Tessa Berenson Rogers

“You’re only going to accomplish so much in shifting American cultural and social life through politics and public policy if you’re not dealing with the cultural institutions that are at the choke point of American opinion, American sentiment, American thinking,” per Leonard Leo

.@dlippman digs into the lackluster sales of second-term Trump books: politico.com/news/2025/07/2…

There’s only one group in DC that is happy about Trump’s demand that the Commanders revert to their old name: The progressive activists who want to kill the plan to build the franchise a new stadium. politico.com/news/magazine/… via @michaelschaffer

Newsom has been fighting for more than a year with Republicans and members of his own party about whether his fuel standards will raise gas prices for Californians. Turns out, they already have. But no one noticed. @debra_kahn scoop: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Inside the fallout at Paul, Weiss after the firm’s deal with Trump politico.com/news/2025/06/2… via @dnlbrns

“I think the political path would be an easy one, meaning, I think I could do it,” Eric Trump told @arogDC of the potential for another Trump to run for office after his father. “And by the way, I think other members of our family could do it too.” ft.com/content/4fdac3…

He Made Gay Marriage the Law of the Land. Now He’s Fighting a Larger War. Read @tdylon_jones on Jim Obergefell's enduring grief — and lasting fight: politico.com/news/magazine/…

Trump said the Federalist Society gave him “bad advice” on judicial nominations. But Senators are set to vote Thursday on a slate of 5 Trump judicial nominees — all of whom are @FedSoc members. @politico on the continued grip of a conservative powerhouse politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

Donald Trump said the Federalist Society gave him “bad advice” on judicial nominations. He’s still appointing their members to the federal bench anyway. politico.com/news/2025/06/2… via @Hailey_Fuchs @dnlbrns

Scoop from @Hailey_Fuchs: Judge Ed Artau - now Trump's nominee for a federal judgeship in FL - sided with Trump in a case. Behind the scenes, he was already lobbying for a nomination. politico.com/news/2025/06/2…

During the MidEast trip in May, Howard Lutnick concluded convos with foreign dignitaries with a pitch for the Trump Card. “Whenever I meet with international executives, I always go through it with them and sell it to them,” Lutnick tells @FT. “I can’t help myself.”…

Howard Lutnick tells @arogDC nearly 70,000 people have signed up for the new golden Trump Card visa, which will grant foreigners legal residency in the US at a cost of $5mn: ft.com/content/468b88…

TIME's new cover: Inside the Trump Administration's unprecedented effort to deport millions of people ti.me/45h8ew4

In April, I went to Buffalo to watch Mario Lopez film 'A Christmas Spark,' a film from Great American Media, a faith-based production company run by the former CEO of The Hallmark Channel who left in 2020 because he felt the company had become "much more woke and DEI driven."

Faith-based production companies insist they are not explicitly Republican. But they’re selling a vision of American culture to an audience that’s sick of liberal Hollywood: politico.com/news/magazine/… Via @calder_mchugh

.@arogDC scoop! Tucker Carlson was on the White House's list of potential TikTok investors — and JD Vance advocated for him: ft.com/content/b649cb…

How one climate tech company is hanging on in the Trump era: politico.com/news/magazine/… via @debra_kahn

More BigLaw fallout - the executive director of Skadden’s lauded public interest fellowship has resigned and there are signs that all is not well below the surface of the program which was specifically mentioned in the firm’s deal with Trump politico.com/newsletters/po…

Scoop from @dnlbrns in Politico Influence today — the head of the prestigious Skadden Fellowship has quit in protest of the Trump deal politico.com/politicoinflue…