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<title><![CDATA[Tim Murphy - Articles - RealClearPolitics]]></title><link>http://www.RealClearPolicy.com/authors/rss/archive/23204.xml</link><description><![CDATA[Tim Murphy]]></description><category domain="23204">Author</category><item>
							<title><![CDATA[Texas Democrats Once More Dreaming of What Could Be]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2026/03/texas-primary-election-talarico-crockett-paxton-cornyn-roy-french/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 06 Mar 2026 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Democrats are once more dreaming of what could be. Republicans are dreaming of Rhodesia.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[GOP Is Trying To Rob Democrats of the Right To Govern]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/republicans-local-control-ron-desantis-tennessee/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 28 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's not just Ron DeSantis. The red-state war on blue cities is intensifying.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thomas Is How Conservative Legal Movement Works]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/05/clarence-thomas-conservative-legal-movement-rich-ginni-thomas-federalist-society/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[On Thursday,'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' ProPublica'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' dropped a'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' major new story'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' about Clarence Thomas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' relationship with Texas conservative megadonor Harlan Crow. In addition to inviting the Supreme Court justice on expensive vacations on his superyacht, buying Thomas'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';' mother'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('™').';'s house, and...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[How McCarthy Became the Last 'Young Gun' Standing]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/01/how-kevin-mccarthy-became-the-last-young-gun-standing/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 24 Jan 2023 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Before he could win anything, he had to believe in nothing.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Completely Useless and Undemocratic U.S. Senate]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/12/monster-the-completely-useless-and-undemocratic-us-senate/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 27 Dec 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Joe Manchin is just a symptom of a bigger problem.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mr. Biden, Tear Down Trump's Wall!]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2021/02/joe-biden-trump-border-wall/</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 19 Feb 2021 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The president has halted construction on Trump's barrier. Activists and residents on the border say that's not enough.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Trump's Not Richard Nixon. He's Andrew Johnson.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/trumps-not-richard-nixon-hes-andrew-johnson/</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 26 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Betrayal. Paranoia. Cowardice. We've been here before.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The Organizing That's Powering Buttigieg's Iowa Surge]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/12/inside-the-organizing-effort-thats-powering-pete-buttigiegs-iowa-surge/</link>
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							<pubDate>Sun, 08 Dec 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The messenger matters as much as the message.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ocasio-Cortez Showing Us the Future of Politics. Sort of.]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-is-showing-us-the-future-of-politics-sort-of/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 05 Feb 2019 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[A new breed of Democrats is giving fans an all-access backstage pass to the political sausage making. Is this transparency, or TMI?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Ocasio-Cortez Helping Others Beat the Dem Machine]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/07/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-beat-the-democratic-machine-now-shes-helping-other-candidates-do-the-same/</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jul 2018 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[How New York City became primaryville.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[The DCCC's First Big Test of 2018 Blew Up in Its Face]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/03/texas-laura-moser-dccc/</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 07 Mar 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Bernie Sanders Wants to Be a Kingmaker in the Race for Congress]]></title>
							<link>https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/02/bernie-sanders-wants-to-be-a-kingmaker-in-the-race-for-congress/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 26 Feb 2018 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Dems Don't Need to Win Texas - But They Might Anyway]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/09/democrats-dont-need-to-win-texas-but-they-just-might-anyway/</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 25 Sep 2017 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[First up: Ted Cruz.]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Keith Ellison Is Just What Democrats Need]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/02/keith-ellison-democratic-national-committee-chair</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 08 Feb 2017 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Last May, as Donald Trump was locking up the Republican nomination, a prophetic clip began circulating among portions of the left. It was a nearly one-year-old segment of ABC's Sunday show This Week, featuring Rep. Keith Ellison, the Minnesota Democrat then on the verge of winning a...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside 2016's Weirdest Republican Delegate Fight]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2016/04/john-yob-virgin-islands-delegates</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 13 Apr 2016 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[The US Virgin Islands Republican caucus would hardly register on the national radar in a normal year. Traditionally, it hardly even registers on the islands' radar'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'fewer than 100 people participated in the 2012 event. But with front-runner Donald Trump struggling to lock up the...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Inside the Obama Campaign's Hard Drive]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/10/harper-reed-obama-campaign-microtargeting</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 05 Dec 2014 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Obama's tech guru and his microtargeting whiz kids are building a new kind of Chicago machine. Can they help the president hold on to the Oval Office?]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[What We Learned At the Senate Gun Hearing]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2013/01/wayne-lapierre-gabby-gifford-senate-hearing</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jan 2013 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Republicans Get Religion on Campaign Tech]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/republican-walks-roots-camp</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 04 Dec 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Thanks for the Memories, Rep. Allen West]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/11/thanks-memories-rep-allen-west</link>
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							<pubDate>Tue, 20 Nov 2012 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Predictably, the last person to realize that Rep. Allen West's political career is over'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'for now, anyway'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'seems to be Allen West himself. The Florida congressman famous for instructing a Muslim Republican to quit trying to "blow sunshine up my butt," asking his supporters to...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Montana's Weird and Wild Senate Race]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/09/jon-tester-montana-denny-rehberg</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[When the National Republican Senatorial Committee unleashed a new attack ad against Sen. Jon Tester last fall, it stuck to a familiar template'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'tie him to the president. As a narrator portrayed the rural lawmaker as a consummate Washington insider, an image of the Montana Democrat...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Mitt Romney: The Devil's Dictionary]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/mitt-romney-devils-dictionary</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[It's tough to cover'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'or simply follow'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('¢').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('€').';''&#'.ord('Â').';''&#'.ord('”').';'a presidential election without growing deeply cynical about the whole process. So rather than fighting it, we're going to just come clean:'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Politicians often don't mean what they say, or, more charitably, they say what they mean but they...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Gaffes Don't Matter]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/why-gaffes-dont-matter-we-talk-about-them-anyway</link>
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							<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[Romney Actually Pretty Conservative]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2012/06/mitt-romney-actually-pretty-conservative</link>
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							<pubDate>Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
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							<title><![CDATA[George &quot;Macaca&quot; Allen Reemerges]]></title>
							<link>http://www.motherjones.com/politics/2012/05/george-allen-macaca-gop-comeback</link>
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							<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[In the six years since he effectively ended his Senate career with the most famous viral video in political history, George "Macaca" Allen has learned one very important lesson: If you can't watch what you say, watch whom you say it to.Which is why, as the former Republican senator from...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[Old Paul Video Warns of One-World Religion]]></title>
							<link>http://motherjones.com/mojo/2011/12/ron-paul-movie-john-birch-society</link>
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							<pubDate>Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:00 -0600</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Rep. Ron Paul's presidential campaign has run into trouble recently after national media refocused on'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' decades-old racist, homophobic, anti-Semitic, and deeply conspiratorial articles published under Paul's'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' name (and at least occasionally under his signature) in late 1980s and early...]]></description>
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							<title><![CDATA[First They Came for The Lightbulbs]]></title>
							<link>http://motherjones.com/politics/2011/08/michele-bachmann-light-bulbs-agenda-21</link>
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							<pubDate>Sat, 06 Aug 2011 00:00:00 -0500</pubDate>
							<author>Tim Murphy</author>
							<description><![CDATA[Few issues get Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-Minn.) going quite like lightbulbs. At campaign stops across the country, she has repeatedly denounced a 2007 law that required manufacturers to develop energy-efficient lightbulb varieties.'&#'.ord('Ã').';''&#'.ord('‚').';' Bachmann sees the law as an affront to American values....]]></description>
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