Meatball Ron brining the DeSantis faithful to Florida next week to kick off 2024 presidential campign.

See also, Meatball Ron’s Secret Mission to Iowa in pictures.

A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast is live! This week, Josh and Kate discuss the debt ceiling dynamics, attempts to expel George Santos and some legal news on abortion and gerrymandering.

You can listen to the new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast here.

With so much high drama and stark danger in the headlines, I wanted to focus your attention on something different, and arguably much more important. This has been underway for months. But now it’s managed to break into the pages of insider sheets like Axios, which is a news event in itself. The quick and short of it: Democrats continue to over-perform in election after election.

Whether or not Rep. George Santos (R-NY), with his 13-count indictment, should stay in Congress is not a matter Republicans are going to have to weigh in on — for now.