Congress accountability and enterprise reporter for @washingtonpost. Reach me at [email protected] or on Signal at akoseff.01
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A woman who worked for nearly two years for Rep. Eric Swalwell told the Chronicle she had sexual encounters with him while he was her boss and alleged he twice sexually assaulted her when she was too intoxicated to consent. sfchronicle.com/politics/art…
“It’s something I’m going to go home and pray about,” said one Republican voter torn between her conservative values and her concerns about the domestic violence allegations against Max Miller. “The Lord will guide in which road I need to take.” washingtonpost.com/politics/…
A pulse check from Ohio’s 7th Congressional District, where domestic violence allegations against Rep. Max Miller and $25 million in advertising have turned this Republican seat into a fierce battleground: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Progressives have tried for five elections to oust @JimmyGomezCA. With the congressman now under investigation for sexual misconduct, his challenger @Angela4CA has a better shot than ever before — if she can spread the word in this low-turnout district. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Four House members accused of sexual misconduct have resigned, retired or lost reelection this year.
A fifth member facing allegations of harassment and assault is on the ballot in California this November: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
“The question is, do you have to replicate [Pelosi] in order to be successful?”
@AnnaLissRoy on the understated Hakeem Jeffries and the test that awaits the would-be speaker: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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“She has such a powerful legacy. I’m sorry for her that this last maneuver is going to be a stain,” prominent Democratic donor Susie Tompkins Buell on Nancy Pelosi @akoseff .wapo.st/4z50XLU
As she prepares to retire after nearly 40 years representing San Francisco, the first woman speaker of the House is putting her influence to perhaps a final test: whether she can anoint her successor. washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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.@teoarmus with a reality check on the prospect of Kansas going blue washingtonpost.com/politics/…
I love this story from @AnnaLissRoy about Democrats trying to redefine themselves as manly men washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Post photographer Heidi Levine was among those beaten when masked Israeli settlers attacked Palestinian villagers trying to gather their olive harvest on Friday.
“They just kept kicking me and kicking me, like probably 50 times,” Levine told reporters.
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Top donors include Apple and Nvidia, which each donated $25 million.
@jocwapo, @Blaskey_S and @aaronjschaffer obtained a list of all the major donors to President Donald Trump’s White House ballroom project: washingtonpost.com/investiga…
You can follow tonight's Senate debates in Maine and Georgia live with @washingtonpost: washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Nonprofit law and government ethics experts told The Post there’s nothing wrong with the purpose of Onward Christian Education Services but raised concerns about how Kelly Johnson’s close connection to the speaker’s office could benefit the nonprofit. wapo.st/4s3WINN
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"The nonprofit ... has become part of the rising presence in official Washington of evangelical Christianity as its devotees ... seek to inject a biblical worldview into American politics and government." via @akoseff washingtonpost.com/politics/…
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton received campaign contributions from the staff or political arms of five organizations with interests in legal matters on which his office weighed in, @matthewichoi reports washingtonpost.com/politics/…
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.@akoseff investigated the faith-based nonprofit ministry run by Mike Johnson’s wife.
What he found raises ethics questions and revealed discrepancies.
Read for free: wapo.st/4s3WINN
“I’m a missionary here.”
After her husband became speaker three years ago, Kelly Johnson reoriented a religious nonprofit she was running in Louisiana into a ministry focused on “the hundreds of unreached young women” working around Capitol Hill.
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In at least nine separate interviews and speeches since the beginning of September, Trump has painted a visceral scene in which James Talarico throws up after eating barbecue, @emilyykennard reports washingtonpost.com/style/202…
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NEW: We polled the Maine Senate race.
Troy Jackson is ahead, but deeper in the findings are bright spots for Collins washingtonpost.com/politics/…
A yearslong effort to bring a Christopher Columbus statue to the White House culminates this week, @ddiamond and @oliviacgeorge report. Trump is using it as midterms messaging aimed at Italian Americans.
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