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Irie Sentner / Politico:
Republicans reel as Dem over-performances hit a swing state and MAGA country — Democrats clinched a landslide victory in Wisconsin and made inroads in two deep-red Florida districts, spelling trouble for Republicans. — Republicans emerged from Tuesday's elections on shaky footing.
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Randy Fine wins Florida special election for Waltz seat — Florida state Sen. Randy Fine (R) has won the special election for Florida's 6th Congressional District on Tuesday, according to Decision Desk HQ, defeating Democrat Josh Weil in what became a closely contested race in the deep-red district.
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On Data and Democracy:
Does Higher Turnout Now Help Republicans? A Data-Driven Analysis of Partisan Turnout Dynamics (Part 1) — Data analysis reveals Democrats' problem isn't high turnout—it's losing the mobilization battle — A provocative claim has been echoing through Democratic circles since the 2024 election …
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Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Split Ticket, Politico, WTMJ, Florida Politics and Semafor
Jack Blanchard / Politico:
A message to Musk — With help from Eli Okun, Garrett Ross and Bethany Irvine — Embed:
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Bloomberg, NOTUS and The Gateway Pundit
Bolts:
Liberals Defend Wisconsin Supreme Court, Beating Back Elon Musk
Liberals Defend Wisconsin Supreme Court, Beating Back Elon Musk
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The Independent, New York Magazine, Twin Cities, New York Post, Politico, Axios, IJR, Wisconsin Watch, Deadline, Urban Milwaukee, Informed Comment, USA Today, NewsNation, Icon UK and MPR News
Jill Colvin / Associated Press:
Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
Wisconsin and Florida elections provide early warning signs to Trump and Republicans
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Julia Manchester / The Hill:
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
Republican Jimmy Patronis wins special election for Gaetz's Florida seat
New York Times:
Wisconsin Supreme Court Election Results — ‹ See all Wisconsin state results — Wisconsin voters will choose a new State Supreme Court justice in an election that will determine whether liberals retain a 4-to-3 majority or whether conservatives take control of the state's judiciary.
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PBS Wisconsin, Can We Still Govern?, The Guardian, Raw Story, BBC, Washington Examiner, PoliticusUSA, CBS News and WisPolitics
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Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Liberal Wins Wisconsin Court Race, Despite Musk's Millions — Susan Crawford defeated Brad Schimel for a State Supreme Court seat in a race that shattered spending records and maintained a liberal majority on the court. — Susan Crawford, the liberal candidate for a pivotal seat …
Adam Edelman / NBC News:
Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk — Liberals will maintain their narrow majority on the court after Crawford's victory in the first battleground state election of Trump's second term. — Susan Crawford has won a seat on the Wisconsin Supreme Court …
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The Guardian:
Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate
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NPR, USA Today, The 19th, The Independent, Twitchy, The Law and Policy Blog, Raw Story and Axios
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
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Bruce Weber / New York Times:
Val Kilmer, Film Star Who Played Batman and Jim Morrison, Dies at 65 — A wide-ranging leading man who earned critical praise, he was known to be charismatic but unpredictable. At one point he dropped out of Hollywood for a decade. — Val Kilmer, a homegrown Hollywood actor …
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Bloomberg:
Trump Tariff Plans Still in Limbo Ahead of Rose Garden Event — President Donald Trump's deliberations over his plans to impose reciprocal tariffs are coming down to the wire, with his team said to be still finalizing the level and scope of new import taxes he is slated to unveil on Wednesday afternoon.
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Reuters:
Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
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Matthew Mpoke Bigg / New York Times:
On Eve of Trump's Tariffs Announcement, Israel Says It Will Lift All Duties on U.S. Imports
On Eve of Trump's Tariffs Announcement, Israel Says It Will Lift All Duties on U.S. Imports
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LewRockwell, Townhall, Fortune, The Daily Wire, One America News Network, Washington Examiner and National Review
Courtenay Brown / Axios:
Trump's day of clarity, but without the clarity
Trump's day of clarity, but without the clarity
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CNBC, PolitiFact, USA Today, Wausau, Bloomberg, New York Post and Semafor
Hunter Walker / Talking Points Memo:
Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate — Only two men have spoken on the floor of the U.S. Senate for more than 24 straight hours. One of them fought to keep Black people out of public life, the other was a Black leader who staged a landmark protest.
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Associated Press:
Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his 25-hour speech, the longest in Senate history
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live
Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live
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Jordain Carney / Politico:
So long, Strom: Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 25-hour speech
So long, Strom: Cory Booker breaks Thurmond's Senate record with 25-hour speech
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Alvaro Murillo / Reuters:
Costa Rican former President Oscar Arias says US revoked his visa — Former Costa Rican President and Nobel Prize winner Oscar Arias said on Tuesday that the U.S. had revoked his visa to enter the country, weeks after he criticized U.S. President Donald Trump on social media saying he was behaving like “a Roman emperor.”
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John Hudson / Washington Post:
Waltz and staff used Gmail for government communications, officials say — Trump's national security adviser is trying to manage his way out of a crisis. But new revelations about his team's operational security are piling up in the inbox. — Just now — Members of President Donald …
Scott Macfarlane / CBS News:
Adam Schiff places hold on Ed Martin's nomination to be D.C. U.S. attorney — President Trump's controversial choice to be the top federal prosecutor in Washington, D.C., Ed Martin, faces an uncertain future, as a Senate Democrat plans to put an indefinite hold on his nomination.
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Washington Post:
White House studying cost of Greenland takeover, long in Trump's sights — It's the most concrete effort yet to turn President Donald Trump's desire to acquire the Danish territory into actionable policy, despite widespread international outrage. — Just now
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Associated Press and HuffPost
The Hill:
Four key takeaways as Trump's sweeping HHS layoffs begin — Thousands of employees across the vast Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) began receiving layoff notices as early as 5 a.m. on Tuesday. — The purge comes on the heels of HHS Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. forcing out a top vaccine official late last week.
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Jennifer Hoenig on LinkedIn, Roll Call and HuffPost
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J.J. McCorvey / NBC News:
Entire staff responsible for utility assistance included in HHS cuts, sources say
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Wired:
Doctor Behind Award-Winning Parkinson's Research Among Scientists Purged From NIH — Leading scientists at the National Institutes of Health, the US's leading medical research agency, were swept up Tuesday in the Trump administration's latest firing blitz. — Several top scientists charged …
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Reuters:
US officials object to European push to buy weapons locally — U.S. officials have told European allies they want them to keep buying American-made arms, amid recent moves by the European Union to limit U.S. manufacturers' participation in weapons tenders, five sources familiar with the matter told Reuters.
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Politico, Defense One and Atlantic Council
Max Kozlov / Nature:
‘One of the darkest days’: NIH purges agency leadership amid mass layoffs … - Max Kozlov — You can also search for this author in — PubMed Google Scholar — On health economist Jay Bhattacharya's first day as head of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH) …
Luke Broadwater / New York Times:
Some Conservative Voices Raise Alarm Over Trump's Immigration Tactics — The cracks in support show how seriously some conservatives are taking the administration's aggressive and at times slapdash tactics. — Influential figures on the right have largely cheered on the opening months of the Trump presidency.
David Frum / The Atlantic:
No Tariff Exemptions for American Farmers — They voted for the tariffs when they voted for Trump. — American farmers are pleading for exemptions from President Donald Trump's tariffs. Republican members of Congress from farm states are working to deliver the relief farmers want.
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NBC News:
‘We were lied to:’ Two women the Trump administration tried to send to El Salvador prison speak out — The women's accounts raise questions about the thoroughness of the administration's vetting of migrants it has sent to the notorious prison. — On March 15, the Trump administration loaded …
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Raw Story
New York Times:
Inside Elite Law Firms, Protests and Quitting After Trump Deals — The discontent does not appear to be resonating with leaders at Paul Weiss and Skadden, but it could hamstring their recruitment efforts. — Ever since the elite law firms Paul Weiss and Skadden reached deals with President Trump …
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Washington Post and Above the Law
Daniel Bice / Milwaukee Journal Sentinel:
Bice: Elon Musk group removes video from $1M winner after she says she got money to ‘vote’ — Elon Musk's super PAC replaced a video featuring a $1 million giveaway winner who said she got the money, in part, to vote. — Experts suggest that offering money in exchange for voting …
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emptywheel, Forbes and The Verge
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why We Train With Allies—Even When It's Dangerous — When our soldiers were in trouble, our friends showed up and didn't leave. — IN EVERY ARMORED FORMATION I COMMANDED—and there were many—there were a few soldiers who never made headlines, never sought the limelight …
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New York Times, Salon and The Hill

