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The Democrats are poised to win big in next month’s elections. That’s great news because it will give the party enough congressional seats to rein in President Trump in Washington and enough gubernatorial and state legislative seats to blunt the…

“With all my heart” is how Natalie Harp, President Donald Trump’s slavishly devoted assistant and “human printer,” signed one letter to her boss, the man she calls her “Guardian and Protector in this Life.” Harp’s letters to Trump are odd—to…

Musk, Alex Gibney’s latest documentary, is nearly four hours long with a ten-minute intermission, which is surely more time than any well-adjusted person wants to spend thinking about Elon Musk. It’s to Gibney’s credit as a master storyteller and an…

The Supreme Court appeared likely to side with a customer who invoked a semi-obscure federal law to sue Paramount for sharing his personal information with Facebook during oral arguments on Wednesday, though multiple justices signaled that they might constrain…

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The new national poll from Fox is absolutely awful for Donald Trump and the Republican Party. It finds Trump at a record low approval, shows him absolutely cratering with independents and Latinos, and even finds him underwater with noncollege whites and…

Katie Zacharia’s long résumé includes stints as an unqualified legal commentator, an associate at a Chinese law firm, an uncredentialed general counsel, and—in her own words—a participant in “sort of a pyramid scheme.”The 41-year-old White House…

More than 100 letters containing an unknown white substance were mailed to election officials, state officials, and members of Congress, according to three election workers who were briefed on the investigation and spoke to Votebeat.The FBI acknowledged an…

The mystery of Katie Zacharia’s legal credentials has finally been solved: She doesn’t have any. The brand-new White House press secretary appeared on the right-wing media outlet Real America’s Voice Thursday for an interview with Pizzagate conspiracy…

A 19-year-old man tried to carry out a mass shooting at a Hindu temple in Aurora, Illinois, on Sunday while Democratic Representative Raja Krishnamoorthi and his family were inside.Alexandros Paporakis, 19, was thwarted in his attempt to open fire on the Sri…

Nearly 600,000 people in Texas had their voting registration delayed due to a computer glitch. Now state election workers are trying frantically to register them before early voting starts on Monday in one of the country’s most consequential electoral…

Kimberly Guilfoyle is having a rough week. MAGA donor and former congressional candidate Eric Deters announced in a video Thursday that he had filed a defamation lawsuit against the disgraced former U.S. ambassador to Greece and her lawyers. “This might just…

Katie Zacharia delivered her debut performance as White House press secretary just two days ago, but she’s already made enemies of her colleagues.The 41-year-old appeared before the White House press corps for the first time on Tuesday, whereupon she…

President Donald Trump made a speech to first responders in the Rose Garden Thursday—and spent his time talking about “reskinning” the White House.After rambling about the upcoming midterm elections and briefly thanking the first responders gathered…

Former Republican Representative Matt Gaetz has been sued in federal court by two women accusing him of sex trafficking.The Miami Herald reports that the women allege that Gaetz, ex-Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg, and former Florida state…

The wife of Michigan GOP Senate candidate Mike Rogers is at gas stations in Detroit handing out $10 gas gift cards while begging people to vote for her husband. This is an illegal, desperate, and ironic move given that the spiking gas prices were directly…

White House chief of staff Susie Wiles could be facing the boot.Donald Trump has reportedly called his allies to explore potential successors for his once-irreproachable “ice maiden,” Politico reported in its Playbook newsletter Thursday. The reviews of…

This is a lightly edited transcript of the October 14 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. Perry Bacon: Hi, I’m Perry Bacon. I’m joined by Chaz Nuttycombe. He’s the…

You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack. You can read a transcript here. The blue wave is so strong that State Navigate estimates Democrats will flip more than 400 state legislative seats…

The donors behind President Trump’s $330 million White House Ballroom project have finally been revealed. Trump isn’t one of them, even though he pledged to cover a portion of the cost himself.The Washington Post has reported that 57 companies donated…

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington Western Montana, home to one of the country’s most competitive House races, is…

Kimberly Guilfoyle is reportedly “spiraling” after her fall from grace, and nearly retracted her resignation. The ex–U.S. ambassador to Greece (and Donald Trump Jr.’s ex-fiancée) was publicly asked to resign during White House press secretary Katie…

Donald Trump just breezed through another cognitive exam. The astonishing wow-factor needed to pass this one? Remembering five words.The president claimed “genius” status at a Wednesday rally in Bullhead City, Arizona, for accomplishing the apparently…

Great men plant trees in whose shade they will never sit, according to a familiar aphorism. Lesser men, by comparison, cut down those trees for a few hours’ warmth. Rarely has a saying come to life so vividly as it did over the last few days in the…

Tensions inside the Trump administration are heating up, and the president’s appointees are at each other’s throats.Deputy Secretary of State Chirstopher Landau and State Department special envoy Paolo Zampolli have been trading insults and allegations for…

You’re reading The TNR Blue Book. Get daily scoops, strategy, and developments inside the liberal ideas factory delivered right to your inbox. Sign up for free.Inside Washington Minnesota leaders are decrying the raid on Representative Ilhan Omar’s D.C.…

President Trump is backing down from plans to livestream the execution of Fort Hood mass shooter Nidal Malik Hasan.“I think streaming the execution for all to see might have been a strong deterrent for the World to witness how America deals with Terrorists…

Katie Zacharia’s latest approach to handling the scandal around her boosted legal credentials involves pretending the whole thing never happened.The new White House press secretary told The New York Times Wednesday that she had misinterpreted a reporter’s…

President Trump is fighting attempts to make him testify and produce documents related to his takeover of the Kennedy Center.In a court filing Wednesday, Trump asserted executive privilege, claiming that in her lawsuit, Kennedy Center board member and…

President Trump would let his friend who “looks like shit” die at his rally.“I travel with more doctors than any human being. If people get sick in the audience, they leave ’em alone. You know what they call them? Collateral damage,” Trump said at…