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Trumper Tantrum
- NYT: Trump Walks Out on Pelosi and Schumer After 3 Minutes
- WaPo: Trump angrily walks out of meeting with Democrats after Pelosi says he is ‘engaged in a coverup’
- Politico: Trump blows up White House meeting over nasty feud with Pelosi
- C-Span: Trump Rose Garden Video (12 min)
- NY Mag: Trump’s Mueller-Probe Podium Sign Is Now a Meme
- LAT: Trump, angry over House investigations, blows up infrastructure meeting
- Slate: The Real Reason Trump Walked Out on Democrats
- Slate: Democrats and the White House Are Pantomiming Infrastructure Talks
- CNN: Angry Trump slams Democrats’ investigations after cutting infrastructure meeting short
- ThinkProgress: Oops: Trump admitted he blew up the infrastructure deal, not Democrats
- NY Mag: Trump Refuses to Repair Infrastructure Unless Congress Halts All Investigations
- WSJ: Trump Walks Out on Pelosi, Schumer
Mueller Congressional Testimony
- CNN: Special counsel’s team hesitant about Mueller testifying publicly, part of hold up securing testimony
- WaPo: Mueller and House Democrats at impasse over how much of his testimony would be public
- Politico: Dems struggle to secure testimony from a wary Mueller
- NYT: Justice Dept. Says It Will Share Some Mueller-Related Intelligence With House Committee
- Politico: I Watched 20 Hours of Robert Mueller Testifying. Here’s What Congress Would Be In For.
McGahn Testimony
- WaPo: White House blocks former counsel McGahn from testifying to Congress
- NYT: Trump’s Secrecy Fight Escalates as Judge Rules for Congress in Early Test
- Politico: Nadler vows accountability after McGahn defies subpoena to testify
- The Atlantic: Don McGahn’s Testimony Would Be the Main Event
- The Atlantic: Trump’s Fury at Don McGahn Is Misplaced
Tax Returns
- WaPo: Confidential draft IRS memo says tax returns must be given to Congress unless president invokes executive privilege
- NYT: I.R.S. Memo Undercuts Mnuchin on Withholding Trump’s Tax Returns
- NPR: Mnuchin Says He Has ‘Not Yet’ Reviewed Memo Mandating IRS Turn Over Trump Tax Returns
- NYT: New York Passes Bill Giving Congress a Way to Get Trump’s State Tax Returns
- Vox: What we know so far about Trump’s tax returns, explained
- WaPo: Judge rejects Trump’s request to halt congressional subpoenas for his banking records
- NYT: Deutsche Bank Can Release Trump Records to Congress, Judge Rules
House Subpoenas
- WaPo: House panel subpoenas Trump’s former top staffer, aide to McGahn
- Axios: House Judiciary Committee subpoenas Hope Hicks
- CNN: House panel issues subpoenas for Hope Hicks, Annie Donaldson
- Daily Beast: House Democrats Subpoena Hope Hicks
Impeachment momentum
- NYT: Democratic Calls for Impeachment Inquiry Grow as Leaders Instead Vow to Toughen Tactics
- WaPo: How Democrats got to the brink of considering impeaching Trump
- Lawfare: The House Is Right to Move Toward an Impeachment Inquiry
- HuffPo: Nancy Pelosi Tries To Tamp Down Impeachment Fever
- Vox: The number of Democrats who want an impeachment inquiry is growing. Pelosi isn’t among them.
- NYT: Nancy Pelosi, Trying to Walk a Middle Path, Accuses Trump of a ‘Cover-Up’
- Lawfare: What Powers Does a Formal Impeachment Inquiry Give the House?
- CNN: 5 reasons why Nancy Pelosi doesn’t want to impeach Donald Trump
- Politico: Some Republicans unsettled by Trump’s sweeping claims of immunity
- Politico: Vulnerable Democrats split as impeachment pressure mounts
- Roll Call: An ‘obvious trap?’ Democrats weigh political cost of impeachment
- WaPo: Democrats who stood with Clinton through impeachment urge caution in pursuit of Trump
- NYT: 2020 Democrats on Impeachment: What the Candidates Have Said
- WaPo: Some in Pelosi’s leadership team rebel on impeachment, press her to begin an inquiry
- WaPo: Which House Democrats support impeachment?
- Vox: Nancy Pelosi and Maxine Waters disagree over impeachment at closed-door meeting
- Politico: Pelosi clashes with fellow Dems in closed-door debate on impeachment
- The Atlantic: The Rank and File Are Starting to Defy Pelosi on Impeachment
- WaPo: A top Democrat warns: If we don’t confront Trump, he’ll grow more lawless
- Crooked: LOCK HIM UP?
- WaPo: Is Nancy Pelosi’s dam on impeachment starting to break?
- The Atlantic: Nancy Pelosi Might Be the Last Barrier Between Trump and Impeachment
- Mother Jones: Have the Democrats Blown the Trump-Russia Scandal?
2020
- Medium: Revisiting What Happened in the 2018 Election
- Axios: The Democrats’ 100-year flood
- Brookings: 2018 voter turnout rose dramatically for groups favoring Democrats, census confirms
- NYT: How Democrats Who Beat Republicans Last Year Plan to Keep Their Seats
- Washington Monthly: Is Joe Biden Winning Back Obama/Trump Voters or Not?
- NY Mag: Obama-to-Trump Voters Are Cooling on the President
- LA Times: Furors around Trump don’t change many minds, but one group has shifted
- NYT: How Trump Is Outspending Every 2020 Democrat on Facebook
- CNN: Republicans get good news in Pennsylvania’s special election
- WaPo: Broken promises of the past weigh on black voters as they consider the 2020 presidential campaign
- FiveThirtyEight: Who White Democrats Vote For In 2020 Could Be Shaped By Why They Think Clinton Lost
- FiveThirtyEight: How Winning The White House Could Cost Democrats The Senate (At Least Temporarily)
- Bloomberg: ‘Medicare for All’ Falters as Top Democrats Fret Over Backlash
- NYT: How the Rural-Urban Divide Became America’s Political Fault Line
- CNN: This is the biggest 2020 mistake the Democrats could make
- WaPo: The Trailer: Why the 2016 Sanders voter is still up for grabs
- Vox: What’s behind Elizabeth Warren’s comeback in the polls
- WaPo: Big disconnect: The economy is popular. Trump’s economic agenda is not.
- NYT: Anita Hill Worries Female 2020 Candidates Are ‘Not Being Taken Seriously’
Rebecca Traister
- The Guardian: Rebecca Traister: ‘The left is hesitant to rally around angry women’
- WNYC – The Brian Lehrer Show: How Fury Can Fuel the Fight for Reproductive Rights
- NY Mag: Our Fury Over Abortion Was Dismissed for Decades As Hysterical
- MSNBC: Rebecca Traister: The GOP is coming for Roe v. Wade
- NY Mag: Joe Biden Isn’t the Answer
- Vox: Full Q&A: ‘Good and Mad’ author Rebecca Traister on Recode Decode
- NBC – Chris Hayes: Why Is This Happening? Rebecca Traister explains why women are so furious: podcast & transcript
- NY Mag: Will We Abandon Women’s Rights in the Name of Progressive Politics?
- New Republic: Let’s Just Say It: Women Matter More Than Fetuses Do
Recent News
- Elle: Which of the 2020 Presidential Candidates Have a Plan to Protect Abortion Rights?
- HuffPost: Pete Buttigieg: Men Need To Stand Up For Abortion Rights, Too
- AP News: Biden: Congress should protect abortion rights, if necessary
- BuzzFeed: Almost All The 2020 Presidential Candidates Say They Want To Make Roe V. Wade Law
- Reuters: Democrat O’Rourke unveils new plan to protect abortion rights as he seeks to halt slide in polls
- WP: Kirsten Gillibrand plans to stay front and center in the abortion fight
- NPR: Is Abortion A Winning Issue For Republicans In 2020?
- BuzzFeed: Bernie Sanders Has A Message For His Male Supporters In The South: Abortion Isn’t Just A Woman’s Issue
- The Cut: What the Hell Happened With Bernie Sanders’s Abortion Comments This Week?
- POLITICO: New abortion laws set battle lines for 2020
- CNN: Abortion-rights groups see donations soar as Alabama law draws attention from activists, 2020 candidates
- TIME: ‘It’s Time to Fight Back.’ Elizabeth Warren Unveils Her Strategy to Protect Abortion Access
- USA Today: Warren, Gillibrand: Pass federal law to protect abortion rights from state legislatures
- RealClearPolitics: Amy Klobuchar: Republicans Using Women As Political Pawns To Get Supreme Court To Overturn Roe v. Wade
- NYT: Abortion Bans: 8 States Have Passed Bills to Limit the Procedure This Year
- AJC: A look at abortion bills around the U.S. in 2019
- HuffPost: Kamala Harris Raised $160,000 For Abortion Groups In Wake Of Alabama Abortion Ban
- NYT: ‘The Time Is Now’: States Are Rushing to Restrict Abortion, or to Protect It
The president “storms” out of another meeting with Democrats in the Oval Office. The House inches closer to an impeachment inquiry. And a new analysis of the 2018 midterms sheds light on the challenges up ahead in 2020. Then Rebecca Traister, author and writer at-large for New York Magazine and The Cut, joins Jon F. to talk about the recent wave of state laws threatening reproductive rights and what’s at stake in next year’s elections.