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“Speaker Nancy Pelosi was visibly angry this morning, we hear, going off on her own members during a private Democratic whip meeting this morning for tanking the White House’s requested Covid relief money,” Politico reports.
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NATO released an estimate “that 7,000 to 15,000 Russian soldiers have been killed in four weeks of war in Ukraine,” the AP reports. “By way of comparison, Russia lost about…
Japan’s Defense Ministry said that North Korea has fired a “new type of ICBM,” that landed less than 200 miles from Japan, CNN reports. A White House statement called it…
New York Times: “Mr. Brooks made the extraordinary charge as the two onetime allies were engaged in a bitter political feud, and it was not immediately clear how their falling…
As President Biden meets with key allies in Brussels to coordinate a stronger response to Russia’s monthlong assault on Ukraine, a new AP-NORC poll shows Americans have yet to rally…
“Companies across the West are retreating from Russia in the wake of President Vladimir Putin’s decision to invade Ukraine. Some of France’s biggest firms are hanging on,” the Wall Street…
“Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson emerged on Wednesday from two grueling days of testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee having weathered escalating Republican attacks on her record but leaving Democrats confident…
“The FBI is trying a novel strategy to recruit Russian-speaking individuals upset about the country’s invasion of Ukraine: aiming social media ads at cellphones located inside or just outside the…
“Idaho on Wednesday became the first state to enact a law modeled after a Texas statute banning abortions after about six weeks of pregnancy and allowing it to be enforced…
A new Fox News poll finds that by a 63-32% margin, voters think the U.S. should be doing more for Ukrainians in their fight against Russia. Save to Favorites
Politico: “More than 100 House Republicans have signed on to host a fundraiser for Harriet Hageman, who is waging a primary challenge to Cheney in Wyoming. The figure amounts to…
“Repeated attempts by the United States’ top defense and military leaders to speak with their Russian counterparts have been rejected by Moscow for the last month, leaving the world’s two…
“The White House has quietly assembled a team of national security officials to sketch out scenarios of how the United States and its allies should respond if President Vladimir Putin…
“One of the senior Manhattan prosecutors who investigated Donald Trump believed that the former president was ‘guilty of numerous felony violations’ and that it was ‘a grave failure of justice’…
Katie Arrington (R), a Trump-backed South Carolina congressional candidate lashed out at the former president’s chief of staff in a series of text messages this week, where she twice called…
North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R), who frequently rails against abortion rights, paid for a woman to have an abortion after impregnating her in 1989, Axios reports. Save to…
A rare face-to-face meeting between Russian and US military officials last week led to an “outburst” of emotion from a normally stoic Russian general, a “revealing moment” that the Americans…
Charlie Sykes: “As we contemplate the vetting process that gives us judges who are qualified to sit on the Supreme Court, perhaps we also ought to give some thought to…
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson “got into a heated exchange after the senator revived a line of attack on the judge’s sentencing record in cases involving…
The UnPopulist: “Until Zemmour’s presidential campaign was derailed in February by the political fallout from Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, he was not only starting to unite France’s far-right and center-right,…
Washington Post: “She has been asked about critical race theory and the history of America’s slaveholding past and whether she has been too lenient in her sentencing as a trial…
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Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
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