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In the Trump era, centrist politicos and pundits have relied on two things to contain the surging left flank: gobs of corporate money, and “electability,” the argument that moderates are better suited than progressives to unify an anti-MAGA coalition. buff.ly/YyKyqGu

An unexpected winner has emerged from the congressional stalemate over defense spending: an obscure investment office in the Pentagon known as the Economic Defense Unit. buff.ly/iOONNw7

A morbidly fascinating sub-theme of the ugly attack ad from Vivek Ramaswamy was how it contrasts with typical conservative rhetoric about one of the most Republican demographic groups in the country: divorced men. buff.ly/58oUUBA

SpaceX Is a De Facto Government Agency. It Should Be Nationalized. Otherwise, Elon Musk sets U.S. foreign policy. buff.ly/0hVBmBB

Ramaswamy isn’t the only Republican candidate who has sided against a father in custody dispute. Ken Paxton did so as Texas attorney general—and in a case that ended up with the father shot dead. prospect.org/?p=146546

The Trump administration’s campaign to compel hundreds of billions of dollars of new military appropriations out of Congress has been stalled in the Senate for months. prospect.org/?p=146559

WAR, what is it good for? prospect.org/?p=146542

Defense stocks tumbled this week, reportedly on fears that Democrats are going to win in the upcoming midterm elections, and Trump is not going to get the $500 billion increase in military spending he asked for. Will no one think of poor old Raytheon? buff.ly/UVs9Cki

Susan Collins has an incentive to argue in favor of ICE. She is among the several GOP incumbents in tight races drawing thousands of dollars in campaign donations from some of the biggest corporations profiting off Trump’s immigration terror campaign. buff.ly/q4pnZFk

Four years ago, Marshall dropped his first bill aimed at helping the biostimulant and biological pesticide industry. buff.ly/23LwoCi

Roger Marshall is a friend to, business partner with, and investor in a health care empire that has led to disaster on multiple occasions. buff.ly/gJoYA0f

The French mess is best understood in three dimensions that are all connected—the social, the economic, and the political. buff.ly/yCtE20l

An Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) charter flight is heading to Equatorial Guinea Thursday, two weeks after a federal judge ordered the return of a man expelled there under the Trump administration’s third-country removal program. buff.ly/HmJCysB

The relationship between Sen. Roger Marshall and Dan Tasset is unusually intertwined for a politician and donor. Read The American Prospect's investigation here: buff.ly/gJoYA0f

Major ICE contractors have donated over $130,000 to Susan Collins’ reelection campaign. And she's not the only one receiving money from companies profiting off of ICE's cruelties. prospect.org/?p=146431

Will no one think of poor old Raytheon? prospect.org/?p=146466

We’ve grown so inured to Trump’s outrages that his alliance with Putin hasn’t stoked the level of horror it deserves. buff.ly/OXeemTB

Imagine that the U.S. had a gifted progressive president, with a common touch and a large majority in Congress. That’s basically what Britain has today with its new prime minister, former Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham. buff.ly/bCcB1Xl

Amanda Janoo, improbably, might be the next governor of Vermont. buff.ly/C6f3NJH

“Obviously they had taken care of themselves first and totally ignored all other shareholders in the entity,” said Craig Holman, a government affairs lobbyist at Public Citizen. buff.ly/6ZfjKee