Josh Kovensky

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Spies, War, Trump: We Still Don’t Really Understand What Paul Manafort Is Up Totalkingpointsmemo.com Entertain this scenario for a minute: there’s a country sitting on a...

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A very weird story in which @joshkovensky.bsky.social reveals the president of the Claremont Institute to be a member of a Christian, all-male secret society that envisions a future of feudalism following some kind of national disintegration. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

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Great get from @joshkovensky.bsky.social at TPM. Something’s rotten in Claremont: talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’talkingpointsmemo.com A secret, men-only right-wing society with members in influential positions around the...

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This is @joshkovensky.bsky.social's account of his reporting process, what he found, and how the Society for American Civic Renewal tried to get ahead of news coverage. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

NEW: Inside A Secret Society Of Prominent Right-Wing Christian Men Prepping For A ‘National Divorce’ talkingpointsmemo.com/news/inside-...

New: A Tennessee bill signed into law this week could herald a new wave of challenges to marriage equality talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/te...

NEW: How Trump attorneys sought to exert maximum pressure on SCOTUS in the days before Jan. 6 talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/the-...

The Supreme Pressure Campaigntalkingpointsmemo.com Donald Trump’s attorneys in 2020 thought that they had one advantage which...

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The third, final article in our series based on a trove of Ken Chesebro's emails shows Trump attorneys gaming out which SCOTUS justices might help overturn the election, and John Eastman's supposition that John Roberts would be concerned about the "riots angle." talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/the-...

NEW: Trump attorneys began planning for Mike Pence to discard Biden electoral votes more than one month before Jan. 6, and received an early refusal from Pence's counsel, documents obtained by TPM show: talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/ches...

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The next installment in our series based on a collection of Trump lawyer emails @joshkovensky.bsky.social obtained shows in detail Ken Chesebro's role in pushing for what ultimately happened on Jan. 6—and more radical versions of it that never came to fruition. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/ches...

How Chesebro’s Most Radical Ideas Entered Trump Campaign Planning for Pence and Jan. 6talkingpointsmemo.com Some of the most radical legal theories which animated Donald Trump’s 2020...

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"The plan would have seen the Trump campaign pushing Republican lawmakers to prevent Congress from certifying Joe Biden’s win not just on Jan. 6, but for days afterwards. GOP legislators would have feigned confusion over competing slates of electors, paralyzing Congress..." MUST READ ⤵️

Documents obtained by TPM reveal how Trump attorneys gamed out what the weeks after an inconclusive Jan. 6 would have looked like: chaos, pressure on SCOTUS, and lots of hearings on supposed voter fraud.

Two Weeks of Chaostalkingpointsmemo.com Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election...

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TPM tracked down a now-locked anonymous twitter account linked to Ken Chesebro, which was apparently tweeting throughout KC's efforts to help Trump overturn the 2020 election talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-...

Among other things: Chesebro uploaded documents used in Trump 2020 legal planning from a Google Drive account called “Badger Pundit. The email address leads to a now-deactivated blog and Twitter account which live-tweeted the effort to undo Trump's loss talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-...

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Not to be missed in here: One of Trump's lawyers appears to have live-tweeted his planning for Jan. 6 from a secret Twitter account. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-...

Documents obtained by @tpm.bsky.social's @joshkovensky.bsky.social show how, in the run-up to Jan. 6, Trump's lawyers kicked around a plan to have the chaos of that day last for two whole weeks. talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/two-...

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Exclusive: TPM is publishing inside documents from Trump's attorneys as they sought to overturn the 2020 election talkingpointsmemo.com/feature/intr...

The Legal Couptalkingpointsmemo.com In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to...

A non-hysterical look at what Greg Abbott is doing at the US-Mexico border talkingpointsmemo.com/news/flaunti...

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Read this, from @joshkovensky.bsky.social: How Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For A Coopted Military, Now And In 2025 talkingpointsmemo.com/news/how-tru... via @tpm.bsky.social

How Trump Is Laying The Groundwork For A Coopted Military, Now And In 2025talkingpointsmemo.com It received little attention, but back in March 2023, Donald Trump had...

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No one has ferreted out what Kenneth Chesebro was up to more than @joshkovensky.bsky.social, so go read his very important take on the indictment. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/this-trump-attorney-had-one-big-defense-of-his-conduct-jack-smith-just-blew-that-up

This Trump Attorney Had One Big Defense Of His Conduct. Jack Smith Just Blew That Up.talkingpointsmemo.com The attorney who first developed the fake electors plot emphasized to TPM...

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Rudy Giuliani's lawyer told @joshkovensky.bsky.social and I there was "nothing unusual" about Rudy using an email address with the name "Helen" for most of his communications. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/rudy-giuliani-used-a-female-alias-in-emails-about-plan-to-overturn-the-election

The Trump indictment strongly suggests that there are still many documents out there which the DOJ has not retrieved https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/the-mystery-of-the-bedminster-documents

Our first run at the Mar-a-Lago indictment here. Sort of like Goodfellas meets Burn After Reading. https://talkingpointsmemo.com/muckraker/as-bad-as-it-gets-trump-led-comically-corrupt-attempt-to-keep-and-hide-classified-info

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The @tpm.bsky.social team is liveblogging the Trump indictment. Check in here for all the latest updates ---> https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/trump-says-hes-been-indicted-in-mar-a-lago-probe

Trump indicted. We're liveblogging here https://talkingpointsmemo.com/live-blog/trump-says-hes-been-indicted-in-mar-a-lago-probe

Picked a smoky week to move my tomato plants outdoors!

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