Josh Kovensky

Get that money: January 6 defendants are lining up in expectation of big payouts from the DOJ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/hundreds-…

The DOJ says it's going to look at the citizenship applications of every naturalized American who "pose[s] a potential threat to national security." What might that mean under the current DOJ, already prone to abusing the law? A look below: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/doj-opens…

Exclusive: Family members of CECOT detainees react to the news that their loved ones are on their way to Venezuela talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cecot-fam…

Angie Gonzalez voted for Trump. Then he sent her husband to CECOT. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/cecot-fam…

NEW: An Idaho church that wants to establish a Christian government opened a church in DC this weekend – and Pete Hegseth was there. My report: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/christ-ch…

Yesterday, I published my new novel Vera, Or Faith, in which "exceptional" Americans who can trace their heritage to the Revolutionary War get five-thirds of a vote. Today, JD Vance says Americans with traces back to the Revolutionary War are exceptional talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vance-…

The Claremont Institute-inflected part of the right has sought for years to redefine what it means to be a US citizen. They want a definition rooted less in values and more in ancestry. JD Vance laid it out in a speech to Claremont this past weekend: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vance-…

JD Vance: Some Americans Are More American Than Others talkingpointsmemo.com/news/jd-vance-…

NBC exclusive — Hegseth halted weapons for Ukraine despite military analysis that the aid wouldn’t jeopardize U.S. readiness nbcnews.com/news/military/…

'It's a Killing Field': IDF Soldiers Ordered to Shoot Deliberately at Unarmed Gazans Waiting for Humanitarian Aid, @nirhasson @yanivkub and @bar_peleg write for @haaretzcom haaretz.com/israel-news/20…

The law would be against them, but some Trump allies spent the campaign getting excited about denaturalizing people over their political views. I wrote about it in September: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-trump…

NEW: Inside ICERaid, an app promoted by the Proud Boys that offers users crypto in exchange for reporting undocumented immigrants to the app talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/icer…

For my first story at @TPM, I talked to a former NIH employee who left the DMV because of DOGE cuts. She's part of a trend real estate experts are watching: public servants impacted by DOGE leaving the Beltway – a potential blow to the DC-area economy talkingpointsmemo.com/news/musk-doge…

Donald Trump’s dialogue with @myroslavapetsa: — Is the US ready to sell Patriots to Ukraine? — Are you living in Ukraine? — My husband is there. — Is your husband a soldier? — Yes. — Wow. That’s tough. … We're going to see if we can make some Patriot missiles available.

The Trump admin ignored the courts over and over again in this case, sending ppl to CECOT and trying to send them to S Sudan and Libya in violation of the court’s order. SCOTUS just rewarded that with a win

Senate Passes Massive Cryptocurrency Bill, Ignoring Risk To Financial System talkingpointsmemo.com/news/senate-pa…

BREAKING: Multiple sources tell 5 Eyewitness News at least two MN state lawmakers were shot at their homes last night by a gunman impersonating a police officer. DFL Speaker Emerita Melissa Hoffman in Brooklyn Park and DFL Sen. John Hoffman in Champlin. Working on more details.

Presidential vote among whites shows continued income polarization (data from @electionstudies 2024 timeseries), with income negatively correlated to GOP presidential vote.

Congress is about to pass a stablecoin bill that, experts say, will reopen ways of destabilizing the financial system that have been closed for decades talkingpointsmemo.com/news/some-dems…