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10:55 AM ET, February 15, 2024

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Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
The Truth About Trump's RNC Shakeup—and Why the GOP Will Suffer  —  A shakeup at the RNC may mean less money for anyone not named Donald Trump.  And that's terrible news for state parties desperate for cash. … Donald Trump doesn't want his snowballing legal troubles to just be his problem …
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Ed Kilgore / New York Magazine:
Republicans Are Acting Like 2024 Is Their Last Campaign  —  It's understandable that Donald Trump regards the 2024 election as his final shot at redemption after a 2020 defeat he still cannot admit.  In August, he will very likely become a three-time presidential nominee at the age of 78.
Michelle Cottle / New York Times:
Spare Us Lara Trump  —  Well, that was fast!  Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president, but already we're witnessing a resurgence of the in-your-face nepotism that brought us last decade's cringe-worthy reality show: Javanka in the West Wing.
Lawrence Hurley / NBC News:
Special counsel Jack Smith urges Supreme Court to reject Trump bid to delay election trial
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Joe Stanley-Smith / Politico:
Putin says Biden would be better for Russia as president than Trump
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Judge Rules Full Speed Ahead on Trump's Manhattan Criminal Trial  —  Donald Trump tried to avoid trial in Manhattan for covering up his hush money payment to Stormy Daniels, but a judge on Thursday said it's going forward in March as planned.  —  Donald Trump will face trial next month …
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Erica Orden / Politico:
Trump's first criminal trial will start March 25, judge says  —  The schedule means Trump will spend weeks in court instead of on the campaign trail.  —  Former President Donald Trump's first criminal trial will start on March 25 as scheduled, a judge said in New York on Thursday as he denied Trump's attempts to throw out the charges.
New York Times:
The investigation that led to the charges spanned nearly five years.  —  Ruling that the case against Donald J. Trump can proceed, Justice Juan M. Merchan said he planned to begin the trial on March 25.  —  A judge rejected a bid to toss the hush-money case.  Here's the latest.
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Pamela Paul / New York Times:
Biden Must Win.  But How?  —  Like many Democrats, I'm stuck on a doomsday merry-go-round: Joe Biden shouldn't be running for president.  Joe Biden is running for president.  Donald Trump shouldn't be running for president.  Donald Trump is running for president.  —  But this isn't 2020.
Discussion: DNyuz, Althouse and Benzinga
Ken Dilanian / NBC News:
Biden attacked Hur for asking him when Beau died. That didn't happen, sources say.
Punchbowl News:
2/15/24 ☀️ Punchbowl News AM … Just this week, Speaker Mike Johnson has: … This is the most chaotic, inefficient and ineffective majority we've seen in decades covering Congress.  It started this way under former Speaker Kevin McCarthy and has gotten worse under Johnson.
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ABC News:
White House to brief lawmakers as House chairman warns of ‘serious national security threat’
Reuters:
US warned allies about Russian space, nuclear capabilities, source says
New York Times:
Russia's Advances on Space-Based Nuclear Weapon Draw U.S. Concerns
Russ Bynum / Associated Press:
Conservative group tells judge it has no evidence to back its claims of Georgia ballot stuffing  —  A conservative group has told a Georgia judge that it doesn't have evidence to support its claims of illegal ballot stuffing during the the 2020 general election and a runoff two months later.
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Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The final repudiation of ‘2000 Mules’  —  Since Donald Trump left office in January 2021, there has been no more influential presentation of his theory that the election was stolen than the film “2000 Mules,” created by activist — and Trump pardon recipient — Dinesh D'Souza.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Arizona Daily Star:
Tucson school district drops instructor after OnlyFans exposure  —  The woman who resigned as head of an NAACP chapter in 2015 after mispresenting herself as Black, Rachel Dolezal, was working for the Catalina Foothills Unified School District until its officials learned Tuesday of social media content under her current name.
Charles M. Blow / New York Times:
The Trauma of the Trump Years Is Being Rewritten  —  Americans rehabilitate ex-presidents all the time.  —  It was fascinating to see the rebranding of George W. Bush — the man who took us into the disastrous Iraq war and horribly bungled the response to Hurricane Katrina …
Discussion: Constitutional … and Daily Kos
Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Democrats look to Nebraska to shore up Biden's blue wall  —  Population shifts since 2020 have decreased the power of Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania to guarantee Democratic victory  —  The Democratic Party's blue wall around the Great Lakes has sprung a leak since the 2020 Census.
Discussion: CNN
Politico:
Adam Schiff steps out on climate  —  He's the first of the leading candidates for California's open Senate seat to release a detailed platform.  —  Rep. Adam Schiff on Thursday proposed ending federal subsidies for oil and gas production, offering federal wildfire insurance …
Washington Post:
Trump hearings in N.Y., Georgia on Thursday as trial schedule comes into focus  —  The former president is expected at a pre-trial conference in Manhattan, while some of his lawyers will be at Atlanta hearing focused on D.A. Fani Willis  —  Donald Trump is expected at the defendant's table …
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Will Oremus / Washington Post:
The biggest online threat to 2024 elections isn't AI  —  Happy Valentine's Day.  Remember when asking AI to generate candy hearts resulted in delightfully incoherent messages like “U hack” and “Sweat poo?”  Those were simpler times.  Send news tips and ersatz love letters to: will.oremus@washpost.com.
National Archives:
Updated: Incident at National Archives Rotunda Closes Galleries to Public  —  Press Release  —  The National Archives Rotunda and galleries in Washington, DC, closed to the public today after two individuals dumped red powder on the encasement protecting the U.S. Constitution at approximately 2:30 pm.
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Kaia Hubbard / CBS News:
National Archives closes to public after activists dump red powder on case holding Constitution
Discussion: The Post Millennial
 
 
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The Hill:
Former ambassador testifies on Afghanistan withdrawal: Watch live
Discussion: Pravda EN and TASS
Judy Kurtz / The Hill:
Kristen Stewart fires back at old Trump posts encouraging Robert Pattinson to ‘dump’ her
Camille Mumford / Emerson Polling:
Maryland 2024 Poll: Former Gov. Larry Hogan Starts Strong in Election for Open Senate Seat
Anthony Capaccio / Bloomberg:
US Cancels Multibillion-Dollar Classified Military Satellite Program
Politico:
The government funding fight is about to flare again
Matthew Chapman / Raw Story:
Arizona GOP introduces resolution to declare Trump 2024 winner regardless of the vote
Discussion: Arizona Mirror
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America's poorer counties are new investment boomtowns: study
Juliegrace Brufke / Axios:
Powerful House GOP chair retiring after Mayorkas impeachment
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