The List - January 9, 2024

Welcome, so glad you’re here. Here’s what I’m devouring across Substack Politics. Let me know what you think.

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TRUMP’S IMMUNITY APPEAL

Mary Trump, niece of the former president and author of “The Good in Us” on Substack: Donald's Deputy Chief of Staff FLIPS

FANI WILLIS’S ALLEGED AFFAIR

Erick Erickson, political commentator and host of the “Erick Erickson Show” on Substack: A Mushroom Cloud Over Fani Willis: Serious Allegations Threaten to Derail Trump Case

BALLOT REMOVAL

Judd Legum, journalist and author of “Popular Information” on Substack: Republican officials threaten to remove Biden from the ballot

2024 AND THE “POLITICALLY HOMELESS”

Steve Schmidt, political strategist and author of “The Warning” on Substack:

Peter Savodnik, senior editor at “The Free Press” on Substack: The Great Scramble. Democrats and Republicans have switched sides—and nearly half of voters now call themselves independent. Meet the politically homeless.

Peter Navarro, Trump Trade Advisor and author of “Peter Navarro’s Taking Back Trump’s America” on Substack: Beware the Haley-RINO Trump Trap in New Hampshire and South Carolina

Jonathan V. Last, editor of “The Bulwark” on Substack: An argument for why Trump’s numbers can’t get much better and Biden’s numbers are likely to improve.

ISRAEL-HAMAS WAR

Katie Halper and Aaron Maté, journalists and authors of “Useful Idiots” on Substack: Palestinian Pastor: It is Hell on Earth

Peter Beinart, journalist and author of “The Beinart Notebook” on Substack: Challenging Israel’s Legitimacy Also Challenges America’s

Elise Labott, foreign policy expert and author of “Cosmopolitics” on Substack: Follow the blinking red lights. The Biden administration needs to move from crisis response to crisis prevention.

AUSTIN AND THE PENTAGON’S SECRET

Jessica Yellin, journalist and author of “News Not Noise” on Substack: Austin’s Mystery Hospitalization

IMMIGRATION

Robert Reich, professor, former Secretary of Labor and author of “Robert Reich” on Substack: The 5 biggest Trump-Republican lies about illegal immigration

Mike Huckabee, fmr Arkansas governor: We aren’t lying about the border. 

THE FLEECING OF AMERICA’S HOURLY WORKERS

Judd Legum, journalist and author of “Popular Information” on Substack: The fleecing of America's hourly workers

DENTISTS - BAD

Matthew Yglesias, journalist, podcaster and author of “Slow Boring” on Substack: Dentists are bad. A field full of scams, with incomes propped up by irrational regulation. 

Catherine xo