2+ hour, 29+ min ago  (590+ words) Hello and welcome back to The Franchise!" Two current and former Republican election officials have now thrown cold water on President Trump's new push to demand the creation of dystopian state-by-state citizenship lists and scale back the use of mail-in…...

2+ hour, 30+ min ago  (620+ words) House Democrats on Thursday tried to rein in the Trump administration's unauthorized Iran war while the House is on their two-week Easter break. A group of House Democrats " including Reps. Don Beyer (D-VA), Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), James Walkinshaw (D-VA), Mary…...

6+ hour, 23+ min ago  (682+ words) A lot of things happened. Here are some of the things. This is TPM's Morning Memo. In January, a senior Pentagon official summoned the Vatican's ambassador to the United States and issued a stunning threat, The Free Press reported this…...

8+ hour, 29+ min ago  (622+ words) Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy has maintained that the target of his war on fluoride is ingested fluoride " specifically that from fluoridated drinking water and oral supplements. But the misinformed policy efforts to ban community water fluoridation and…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (208+ words) One of Trump's Truthed conditions for a ceasefire was the "SAFE OPENING of the Strait of Hormuz." The White House appeared ready to declare that condition met. But even this morning, before reports emerged that Iran was once again closing…...

22+ hour, 25+ min ago  (690+ words) It appears as though members of the House Oversight Committee, including some Republicans, are not going to let ousted Attorney General Pam Bondi get away with skipping her deposition now that she is no longer attorney general. The DOJ reportedly…...

1+ day, 1+ hour ago  (826+ words) The U. S. Department of Labor has proposed a rule designed to make it harder to sue retirement plan fiduciaries that invest in risky, more volatile assets. The rule is also President Donald Trump's administration's latest giveaway to the Trump family's favorite…...

1+ day, 6+ hour ago  (16+ words) Declaring Victory and Walking Away Can't Conceal the Scale of Trump's Folly'Talking Points Memo...

1+ day, 3+ hour ago  (204+ words) This article is part of'TPM Cafe,'TPM's home for opinion and news analysis. But while Washington absorbs the daily torrent of executive orders, social media provocations, and congressional paralysis, something significant is happening at a different level of American government....

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (201+ words) Unlike similar Wisconsin court elections in 2023 and 2025, this month's race did not have the power to determine the court's majority, as the outcome of those previous races cemented a liberal majority until 2028." In 2023, after voters elected Democratic-backed Justice Janet Protasiewicz,…...