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NEW: As Trump picks high-profile legal fights with prominent Democrats, more and more Dem lawmakers are taking out liability insurance in case they’re next

“That’s just, unfortunately, the nature of the job,” one House Democrat said

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Democratic Lawmakers Are Taking Out Liability Insurance As Trump Ramps Up Legal Threats
“That’s just, unfortunately, the nature of the job right now and it’s terrible,” one House Democrat told NOTUS. “It’s a terrible way to have to do this work.”
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June 12, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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NEW: After Trump mastered the ‘new media’ circuit in 2024, Dems are now catching up in embracing podcasts/social media

Dem comms aren’t “an email blast from Mailchimp anymore,” one aide said

An inside look at Dems’ new media strategy

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Inside the Democratic Battle to Go Viral
“We’ve gone from addition to multiplication,” Sen. Cory Booker told NOTUS of Democrats’ social media presence. “We need to do string theory.”
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March 3, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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The DOGE subcommittee’s meeting this week is sounding like must-see TV.

Here’s what you need to know about Dem attitudes, Connolly’s advice, Chairwoman MTG’s strategy, why Comer picked her etc.

TLDR; “It’s gonna be a shit show,” Rep. Crockett said.

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Lawmakers Prepare for Their Newest Partisan ‘Bar Fight’: The DOGE Subcommittee
“It’s gonna be a shit show,” Rep. Jasmine Crockett said.
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February 10, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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After Elon Musk called USAID “evil,” we rounded up some Republican senators’ connections to the agency.

Here’s Sens. Lindsey Graham and Thom Tillis visiting a USAID project in Egypt circa 2016.
February 4, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Trump’s most vocal GOP critics say they’re extinct in Congress, and no one is coming to fill their shoes.

“It’s gone,” Mark Sanford told me of the GOP resistance to Trump. “It’s extinct.”

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Trump’s Old GOP Critics in Congress Worry No Republican Will Fill Their Shoes
“Those folks have been weeded out,” former Rep. Mark Sanford told NOTUS.
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January 23, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Both Alaska Sens. Dan Sullivan and Lisa Murkowski prefer the Athabaskan name Denali over McKinley.

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Trump wants to change the name of Denali back to Mount McKinley
Alaska’s two Republican U.S. senators, Lisa Murkowski and Dan Sullivan, immediately pushed back, saying they support the Koyukon Athabascan place name for the mountain long favored by many Alaskans.
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January 20, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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Republicans don’t want “American Carnage” from Trump’s inaugural address today.

Instead they want his speech to be funny, off-script and full of “awesomeness.”

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Republicans Want Ad Libs, Not ‘American Carnage,’ in Trump’s Inaugural Address
“No matter what he says,” Rep. Eric Burlison told NOTUS, “I’m sure it will be funny.”
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January 20, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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Inside Senate Dems’ confirmation prep:

- Schumer told Dems to push noms to explain how they plan to execute Trump campaign promises, per source
- Dems laying groundwork for "we warned you" moments down the line
- Sens grappling with being firm without reading overly partisan
- Early attack lines
January 13, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Today’s NOTUS Newsletter Line-Up:

- @EvanMcS with H-1B backstory
- A preview of an awesome Marco Rubio profile from @byrdinator
- The latest on reconciliation ahead of Trump’s hill visit
- An update on Dick Durbin’s pre-inauguration moves from me

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Some of This Has Happened Before
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January 8, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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Age and tenure, Dems told @notusreports.bsky.social, may no longer be a winning argument as the party tries to turn the page on older senior committee members

AOC’s race against Gerry Connolly to become the top House Dem on Oversight will test if that’s true
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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Wants to Be the Democratic Party’s Top Attack Dog
“She is strategic, surgical in her approach. She works very well with other members and our staff,” Rep. Ayanna Pressley said. “And at a time when people are looking for more diverse representatives a...
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December 12, 2024 at 5:06 PM