Biden was wildly outspending Trump with little results. But now the polls are close — and Trump lags Harris in both cash and campaign infrastructure. My new analysis of last night's FEC drop 👇 politico.com/news/2024/08/2…

The Democrats quietly dropped abolishing the death penalty from their party platform. This is the first time since 2012 the platform doesn't call for abolition and the first time since 2004 there's no mention of the death penalty at all huffpost.com/entry/democrat…

Nancy Pelosi to Jonathan Martin about her future: “I’ve been thinking about being a stand-up comedian. I’ve been thinking about being a dessert consultant, I don’t see enough chocolate in the restaurants.”

MICHELLE BOND indicted. justice.gov/usao-sdny/pr/f…

🚨 47.4 million people read The Hill last month. Our team is absolutely crushing it with around-the-clock coverage from the presidential campaign to the White House, Congress and all the policy beats. thehill.com/homenews/pr/48…

More than a dozen House reps, including Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Rashida Tlaib, Ro Khanna, Greg Casar, Mark Pocan and Congressman Chuy García, as well as Keith Ellison, the UAW & Brandon Johnson, have called on Harris to heed Uncommitted National Movement 🌺's call for a Palestinian speaker. My latest The Hill

NEW FOIA Files newsletter: I obtained damning internal reports that show USAID probed allegations of bribery, child labor & child sexual abuse at humanitarian orgs it funds, Twitter threats posted from its own employee & the outing of a CIA officer 🧵 bloomberg.com/news/newslette…

Teacher union strikes appear to be more effective than other US industry strikes in delivering compensation increases. ($10,000 per teacher over 5 years ) This may be because educators are less easily replaced with non-union workers and tech automation vox.com/education/3687…

America is in the midst of a mental health crisis. But finding a therapist who takes insurance can feel impossible. Insurers say that’s because there aren’t enough therapists. We found that's not entirely true. Here's why you can't find a therapist🧵👇projects.propublica.org/why-i-left-the…

NEW: The hotly contested Montana Senate race is shining a spotlight on the public safety concerns of the Native American communities in the state, who were a critical voting bloc in the 2018 reelection of Sen. Jon Tester (D). thehill.com/lobbying/48423…

Former Rep. Mike Gallagher (R-WI) filed his termination report last week. Was hoping he'd disclose his Palantir salary, likely way more than the $174,000/year lawmaker pay, but he did't (and isn't required to). He started on June 1, though Palantir only announced it last week.

'Gender apartheid' takes hold in Afghanistan 3 years after US withdrawal. 1,095 days since Taliban's power grab, women are slowly giving up hope on the situation changing. They want the West to do more an issue empty statements. My latest for The Hill 👇 thehill.com/policy/interna…

New from Taylor Giorno and I: Maggie Goodlander, who’s running for NH CD-2 and is married to national security advisor Jake Sullivan, filed a public financial disclosure that raises questions about the values of assets she holds thehill.com/homenews/campa…

“I can’t remember a time where I saw ‘undetermined’ listed as a value of asset, let alone dozens of times,” Danielle Caputo, legal counsel for ethics at the Campaign Legal Center, referring to the disclosure. by Taylor Giorno & Caroline Vakil

Alisson Becker: “I will love Klopp for the rest of my life.”

SCOOP: A D.C. startup to integrate AI into lobbying is covertly run by a pair of well-known conspiracy theorists, Jacob Wohl and Jack Burkman, who are using the fake names "Jay Klein" and "Bill Sanders" in their new business, four former employees told me. politico.com/news/2024/09/0…

EXCLUSIVE: Ginni Thomas privately cheered on a major religious-rights group for fighting efforts to reform the Supreme Court. Plus: A conservative leader attacked Justice Kagan as "treasonous" for backing an enforceable SCOTUS ethics code. Read/listen: propublica.org/article/ginni-…

"The school-lunch tycoons won’t be relinquishing their lunch-money millions without a fight." For The Lever, an inside look at the ongoing battle over school lunch fees: levernews.com/the-corporatio…

Harris campaign, Teamsters set roundtable date, Taylor Giorno reports. thehill.com/homenews/campa…

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