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Davidrlurie / Public Notice:
Kamala Harris is cutting off Trump's political oxygen  —  🚨 This special, five-edition week of PN is made possible by paid subscribers 🚨 If you aren't one already, please sign up to support our independent journalism.  —  💥 Subscribe to Public Notice 💥
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James Carville / New York Times:
Kamala Harris's Best Strategy to Defeat Trump  —  I hate to say it, but Donald Trump remains the singular most recognized name in the United States.  Since he moseyed down that golden escalator in 2015, he has dominated the American airwaves and algorithms.
USA Today:
Poll: Democrats boosted, GOP confidence shaken as Harris-Trump campaign is joined  —  Susan Page Sudiksha Kochi Savannah KucharUSA TODAY … It's a different race.  —  In a new USA TODAY/Suffolk Poll, Democratic prospects have brightened and Republican confidence has been shaken …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Harris to release new economic policy plans before debate  —  The vice president's campaign will detail efforts to boost small businesses as part of an effort to draw a contrast with former president Donald Trump.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris is expected to unveil new proposals meant …
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Biden and Harris rally in battleground Pennsylvania as Trump sits out Labor Day
Politico:
Playbook: The final sprint begins
Discussion: Roll Call
Jazmine Ulloa / New York Times:
Haley's Voters Size Up a Scrambled Presidential Race
Discussion: Raw Story
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
House and Senate Republicans are starting to panic about a huge money gap with Democrats  —  GOP leaders on Capitol Hill are privately — and publicly — warning donors they need more money.  —  Republicans are racing to plug a massive money hole — before it's too late.
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Michael Scherer / Washington Post:
Harris to transfer nearly $25 million to help down-ballot Democratic candidates  —  The boost to House, Senate and state-level candidates follows a $540 million fundraising haul for the vice president over six weeks.  —  Vice President Kamala Harris's campaign and the Democratic National Committee plan …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Harris campaign, DNC, announce unprecedented down-ballot spending
Discussion: New York Times and The Daily Beast
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
Murderer whose life sentence was commuted by Trump convicted of domestic violence  —  Davidson, who was convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer in 1990, shared an attorney with Donald Trump Jr.  —  A drug kingpin convicted in the murder of a federal law enforcement officer …
Discussion: emptywheel
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Brad Reed / Raw Story:
Convicted murderer set free by Trump strangled his wife after release: report  —  Former President Donald Trump made a number of controversial pardons and commutations on his way out the door in 2021, but one that has flown under the radar has been the sentence commutation of Jaime A. Davidson …
Lisa Lerer / New York Times:
Vance Championed 2017 Report on Families From Architects of Project 2025 … In his introduction to the 2017 Heritage Foundation report, JD Vance argued that economic struggles were inextricable from what he saw as cultural decay.Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times
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Mike Allen / Axios:   JD Vance's “anytime, anywhere” media strategy
Will Neal / The Daily Beast:
JD Vance's Past Links to Project 2025 Architects Exposed
Discussion: The Nation
Washington Post:
House Democrats ask Trump if he illegally accepted $10 million from Egypt  —  A recent Washington Post article detailed a now-closed Justice Department investigation spurred by intelligence from 2016 indicating that the Egyptian president sought to give Donald Trump money.
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Arrested on Federal Charges  —  Linda Sun, a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul, and her husband were arrested on Tuesday on charges that remain sealed.  —  F.B.I. agents early Tuesday arrested a former deputy chief of staff to Gov. Kathy Hochul …
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Justin Grimmer / Politico:
Don't Trust the Election Forecasts  —  The data doesn't support the obsession with presidential prognostications.  —  Even as Joe Biden's presidential candidacy teetered and polls showed him clearly losing to Donald Trump, the election forecasting site 538 was still estimating that Biden was likeliest to win.
Rhian Lubin / The Independent:
Trump campaign ‘no longer thinks New Hampshire is winnable and is pulling back from state,’ leaked insider email claims  —  Trump volunteer Tom Mountain urged supporters to turn their attentions to Pennsylvania instead - because Trump is ‘sure to lose by an even higher margin’ in New Hampshire than he did in 2016 and 2020
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Zeeshan Aleem / MSNBC:
Questions surrounding Trump's mental acuity are a real 2024 story  —  His speech is becoming harder and harder to understand.  —  The words below were taken verbatim from a campaign speech former President Donald Trump delivered in Potterville, Michigan, Thursday when he was attempting …
Discussion: Raw Story and Newsweek
Heather Cox Richardson / Letters from an American:
September 2, 2024  —  In an interview with right-wing host Mark Levin on the Fox News Channel last night, Trump complained about the new grand jury indictment of him for trying to steal the 2020 presidential election.  “Whoever heard you get indicted for interfering with a presidential election …
Andra Watkins / How Project 2025 Will Ruin YOUR Life:
Christian Nationalism: Men Work; Women Mother  —  Project 2025 makes patriarchal gender roles the bedrock of the conservative Department of Labor (Scroll to the end to listen)  —  Last week, paid subscribers took a deep dive into how Christian Nationalism facilitates patriarchal gender roles by learning more about my early trauma.
Daniel Dale / CNN:
Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago  —  In a speech last week to the National Guard Association of the United States, former President Donald Trump claimed that he was the president who “created” the Veterans Choice health care program, and got it “passed in Congress,” after others had wanted to do so “for 57 years.”
Nick Reisman / Politico:
New York Democrats fear abortion-rights amendment is faltering  —  Once a vehicle for boosting turnout, Democrats worry opponents are making inroads with voters.  —  NEW YORK — Democrats are squabbling over an effort to guarantee abortion rights in New York — a fight that is threatening …
Ron Dicker / HuffPost:
Donald Trump Stokes ‘Inside Job’ Conspiracy Theory Of Assassination Attempt  —  “You do have to wonder,” the Republican nominee said while hurling wild accusations on right-wing host Monica Crowley's podcast.  —  LOADING  —  Donald Trump ran with a podcast host's unfounded speculation of an …
Alex Woodward / The Independent:
Trump praises men for ‘allowing’ their wives to attend MAGA rallies without them  —  Trump asks how their husbands ‘put up’ with them as his appeal with women voters begins to crash  —  Support truly  —  independent journalism  —  Our mission is to deliver unbiased …
Emily Wax-Thibodeaux / Washington Post:
A louder voice in fighting abortion bans: Men in red states  —  More men are speaking out in defense of reproductive rights because of harrowing experiences that wives or partners have suffered when a pregnancy went awry.  —  Thomas Stovall grew up in a strict Baptist family in Mississippi …
 
 
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Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump and the GOP still have no way of winning in a post-Roe America
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Andrew Solender / Axios:
Scoop: Dems pummel Ex-Freedom Caucus chief on abortion
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In Leak, Facebook Partner Brags About Listening to Your Phone's Microphone to Serve Ads for Stuff You Mention
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Victor Nava / New York Post:
Kamala Harris slammed for deploying a ‘fake accent’ in Detroit speech
Associated Press:
Venezuelan judge issues arrest warrant for opposition's former presidential candidate
Tia Goldenberg / Associated Press:
Netanyahu pushes back against new pressure over Gaza and hostages: ‘No one will preach to me’
 

 
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Peter White / Deadline:
Fox and Hulu extend their content partnership, including in-season streaming rights for Fox's programming; sources: the deal is worth $1.5B over four years

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A Q&A with Chris Balfe, CEO of Red Seat Ventures, which has helped Tucker Carlson and Megyn Kelly set up their podcast and streaming businesses and sell ads

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