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Welcome back to The Washington Mall, your new favorite twice-weekly private email covering the inside conversation in NoMa green rooms, on the Hill, on K Street, and of course within Bidenworld.
Mentioned in tonight’s dispatch: Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the Squad!—plus Summer Lee, Jasmine Crockett, the Iron Dome, Maxwell Frost, Greg Casar, and many many more...
But first, a few thoughts and things I’m hearing…
- Globetrotting Pelosi… Will She or Won’t She Make the Calls?!?!: Nancy Pelosi is scheduled to leave the country shortly after the election—on November 9, in fact, literally the next day. This has many of the tea-leaf readers surrounding her interpreting that she will not be whipping the votes to run for leader while she’s away on a state visit. The location of the visit is in the Middle East...
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| Post-Squad Goals |
| The Squad levitated to power in D.C. with unprecedented juice, aplomb, power, and media savvy. But what’s their purpose, or message, in a post-Trump, pre-possible-mini-red-wave world? And will they add new members? |
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| During the height of the Trump era, Mueller-mania, and the #resistance rumspringa, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Rashida Tlaib, and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez—the so-called Squad—tore into Congress with a velocity and ascendance rarely seen on the left. It was the blue wave of 2018, and two of the congresspeople, A.O.C. and Pressley, seemingly came out of nowhere to defeat stalwart incumbents, Joe Crowley and Mike Capuano. They were four media-savvy women of color who not only crusaded against Trump but also let Nancy Pelosi know that they weren’t just supplicant “yes” votes, which gave them extraordinary juice despite their freshman status. From their early days, they recognized the power in occasionally bucking their party, making the establishment Democrats seem feckless in the fight against Trump, all while levitating to social media political martyrdom by absorbing the animosity of the MAGA faithful—and even Trump himself, who infamously told them to go back to the “crime-infested places from which they came.”
They weren’t just fresh blood; they also provided a healthy, forward-looking contrast to the House gerontocracy, whose complacency... |
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| FOUR STORIES WE'RE TALKING ABOUT |
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| The Lake Equation |
| Is Kari Lake the new Mike Pence? Plus, notes on Kanye’s Parler flirtation. |
| TINA NGUYEN |
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| Of Mice and Memes |
| What did the finance industry glean from the GameStop frenzy? |
| WILLIAM D. COHAN |
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| Putin’s Terror Tools |
| A meditation on the ironic twist in Russia and Iran’s new partnership. |
| JULIA IOFFE |
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