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Free Insider: North Carolina Just Gave Voters Two More Days to Fix a Ballot
A flagged mail ballot is not a lost vote yet. What changed in North Carolina, what sank ballots in Pennsylvania, and how to check yours before the clock runs out.
Vol. I · Washington Weekday Mornings
Burn The Playbook
Follow the money. Show the work.
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The Briefing & The Video
Read the file. Then watch the argument.
The Briefing
Every issue is sourced, and every claim links the document underneath it.
General
The Post Office Is Charging You for Missing Your Family
A holiday surcharge started October 4. The farther away your people live, the more you pay.
General
They Just Moved the Shutdown Until After You Vote
Congress kept the lights on past the September 30 deadline and moved the real fight to December 11, five weeks after the midterms.
Aca
They Just Cut 760,000 People Off Obamacare. Here's the Excuse.
CMS cancelled coverage five weeks before open enrollment, on top of a subsidy cliff that already pushed 3 million out. Here's who pays.
Money
Record Income in 2025. The Census Can't See 2026 Yet.
The paycheck number is real. The coverage bill lands in years this report does not measure.
Insider
Insider: A GOP Super PAC Just Yanked $6.5 Million From a Senate Race. Follow the Money.
Cooper leads Whatley roughly 6-to-1 in the bank. Brown outholds Husted. Ossoff sits on $43 million. The ad sheets show who the parties still believe in.
The Channel
The latest from @michaelstarrhopkins — the argument, on camera.
Short Are the Trumps Under the Thumb of a Foreign Government? Today ▶ WATCH Are the Trumps Under the Thumb of a Foreign Government?
Short Club 520 Goes Live at the Howard Theatre Today ▶ WATCH Club 520 Goes Live at the Howard Theatre
Short None of This Is Illegal. That Is the Whole Problem. Today ▶ WATCH None of This Is Illegal. That Is the Whole Problem.
Short Senate Letters: $157 Million in Fees, Zero Returned to Investors by Mid-2024 Today ▶ WATCH Senate Letters: $157 Million in Fees, Zero Returned to Investors by Mid-2024
Short We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely? | Me & Lee Trailer Today ▶ WATCH We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely? | Me & Lee Trailer
Short We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely? | Me & Lee Trailer Today ▶ WATCH We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely? | Me & Lee Trailer
Short The Life We Wanted. Why So Lonely? Today ▶ WATCH The Life We Wanted. Why So Lonely?
Short The Private Citizen Defense for Kushner Expired in February Today ▶ WATCH The Private Citizen Defense for Kushner Expired in February
Episode We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely? Today ▶ WATCH We Got the Life We Wanted. Why Does It Feel So Lonely?
On Camera
Michael Starr Hopkins on the networks — MSNBC, the Maddow show, and the panels.
- MSNBC Ballot Counting 9:50
- Rachel Maddow Show / MSNBC Storming of the Capitol 8:41
- MSNBC Georgia and Trump 4:04
- MSNBC Georgia Senate Run-off 4:18
- Rachel Maddow Show / MSNBC return to decency with the Biden Administration 5:19
- Cheddar Democratic Majority 6:42
- Richard French Live politics in the New Year 8:20