Announcing 2022’s Golden Duke Winners: The Odds Were Never In Your Favor

The competition was fierce. Voter comments got messy. Some of our winners only eked out a victory by a few percentage points. But after a free and fair election, and more than 12,000 votes cast, we’re ready to announce 2022’s greatest losers.

What better way to round out the year than by toasting the scoundrels who did the worst the best? It’s TPM tradition, after all. Ever since Duke Cunningham — in all of his shameless glory, complete with bribe menu, lava lamp, and yacht party — brought us into a new era of public corruption, reveling in the moments when public figures reveal their true, often corrupt and comically grimy colors is what we do best.

Without further ado, join us in our celebration of this years winners — one of the most cartoonishly dishonorable cast of characters we’ve raised a toast to yet.

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How Putin’s War And Small Islands Are Accelerating The Global Shift To Clean Energy

This article is part of TPM Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. It was originally published at The Conversation.

The year 2022 was a tough one for the growing number of people living in food insecurity and energy poverty around the world, and the beginning of 2023 is looking bleak.

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Trump Lawyer Gets Defensive About Radical Legal Theory Behind Fake Electors Plot

Trump lawyer Cleta Mitchell had a series of terse exchanges with Jan. 6 committee investigators as she fielded questions about the legal theories that drove the Trump team’s scheme to overturn the 2020 election results, newly released transcripts from the committee illustrate. 

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Ginni Thomas And Liz Cheney Spar Over 2020 Election

Many Jan. 6 committee members jumped into Ginni Thomas’ questioning by their investigators, particularly to probe her belief that the 2020 election was infused with fraud, according to a transcript released Friday. 

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Bowser Sheds New Light On Trump’s Brief Flirtation With Federalizing DC Police Force

D.C. Mayor Muriel Bowser fleshed out an incident stemming from the George Floyd protests in June 2020 during her interview with the Jan. 6 committee, the transcript of which was released Thursday. 

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Trump Jr. Says Father Was ‘Reasonably Composed’ On Call Where He Allegedly Called Pence A Wimp And A P*ssy 

In the newest batch of transcripts released Thursday by the Jan. 6 committee, Donald Trump Jr. doesn’t remember much. 

But what he does remember of a pivotal call between then-President Donald Trump and then-Vice President Mike Pence diverges sharply from what other witnesses have described. 

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WH Responds To House GOPers’ Oversight Requests: Try Again When You Actually Have Power

A top Biden lawyer said the White House will not respond to records requests made by Republican congressmen before they take control of the House in 2023, according to multiple letters obtained by Politico

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