- Aaron Blake
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Aaron Blake covers national politics at the Washington Post, where he writes regularly for the Fix, the Post’s top political blog. A Minnesota native and summa cum laude graduate of the University of Minnesota, Aaron has also written about politics for the Minneapolis Star-Tribune and The Hill newspaper. Aaron and his wife, Danielle, live in Annandale, Va.
- Code Pink founder Medea Benjamin heckles Obama repeatedly
- Rep. Jo Bonner to resign for Univ. of Alabama job
- Anthony Weiner's N.Y. mayor Web site features skyline of Pittsburgh?
- National GOP sends staff to Massachusetts for Senate special election
- Weiner: Women may come forward with more e-mails, photos
- The IRS hearings: Winners and losers
- Boehner: 'Inconceivable' that Obama didn't know about IRS targeting
- Rumsfeld suggests gay marriage could lead to polygamy
- The House's IRS hearing: Live updates
- Weiner formally launches N.Y. mayoral bid
- IRS official Lois Lerner to take the Fifth
- Douglas Shulman won't apologize -- yet, at least
- CANCELED: Ask Aaron: This week in politics
- The IRS hearing: Live updates
- Poll: Scandals give tea party a boost
- Barbara Buono's sneaky new ad
- Schweitzer named chairman of mining company
- Top Republican: GOP 'old boy network' doesn't value women as much
- White House knew of IRS targeting in late April, official says
- 'Who's going to jail' over IRS scandal? Probably nobody.
- Lawyer says IRS question was planted
- Obama opens up about his father's absence
- DCCC topped NRCC in April fundraising
- Harsh new ad hits Flake for gun control vote
- Ed Markey features Newtown in new attack ad
- GOP's biggest obstacle on Benghazi/IRS/AP: Americans' attention spans
- Handel joins Georgia Senate race
- Another top IRS official to leave agency
- John Edwards to hit speaking circuit
- Daniel Werfel replaces Miller as acting IRS commissioner
- Rain mars Obama's press conference (Video)
- Former Democratic colleague hits back at Markey over Confederate flag flap
- Democrats cry foul over New Jersey tourism ads featuring Christie
- Mitt Romney building a house in Utah
- Holder testimony: Live Updates
- Sarah Palin to deliver high school commencement address
- Fix Caption Contest: Michele Bachmann tries out Google Glass
- Ex-Rep. Schauer 'strongly leaning toward' run for Michigan governor
- In letter to AP, Justice Department maintains it acted properly
- Ask Aaron: This week in politics
- The IRS scandal: Who is calling for what
- Steve King: Immigration bill 'far worse' than Obamacare
- McConnell says IRS probe should focus on White House
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- AP says Justice Department secretly obtained its phone records
- Poll: 40 percent say administration has been dishonest about Benghazi
- Why the GOP needs to be cautious in tying Hillary to Benghazi
- Obama dismisses Benghazi talking-points criticism as 'sideshow'
- Obama: IRS wrongdoing is 'outrageous'
- Democrats start going after IRS
- Stephanie Herseth Sandlin won't run for Senate
- Republicans raising money off Benghazi effort
- Jason Richwine resigns from Heritage Foundation
- Cantor: House will investigate IRS matter
- 'I'm not good at math': The IRS's public relations disaster
- The IRS's big admission: What it means
- Biden on guns: 'We're going right back at it'
- Gabriel Gomez's Mitt Romney-esque problem
- Gay marriage set to pass in Minnesota
- House Republicans introduce Kermit Gosnell bill
- Heritage immigration study author wrote for 'nationalist' Web site
- The GOP's case on Benghazi -- in one video
- Rubio targets Clinton on Benghazi
- Shorthand
- The Benghazi hearing live blog
- Chris Christie says he had weight-loss surgery three months ago
- Shorthand
- Cruz mocks Reid's 'schoolyard bully' criticism
- Ask Aaron: The Sanford-Colbert Busch special election
- 'Ask Aaron': A new Fix/Post Politics live chat launches today
- Mark Sanford: He who shall not be named
- Chris Christie secretly underwent weight-loss surgery
- The Seinfeld-ian elements of the South Carolina special election
- Is Ted Cruz eligible to run for president?
- Sanford vs. Colbert Busch: Elephant costumes, NFLers and Bowzer from Sha Na Na (photos)
- Bill Richardson: Ted Cruz should not 'be defined as a Hispanic'
- Christie raises $6.2 million, holds huge early fundraising edge
- Jason Collins to appear with Michelle Obama at Democratic fundraiser
- Heritage: Immigration bill would cost $6.3 trillion
- McConnell web video racks up more than 1 million views -- but how?
- Rep. Hank Johnson on helium debate: 'Imagine a world without balloons' (VIDEO)
- Todd Akin opens door to a comeback
- Rehberg might run for Senate again
- Toomey gets slight bump from work on gun bill
- New Dem ad focuses on how Sanford 'abandoned his post'
- Ron Paul endorses Mark Sanford
- Sen. Bill Nelson considering a run for governor
- Ron Paul endorses Paul Broun for Senate
- Obama heaps praise on Bush (video)
- Why the gun bill failed -- in one more chart
- The 7 worst moments of George W. Bush's presidency
- 'The Rent is Too Damn High' (f. Jimmy McMillan)
- The 7 best moments of George W. Bush's presidency
- Biden: Boston bombers 'cowardly, knock-off jihadis' (VIDEO)
- Elizabeth Colbert Busch to appear on South Carolina ballot twice
- Bush on once-strained relationship with Cheney: 'It's been cordial'
- Rand Paul says he was misunderstood on using drones against common criminals
- Rand Paul adviser signs on with American Crossroads
- Iowa Lt. Gov. Kim Reynolds won't run for Senate
- With Baucus out, GOP Rep. Steve Daines to consider Senate run
- Ricin may have been found at D.C. military base, Reid says
- AP Twitter account hacked; hacker tweets of 'explosions in the White House'
- Another race-tinted showdown in Hawaii
- Hanabusa will challenge Schatz in Hawaii Senate primary
- Shorthand
- DSCC would back Schatz over Hanabusa
- Anthony Weiner is back on Twitter
- White House says Tsarnaev will not be held as enemy combatant, over GOP dissent
- Sen. Rand Paul: Delay immigration debate until after Boston hearings
- 11 House Republicans named to incumbent-protection program
- Lindsey Graham: Boston bomber could be held as enemy combatant
- Hanabusa met with DSCC about primary vs. Schatz
- George W. Bush says he hopes Jeb runs for president
- Rep. John Kline won't challenge Franken
- Politicians respond to manhunt in Boston
- Anthony Weiner would start mayor's race in second place, but has poor image
- Anheuser-Busch heir leaves NRA over gun bill
- Shorthand
- 'Gang of Eight' pledges tough enforcement, difficult path to citizenship
- National Democrats launch ad buy in Sanford race
- Manchin: NRA 'made a big mistake'
- Toomey: 'No regrets' on gun control effort
- New McConnell ad plays up Democrats' 'dirty' attacks
- Mark Sanford’s campaign stumbles as ex-wife’s allegations lead GOP to abandon him
- Obama: 'This was a pretty shameful day for Washington'
- Mark Sanford's ex-wife has filed multiple complaints against him
- Manchin-Toomey gun amendment fails
- National GOP abandons Mark Sanford
- Sanford: Ex-wife's trespassing complaint an 'unfortunate reality' of divorce
- Manchin-Toomey gun compromise headed for defeat
- First quarter fundraising: 5 numbers that matter
- The unwinnable war on terrorism?
- Manchin: 'We will not get the votes' on gun compromise
- Report: Ex-wife accused Sanford of trespassing
- Obama will travel to Boston on Thursday
- Deval Patrick steps into the spotlight
- Anthony Weiner on scandal: 'I'm not going to go into the details'
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- Americans love government -- as long as it's their own
- George W. Bush on Iraq: 'I'm comfortable with what I did'
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- Former senator John Sununu won't run in 2014
- Obama and Biden release tax returns
- The Fix's top 15 gubernatorial races
- Rep. Steve Cohen says Cyndi Lauper tweets were a ruse
- McAuliffe raised $5.1 million in first quarter
- Rep. Joe Kennedy III launches political action committee
- Ex-Rep. Thad McCotter suing former aides
- Shorthand
- Franken raised nearly $2 million in first quarter
- White House: Obama didn't approve Jay-Z's Cuba trip
- RNC official compares homosexuality to alcoholism, says it leads to drugs
- Boehner on Hastert Rule: 'It was never a rule to begin with'
- Boehner and Cantor distance themselves from Walden
- The most important person in the budget debate? Greg Walden.
- Ben Carson withdraws as Johns Hopkins graduation speaker
- House GOP campaign chief: Obama budget 'shocking attack on seniors'
- Sen. Kay Hagan raised $1.6 million in first quarter
- Obama, Bloomberg sign off on gun compromise, NRA does not
- Rand Paul: 'I've never wavered' in support for Civil Rights Act
- Alabama becomes latest state to tighten abortion restrictions
- Capito draws primary opponent in W.Va. Senate race
- Gun vote set for Thursday as Democrats beat back GOP-led filibuster
- Obama-GOP dinner to be held at White House, Priebus offers to order pizza
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- Pennsylvania Rep. Allyson Schwartz launches campaign for governor
- Democratic Sen. Tim Johnson backs gay marriage
- Fear of global warming on the rise
- Another top Clinton ally joins with pro-Hillary super PAC
- Shorthand
- Johns Hopkins dean calls Ben Carson's words 'offensive,' Carson apologizes
- Obama called Kamala Harris to apologize for 'best looking attorney general' remark
- Florida Gov. Rick Scott asked for lieutenant governor's resignation, she says
- The Fix's top 10 Senate races of 2014
- Goolsbee: March jobs numbers a 'punch to the gut,' cites sequester
- NRA's LaPierre: No evidence new Conn. laws would have prevented Newtown massacre
- Gingrich and Santorum open to running again in 2016
- Reagan's son: Father shouldn't be 'dragged into' gay marriage debate
- Connecticut passes gun-control bill
- Poll: 9 in 10 back universal checks, but nearly half say they would lead confiscation
- James Carville supporting pro-Hillary super PAC
- House Democrat confuses her own gun-control proposal
- Priebus: Media is covering up Planned Parenthood's support for infanticide
- For GOP, 'path to citizenship' is a lot like gay marriage
- Poll: Rubio, Ryan and Rand lead jumbled 2016 GOP presidential field
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- 'Buckwild' critic Sen. Joe Manchin expresses condolences after star's death
- Poll: Obama more popular than Jindal in Louisiana
- Mark Kirk becomes second GOP senator to back gay marriage
- Hillary for president super PAC officially launches
- Democratic Sen. Tom Carper backs gay marriage
- Former senator Bob Graham's daughter running for Congress
- Ted Cruz heads to South Carolina as presidential talk ramps up
- Democratic poll shows tight race between Sanford and Colbert Busch
- Mark Udall, Bruce Braley raised seven figures in first quarter
- Georgia GOP chair: Straight people could abuse gay marriage for benefits
- The GOP's biggest sin: 'unwilling to compromise'
- McConnell, Republicans gear up for 2014 with hopes of taking control of the Senate
- Slurs against Latinos, gays complicate GOP’s mission to broaden its tent
- Rep. Don Young apologizes for racial slur
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