In The Trailer newsletter, reporter David Weigel brings readers to dozens of cities and towns and provides insight on what motivates voters and what political candidates think. Get dispatches from around the country, key reads from around the Internet, the latest polls and more in your inbox.
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The Trailer: Democrats want the oil industry to drill more. What does that mean for climate campaigners?
The climate left grapples with the Ukraine crisis, a conservative operative explains how the Supreme Court can wipe out Democratic-friendly maps next year, and a candidate who wants to run elections in Colorado goes to jail.
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The Trailer: An emerging GOP agenda: Fight the “enemy within”
Republicans versus the “enemy within,” a New Hampshire campaign that has nothing to do with the presidential primary, and a Supreme Court ruling with a cliffhanger ending.
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The Trailer: Seven big takeaways from the Texas primary
What happened in Texas, fresh primary polls from swing states and the Ohio Democrat using a whiteboard to attack gerrymandering.
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The Trailer: As Russia invades Ukraine, candidates stick to stick to safe spaces
War in Europe meets the United States' immovable partisanship, Texas holds a whole bunch of elections, and swing state Republicans try to hand power for this one (and the next one) to their state legislative majorities.
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The Trailer: In Texas, safe-seat candidates fight about the best way to be partisan
Base battles in Texas House races, new swing state maps that Republicans aren't happy about, and an interview with CPAC's ringmaster.
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The Trailer: In South Texas primaries, Republicans find Hispanic candidates — and votes
A surge of Republican candidates in South Texas, how candidates are talking about Ukraine, and a TV ad that asks some questions about manhood.
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The Trailer: In Texas, Republicans battle for room on the right
The race to the right in Texas Republican primaries, the aftermath of San Francisco's school board recalls and gunshots fired at a Kentucky Democrat kick off a debate about bail reform.
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The Trailer: An L.A. billionaire's answer to 'defund the police': Run for mayor and hire more.
A billionaire runs for mayor of L.A., a Long Island Democrat calls it quits, and the transgender sports fight comes to Missouri's U.S. Senate race.
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The Trailer: First, do no harm: The drug policy fight that explains the midterms
Dispatches from the crack pipe wars, the intense gerrymandering battles for Kansas City and a follow-up on the candidate/adviser at the center of an ethics investigation.
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The Trailer: Coming soon to a Democratic primary fight: Israel
How Israel and BDS could shape Democratic primaries, how a few words in Salt Lake City created a Republican problem, and a brand new reason that liberals are angry with the Supreme Court.
