Category: Weekly Primers | Talking Points Memo

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: GOPers Struggle To Pass Anti-Voting Rights Bills In Texas And Missouri

By Tierney Sneed | May 20, 2019 12:24 pm

Trump Investigations

This Week: Putin Praises Mueller, Barr Goes Full Trump

By Nicole Lafond | May 17, 2019 4:06 pm

Trump Swamp

Trump Swamp: Interior Sec. Calls Corporations He Regulates ‘My Clients… My Former Clients’

By Matt Shuham | May 16, 2019 5:34 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: Census Bureau Puts Out New Estimate Of Cost Of Citizenship Question

By Tierney Sneed | May 13, 2019 1:45 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Cohen Reports To Prison, Don Jr’s Subpoenaed, Barr Inches Toward Contempt

By Nicole Lafond | May 10, 2019 3:45 pm

Trump Swamp

Trump Swamp: Trump Told Campaign Manager To Plug A Super PAC That Pays Them Both

By Matt Shuham | May 9, 2019 5:24 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: After Blue Wave, GOP States Move To Restrict The Vote

By Tierney Sneed | May 6, 2019 10:55 am

Russia Probe

This Week: Barr Leans Into New Role As Trump’s Personal Lawyer

By Nicole Lafond | May 3, 2019 4:24 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: You Paid Mar-a-Lago For White House Officials’ $1000 Bar Tab

By Matt Shuham | May 2, 2019 6:12 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: A Victory For Anti-Gerrymandering Advocates In Michigan

By Tierney Sneed | April 29, 2019 1:09 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: Faced With Subpoenas, Trump Orders Underlings To Ignore Them

By Matt Shuham | April 25, 2019 6:46 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: Texas Bill Could Make Voter Registration Errors Punishable With Jail Time

By Tierney Sneed | April 22, 2019 4:18 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: A Report Much Worse Than The Public Was Led To Expect

By John Light | April 19, 2019 3:31 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: Interior Secretary David Bernhardt Is In Some Trouble

By Matt Shuham | April 18, 2019 9:10 am

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: Tennessee GOP Backs Bill To Make Voter Registration Drives Harder

By Tierney Sneed | April 15, 2019 2:51 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Barr Goes Full Trump On FBI ‘Spying,’ Testifies About Mueller Report

By Allegra Kirkland | April 12, 2019 2:07 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: The Real Problem With Trump’s DHS Purge

By Matt Shuham | April 11, 2019 5:41 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: Georgia’s Controversial Exact Match Law Is Dead

By Tierney Sneed | April 8, 2019 4:51 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Some Mueller Staffers Feel Barr Misled On ‘Alarming’ Obstruction Evidence

By Allegra Kirkland | April 5, 2019 4:15 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: Kushner’s Security Clearance Mess, And His Other Messes

By Matt Shuham | April 4, 2019 5:15 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: House Oversight Ramps Up Probe Into State-Level Voter Suppression

By Tierney Sneed | April 1, 2019 1:02 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Dems Push For Mueller Report As GOP Prematurely Claims Victory

By Allegra Kirkland | March 29, 2019 2:54 pm

Trump Swamp

Trump Swamp: Special Olympics Proposal Isn’t The Only Bad DeVos Headline This Week

By Matt Shuham | March 28, 2019 12:46 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: A New Assault On Voting In The Name Of ‘Election Integrity’

By Tierney Sneed | March 25, 2019 3:20 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Mueller Report Watch Goes Into Frenzied Hyperdrive

By Allegra Kirkland | March 22, 2019 4:19 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: Acting Pentagon Chief’s Alleged Pro-Boeing Bias Gets New Attention

By Matt Shuham | March 21, 2019 5:42 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights Primer: Ross Declines To Answer Key Questions About Census Citizenship Question

By Tierney Sneed | March 19, 2019 4:25 pm

Russia Probe

This Week: Manafort Faces More Prison Time, Indictment In New York

By Allegra Kirkland | March 15, 2019 3:50 pm

Trump Swamp

This Week: What Could Go Wrong When A Private Club Means Presidential Access?

By Matt Shuham | March 14, 2019 4:59 pm

Voting Rights

Voting Rights: House Dems To Seek Answers From Ross On Census Citizenship Question

By Tierney Sneed | March 11, 2019 12:32 pm