Party groups around the country are sending voters mailers telling you if you don’t vote they’ll find out and they may tell your neighbors. There’s exactly a body of social science data showing this works. But, just creepy and dumb.

Columnist who lost his job over saying Michael Brown was “an animal” who “had to be put down” now says he always thought Brown “deserved to die and I was right.”

The Redskins are suing 5 Native Americans over use of term “Redskins.”

Jon Stewart: Dems trying to flip Texas like a drunk man hitting on a lesbian. Watch.

Candidate: Despite my Neo-Nazi past, “I am not a hater.”

Today’s must-read: Rick Hasen takes on putting Texas back under federal voter supervision.

Leader of self-styled ‘militia’ whose leaders took it upon themselves to start patrolling the US-Mexico border was arrested earlier this month. When feds searched his hotel room they found a big cache of weapons and a supply of ammonium nitrate which is of course used for making car bombs and other similar high explosive devices for freedom.

Columnist who wrote that Michael Brown was an “animal” who had to be “put down” is now “no longer employed” by his paper.

It’s Mitch’s Revenge Obama: Kiss your executive appointments goodbye starting next year. Sahil Kapur has the story.

I have some exciting news to announce. We’ve hired Nona Willis Aronowitz as our newest editor at TPM.

Nona joins us in our New York City office after a year as an education and poverty reporter at NBC News Digital. Many of you are likely familiar with her writing at publications like The Atlantic, Washington Post, NYMag.com, The Nation, The American Prospect, Tablet, Rookie, Elle, and Marie Claire, among others. Nona was also an Associate Editor at Good during its all too brief heyday and cofounder of Tomorrow magazine.

We are very excited about this hire and very excited about what we are about to build. Nona will be working with us to develop a new section of TPM which will take a vivid, fresh look at American society and culture – high and low – beyond the narrow confines of politics and breaking news. In addition to a more expansive canvas, our new venture will focus on longer-form reporting and essays in contrast to TPM’s more familiar kinetic, iterative coverage of the day’s events.

We’ll launch early January 2015.

Stay tuned.