Appreciate everyone who has written in. Here’s a few more:

TPM Reader GS:

Seconding everything in David’s post this morning. It really sunk in for me how explosive this story was this week when Kimmel brought it up in his monologue. So proud to be a TPM reader and subscriber–and thanks for helping to keep us sane!

Lots of TPM love like this over the past few days:

TPM Reader SC:

Congrats and you all make me so proud! I just wanted to let you all know, great job on this series of journalism! I realized that as I’m scanning the headlines and reading the articles, that I kept thinking, “My subscription paid for this!”

Catch up on all the latest developments on the Meadows Texts with the Morning Memo.

One of the most bracing, bizarre aspects of Mark Meadows texts with members of Congress is the fact that many truly seemed to believe the most absurd claims and conspiracy theories. This wasn’t just red meat they were tossing out on Fox and Newsmax. They were saying this stuff, in earnest, in the privacy of text messages with longtime colleagues. But even this, I would say, isn’t the heart of the matter. There’s something else we see in the very first texts, before the TV networks called the race but when the writing was clearly on the wall. It can most easily be summarized as: Trump can’t be allowed to lose. On Nov. 6, 2020, Rep. Brian Babin tells Meadows that they “refuse to live under a corrupt Marxist dictatorship.”

There are a lot of other exciting things happening at Talking Points Memo dot com this week.

But just because we’re launching a massive exclusive series after months of work that reveals some of the most dramatic details yet about the scope of Republican members of Congress‘ involvement in trying to overturn the election does NOT mean we’ve forgotten that it’s Golden Dukes season.

Gotta give the people (you) what they want (opportunities to celebrate those weirdos who did the worst best).

We’re giving over most of the front page to the Meadows Texts, but don’t miss Morning Memo: The Meadows Texts Jump From Politics To Pop Culture.

Rep. Ralph Norman (R) of South Carolina tells local press that his January 17th, 2021 call to place the United States under martial law to keep Trump in office — first reported yesterday by TPM — came from “frustration.”

Get your Morning Memo fix here.

As my colleague David Kurtz hinted in Morning Memo today, we’re about to drop the first of a series of exclusive stories we’re planning to publish over the course of this week about the 2020 election-overturning effort.

It’s based on a pretty massive log of unreported material. I won’t give away much more than that here, but make sure you stick around at TPM this afternoon.

One of the most consistent findings of years of audience research at TPM is that people in education and especially higher education (college and graduate) are our largest single audience. That’s certainly true of representation vs the population at large but it’s also true (though definitions became more complicated here) in absolute terms. Perhaps this isn’t surprising given that the site was founded by a lapsed academic. But among many other things it means that there are quite a lot of physicists among you. And you’ve been helping me with lots of feedback about this fusion announcement apparently coming shortly from the Livermore Laboratory.

For the non-physicists and innumerate among you, everything I’ve heard confirms the gist of my second post on this from this morning: this is, unfortunately, not a game changer for the possible future of fusion as a source of population-level power generation. The key is to distinguish between two questions: a breakthrough achievement in scientific and engineering terms? Yes. A breakthrough in terms of fusion produced energy being any more part of your future than it was a week ago? No. Sadly, no. But still no.