We spent a year investigating billionaires for @washingtonpost. We found: the wealthiest 100 Americans gave $1.1 billion to influence the 2024 elections — 140x more than they did in 2000. And almost all of that giving boosted Republicans. washingtonpost.com/politics/…

NEW: In the past few years, religious construction has boomed as the rest of nonresidential construction has nose-dived and then flattened. The reason? Because the meaning of "church" is radically changing washingtonpost.com/nation/20…

Love some good old-fashioned shoe-leather reporting from the team at @BusinessInsider, finding that StubHub is experimenting with dynamic pricing of not the tickets, but the fees across different browsers/devices

They expect us to believe these results and not ask questions 🙄

Scoop: Zohran Mamdani was poised to hold his first meeting with a foreign leader this week but the Trump administration effectively nixed it in a behind-the-scenes effort that marks a new flashpoint between the mayor and Trump. W/ @iarnsdorf 🧵

Seeing a piece on A1 never gets old. Story here: wapo.st/3RQkaAj

It gets worse. The piece also makes this claim, which is false and which Trump's own DOJ has debunked. The Washington Times op-ed just states it as fact.

“ChatGPT could not find one example in American history of a third-place candidate surging days after an election to overtake second place…” and the tab was closed

New story w @erxclau: More women getting shut out from senior positions in Trump’s second term wapo.st/4vAITqL

The Texas funeral commission opened a routine probe into the East Plano Islamic Center. Then, in March 2025, the governor’s advisers weaponized the case. This is the inside story, based on whistleblower testimony & thousands of texts, emails, and documents. #txlege @TexasMonthly

The Capital Weather Gang developed a cult following. Now, it’s going independent again. My latest washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/…

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▫ In Iowa, candidate did the unthinkable: Attack agriculture ▫Zach Lahn pulled off an upset in the governor’s race against a sitting congressman after criticizing pesticides ▫@rachel_roubein @LaurenWeberHP @ccemorse ▫tinyurl.com/2a33mwlo @washingtonpost #frontpagestoday #USA 🇺🇸

Horrifying, devastating investigation by Heidi Blake. newyorker.com/magazine/2026/…

Great work here from @stevanzetti: texasobserver.org/brandon-he…

Before winning the GOP primary for Iowa governor, Zach Lahn attacked Big Ag, a stance once unthinkable for Republicans in the Corn Belt. — He beat a Trump-endorsed candidate. — Lahn had discussed his run with RFK Jr., who was supportive. W/ @LaurenWeberHP @ccemorse

New: The Washington Post reconstructed journalist Amal Khalil’s final hours in Lebanon found that Israel’s military denied rescuers access to her during a key period when she was still alive. w/ @suzanHaidamous, @mmkelly22, and @MohamdEch washingtonpost.com/business/…

A MAHA candidate for governor, who said RFK inspired him to run, just beat out Trump's pick in the GOP primary. He won by dominating among the lowest-income farming communities in Iowa. Read our analysis w/ @rachel_roubein @LaurenWeberHP washingtonpost.com/health/20…

The Republican nominee for governor in Iowa wasn't Trump's first choice, and has attacked Big Ag for making Iowans sick. @rachel_roubein @LaurenWeberHP and @ccemorse lay out what this says about #MAHA and the GOP, as well as American politics' future washingtonpost.com/health/20…

NEWS — Ken Paxton’s impeachment defense lawyer is endorsing Democrats James Talarico for Senate, @NOTUSreports scoops Dan Cogdell, who represented Paxton in his 2023 impeachment trial and several personal cases, told NOTUS in a statement that Paxton “has lost sight of his core mission” Cogdell is well-connected in Texas GOP politics, and has represented top state party officials. He donated $6,500 to Paxton’s campaign, contributing as recently as last year But he’s been critical of Trump. A clip of him calling Trump the “greatest threat” to democracy was even turned into an NRSC attack ad last year. It’s been scrubbed from the web. Talarico said in statement “if you voted for John Cornyn, you have a place in this campaign.” More: notus.org/2026-election/ken-…

I am so hype for this World Cup bc we’re going to hear sentences like this that have never been uttered before