Karen Tumulty
@ktumulty.bsky.social
Trying to adapt. Also, Chief Political Correspondent for the Washington Post. You can follow what I write here: https://www.washingtonpost.com/newsletters/follow-karen-tumulty/
Democrats call for ruthless tactics after vote to end shutdown stirs fury -- from Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Merica, Patrick Marley
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Democrats call for ruthless tactics after vote to end shutdown stirs fury
The party has decided to fight fire with fire, from redistricting to the government shutdown to standing by candidates with problematic pasts.
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November 11, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Democrats call for ruthless tactics after vote to end shutdown stirs fury -- from Yasmeen Abutaleb, Dan Merica, Patrick Marley
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From the Inquirer: www.inquirer.com/politics/new...
Why did Jack Ciattarelli do so much worse than everyone expected? These N.J. Republicans have some theories.
Democrat Mikie Sherrill won the New Jersey governor's race by more than 13 points.
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November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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This was all about the filibuster.
November 10, 2025 at 2:44 AM
This was all about the filibuster.
Re-upping this, which I wrote a few years back after my brother’s death. Trump’s idea of bypassing insurers and letting people shop around for cheap coverage sounds good — until you get sick. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Disease took my brother. Our health-care system added to his ordeal.
One family's struggle with cascading medical bills and a system determined to make it harder.
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November 9, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Re-upping this, which I wrote a few years back after my brother’s death. Trump’s idea of bypassing insurers and letting people shop around for cheap coverage sounds good — until you get sick. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
NEW: How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters. The president's deportation policies and high prices propelled a shift in this year's elections, compared to 2024. By @sabrod123 @teoarmus @KnowlesHannah: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters
The president’s deportation policies, along with high prices and changes in who turned out to vote propelled a shift in this year’s election.
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November 7, 2025 at 3:18 PM
NEW: How a backlash to Trump fueled Democratic gains with Latino voters. The president's deportation policies and high prices propelled a shift in this year's elections, compared to 2024. By @sabrod123 @teoarmus @KnowlesHannah: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
The coat was such a sensation that Max Mara scrambled to put its 2012 design back on the market. “It’s a funny thing because none of it was planned or intentional. I only wore that orange coat because it was clean,” Pelosi told me. “Now, I can barely wear it because it’s a meme.”
November 6, 2025 at 10:59 PM
The coat was such a sensation that Max Mara scrambled to put its 2012 design back on the market. “It’s a funny thing because none of it was planned or intentional. I only wore that orange coat because it was clean,” Pelosi told me. “Now, I can barely wear it because it’s a meme.”
The 1st appearance of @SpeakerPelosi -- "a slim woman 41 years old" --in the NYT. Here's the kicker: "She says she has no ambitions to run for elected office. 'I'm more into fund-raising, ''but I like the vitality, the disagreements, the advocacy of politics.''' www.nytimes.com/1984/07/17/u...
HOST COMMITTEE IS LED BY 'NATURAL' ORGANIZER (Published 1984)
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November 6, 2025 at 2:46 PM
The 1st appearance of @SpeakerPelosi -- "a slim woman 41 years old" --in the NYT. Here's the kicker: "She says she has no ambitions to run for elected office. 'I'm more into fund-raising, ''but I like the vitality, the disagreements, the advocacy of politics.''' www.nytimes.com/1984/07/17/u...
Terrific reporting from @iarnsdorf.bsky.social and @jacobbogage.bsky.social -- Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson
At least five members of Heritage’s antisemitism task force resigned after Roberts defended Carlson’s interview with antisemitic white nationalist Nick Fuentes.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Terrific reporting from @iarnsdorf.bsky.social and @jacobbogage.bsky.social -- Heritage staff in open revolt over leader’s defense of Tucker Carlson www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
In 2024, Trump carried Passaic County with 52 percent of the vote. Last night, @MikieSherrill won it in a blowout:
November 5, 2025 at 1:16 PM
In 2024, Trump carried Passaic County with 52 percent of the vote. Last night, @MikieSherrill won it in a blowout:
On May 4, 2017, House Republicans voted to repeal the ACA and Abigail Spanberger texted her husband: "I'm gonna run and I'm gonna fucking win." Here's the unlikely story of how a former undercover CIA operative is about to become Va.’s first female governor
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Spanberger’s unlikely journey from the CIA to Va.’s first female governor
The former House member ran a centrist campaign focused on affordability, health care and education, providing a potential road map for other Democrats.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:37 AM
On May 4, 2017, House Republicans voted to repeal the ACA and Abigail Spanberger texted her husband: "I'm gonna run and I'm gonna fucking win." Here's the unlikely story of how a former undercover CIA operative is about to become Va.’s first female governor
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There’s never been a political journey quite like this. From CIA officer operating with five passports and five covert identities to Virginia’s first woman governor. Here’s how Abigail Spanberger did it:
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Spanberger’s unlikely journey from the CIA to Va.’s first female governor
The former House member ran a centrist campaign focused on affordability, health care and education, providing a potential road map for other Democrats.
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November 5, 2025 at 11:27 AM
There’s never been a political journey quite like this. From CIA officer operating with five passports and five covert identities to Virginia’s first woman governor. Here’s how Abigail Spanberger did it:
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As a CIA officer, Abigail Spanberger traveled covertly with 5 passports and 5 identies. Now she will be Virginia’s first woman governor, breaking an all-male line stretching back to governor Patrick Henry in 1776. Here’s the remarkable story of how she got here www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Spanberger’s unlikely journey from the CIA to Va.’s first female governor
The former House member ran a centrist campaign focused on affordability, health care and education, providing a potential road map for other Democrats.
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November 5, 2025 at 10:58 AM
As a CIA officer, Abigail Spanberger traveled covertly with 5 passports and 5 identies. Now she will be Virginia’s first woman governor, breaking an all-male line stretching back to governor Patrick Henry in 1776. Here’s the remarkable story of how she got here www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...
Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness?
Abigail Spanberger and Mikie Sherrill are strong contenders to be the next governors of Virginia and New Jersey.
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November 5, 2025 at 2:29 AM
Re-upping my column from last year on @MikieSherrill and @SpanbergerForVA. A really fun interview. -- Can these Capitol Hill roommates lead Democrats out of the wilderness? www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Who says we don't need civics education in this country?
November 4, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Who says we don't need civics education in this country?
My latest: Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Analysis | Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider.
Cheney helped shape the old Republican Party as a vice president who embraced aggressive antiterrorism tactics, only to see his party transformed by Trump and MAGA.
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November 4, 2025 at 5:33 PM
My latest: Dick Cheney spent decades as the ultimate GOP insider. He died an outsider. www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...
Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, the latest Post/ABC/Ipsos poll finds (Plus a return of the Dan Balz byline!) wapo.st/4oMSmrs
Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, poll finds
Most Americans disapprove the president’s handling of top issues, and a majority say he has gone too far in exercising his powers.
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November 2, 2025 at 10:22 AM
Voters divided on midterms despite broad Trump disapproval, the latest Post/ABC/Ipsos poll finds (Plus a return of the Dan Balz byline!) wapo.st/4oMSmrs
Six trick or treaters so far. Am I going to have to eat all this candy myself?
November 1, 2025 at 12:13 AM
Six trick or treaters so far. Am I going to have to eat all this candy myself?
Such a great lede on this story about an immortal headline — 50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die
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October 30, 2025 at 1:58 PM
Such a great lede on this story about an immortal headline — 50 Years Ago, My Father Wrote the Headline That Refuses to Die www.nytimes.com/2025/10/30/n...
“Trump’s Gilded Age Brothel school of interior design” George Will is not amused. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
Opinion | The choreographed fakery of American politics: East Wing edition
Trump’s residential immodesty is nothing compared with his anti-constitutional immodesty.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:55 PM
“Trump’s Gilded Age Brothel school of interior design” George Will is not amused. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
It would have been bigger news if he had said he won't. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
Newsom Says He Will Consider a 2028 Presidential Run After the Midterms
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October 27, 2025 at 12:59 PM
It would have been bigger news if he had said he won't. www.nytimes.com/2025/10/26/u...
I spent a few days in New Jersey and found the governor's race ... very hard to read: After Trump gains, New Jersey governor’s race offers a test for Democrats wapo.st/4htuIOf
Analysis | After Trump gains, New Jersey governor’s race offers a test for Democrats
GOP candidate Jack Ciattarelli hopes for improved Black and Latino support against Democratic rival Mikie Sherrill.
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October 26, 2025 at 12:12 PM
I spent a few days in New Jersey and found the governor's race ... very hard to read: After Trump gains, New Jersey governor’s race offers a test for Democrats wapo.st/4htuIOf
Exclusives like these are why you should be subscribing to the @washingtonpost.com Our week of breaking news on the destruction of the East Wing, as chronicled by Dan Diamond : dandiamond.substack.com/p/our-week-o...
Our week of breaking news about the crumbling East Wing
The White House didn't proactively announce its tear-down. The Washington Post revealed it.
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October 25, 2025 at 1:38 PM
Exclusives like these are why you should be subscribing to the @washingtonpost.com Our week of breaking news on the destruction of the East Wing, as chronicled by Dan Diamond : dandiamond.substack.com/p/our-week-o...
From the great @philipkennicott.bsky.social -- Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Column | Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking
By Thursday, the White House’s East Wing was gone. The speed of destruction, and the projection of power, are part of the strongman playbook.
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October 24, 2025 at 3:27 PM
From the great @philipkennicott.bsky.social -- Why the demolition of the East Wing is so shocking www.washingtonpost.com/entertainmen...
Such a fun (for the reader, not the writer) story from Emily Heil -- I tried ‘Entertaining’ like Martha Stewart. It was exhausting and exhilarating. wapo.st/3WklE4J
Column | I tried ‘Entertaining’ like Martha Stewart. It was exhausting and exhilarating.
Does Martha Stewart’s 1982 book, “Entertaining,” still hold up? I put it — and myself — to the test.
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October 22, 2025 at 12:20 PM
Such a fun (for the reader, not the writer) story from Emily Heil -- I tried ‘Entertaining’ like Martha Stewart. It was exhausting and exhilarating. wapo.st/3WklE4J
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today:
October 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
My favorite sign at the Montclair NJ No Kings today: