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Breaking up ERIC, the state election administration organization, could be the boldest attempt yet to destabilize national elections.

On today’s X-Date, remembering what Franklin Roosevelt did when faced with a potential Court decision that would blow up the economy: prepare to ignore it.

Biden officials are hawking an Alaska pipeline and gas export complex long seen as uninvestable. They promise skeptical investors sustained market access to Asia.

Today on TAP: Will the Biden administration help Big Tech undermine consumer regulation by the EU and Asian nations?

Today’s X-Date PM: If the White House is so interested in a bipartisan deal, it should include a mechanism to end these crises permanently.

Every five years, the farm bill brings together Democrats and Republicans who are normally at each other’s throats. The result is the continued corporatization of agriculture.

By opposing an injunction in the main lawsuit challenging the debt ceiling, the president has deliberately boxed himself into negotiations with legislative terrorists.

As Disney cancels investments in Florida, the proxy culture war masks a battle between a governor pretending to slay big business and a mega-corporation wanting to entrench its power.

Today on TAP: Two Prospect pieces on red and blue trifecta states make clear we really are two separate nations.

Ryan Cooper joins to talk about how Biden has boxed himself in.

Medical Properties Trust spent billions buying community hospitals in bewildering deals that made private equity rich and working-class towns reel.

Exhibit A is long-depressed upstate New York.

Today’s X-Date: GOP members insist they’re worried about the national debt. It ain’t true.

Bill Fletcher argues that the American left should support efforts to fend off Russian aggression.

Today on TAP: Even if we can avert ill-advised budget concessions as part of a debt ceiling deal, it will take more radical policies to improve the life prospects of workaday Americans.

Congress’s power to make contracts does not come with the power to renege on them.

Jenny Yang and Rotimi Adeoye join to discuss the Trump conviction, Supreme Court corruption, and more.

On today’s X-Date: The White House and its allies are acting like they must avoid a legal battle over the debt ceiling. Too late.

Particularly (but not only) in Texas, Republican state legislatures’ response to liberal cities is to strip them of all power.

Progressives in the North Star State have racked up a remarkable set of victories.