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Wrote about the $10 million effort to change the Democratsβand help the party start winning again www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
14.10.2025 18:31 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Even as most congressional Republicans are avoiding their constituents, Mark Alford of Missouri bucked his party and held 15 public events this week. @elainegodfrey.bsky.social reports on what the representative heard:
31.08.2025 12:45 β π 91 π 8 π¬ 10 π 1Democratic voters have said they want a fighter, and now they might have one in Jasmine Crockett, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. She spoke with Crockett about testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
04.08.2025 23:15 β π 336 π 60 π¬ 14 π 8Democratic voters say they want fighters, and Jasmine Crockett has spent years trying to be one.
I spent several days with the Texas congresswoman this summerβin D.C., New York, and Atlantaβas she tested out her theory of Democratic politics in the second Trump era.
Democratic voters have said they want a fighter. They may have one. @elainegodfrey.bsky.social's new profile of Jasmine Crockett, who is testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
28.07.2025 17:12 β π 55 π 18 π¬ 4 π 1Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was βshutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.β
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Four days before this story was published, Crockett called me to express frustration that I had reached out to so many House members without telling her first. She told me that she was βshutting down the profile and revoking all permissions.β
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But many of Crockett's colleagues declined or ignored my interview requests. Senior staffers for some of those colleagues told me that some of the members see Crockett undisciplinedβbut are reluctant to criticize her publicly.
28.07.2025 14:31 β π 9 π 1 π¬ 2 π 0Some of Crockettβs fellow Democrats find her candor refreshing. βPeople donβt necessarily agree with her aggressive communication style,β Representative Julie Johnson of Texas told me. βIβm thrilled sheβs doing it, because we need it all.β
28.07.2025 14:30 β π 15 π 2 π¬ 2 π 0The problem is that the forthrightness Crockett's supporters love seems to be undermining her relationships in the party.
βShe likes to talk,β one staffer told me. βIs she a loose cannon? Sometimes. Does that cause headaches for other members? 100 percent.β
Jasmine Crockett is testing out the idea that when Republicans go low, Democrats should meet them there.
Republicans understand this, Crockett told me. βMarjorie is not liked by her caucus, but they get her value, and so they gave her a committee chairmanship.β
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Last year, Crockett was a keynote speaker at the DNC and a national co-chair of the Harris campaign. This year, she's been a top party fundraiser.
Everywhere we went, people wanted selfies, and yelled things like "First black woman president!"
Crockett is famous for her hearing-room quips and social-media insults. You might know her as the lawmaker who said that MTG had "a bleach-blond, bad-built, butch body."
At the time, I wrote that that episode was embarrassing for everyone involved. But clearly it resonated.
Democratic voters say they want fighters, and Jasmine Crockett has spent years trying to be one.
I spent several days with the Texas congresswoman this summerβin D.C., New York, and Atlantaβas she tested out her theory of Democratic politics in the second Trump era.
Democratic voters have said they want a fighter, and now they might have one in Jasmine Crockett, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. She spoke with Crockett about testing out the coarse style of politics that the GOP has embraced.
27.07.2025 17:30 β π 243 π 46 π¬ 24 π 5"This summer, I started a new project: making every day feelβat least a littleβlike vacation," @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes. Here's how you can do the same:
26.07.2025 12:30 β π 48 π 11 π¬ 0 π 1Yikes
12.07.2025 17:18 β π 0 π 0 π¬ 0 π 0This week, I wrote about camp girls.
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Itβs official: Planned Parenthood has been (mostly) defunded for a year
My quick explainer:
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16.06.2025 17:43 β π 660 π 103 π¬ 32 π 15If, as America's Doctor, Casey Means can make us all healthy again, then that's great, her critics say. They simply doubt that Means or her Republican allies are willing to do what that would take.
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My story about the MAHA movement here, in @theatlantic.bsky.social
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The main criticism of Casey Means from dietitians and others with the kind of expertise that she herself *does not* have is that she, like, other wellness influencers, ignores known problem areas in health (fiber, exercise, social determinants) to focus on minor detailsβand profits from it.
07.05.2025 22:47 β π 16 π 3 π¬ 2 π 1Earlier this month, I texted a close childhood friend who'd voted for Trump in each of the past three presidential elections: What did he think?
βTrump might be taking it too far,β my friend replied. βBut then again,β he said, βheβs a man of action and we wanted change.β
His answer inspired today's story. Even as public opinion sours on the president, many of his supporters are happier than ever. I wrote about why: www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
30.04.2025 13:25 β π 1 π 0 π¬ 2 π 0Earlier this month, I texted a close childhood friend who'd voted for Trump in each of the past three presidential elections: What did he think?
βTrump might be taking it too far,β my friend replied. βBut then again,β he said, βheβs a man of action and we wanted change.β
Even as Trumpβs critics cheer his declining poll numbers, they face an inconvenient reality, @elainegodfrey.bsky.social writes: Many of his voters are jubilant.
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