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If you’re a podcaster listener, I want you to check out The TPM Social Club, our second podcast which is...

Conspiracy Theories Around Lawmakers’ Health Are Going to Keep Spiraling

Grim New Details of Fatal ICE Shooting Make It Even Worse

A Case of Mistaken Identity The ICE shooting of an unarmed immigrant in Houston — who had lived in the...

How Butler Assassination Attempt Conspiracy Theories Became the New Dallas 1963

In Rough Edges, Mike Rothschild writes about fringe groups, conspiracy theories and how the Internet broke our brains. This column is part...

The Brief: Trump Seizes on SCOTUS Decision to Mess With the Midterms

Trump Fires Three EAC Commissioners A few weeks ago, the Supreme Court handed down a pair of decisions finding that...

A Big Milestone Is In Sight

We’re looking good to hit 200,000 by the close of day tomorrow in this year’s Annual TPM Journalism Fund Drive....

A Pro-Trump Christian Group Wants to Put a Cross on the Moon 

The Christian right has been gaining traction in Washington, D.C. under President Donald Trump. And now, one Trump-aligned religious group...

Why the Democratic Party Has No ‘Base’ and Why That Matters

We’re now in the midst of one of these now and again collective Democratic meltdowns, filled with dooming laments, drama,...

FBI Demands Backup As It Tries to Substantiate Trump’s 2020 Delusions

Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! The FBI is ramping up its probe into the 2020 election in Fulton...

Stop What You’re Doing!

We’re now more than a third of the way toward our goal of raising 500,000 in this year’s Annual TPM...