Originally published at: Indiana Senate Republicans Defy Trump Admin and Reject Gerrymandered Maps - TPM – Talking Points Memo Despite months of mounting and concerted pressure from the Trump administration, the Indiana Senate rejected a proposal for a new gerrymandered congressional map ahead of the 2026 midterm elections. The new congressional map, which was blocked in a 31-19 vote, would ...
Originally published at: Latest Jobs Report Suggests Tariffs Harming Blue Collar Work, Counter to White House Narrative - TPM – Talking Points Memo Tuesday morning gave us the latest set of data indicating that President Donald Trump’s tariffs regime is not, in fact, making manufacturing great again. The November jobs report released by the Bureau of Labor Statistics suggested that the ...
Originally published at: Trump’s Open Defiance Of Federal Courts Is Now At Hand A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. We Are Crossing The Rubicon The major news of the weekend was the rapid-fire series of events following President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act that culminated with the White House ...
Originally published at: Trump Finds Out Bullying Doesn’t Work in Indiana - TPM – Talking Points Memo Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕ Despite weeks of threats and mounting pressure from President Trump, Indiana Republican senators defied Donald Trump’s redistricting pressure campaign in Indiana this week. It was a stunning loss for Trump’s ongoing gerrymandering ...
Originally published at: Smelling Blood In The Water, Trump Escalates Attacks On Law Firms - TPM – Talking Points Memo A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Where Will It Stop? The Trump administration seized on the capitulation by the Paul Weiss law firm to expand and intensify its attack on the legal profession ...
Originally published at: Federal Court Blocks Texas Map: “Substantial Evidence Shows That Texas Racially Gerrymandered the 2025 Map” - TPM – Talking Points Memo In yet another blow to the Trump administration’s ongoing redistricting pressure campaign, a federal court on Tuesday enjoined the use of Texas’ new map and ordered it to use its previous map for the 2026 election. In his ...
Originally published at: Trump Targets Higher Ed In Pure Authoritarian Move - TPM – Talking Points Memo A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Columbia University Is Ground Zero For Trump Extortion If you still harbored any doubt that President Trump’s ongoing attack on Columbia University – a private ...
From House GOP Budget Slash - TPM – Talking Points Memo Senators moved quickly to cobble together a standalone bill to shield Washington D.C. from a $1 billion budget cut written into the House Republican continuing resolution that 10 Senate Democrats helped pass Friday.
Originally published at: Trump DOJ Meddles In State Case Against Convicted Big Lie Agitator Tina Peters A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM’s Morning Memo. Sign up for the email version. Trump’s Campaign Of Retribution Reaches Colorado The Trump Justice Department is urging a federal judge to give “prompt and careful consideration” to the long-shot bid by ...
Originally published at: House GOP Fears Trump-Elon Breakup Might Get In ‘Big, Beautiful’ Bill’s Way - TPM – Talking Points Memo Hello it’s the weekend. This is The Weekender ☕ House Republicans are hoping the public breakup between President Donald Trump and billionaire Elon Musk does not last very long for the sake of the “big, beautiful” reconciliation bill. Thursday’s ...
