stephen fowler
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reporter covering all the 2024 campaign things + Georgia + the South + ???? for @npr/@nprpolitics | always thinking of bourbon, biscuits and buc-ee’s
Atlanta, GA
Joined December 2011
After a low-key election among Democratic National Committee voting members, a majority chose Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party Chair as their incoming chair of the party.
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“President Trump's new head of the Federal Communications Commission has ordered an investigation of NPR and PBS, with an eye toward unraveling federal funding for all public broadcasting.”
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Because Democrats were on the losing end of key national races in November, figuring out what went wrong in 2024 - and how to make changes as a result -- will be one of the first tasks.
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RT @stphnfwlr: A proposed commission with a sweeping mandate to shrink federal bureaucracy+slash government spending now has a new home — a…
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DOGE is now in an office that’s operated like a digital strike team, recruiting private sector experts in design technology to work with federal agencies on projects that make public-facing parts of the government more efficient, modern and user-friendly.
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New @nprpolitics Podcast: a look at the order to push pause on some federal assistance programs, Plus some reporting I've done about the executive order creating the "Department of Government Efficiency" inside the government.
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RT @BobbyAllyn: Scoop: People involved in WH discussions about TikTok say Oracle and Microsoft having talks about taking control of TikTok’…
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With all eyes on Washington for President Trump's inauguration, celebrations and commiseration rang out across the country in different ways.
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WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. — It's 60 degrees and a light rain falls on the luscious grass at the National Croquet Center, but the mood of more than 100 people gathered to watch President Donald Trump take his oath of office is far from dampened.
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Greetings from West Palm Beach, where the Palm Beach County GOP is holding an inauguration watch party down the road from Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Club. It’s a little soggy and cold (for Florida) but much better weather than in D.C.
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RT @AgCommHarperGA: The current suspension of poultry activities in Georgia applies to exhibitions, meet ups, swaps, and sales (auction mar…
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RT @stphnfwlr: The Democratic Party begins 2025 with several looming questions. Among them: who will lead its national party apparatus, and…
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At an in-person forum in Detroit Thursday, candidates seeking to help run the DNC largely agreed on the path forward for Democrats to regain power and the trust of voters who stayed home or supported Trump.
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But as Trump prepares to retake the White House Monday, Democratic leaders have highlighted other results that show November's losses in the Senate and the White House are not fatal.
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Relatedly, RNC Chairman Michael Whatley has been reelected at the party’s winter meeting in DC today. RNC+ •Trump campaign's combined organizing efforts saw success in turning out new voters and making inroads with almost every demographic group, compared with Trump 2020.
When President-elect Donald Trump returns to the White House on Monday, he'll have firm control over a Republican Party that controls both chambers of Congress. Here’s my 10,000-foot view of the state of the unified GOP:
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The continued alignment of the national and local party infrastructure with the vision of Trump as leader of the GOP is in contrast to the Democrats, where DNC members will elect a new chair at their winter meeting at the end of the month.
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