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Jessica Piper retweeted
ICE agent who fatally shot an immigrant in Maine talked of foreign bloodlines, denounced noncitizens and more, according to emails
My story w.@AlexandraBerzon
nytimes.com/2026/11/11/us/da…
Jessica Piper retweeted
North Carolina Republicans will have officially dummymandered themselves in to an 11D-3R map. Had they not fiddled with the map this year to target Don Davis, Murphy would have won. Had they taken a different tack after 2022 they could have held even more seats.
Jessica Piper retweeted
NEWS: 2028 is already playing out in the phone logs of a new group of Dem power brokers who won last week.
Buttigieg, Pritzker, Moore, Emanuel, Kelly, Booker are among those who’ve reached out to winners in early primary states. Andrews, El-Sayed, Pappas, Haaland etc have gotten calls.
Some of these newcomers have priorities they want to see shape the primary, from Medicare for All to Israel to data centers to Indian tribes.
w/ @AlecAHernandez @erinpdoherty + @politico team politico.com/news/2026/11/10…
Jessica Piper retweeted
Court filing alleges Trump adviser received cash, luxury gifts from foreign interests politi.co/4enOuur
Jessica Piper retweeted
NEW: Josh Shapiro says Pennsylvania remains the "ultimate swing state" and "can be a model for our party" going forward.
— $15 min wage No. 1 legislative priority
— "Open" to national popular vote compact
— Looks forward to a "thoughtful conversation" w/ El-Sayed on Israel
more from our intv @politico politico.com/news/2026/11/09…
Jessica Piper retweeted
First in @politico: A new-right group launches today to build a bench of young, hardline Republicans. They think doubling down on, not shying away from, hardline positions like mass deportations is a long-term winner:
“We watched a complete rebuke of the type of Republicans that were in Congress. Old ideas are for old people." politico.com/news/2026/11/09…
Jessica Piper retweeted
the @politico story this is from: politico.com/news/2026/11/06…
Jessica Piper retweeted
Israel’s president taps opposition candidate Eisenkot to form a government, in setback for Netanyahu politi.co/4t6lqhj
Jessica Piper retweeted
BREAKING: Trump announced that chief of staff Susie Wiles is leaving her post and will be replaced by Stephen Miller.
politico.com/news/2026/11/06…
Jessica Piper retweeted
In 2024, lots of voters in purple/red states voted for ballot measures restoring abortion access while voting for Rs that they agreed with on everything else. In 2026, voters in purple/blue states approved measures opposing trans athletes while voting for Ds they agreed with on everything else
Decision Desk HQ projects Yes wins the WA Initiative Measure No. IL26-638 Sex Verification Requirements for Female School Sports Nonpartisan Ballot Question
#DecisionMade: 9:04 PM EST
Follow live results here: votes.decisiondeskhq.com/rac…
Jessica Piper retweeted
NEW piece that I'm PROUD OF: I took a deep dive into what happened with AI and the midterms. Not only about this week, it traces the last 18 months of AI politics — and how an odd coalition found its way together to push Dems towards safety/regulation. W/the homie @AlecAHernandez : politico.com/news/magazine/2…
Jessica Piper retweeted
In Maine, the senator-elect is clapping back in the Facebook comments.
(Original post from a former Republican lawmaker here.)
Jessica Piper retweeted
NEW: Abdul El-Sayed told me “I’m not going to change my position” on Israel but “I intend to lead on all the issues that we agree on — whether it’s the right to a union or the right to health care” etc.
Also says “I hope” the next Dem presidential nominee shares his views on Israel.
“If you want to be where the voters are, if you want to be on the side of peace and on the side of justice and transparency, I believe that that is around holding Israel accountable to its war crimes and on making sure our tax dollars get used to do good things here rather than bad things somewhere else”
New: Abdul El-Sayed underperformed other Democrats the most in predominantly Jewish communities
he told @lisakashinsky he hopes to "earn" the support of Jewish voters.
politico.com/news/2026/11/05…
Jessica Piper retweeted
Following Paul LePage's (R) victory in ME-2 (Trump +9.1 points), that district appears set to go from the reddest district held by any D (Jared Golden), to the BLUEST seat held by any R. Crazy and illustrative of the wipeout
calculated thanks to @downballotnews data
Jessica Piper retweeted
2028 is... officially here.
Former Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-N.Y.) and progressive activist Nomiki Konst are launching a committee urging Rep. Ro Khanna (D-Calif.) to run for president.
(As an aside, Dems in Nevada joke to me that Ro basically lives there now — so much so that they've taken to calling him "Ro" / are on a first-name basis with him.) politico.com/news/2026/11/05…
Jessica Piper retweeted
In an exclusive interview w @carlhulse, Susan Collins compares herself to Margaret Chase Smith, the Maine senator who famously stood up to Joseph McCarthy.
Collins said that she, too, had “taken a lot of tough votes and stood up for what I believe in.”
nytimes.com/live/2026/11/04/…
