Gabe Kaminsky

The Watchdogs Who Are Building a ‘Moneyball’ for Politics A new online tool will help Americans compare what politicians say with what they actually do, reports Gabe Kaminsky.

"The Watchdogs Who Are Building a ‘Moneyball’ for Politics"

@gabekaminsky.bsky.social for @thefp.com

How Trump Officials’ Rhetoric Backfired in Minnesota Denunciations of Alex Pretti by Trump officials are fueling distrust of Trump’s crackdown, say Republicans and former immigration officials.

How Trump Officials’ Rhetoric Backfired in Minnesota

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Trump’s War on Liberal Nonprofits Collides with Reality Legal constraints and donor backlash have snarled Trump’s push to investigate left-leaning groups blamed for political violence, writes Gabe Kaminsky.

Scoop: The White House’s pledge for investigations into liberal nonprofits has stalled over GOP donor backlash/legal constraints—as officials concede in private talks that going after Soros et al., may push Dems to attack likes of Heritage/cons in future

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The Democrat Fighting the Gerontocracy Most Democrats would rather talk about anything other than Biden’s decline and aging politicians. Marie Gluesenkamp Perez isn’t like most Democrats.

“The Democrat Fighting the Gerontocracy”

@gabekaminsky.bsky.social for the Free Press

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The Trump Family’s Business Deals Are Testing Ethical and Legal Boundaries By one measurement, the president has doubled his net worth to more than $5.4 billion. ‘There is no modern parallel.’

New: The Trump Family’s Business Deals Are Testing Ethical and Legal Boundaries

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How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside the NIH A frenzy of changes by DOGE underlings is colliding with resistance from the agency’s scientists and top officials.

How Elon Musk Unleashed Chaos Inside The NIH

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Drain the Swamp? MAGA Lobbyists Say They’re ‘Drinking from a Fire Hose.’ Once upon a time, Donald Trump promised to clean up Washington. But for the swampiest industry of all, business is booming.

Drain the Swamp? MAGA Lobbyists Say They’re ‘Drinking from a Fire Hose.’

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Musk Pledged to Cut $1 Trillion at DOGE. Republicans Say It Was Always a Pipe Dream. The target was far-fetched, say Musk defenders, though they vow to keep cutting.

The target was far-fetched, say Musk defenders, though they vow to keep cutting.

Musk Pledged to Cut $1 Trillion at DOGE. Republicans Say It Was Always a Pipe Dream. The target was far-fetched, say Musk defenders, though they vow to keep cutting.

Musk Pledged to Cut $1 Trillion at DOGE. Republicans Say It Was Always a Pipe Dream.

“To anyone who somewhat knows how government spending works, it appeared at the outset that Musk’s cutting spree set ambitious goals, not necessarily practical ones,” one WH told me

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Joe Biden Made More Than 600 Grants to Stop 'Disinformation.' Donald Trump Now Has a Plan for Them Top federal officials are ‘just getting started’ on a cancelling spree, write Gabe Kaminsky and Madeleine Rowley for The Free Press.

Inside Trump’s attack on hundreds of millions in anti-disinformation programs, according to a Free Press investigation.

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Inside the Trump Resistance, Funded by the Ultra-Wealthy Anti-Trump groups like ‘Families Over Billionaires’ present themselves as grassroots campaigns for ordinary Americans. The truth is very different.

Families Over Billionaires -- like many of the Resistance 2.0 pop-up groups -- is funded by a dark money network backed by liberal billionaires, @gabekaminsky.bsky.social reports for The Free Press.

MAGA enlists conservative groups for DOGE - Washington Examiner Incoming Trump administration officials and lawmakers are making outreach to nonprofits to facilitate research for the Department of Government Efficiency.

SCOOP: Incoming Trump officials and lawmakers are enlisting conservative nonprofits for DOGE research, illustrating the wide scope of the cost-cutting effort, according to 10 people familiar w/ the convos and docs outlining the plans shared with me

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Chamber of Commerce doubles giving to Trump - Washington Examiner EXCLUSIVE — The Chamber of Commerce has donated $50,000 to President-elect Donald Trump's inauguration committee.

Scoop: The US Chamber of Commerce is doubling its giving this time around to Trump’s inauguration, according to a spokesperson for the business advocacy group.

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Microsoft gives $1 million to Trump inauguration EXCLUSIVE — Microsoft has donated $1 million to President-elect Donald Trump's inaugural fund, matching gifts from Google, a spokesperson confirmed.

Scoop: Microsoft is donating $1 million to Trump's inauguration, matching gifts from other top tech companies, a spokesperson confirmed.

-Double its giving in 2017 and 2021
-Comes amid AI push
-AT&T is also donating but declined to say how much

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