Greetings from all of us at Puck. In today’s edition of The Stratosphere, I’m revisiting three of the most fascinating storylines that I’ve been exploring here over the last few months: the Pelosi succession drama, the Phoenix Suns sweepstakes, and the latest in the G.O.P. game of chicken in Arizona.

Mentioned in this email: Eleni Kounalakis, Christine Pelosi, Navid Mahmoodzadegan, Ramona Shelburne, David Geffen, Laurene Powell Jobs, Peter Thiel, Blake Masters, “the Old Broken Crow Mitchell McConnell,” and many more.

But first, a few news and notes from around town…

• Dustin Moskovitz, the Facebook billionaire and one of the Democratic Party’s biggest donors, can be enigmatic about his level of interest in campaigns. He candidly told me that...

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Yes, the cult of Pelosi persists, but times are a-changin’ in House leadership, as my Puck partner Tara Palmeri has previously noted. If Democrats lose the House—which, to be sure, is no longer quite the foregone conclusion...