Top Items:


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.
Discussion:
Democracy Docket, The Hill, NBC News, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, Louder With Crowder, Twitchy, Eschaton and NOTUS
RELATED:


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 …


Wisconsin supreme court race: liberal Susan Crawford beats Musk-backed candidate — Liberal judge says victory is against ‘unprecedented attack on our democracy’ after defeating Brad Schimel in the most expensive judicial election in US history — Susan Crawford won the race for a seat …
Discussion:
The 19th, NPR, USA Today, The Independent, Twitchy, The Law and Policy Blog, Raw Story and Axios


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.
Discussion:
Salon, PBS Wisconsin, The Guardian, Raw Story, Breitbart, PoliticusUSA, The Federalist, Washington Examiner, WisPolitics and CBS News


A Wakeup Call in Wisconsin
Discussion:
Fox News, Townhall, New York Magazine, Christian Science Monitor, Politico, Bloomberg, Twin Cities, Raw Story, Washington Examiner and NBC News

Susan Crawford wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race, defying Elon Musk
Discussion:
The Hill, CNN, New York Times, Mother Jones, Associated Press, New Jersey Online, The Long View, WTMJ, The Cap Times, Mediaite, Scripps News, The Downballot, NOTUS, Fox News, WPR, WisPolitics and Instapundit

Liberal candidate wins Wisconsin Supreme Court race in blow to Trump, Musk
Discussion:
NBC News, Axios, The Gateway Pundit, Associated Press, PinkNews, The Moderate Voice, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Roll Call, The Federalist, Twitchy, Washington Times, Fox News, Breitbart, UPI, Raw Story, Wausau, Washington Examiner, The Daily Signal, Mediaite, Le·gal In·sur·rec·tion, The Independent, New York Times, CBS News, WisPolitics and The Daily Wire

Liberals Defend Wisconsin Supreme Court, Beating Back Elon Musk
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Hill, Can We Still Govern?, The Independent, Vox, New York Post, IJR, Wisconsin Watch, Deadline, Urban Milwaukee, Informed Comment, Axios, Politico, Twin Cities, USA Today, NewsNation, Icon UK and MPR News


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.
Discussion:
The Hill, Washington Post, CBS News, Fortune, ABC News, NewsNation, Townhall, Fox News, Washington Times, GZERO, Chicago Tribune, Semafor and Politico
RELATED:

Trump to escalate global trade tensions with new reciprocal tariffs on US trading partners
Discussion:
Axios, PolitiFact, The Guardian, New York Times, CNN, “Relentless” Newsletter, NPR, Associated Press, USA Today, Slate, Wausau, El País, Bloomberg, d2176, CBS News, Quartz, Raw Story and Global News

The self-defeating tragedy of the Trump tariffs
Discussion:
New Republic, KTVZ-TV, NBC News and New York Post


Watch the moment when Cory Booker ended his 25-hour speech, the longest in Senate history — Sen. Cory Booker started and finished his record-breaking speech protesting the Trump administration's aggressive policy blitz by invoking the words of his mentor, the late congressman and civil rights icon John Lewis.
RELATED:


Frank Luntz: Booker marathon speech ‘may have changed the course of political history’
Discussion:
USA Today, Senate Democratic Leadership, WISH-TV, PoliticusUSA, Twin Cities and Associated Press

Cory Booker Just Gave The Longest Speech In The History of The US Senate
Discussion:
NBC News, The Hill, Time, IJR, NJTODAY.NET, Twin Cities, The Guardian, Axios, Townhall, PoliticusUSA, Bloomberg, MeidasTouch News, Wausau, Associated Press, CBS News, NPR and San Diego Union-Tribune

Booker's speech tops 350M likes on TikTok live
Discussion:
Politico, Axios, National Review, The Daily Wire, Raw Story, USA Today, CBS News, Bloomberg, UPI, Wall Street Journal, MeidasTouch News and Rolling Stone

April 1, 2025 — Today Senator Cory Booker (D-NJ) made history.
Discussion:
Letters from God, Associated Press and Al Jazeera


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 …
Discussion:
CBS News, Associated Press, Variety, The Hollywood Reporter, Vanity Fair, Deadline, Us Weekly, Los Angeles Times, Consequence, The Wrap, Daily Mail, WKRG News 5, The Post Millennial, Gizmodo, Hollywood Life, Fox News, Rolling Stone, KTVZ-TV, IndieWire, TVLine, Breitbart, Wausau, El País, TMZ.com and UPI


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.”
Discussion:
Axios
RELATED:


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.
RELATED:


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
Discussion:
Associated Press and HuffPost


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 …


The Lawlessness Is the Point — If JD Vance were capable of shame, he'd be embarrassed by what just happened. After the news broke that President Trump's administration admitted to deporting a Maryland man in “error,” Vance lashed out at podcaster Jon Favreau, who had asked him to comment on what had transpired.
Discussion:
Associated Press, The Independent, Forbes, Louder With Crowder, HuffPost, Baltimore Sun, NPR, Blaze Media, Raw Story, RedState, New York Magazine, Mediaite, The Mahablog and HotAir
RELATED:


Choosing lawlessness — Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia is a citizen of El Salvador who came …
Discussion:
Civil Discourse …, NewsNation, Reuters, Breitbart, Raw Story, Metro.co.uk, New York Post, Fox News, CBS News, The Daily Wire, The Independent, The Hill, Axios and USA Today

Trump Is Asking the Supreme Court To Let Him Have Black Sites
Discussion:
Vox, Unpopular Front, The Colorado Sun, CBS News and Washington Examiner


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 …
Discussion:
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Split Ticket, WTMJ, Florida Politics and Semafor


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.
Discussion:
Politico, Defense One and Atlantic Council


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 …
Discussion:
CBS News


‘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) …


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.
Discussion:
New York Times, Associated Press, Democrats, Breitbart, UPI, The Post Millennial, The Federalist, One America News Network, The Guardian, Twitchy, Sun-Sentinel, Raw Story, Politico, Washington Examiner, New York Post, Fox News, The Floridian, Portal, NBC News, The Moderate Voice, The Gateway Pundit, Washington Post and Jewish Telegraphic Agency


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.
Discussion:
The Hill, Raw Story, Marketplace, Scripps News and Heatmap News


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 …
Discussion:
emptywheel, Forbes and The Verge


Representatives Demand Housing Agency Halt Any Cryptocurrency Experiments — Following reporting by ProPublica, three Democrats on the House Financial Services Committee have warned HUD against using crypto, which they said could be “dangerous, speculative, and harmful to working families.”


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.


‘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 …
Discussion:
Raw Story


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 …
Discussion:
Washington Post and Above the Law


Unmarked Vans. Secret Lists. Public Denunciations. Our Police State Has Arrived. — “It's the unmarked cars,” a friend who grew up under an Argentine dictatorship said. He had watched the video of the Columbia graduate student Mahmoud Khalil's abduction.
Discussion:
Jewish Insider


He Got Clemency From Trump. Now He's Facing Charges of Injuring a Child. — Jonathan Braun, who has had a string of legal issues since President Trump commuted his drug sentence four years ago, was arrested after allegedly punching an acquaintance and shoving a 3-year-old.
Discussion:
Mercury News and Mediaite