New in PN: The other big flip Democrats pulled off in Texas
"Perhaps this represents a breaking of the fever that has gripped much of the country for at least a decade, one where Democratic laws and rules are seen as somehow illegitimate and to be constantly challenged while conservative states get to dictate what happens in blue ones." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/nathan-johnson-texas
New episode of the PN Pod is live with discussion of the House/Senate leadership elections, the myth of MAGA's popularity and what Trump's waning fortunes mean for the 2028 GOP hopefuls, the Nvidia scandal, and more.
Check it out: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/maga-goes-all-in-with-a-losing-hand
New in PN: In conversation with Tim Snyder
"A lot of the problems we have stem from a version of obeying in advance where, sure, you oppose Trump, you’re against him, but you may put his power and emotions and mental state too much front and center as opposed to thinking, what am I going to do to make those powers less and that mental state worse? That is where Democrats ought to be in the autumn of 2026 and the first part of 2027." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/tim-snyder-interview-2026
New in PN: The future of the Supreme Court suddenly looks a lot brighter
"A quick account of the current justices’ ages, plus some forward-looking Senate election handicapping, suggests that 2026 radically changed the calculus. If Dems win the presidency in 2028, they should be in position to flip the Court." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/2026-blue-wave-supreme-court
New in PN: Memo to MAGA — Todd Blanche is not your lawyer
"The parade of attorneys fleeing the building knows better. Blanche isn’t their lawyer, and, while a pardon might keep them out of jail, it won’t save their law licenses. With a Democratic Congress gaveling in on January 3 and Stephen Miller running the West Wing, they’re cashing out before the chaos and leaving the chumps behind to pick up the pieces." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/todd-blanche-trump-lawyer
New in PN: MAGA’s other big lie
"For all the profound effects the movement has had on American politics and culture, it was *never* particularly popular. It has had a deep and possibly lasting effect on our culture, making it coarser and uglier. But it has never had anything approaching majority support from Americans." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/maga-was-never-popular
New in PN: Democrats *already* have started winning
"No one really thought the midterms would solve America’s fascism problem on their own. But Trump’s decision to continue being Trump doesn’t change the fact that the blue wave is already having concrete effects on policy and accountability." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-wins-midterms
New episode of the PN Pod with me and Paul Waldman is live. We discuss the incredible midterm results, what they mean for the incoming Dem majorities and our toxically unpopular lame duck president, the Hakeem Jeffries Morning Joe hit that everyone is mad about, and more.
Check it out: https://www.publicnotice.co/p/donald-the-very-lame-duck
New in PN: The midterms’ most deserving losers
"A number of notable Republicans suffered epic, overdue, even karmic-level defeats. This list is hardly exhaustive. But eight groups of losers are best described as the 'Comeuppance Caucus': Republicans who in 2026 got what was coming to them." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/2026-midterms-biggest-losers
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New in PN: The only thing Democrats have to fear is fear itself
"Even though affordability was in fact the top issue in the campaign, if the message Democrats take from the most sweeping midterm victory in half a century is as limited as 'voters really want life to be more affordable,' they will be missing the most important lessons of this election." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-midterm-victory
New in PN: “If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed ... and we will deserve it”
"Thanks to the blue tsunami, we are in a better place now than we were last week. If Lindsey Graham were alive, he would be vindicated, and very, very sad." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/blue-tsunami
New in PN: James O’Keefe’s Minnesota voting stunt backfires spectacularly
"Well, well, well.
Do you think those cringy scammers, O’Keefe and Cam Higby, enjoy being hoisted by their own petard?
Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty has charged these malicious doofuses with two felonies each." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/james-okeefe-minnesota-charges
New in PN: How Trump destroyed his own dictatorial ambitions
"The US is about to enter a foreboding final period in the already catastrophically failed Trump presidency. It is difficult to anticipate what further outrages the increasingly feeble-minded failed dictator will attempt to unleash on the country he purportedly leads.
But one somewhat reassuring thing is already clear — Trump’s ongoing assault on the govt will continue to sap his already eroding power." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-dictatorial-ambitions
New in PN: Move fast, break things
"The globe debacle is emblematic of how Hegseth has always assumed that experts are idiots, believed he’s the smartest guy around, and as a result ignores them and ends up breaking stuff (and failing in the process)." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/hegseth-eisenhower-globe
New episode of the PN Pod is live featuring me and Paul Waldman taking viewer questions and setting the table for next Tuesday https://www.publicnotice.co/p/the-blue-wave-rolls-in-but-how-big
New in PN: We’ve blown past mere “transphobia”
"Hitler used hatred of Jewish people to try to build power, and then he used that power to eliminate Jewish people. The Republican Party has a similar relationship to trans hate. They hope it will help them win elections. But they also hope that winning elections, and funding anti-trans propaganda, will allow them to eliminate trans people." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-republican-transphobia
New in PN: The GOP’s endless culture war slop is a sign of desperation
"Republicans are offering a slop buffet because Trump ruined the economy and they have no policy achievements to tout. So they chose instead to demonize anyone who deviates from how white, male, Christians look, act, think, or pray, even if the demons must be invented." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/republican-culture-war-campaign-2026
New in PN: Trump takes one more desperate swing at Jim Comey
"So now, the Trump administration doesn’t get its perp walk. Instead, every legal pundit in the country (including yours truly) is going to spend the week laughing and pointing at this garbage case. And, in the likely event that Judge McFadden dismisses it out of hand, the DOJ will have gotten its ass kicked by James Comey in public again." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/comey-third-criminal-charges
New in PN: Living in the long, stupid shadow of the Big Lie
"Elections where Trump — or any other Republican — wins are fine, but elections where Republicans lose are corrupt. The only solution, of course, is to let the DOJ intervene both before and after any elections that Trump has fixated on." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-election-lawsuits-2026