John Light
We have about six hours of voting left in the quarterfinals for our Duke of Dukes competition.
These are some choice match-ups you won’t want to miss:
- Randy “Duke” Cunningham vs. Scooter Libby
- Rod Blagojevich vs. Dick Cheney
- Anthony Weiner vs. Dinesh D’Souza
- Rudy Giuliani vs. Paul Manafort
Cast your vote here by 6 p.m.
Voting in the first round of our Duke of Dukes bracket is open. Cast your ballot here.
Need some help knowing who to vote for? The Nation’s national affairs correspondent Jeet Heer has some recommendations.
We’ve been monitoring live results, and I can tell you that the Jack Abramoff vs. Dick Cheney and Anthony Weiner vs. Chris Christie match-ups are both nail biters. Pick carefully.
Where Things Stand: The Coming Dissolution Of Trumpworld 
Much of Trump’s 2020 infrastructure, established solely around the cause-célèbre of President Trump and his reelection, has not made the jump to the President’s post-election crusade to overturn his loss. Instead, that space is being filled by the President himself and a rag-tag band of allies.
At TPM, we have certain terms we use over and over. Dignity wraiths. The brittle grip. A new one in recent months: Schrodinger’s DHS secretary. You can find a (very) partial list of these terms — Josh Marshallisms, largely — here.
For our 20th anniversary celebration next month, we’re putting together a master list. It’s quite an undertaking: Twenty years of proprietary terms. But we think it will serve as a useful guide to some of the key themes of the last two decades. Also, we think it will be funny.
However: 20 years is a long time, and we need the help of our dedicated readers to remember some of these terms.
So, if you remember one that we’re missing, shoot us an email.
Where Things Stand: Major Roadblock For Trump’s Census Scheme
We have a new, exclusive story up right now.
TPM’s Tierney Sneed has learned that the Census Bureau identified routine issues in data from the 2020 decennial census, and will need time to fix them. This seemingly small wrinkle could have significant implications for how political power is distributed through apportionment.
Where Things Stand: Behold The Spectacle
President Trump warned us before the election that, as early and mail-in ballots were tabulated and key states shifted blue, he was going to falsely claim that his victory was being stolen. And he warned us he would send his lawyers in to prevent that supposed theft.
But we didn’t know it was going to look like this.