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Kate Riga
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Kate Riga is a D.C. reporter for TPM and cohost of the Josh Marshall Podcast.
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A Speaker Scalise or Jordan would face the same sword of Damocles that brought down McCarthy: the motion to vacate and its one-member threshold that triggers a vote on dethroning the speaker.
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Readers, listeners, TPM fans of all stripes —
I’m thrilled to announce that we’re debuting a new podcast under the TPM banner. Belaboring the Point, hosted by me, will encapsulate what I love most about working here: an obsession with ideas, our dedication to cover politics not like sports or a game, but to interrogate how our underlying systems manifest in our politics, and what narratives grow out of those. We like to tell you not just what’s happening, but why it’s happening.
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