It’s October 13 and the PollTracker Average stands at Clinton 45.4 percent, Trump 37.9 percent, an 7.5 percentage-point spread

The TPM Electoral Scoreboard stands at Clinton 341, Trump 186. Only Arizona is in the Toss Up category

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Check out the latest addition to TPM’s merch store: a Trump’s Razor shirt and mug! The items feature a custom illustration of “Trump’s razor” and the definition of the phrase Josh popularized — both are printed on high-quality materials. Buy them here and get ready to explain Trump’s latest antics by pointing at your shirt or mug!

Check out the latest addition to TPM’s merch store: a Trump’s Razor shirt and mug! The items feature a custom illustration of “Trump’s razor” and the definition of the phrase Josh popularized — both are printed on high-quality materials. Buy them here and get ready to explain Trump’s latest antics by pointing at your shirt or mug!

Laith Alkhouri is the author of “ISIS Has Lost Land, But It Still Has a Giant Foothold In Cyberspace” for TPM’s The Arch and a co-founder and director of Middle East & North Africa research at Flashpoint, where he heads the counterterrorism desk and directs the jihadist threat intelligence service. He has assisted law enforcement in terror investigations, and his team works on identifying latest trends in the Deep Web used by terror groups and their supporters.

Laith will be taking questions about online radicalization, the Deep Web, and how the Islamic State uses online media on Tuesday, Sept. 13th — drop them in now or between 12:30 and 1:30 p.m. EST on Tuesday.

You can ask Josh literally anything you want to ask him today at 2 PM over on Reddit. Join here.

Join us in The Hive for a live chat with Amanda Bellows, the author of the latest TPM Longform on the mysterious black filmmaker Oscar Micheaux. Micheaux’s films were one of a kind and his work paved the way for African Americans in Hollywood — check out the piece here, and drop in your questions at or before 1 p.m. EST on Friday, August 26!

TPM is hiring a Digital Publishing Intern to join our publishing team working out of our New York City office.

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Joan Quigley is the author of “Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital” and “The Black Woman Who Led the Fight Against Jim Crow – And Why No One Has Ever Heard of Her” featured in TPM’s new longform magazine The Arch. She’ll be stopping by the Hive (sub req) today to talk more about the topics covered in the piece, from Barack Obama’s inaugural reference in 2009 to his father not being served, Black Lives Matter as a contemporary platform for activist women, and the way that Terrell set a precedent for Rosa Parks.

Joan will be answering questions at noon — drop them in now or join us during the live chat.

Joan Quigley is the author of “Just Another Southern Town: Mary Church Terrell and the Struggle for Racial Justice in the Nation’s Capital” and “The Black Woman Who Led the Fight Against Jim Crow – And Why No One Has Ever Heard of Her” featured in TPM’s new longform magazine The Arch. She’ll be stopping by the Hive (sub req) tomorrow to talk more about the topics covered in the piece, from Barack Obama’s inaugural reference in 2009 to his father not being served, Black Lives Matter as a contemporary platform for activist women, and the way that Terrell set a precedent for Rosa Parks.

Joan will be taking questions tomorrow — drop them in now or joing us during the live chat.

Hey! Tierney and Lauren are answering questions in the Hive from the Democratic National Convention!