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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.
Stephen Collinson / CNN:
Trump's hardline new quest to destroy Harris' momentum  —  Donald Trump is trying to crush Democratic nominee Kamala Harris' persona as a force of change and to destroy her personal credibility as a potential president as their still-fresh competition careens into the final nine weeks before Election Day.
Sarah Fortinsky / The Hill:
Axelrod: Trump will lose if race is decided on popularity
Discussion: Fox News
Daniel Dale / CNN:   Trump is still telling lies he told eight years ago
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Harris to release new economic policy plans before debate
Discussion: The Hill, New York Post and emptywheel
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
Biden and Harris rally in battleground Pennsylvania as Trump sits out Labor Day
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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  —  Harris and the DNC are shipping $20 million to committees supporting House and Senate candidates.  —  Kamala Harris' campaign and the Democratic National Committee said Tuesday they are sending nearly $25 million to support …
Bryan Metzger / Business Insider:
Kamala Harris has raised so much money that she's giving $25 million of it to other campaigns
Discussion: The Hill and Foreign Policy
Anthony Izaguirre / Associated Press:
Former aide to New York's governor is charged with being an agent of the Chinese government  —  A former New York state government official who worked for former Gov. Andrew Cuomo and current Gov. Kathy Hochul was charged Tuesday with acting as an undisclosed agent of the Chinese government …
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US Department of Justice:
Former High-Ranking New York State Government Employee Charged with Acting as an Undisclosed Agent of the People's Republic of China and the Chinese Communist Party  —  For Immediate Release  —  U.S. Attorney's Office, Eastern District of New York  —  Defendant Engaged in Political Activities …
William K. Rashbaum / New York Times:
Former Aide to Hochul and Cuomo Is Charged as Chinese Agent
emptywheel:
All Trump's Recidivists  —  Donald Trump and Stephen “Discount Goebbels” Miller have a plan.  As the election draws near, they want to find every instance of an undocumented immigrant who commits a violent crime; that is and will continue to be their routine response when Trump's misogyny or his own crimes get coverage.
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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 …
Brad Reed / Raw Story:   Convicted murderer set free by Trump strangled his wife after release: report
Natasha Bertrand / CNN:
Exclusive: John McCain's son decries Trump appearance at Arlington as a ‘violation’ that turned cemetery into campaign backdrop  —  Jimmy McCain will be interviewed on “The Lead with Jake Tapper” at 4 p.m. ET on Tuesday.  —  CNN —  When former President Donald Trump held a campaign event …
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
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Eric Hananoki / Media Matters for America:
Unearthed video: JD Vance said childless elites make the U.S. “dangerous.”  It was too much for a Newsmax interviewer.  —  In a previously unreported interview, JD Vance ranted in 2021 that the country has become a “dangerous place to live” because of childless elites.
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.
Discussion: CNBC, Alternet.org and PoliticusUSA
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: Deadline, Raw Story and Newsweek
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.
Robert Reich:
Six ways to rein in Musk  —  Today I want to tell you the dangers posed by an out-of-control Elon Musk (in part I), and six ways to rein him in (in part II).  I also provide some personal evidence of how bonkers he is (in my P.S. at the end of today's letter).  —  I. Elon Musk is Out of Control
Laura Bassett / The Guardian:
How Ted Cruz's abortion record could cost him a historic election in Texas  —  The notoriously verbose senator has gone largely silent on the issue since horror stories under the state's ban emerged  —  The notoriously verbose Ted Cruz has gone largely silent on abortion …
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
New York Times:
Trump Aides Evacuated Offices After Prank Sparked Bugging Fears  —  The police were called after suspicious devices were found at a Florida campaign office.  It was quickly determined that the devices were likely part of a prank.  —  Watergate this was not.
Discussion: Raw Story
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 …
 
 
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ProPublica:
The Accelerationists' App: How Telegram Became the “Center of Gravity” for a New Breed of Domestic Terrorists
Chris Geidner / Law Dork:
Trump and the GOP still have no way of winning in a post-Roe America
Discussion: NOTUS and Crooked Media
Mike Allen / Axios:
JD Vance's “anytime, anywhere” media strategy
Discussion: The Hill
Andrew Solender / Axios:
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