Weeks of reporting went into my profile of Yulia Navalnaya for TIME. Among the key findings:

Negotiators reached a deal with Russia to free Navalny in a prisoner swap right before he died. 'I thought he would be home in a week,' one of them told me. 1/

This TIME piece explained the strategy well: 'Inside the White House Program to Share America’s Secrets' time.com/6835724/americ…

Donald Trump made repealing Obamacare as core a part of his political identity as building The Wall. One problem: Obamacare is more popular than Trump, and that position could cost him dearly. Enter, yet another pivot. Today's D.C. Brief --> time.com/6962662/donald…

Great story from Mini Racker & Roger Sollenberger on the shotgun marriage between Jeff Yass and Donald Trump. When it comes to the benefactor's Never Trump background, the dynamic is far from the Yassification of a former president:
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She and her husband, Justin, weren’t political people. They barely registered the Dobbs decision or Texas’s strict abortion bans. Until he intervened try to force Kate to continue her pregnancy, Justin didn’t even know who AG Ken Paxton was

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Some personal news: I'm joining the Daily Beast on Monday as a politics reporter! I'll be covering campaign finance with Roger Sollenberger and continuing to write long-form when I can.

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The Plan to Save Joe Biden's Campaign time.com/6958784/biden-…

“If the election were held tomorrow, more than 30 pollsters, strategists, and campaign veterans from both parties tell TIME, Biden would likely lose.”

I’m old enough to remember when most Republicans said the Inflation Reduction Act was going to fund 87,000 new IRS agents.

Instead, it produced an effective new technology that could help millions of Americans file their taxes.

Saahil Desai reports:

One striking stat:

Thousands of new jobs are coming to AZ thanks to new semiconductor plants built thanks to Biden's $52b CHIPS Act.

But only 25% of AZ voters think Biden is responsible for it... 29% credit the companies, 34% say they're 'not sure'

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Great reporting by Charlotte Alter, Brian Bennett , and Phil Elliott, including a dire warning from Obama and more than 30 experts saying if the election were tomorrow, Biden would likely lose:

What do Jim Banks, Kari Lake, Jim Justice, and Tim Sheehy have in common? They're all Trump-endorsed Senate candidates facing no serious primary threats.

How Trump not only took control of the GOP primary but cleared the fields for his Senate picks:
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The results in Ohio's Senate primary offer clues—and justification—about the Biden camp's de-prioritization of Ohio as a swing state. This Ohio native unpacks Moreno's win for today's D.C. Brief --> time.com/6958895/biden-…

Food for thought: Human Rights Campaign's Executive Director Kelly Robinson on the threat to #Obergefell , the 2018 decision resulting in nationwide marriage equality. The #SupremeCourt 's destruction of #RoeVWade removed 1 of the legal pillars protecting same-sex marriage.

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Good read. Plenty want to continue taking away freedoms.

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LPAC Board member Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter-Poza (she/her/ella), on TIME, 'We didn't win civil rights for queer and trans folks across the board just by winning Obergefell, but we absolutely do stand to lose everything if we lose Obergefell.'

Marriage equality is very much on the line in 2024.time.com/6899864/same-s…

Public opinion—and law—has changed so rapidly during the last decade on LGBTQ rights that it can be easy to forget that the legal scaffolding upholding much of it is disturbingly fragile.

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Some LGBTQ leaders and other experts believe the Supreme Court could wipe out the constitutional right to gay marriage as soon as next year, writes Phil Elliott for The D.C. Brief
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President Biden just delivered a State of the Union that might be a career high for him — and at an exact moment he needed to reset expectations. Tonight's D.C. Brief --> time.com/6898683/biden-…

Forty years after they fled the Soviet Union, the Gerhskovichs' son is now a human pawn in a new Cold War.

Free Evan.

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