The Briefing

Josh Fiallo @ The Daily Beast: RFK Jr.

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Greg Owen @ LGBTQ Nation: Ron DeSantis & Moms for Liberty crushed by school board election losses Two “parental rights” candidates running for Florida school board seats who were endorsed by Gov.

Khaya Himmelman @ Talking Points Memo: Republican State Officials Do Trump’s Election Denying Prep Work For Him State-level Republican officials have been making a big show of the work they are doing to boot alleged non-citizens from the voting rolls — an emphasis that echoes the efforts by presiden

Nathalie Baptiste @ HuffPost: This Major Conservative Culture Warrior May Have Finally Gone Too Far Republican lawmakers in Oklahoma are investigating whether state superintendent Ryan Walters is equipped to do the job he was elected to do. Hunter Walker @ Talking Points Memo: George Santos Pleads G

Shane Goldmacher, Russ Buettner and Maggie Haberman @ The New York Times: Trump Made $300,000 for Endorsing Bible, Financial Disclosure Shows Donald J.

Curt Devine, Casey Tolan, Audrey Ash and Kyung Lah @ CNN:  Hidden-camera video shows Project 2025 co-author discussing his secret work preparing for a second Trump term [Russ] Vought, one of the key authors of Project 2025, a right-wing blueprint for a second Trump term, expected the meeting wo

Ellie Quinlan Houghtaling @ The New Republic: MAGA Senate Candidate Exposed Long History of Gross Comments [Royce] White, a former NBA player who had been an outspoken advocate for mental health in sports, has cultivated some disturbing positions since befriending Steve Bannon in 2021.

Alan Feuer and Nick Corasaniti @ The New York Times: Former Pro-Trump County Clerk Is Found Guilty of Tampering With Voting Machines Tina Peters, the former clerk of Mesa County, Colo., was convicted on Monday of tampering with voting machines under her control in a failed attempt to prove that they

Andy Kroll and Nick Surgey @ ProPublica: Inside Project 2025’s Secret Training Videos The Project 2025 videos coach future appointees on everything from the nuts and bolts of governing to how to outwit bureaucrats.