Senior editor at The Atlantic. Former WaPo. Once described as "stubbornly cheerful" by Vogue.
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A big, continuing topic of discussion in the Trump White House: How to force journalists to give up their sources. Reporting here:
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Despite deep voter dissatisfaction with the Trump administration’s mass-deportation campaign, there don’t seem to be signs of the enforcement easing, writes @NickMiroff. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
If Susie Wiles was somewhat of a guardrail for Donald Trump, his new chief of staff is “an accelerant for a president who already has rash tendencies,” Atlantic staff writers report. They detail Stephen Miller’s rise: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
"Kansas would send a Democrat to the Senate for the first time since the invention of beer in a can." theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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@SethKrasne , Talarico's campaign manager, is 29. The comms director, @jt_ennis , is 28. The guy who did all the digital ads & helped write Talarico's speeches, @AntonioAEsparza , is 26. (His chief of staff, who also happens to be named Gina Hinojosa, is an ancient 32.)
Meet @SethKrasne He ran one the best campaigns I have ever witnessed in my life for James Talarico. He and his team pulled off the unthinking and turned Tx blue. I was honored to be a part of his team. But all the credit goes to him and their amazing staff who shook the political world!
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The lesson from Iowa and Kansas?
The winning candidates were “comfortable being a different type of Democrat,” @Lis_Smith told me. They worked hard to persuade independents and Republicans, even if “it didn’t always earn them fans online.”
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The big strategic question facing Dems this year was whether to run a broad campaign—call it an everything bagel message—or one narrowly focused on the economy. Hakeem Jeffries faced down his caucus, and won the gamble:
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I have heard from *so many* law enforcement officers and others across the country today expressing relief today that that the election interference they were bracing themselves for did not occur.
The biggest win of the midterms wasn’t any particular race—it was the fact that voting proceeded so smoothly, Quinta Jurecic writes. theatln.tc/fqDh9frd
🎨: Renée Jones Schneider / The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Elon Musk poured nearly $200 million into propping up Paxton. On election eve we went to “Elon Land” in conservative Bastrop. Across from SpaceX, we couldn’t find anyone supporting Paxton.
Money can’t buy everything.
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There was no one better at constituent services, or representing Maine, than Susan Collins. @russellberman on why she never stood a chance: theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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A wonderfully written snapshot of what last night's election signaled -- not just a repudiation of Trump but a sign that his grip on his party may be weakening. By @JonLemire theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Donald Trump was for he/him. Democrats were for you. @michaelscherer and I on how Democrats won it all—or, more accurately, how Trump lost it for his party. theatlantic.com/politics/202…
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Paxton ran a last-ditch bus tour around the state with the slogan “Come and Take It.” He envisioned a last stand at The Alamo, then cancelled and ended up at Tex-Mex restaurant called Matt’s Rancho along the expressway north of Dallas.
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NEW: Texas has been the solid red pedestal on the electoral map, a wide and deep base holding up the GOP states of the south and midwest. Tonight it collapsed, with Hispanic voters leading swing to blue. Story with @mviser
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Read more about Rob Sand, who will be Iowa's first Democratic governor in 15 years
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From the all-star duo of @michaelscherer and @AshleyRParker, the inside account of how Jeffries won back the House
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"No election season this century has closed quite like this."
@michaelscherer and @AshleyRParker on how it came to this:
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Midterm elections typically go poorly for an incumbent president’s party. But the 2026 election has delivered the kind of resounding rebuke that feels more like a reckoning.
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