White nationalists fail to organize a rally but succeed in organizing the GOP, Omarosa has secret recordings, and Democrats decide whether to take money from corporate PACs. Then Democratic candidate Rashida Tlaib joins to talk about the history she’ll make as the first Muslim woman in Congress, and Ana Marie Cox talks about following Ted Cruz around Texas.

Show Notes:

Charlottesville:

• New York Times: Rally by White Nationalists Was Over Almost Before It Began
• Washington Post: White-supremacist rally near White House dwarfed by thousands of anti-hate protestors
• Vox: Unite the Right 2018 was a pathetic failure
• Vox: Virginia Republicans just nominated an alt-right hero to run for Senate
• New York Times: NPR Is Criticized After White Nationalist Ranks the Races by Intelligence on Air
• New York Times: Before ‘Unite the Right’ Rally, Trump Does Not Condemn Supremacists
• New York Times: Donald Trump’s Racism: The Definitive List
• Vox: Donald Trump’s long history of racism from the 1970s to 2018
• AP: Analysis: Trump still flirts with racially tinged rhetoric
• Politico: NAACP slams Trump as ‘racist’
• The Atlantic: The White Nationalists Are Winning
• New York Times: Voting Rights Advocates Used to Have an Ally in the Government
• Washington Post: Trump can’t make America white again
• Politico: Trump’s diplomatic learning curve: Time zones, ‘Namibia’, and ‘Nipple’
• Politico: Stephen Miller Is an Immigration Hypocrite. I Know Because I’m His Uncle. 

Omarosa:

• Politico: Trump and Omarosa tear at each other in escalating feud
• New York Times: Omarosa Manigault Newman Taped Her Firing by John Kelly
• Axios: What we’re reading: The juiciest claims from Omarosa’s upcoming book
• Axios: Trump blasts “Wacky Omarosa” after she plays secret tapes on TV
• AP: Omarosa’s Situation Room recordings alarm security experts
• Daily Beast: Omarosa Recording of John Kelly Raises Questions About Security in the White House
• The Atlantic: Omarosa’s Bold Claim of Breaching the Situation Room
• CNN: Why Omarosa’s secret recording is an alarm bell
• Politico: Why Omarosa’s attack on Kelly could backfire
• USA Today: White House ‘absolutely’ has confidentiality agreements with staffers, Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway says
• ACLU: No, the President Can’t Legally Gag White House Staffers
• Washington Post: A black adviser in Trump’s West Wing? Kellyanne Conway is stumped.

Money in Politics:

• New York Times: For Voters Sick of Money in Politics, a New Pitch: No PAC Money Accepted
• Politico: Avenatti in Iowa, ‘exploring’ a White House run
• New York Times: Michael Avenatti Urges Democrats to Reject Michelle Obama’s Advice on Trump
• New York Times Magazine: The Fast and Furious Michael Avenatti 
• Huffington Post: Democratic National Committee Backtracks Its Ban of Fossil Fuel Donations
• The Hill: DNC reverses ban on fossil fuel donations
• ThinkProgress: DNC chair introduces resolution reversing party’s new ban on fossil fuel donations
• Axios: DNC now accepting donations from fossil fuel workers and PACs

Rashida Tlaib:

• WDET: Rashida Tlaib After Victory: ‘People Saw That I Was Real’
• Detroit Free Press: Rashida Tlaib ‘probably not’ going to support Nancy Pelosi as speaker
• The Nation: Rashida Tlaib Is Running for Congress on a Mission to Expand Civil Rights Protections
• New York Times: Rashida Tlaib Won a Primary This Week. She Also Lost a Primary This Week.
• New York Times: Rashida Tlaib, With Primary Win, Is Poised to Become First Muslim Woman in Congress
• Detroit Free Press: Rashida Tlaib credits grassroots efforts for election victory
• Detroit Free Press: Palestinian-American candidate Rashida Tlaib is source of West Bank pride
• Politico: Rashida Tlaib Is the Left’s Way Forward
• New York Times: The Pragmatic Left is Winning
• Washington Post: How the Trump era gave us Congress’s first Muslim woman