Memo: Kevin McCarthy Struggles To Deliver On Promised Hostage-Taking

Trump Leans Into Globalist Conspiracy Theories With New ‘Make America Great For Us Again’ Ad

Morning Memo: Intended Victim Of The Jan. 6 Attack Reluctantly Testifies

Newly Right-Wing N. Carolina Supreme Court Reverses Its 2022 Gerrymandering Decision

MAY

Supreme Court Takes Up Case That Existentially Threatens Agency Power

Deadbeat Alert! Rudy Says He Can’t Afford To Search Own Records

Dems Are Furious About A Conservative Trick To Game The Courts. Is There A Path To A Legislative Fix?

Tucker Carlson Helped Broker The Deal That Got McCarthy The Speaker’s Gavel

Kemp To Sign Bill That’ll Make It Easier To Punish Local DAs He Has Political Beef With

Lawsuit Alleges What Victims Of DeSantis’ Sham Election Crimes Force Suspected – They Were Pawns For His 2024 Bid

Congress Has Pushed US Toward ‘Constitutional Crisis’ On Debt Limit, Yellen Says

In 2020 Texts Tucker Carlson Lamented He Would Likely ‘Die’ At Fox News

George Santos Charged With Wire Fraud, Money Laundering, False Statements

Subpoena By Social Media: Judge Orders Jenna Ellis Be Served Through Facebook, Twitter, Instagram DMs

Morning Memo: Donald Trump Is An Absolutely Terrible Criminal Defendant

George Santos Confesses To Theft In Brazil To Avoid Criminal Prosecution In Two Countries

A Massive Texas County Turned Blue. Then The GOP-Controlled Senate Voted To Overturn Their Elections.

Exclusive: Capitol Hill Staffer Is A Prominent Follower Of Neo-Nazi Nick Fuentes

Texas Moves One Step Closer To Asking SCOTUS To Rewrite National Immigration Law

Republicans Jewish Coalition Blasts Gosar Over Staffer’s Ties To White Supremacist: Fuentes Has ‘No Place’ In Congress

New Filings Show Alleged Leaker Teixiera Discussing Russia-Ukraine War With Someone Outside US

White House Denounces ‘Extremist’ Staffer In Paul Gosar’s Office

A Short Week In Kyiv

Biden Offers Fresh Thoughts On 14th Amendment As GOP Tosses Out Wild New Demands

Morning Memo: Jack Smith Subpoena Targeted Trump Org Foreign Biz Deals

After Decade-Plus Of Pride Celebrations, Corporations Are Caving To Right-Wing Anti-LGBTQ+ Threats

Stewart Rhodes Faces Sentencing for Sedition

Morning Memo: Espionage Act Charges Very Much In Play For Donald Trump

Yellen Updates X-Date, Says US Will Hit The Debt Limit On June 5

How Ken Paxton Went From Teflon Ken To Impeached By His Own Party

When It Comes To AI In Elections, We’re Unprepared For What’s Coming

McCarthy Aims For Wednesday Vote On Debt Ceiling Budget Deal

Trump Attacks DeSantis For ‘Blatantly’ Plagiarizing A Speech Line That Trump Actually Took From Reagan

JUNE

Rep. Paul Gosar Claims He Has Been ‘Smeared’ As A ‘Nazi’

Top Iowa Watchdog Accuses State GOP Of ‘Corrupt’ Attempt To Block His Investigations

Texas Sets Off Right-Wing Bidding War With ERIC Departure

GOP Presidential Candidates Show What A Dangerous Issue Abortion Is For Them

Morning Memo: What Does The Newest Wrinkle In The MAL Probe Mean?

Morning Memo: Oh Look, It’s Mark Meadows Making A Cameo In Jack Smith’s Probes

Supreme Court Delivers Major And Unexpected Win For Voting Rights

Morning Memo: Trump Indictment Shows The Insidious Rot At The Heart Of The GOP

As Bad As It Gets: Trump Led Comically Corrupt Attempt To Keep And Hide Classified Info

MAGA Threats Mass Around Mar-a-Lago Miami Hearing

Trump Faces First Court Appearance In Mar-a-Lago Case

The Mystery Of The Bedminster Documents

Trump Has Lots Of Ways To Delay His Trial Until The ’24 Election

Bernie Kerik Pitched Mark Meadows on ‘$5 to $8’ Million Plan To Reverse Trump 2020 Loss

Rudy Giuliani Used A Female Alias In Emails About Plan To Overturn The Election

Trump Has Lots Of Ways To Delay His Trial Until The ’24 Election

Will Rogue House Republicans Cause A Shutdown? A Guide To WTF Is Going On In Congress Right Now

Morning Memo: Don’t Lose Your Bearings In The Debate Over DOJ’s Slowness In Investigating Trump

Report: Michigan GOP Chair Karamo Says Anger Over Tweet Trivializing Holocaust Was ‘Completely Hilarious’

Morning Memo: The House GOP Clown Show Rolls Right Off The Cliff

Morning Memo: The Supreme Court’s Corruption Scandal Isn’t About Ethical Niceties

SCOTUS Bats Down Red-State Immigration Guidance Challenge In Win For Biden Administration

Impeached Texas Attorney General Partnered With Troubled Businessman to Push Opioid Program

Morning Memo: Keep A Close Eye On Jack Smith’s Percolating Jan. 6 Probe

Supreme Court Rejects Right-Wing ‘Theory’ That Would Have Upended American Elections

McCarthy Scrambles To Apologize, Do Damage Control After Questioning Trump’s Strength

Conservative Supreme Court Majority Rules Against Affirmative Action, Overturning Decades Of Precedent

Kagan Decries Use Of Right-Wing ‘Doctrine’ In Student Loan Decision As ‘Danger To A Democratic Order’

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