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  The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM

End the American-Israeli alliance

It's time.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **MARCH 5, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Israel has long been considered one of the closest allies of the United State…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 4, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Sort of an apartheid state

Gavin Newsom uses the A-wordClick to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] MARCH 4, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] EPA’s Endangerment Finding Repeal Stands on Shaky Foundations [link removed] Lee Zeldin has vowed to dri…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Can Congress stop Trump?

Only Congress can declare war. And it hasn't.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **MARCH 4, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] It’s official: Donald Trump is worse than …
  Ryan Cooper, The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 3, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Trump’s senseless waste in Iran

Aircraft carriers and stealth bombers are expensive to use.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] MARCH 3, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Democrats Already Jostling to Oppose Trump’s War on Iran [link removed] I…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Nobody wants this

The Iran war is already deeply unpopular.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **March 3, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] I’ve been reading David Halberstam’s magisteri…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 2, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Iraq, Iran, Irate

We’ve seen this picture before.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] MARCH 2, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] What You Won’t See at the Live Nation–Ticketmaster Trial [link removed] A Biden-appointed judge subst…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
March 2, 2026 at 11:05 AM

A Hollywood jobs apocalypse

The Paramount-Warner merger would lead to mass job loss.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **MARCH 2, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Paramount certainly wants to bu…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 28, 2026 at 12:05 PM

5 stories to read this weekend

The best of the Prospect.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get Weekend Reads every Saturday. [link removed] Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Got Railroaded. Good. [link removed] Any accountability is better…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 27, 2026 at 8:05 PM

States can block the Paramount-Warner deal

But thanks to some clever maneuvering, they are already running out of time.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 27, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Brad Lander Is Building a United Progressive Front [lin…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 27, 2026 at 11:06 AM

Congress? Maybe check back in 2027.

Republicans will preside over a year of inaction.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 27, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] I spent this week in Washington wi…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 26, 2026 at 8:51 PM

The SOTU clips that should prove disastrous for Trump and the GOP

Democrats should stream and broadcast the president’s odes to our economy over and over again.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 26, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Prediction Markets May Have Inadverte…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 26, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Newspapers Did Not Kill Themselves

New docs say Epstein collaborated with the Russian Mob to loot the New York Daily News, then tried to help Mort Zuckerman discard it when reporting became inconvenient. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 25, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Bestowing medals, vilifying Democrats, clinging to tariffs

No wonder Trump's State of the Union took two hours.??? ????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 25, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Veteran suicide prevention at risk

The Trump administration's cuts will cost lives.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 25, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Having spent years as a VA psycholo…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 24, 2026 at 9:17 PM

The Big Lie at the heart of Republican electoral strategy

To combat the nonexistent threat of noncitizen voting, the GOP is determined to keep Democrats from the polls.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 24, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] What the Possibility …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 24, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The looming chaos of tariff refunds

And the unnecessary economic damage.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 24, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] There’s been kind of a fixation on what new tar…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 23, 2026 at 8:40 PM

Will Trump attack Iran?

Trump today is more desperate for a distraction.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 23, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Whitening American History [link removed] Trump’s efforts to remove Blacks from …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 23, 2026 at 11:00 AM

Former prince Andrew

Accountability in a less-than-perfect package.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 23, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] For years Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 21, 2026 at 12:06 PM

Read the best of the Prospect

Five stories for the weekend.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get Weekend Reads every Saturday. [link removed] Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] The Case for Keeping ICE and CBP Defunded [link removed] Denying baseline annual funding…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 20, 2026 at 8:05 PM

More Trump defections

Trump’s losing Republicans — and in the courts.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 20, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] North Carolina Congressional Race Shows Perils of Big-Money Support [link removed] …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 20, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The perils of super PAC money

North Carolina's congressional race shows voters care about AIPAC and AI dollars.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 20, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] As…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 19, 2026 at 8:53 PM

America’s unions actually grew

Trump notwithstanding.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY XX, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] The Wild Card in Trump’s Attempt to Control the News [link removed] State attorneys general will have a sa…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 19, 2026 at 11:05 AM

How to derail a Blackstone utility acquisition

The latest twist in the saga of private equity buying utilities.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 19, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Since our previous …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 18, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Resistance Comes to Higher Education

Trump’s threat to revoke universities’ accreditation meets a political and legal dead-end.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 18, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] How Not to Build Infrastructure Projects …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 18, 2026 at 11:05 AM

How Trump put veteran care in crisis

Thousands of staff gone, and burnout for those remaining.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 18, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] The recent flurry of feder…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 17, 2026 at 8:07 PM

Tribune for race and class

Jesse Jackson, 1941–2026Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 17, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] The 2026 Elections: Resisting the Rigging [link removed] As Trump becomes more desperate, citizen organi…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 17, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The quintessential Epstein files email

The class war at the heart of the files.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 17, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] An email that has not yet been disclosed in…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 16, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Lobbyists buy the Justice Department

And how far the rot goes.??? ???????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????????…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 16, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The case for not funding Homeland Security

Democrats should not provide one thin dime to MAGA storm troopers.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 16, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Democrats in Cong…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 14, 2026 at 12:05 PM

5 political stories

Catch up on the best of the Prospect.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get Weekend Reads every Saturday. [link removed] Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] The Nation’s Most Democratic State Might Elect a Trump-Friendly Governor [link remo…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 13, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Isolating ICE

Democrats offered a way out of the Department of Homeland Security shutdown, but Republicans refused to play. What now?Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 13, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Doug Burgum,…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 13, 2026 at 11:05 AM

ICE is destroying Minneapolis's economy

It isn’t just Minnesota, either. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 13, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Minneapolis is suffering. With even legal resident…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 12, 2026 at 9:06 PM

The occupying army retreats

The announcement of ICE’s withdrawal from Minnesota, like that of the British from Boston 250 years ago, marks a victory for people power.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 12, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link remove…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 12, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Ticketmaster's monopoly

We all hate it. Trump's Justice Department is poised to preserve it.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 12, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] When Taylor Swi…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 11, 2026 at 8:05 PM

House says no to Tariff Man

Speaker Mike Johnson can’t hold a united Republican caucus to support Trump’s unpopular and economically perverse tariffs.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 11, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Progressi…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 11, 2026 at 11:06 AM

Olympic Spirits on ICE

LA 2028, a xenophobic danger zoneWas this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 11, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] The Department of Homeland Security is laying the …
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 10, 2026 at 11:00 PM

Do L.A. and D.C. have their own Mamdanis?

Two somewhat socialist mayoral candidates are working to see that they do.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 10, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] A Fourth Candidate in Illinois Gets the AIPAC Boost [link…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 10, 2026 at 11:10 AM

Athletes vs. bosses

For working people today, all eyes should turn to women’s basketball.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 10, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Unions of prof…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 9, 2026 at 8:05 PM

Republican frostbite

Defense of ICE has become a political loser, and the deal to trade reforms for continued funding is off the table.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 9, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] The Nation’s Most …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 9, 2026 at 11:05 AM

How Congress refused to save the NCAA from itself

Monied interests vs. college athletes. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 9, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] As a lifelong college football fan, I’ve watc…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 7, 2026 at 12:05 PM

The business of sports

Long-form stories to read this weekend.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get Weekend Reads every Saturday. [link removed] Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] Why It’s Harder To Be a Sports Fan [link removed] Leagues and owners have lear…
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 6, 2026 at 8:06 PM

Post-mortem

What will it take to preserve a great newspaper in the nation’s capital, and to sustain independent daily journalism generally?Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 6, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] AIPAC…
  David Dayen, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 6, 2026 at 5:36 PM

A dark-money super PAC

AIPAC is funneling money to candidates—while cloaking its own involvement. Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get pop-up newsletters on breaking events. [link removed] [link removed] Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] Photo illustratio…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 6, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Inside the athlete-finance industry

The sharks circling hopeful athletes.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 6, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Long ago, I came to the conclusion that Wall St…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 5, 2026 at 9:12 PM

How to deter Trump from rigging and overturning the midterm election

As on January 6th, even Republican opposition may not suffice to keep him from trying.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 5, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] DOGE Lives On Through Russell Vought [link rem…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 5, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The youth sports gold rush

How private equity is ruining children's sports.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 5, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] How is it that the average American …
  Robert Kuttner, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 4, 2026 at 8:06 PM

GOP on thin ICE

In the fight to drastically limit ICE as a condition of funding DHS, Democrats have the advantage. Let’s see how they press it.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 4, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Big M…
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 4, 2026 at 11:05 AM

The scourge of online sports betting

What an explosion of sports gambling means for a generation of bettors.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 4, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] Trying to bea…
  Harold Meyerson, The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 3, 2026 at 9:18 PM

Trump demands $10 billion in taxpayers’ money

He sues his own administration for a private payday.Click to view this email in your browser. [link removed] [link removed] FEBRUARY 3, 2026 On the **Prospect** website [link removed] [link removed] Nurses Hold the Line for Workplace Safety [link removed] In New York, nurses …
  The American Prospect · [email protected]
February 3, 2026 at 11:05 AM

Why it’s harder to be a sports fan

The endless monetization of rooting for your teams.Was this email forwarded to you? Sign up here to get The Daily Prospect Monday through Friday. [link removed] [link removed] **FEBRUARY 3, 2026** Click to read this email in your browser. [link removed] During the pandemic, sports leagu…