New: Senate candidate Tim Sheehy has repeatedly mentioned his “rural” Minnesota upbringing. In reality he grew up minutes from St. Paul in a suburb of ~25,000.

GOP Star Recruit Brags About ‘Rural’ Upbringing That Wasn’t
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Perfect Twitter pairing.

Me: Can you condense this paragraph for me?

My boyfriend, a professional editor: *easily condenses paragraph without losing any content*

Me: Ok, but I can’t take that out, or that, or that. And this has to stay, too. And this. *reject, reject, reject*

SCOOP w/ David Jackson: MIKE JOHNSON and DONALD TRUMP will propose a bill on election integrity aimed at preventing non-citizens from voting to 'elevate the issue' at their joint event in Mar-a-Lago on Friday, according to a person familiar with the plans.

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“He used to walk around the cloakroom showing people porno of him and his latest girlfriend,” one former Republican lawmaker told me. “He’d show me a video, and I’d say, ‘That’s great, Matt.’ Like, what kind of a reaction do you want?”

via The Atlantic
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Just sitting in the office, almost in tears, being extremely normal.

Mike Johnson has GOP reps on his side.

Clay Higgins called MJ a “beautiful man.”Max Miller said MTG is a “party of one.”

But McCarthy learned the hard way—appeasing most of the GOP doesn’t matter if you piss off a couple.

W/ Reese Gorman

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The Walls Are Closing in on Mike Johnson’s Speakership

“I hate to say this, but you’re asking me, like, how long is the string?”

W/ Riley Rogerson
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Kevin McCarthy says the only reason that he is not Speaker is because 'one person wanted me to stop an ethics complaint because he slept with a 17 year old'

Genuinely hate how much I love the name.

It’s… perfect.

This piece is fantastic, and about as deep of a dive on Nick Adams as you’re gonna get, but I *still* don’t know if this guy is for real.

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NEW: Ted Cruz is trying to turn his super PAC into a media company — and he may get away with it. Here is as deep a dive as you’re going to get on this unfolding conflict of interest cash scandal. Me w/Mini Racker The Daily Beast thedailybeast.com/ted-cruz-is-tu…

My big takeaway from watching sports is that yelling “Let’s go!” has become a common male personality.

Your retinas can have a little nuclear fusion, as a treat.

If you're looking for eclipse glasses right now you understand why same day voter registration is important

If you feel the urge to disregard all the warnings and stare at the sun without the goofy glasses, I say go for it. Natural selection.

I wrote about how the wave of House retirements is playing out on the trail.

It’s forced Dems to play defense in several open seats. For Rs, it’s contributed to the narrative that they’re a mess.

Around the map, it’s created some chaotic primaries.
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The House Freedom Caucus was a major force during Trump’s presidency. Now, as Trump prepares to take back the White House, the HFC is on the outside looking in.

“They’ve been elevating the people who aren’t Trump fans.'

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NEW: Once his staunchest defenders, the Freedom Caucus now has a strained relationship with Trump and those around him. The oversimplified reason for why that is: Bob Good.

Inside the Freedom Caucus and Trump’s Newly Frosty Relationship.

W/ Matt Fuller

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Montana GOP Senate candidate Tim Sheehy says he lied to ranger about gunshot wound in 2015 washingtonpost.com/politics/2024/…