Prospect

Today on TAP: His clumsy attempts at autocracy are already backfiring as Senate Republicans refuse to name Trump’s choice, Florida Sen. Rick Scott, as majority leader.

Republicans won the Rio Grande Valley for the first time since 1912. How?

Wall Street’s effort to keep Warren from becoming ranking Democrat on the Senate Banking Committee did not succeed.

Trump was supposed to be in decline, losing it. He lost it all the way to the White House.

Nannies, housekeepers and gig workers have already won legal protections. Now they want consequences for bosses who break the rules.

Today on TAP: Until December 31st, they can still confirm some Biden nominees to crucial regulatory and judicial posts.

His first administration was a farce. The second will be a tragedy.

Both the circumstances and tactics will necessarily be different from the anti-Trump resistance of 2017, and there is little room for error.

November and December will nominally be about confirming judges and kicking the can on must-pass bills. More ambitious efforts probably aren’t happening.

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Today on TAP: After Kamala Harris’s defeat, the DNC chair should be a party-builder in the spirit of Howard Dean, whose service from 2005 to 2009 paved the way for Obama.

Exams to determine whether veterans qualify for certain benefits have been almost entirely privatized, and the companies conducting the exams have long been cited for poor quality.

Even though that perception is partly the creation of right-wing media, the Democrats surely need to hone their identity.

The billionaire class used the Gaza siege to purge leftists, and even left populism. Caught up in the wake were the cautious elites.

How did this happen? And what’s next?

A look at the biggest stock gainers since Trump’s election shows that paying tribute to the next president will have its benefits.

Evergreen State voters decide that the billions in revenues generated by the Climate Commitment Act are worth preserving.

Down-ballot candidates did well, and if they can get the state back on the path to a broader and more prosperous labor movement, the returns would be even greater.

Today on TAP: Shifting voting patterns suggest it’s possible, but only if they persist through subsequent elections.

Trump won the election in part because of a backlash against consumer price inflation on Biden’s watch. Several Trump policies will make inflation much worse.