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👋 Personal news: I was one of the people to take the POLITICO buyout — my last day was Friday. It’s bittersweet to end my seven years here this way, but I’m grateful for all the great stories I got to report, the impact my work had and the great reporters and editors I got to work alongside.
I’m not sure what’s next, but if anyone has leads for a policy or politics reporter, I come with a pretty versatile set of skills from the seven years I spent covering Congress, state governments, policy and campaigns for POLITICO & POLITICO Magazine. I’m also open to freelancing in the meantime!
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Curtis says his low this week is Senate leaving without addressing "what all you care about so deeply, and that's affordability"
"We just have not done a good job and I think the voters will be loud and clear about how they feel about that"
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Earlier today, Democratic State Senator Janet Petersen asked Iowa Economic Development Authority Director Debi Durham why they need this bill, since they said at White House this was "a done deal."
Durham said, "I was surprised by that comment as well. This is not a done deal"
What this post tells voters is that Ashley Hinson is fiscally reckless and supports spending $1.36B of our tax dollars on corporate welfare for a corporation that Trump's own Commerce Secretary says doesn't need it.
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NY-17 falls in the scope of this piece I wrote last week on how red district Democrats are struggling more in blue states because of frustration with blue state legislatures like Albany: contrariannews.org/p/red-dis…
NY GOP Rep. Mike Lawler leads Dem Cait Conley in key battleground House district: new internal poll trib.al/CIsvX5Z
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SCOOP: White House officials, led by Susie Wiles, have told DOJ to delay any abortion-related action until after the midterms
Wiles suggested to Todd Blanche that an aggressive approach on abortion would be negative for the GOP in November
w/@EricM_Katz
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All the evidence is that voters don’t really follow this monthly number; unemployment is low and they’re worried about their own costs, not the macro
economy.
For comparison, the number at this point in 2022 was 263,000 (Ds lose House) and in 2018 it was 134,000 (Rs lose House).
Breaking News: The U.S. labor market showed signs of slowing in September, as employers added only 29,000 jobs. nyti.ms/3VoMnzS
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Great story. Pressley, other black Dems want DCCC to help in #TN09, where Rep. Steve Cohen retired after the gerrymander made it Trump +21.
Scoop: Dems beef with party leaders over snubbed Black candidates axios.com/2026/10/01/democra…
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I was curious whether calling data centers by a different term might change people felt toward them.
Behold, the split sample!
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Very cool
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Here's the full story: opb.org/article/2026/10/01/g…
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In 2022, James Talarico signed a pledge "not to accept a dime of fossil fuel money."
On Sat, his campaign was told it had 1 week to return $36k in donations from oil execs & lobbyists to avoid the No Fossil Fuel's "wall of shame."
Talarico's campaign tells us he's keeping it.
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The White House called a $15B Iowa steel mill a "done deal," but TV6 Investigates discovered no permits, no property sales, and a location that's still a secret. Here's what we found:
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