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Senior reporter @NBCNews | Author of THEY CAME FOR THE SCHOOLS | Co-creator of SOUTHLAKE & GRAPEVINE podcasts | Peabody winner & Pulitzer finalist
My book "They Came for the Schools" is out today. It tries to make sense of America's school board wars by showing how & why that fight exploded in one Texas suburb. To really understand the anti-DEI backlash, I needed to uncover a much longer history. Here's what I found🧵
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"We are journalists, not leaders of the resistance." @SteveEngelberg on @propublica's plans for holding power to account in a second Trump term. propublica.org/article/second…
“He has the capacity now to claim not only a democratic mandate, but a divine mandate,” @TaylorMatthewD said. “And there are legions of American Christians who are primed to embrace that narrative” nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
New from me for @NBCNews: Evangelical leaders celebrate Trump’s victory as a prophecy fulfilled nbcnews.com/politics/2024-…
Impromptu 3 a.m. praise and worship at the Trump victory party last night. This was posted by Sean Feucht, who has traveled the country for four years, holding worship rallies at state capitals and praying for a new era of Christian dominion over American society.
JUST IN: A Jan. 6 defendant is asking Judge Beryl Howell to postpone aspects of his case in light of Trump's election and promise to pardon many involved in the Capitol breach. documentcloud.org/documents/2527…
Jon Stewart’s 2-minute history lesson here is worth everyone’s time before we start confidently breaking out our theories of what happened
Lance Wallnau last night: Here is how Democrats are about to steal the election. Lance Wallnau this morning: Never mind.
“Trump will make history as the 45th and now 47th president, NBC News projects, saying he will fix an ailing country and despite warnings he will rule as an authoritarian.” nbcnews.com/politics/2024-… via @nbcnews
The overall story, so far: Nothing here looks like a story of various campaign decisions or a VP choice or big set piece speeches. It's an electorate mad at the incumbent WH's record and expressing it pretty uniformly everywhere, blue and red states alike.