On a bright Thursday in June 2011 in north Texas, a man named Terry Sillers led police on a high speed chase. Riding a motorcycle, Sillers sped along nearly empty freeways. The wind whipped up the back of his untucked shirt. Police cars trailed behind him, and several helicopters followed him overhead, capturing his joyride on video.

Moments after he began speaking on the phone with TPM on Thursday, Jacob Conway interrupted himself and began yelling.

In a letter to the Federal Election Commission this week, Crossroads GPS pushed back against the agency’s request that it disclose its donors. And it wasn’t shy about doing so.

Speaking on the floor of the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV) spoke about his father’s suicide during a speech about gun violence prevention.

Republicans in a number of states are making overtures to gun manufacturers located in states that have passed post-Sandy Hook gun control legislation.

One of the killings took place in broad daylight, outside the county courthouse in Kaufman, Texas, with several witnesses around. The other, just weeks later, took place about 12 miles away, inside a one-story home on Blarney Stone Way in Forney, Texas.

Members of the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas prison gang like tattoos. Nazi flags, swastikas, iron eagles, and Schutzstaffel “SS” lightening bolts are popular. But one design in particular, called the Aryan Brotherhood of Texas patch, according to federal court documents, is of particular significance. The patch’s shape and design can vary, but it usually includes a shield, a sword, a swastika, and a crown, with the letters “A” and “B” along with the Nazi “SS” above the shield and the word “Texas” below. The patch can only be worn by “fully made” members of the gang, who generally ascend to that status by committing a “blood-tie” on behalf of the gang. In other words: aggravated assault or murder.

A former Kaufman County, Texas justice of the peace told an NBC News affiliate that he was questioned by law enforcement agents on Saturday, just hours after the bodies of the county District Attorney Mike McLelland and his wife, Cynthia, were found in their home in Forney, Texas.

Dr. Salomon Melgen, the Florida ophthalmologist, businessman, and political donor whose ties to Sen. Robert Menendez (D-NJ) have been under scrutiny, has granted his first interview since his name hit the headlines earlier this year.