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Chris Cillizza

Washington, D.C., United States

Founder and Writer at So What?

Contributor at NewsNation

Newsletter writer. YouTuber. Senior adviser, DGA Group. Public Speaker. SUBSCRIBE TO MY DAILY POLITICS NEWSLETTER: https://t.co/hNELfAwDzy

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  • 1 week ago | chriscillizza.substack.com | Chris Cillizza

    What’s a 13-letter phrase for “crossword puzzle nerd”? “C-h-r-i-s-C-i-l-l-i-z-z-a”Yes, this is my confession: I love crossword puzzles. If the New York Times charged $50 a month for access to its “Games” app, I would pay it. (Note to the NYT: Do NOT do this. Please.) But, here’s another confession: I JUST got back into the crossword after a looooong hiatus. And I did it as a way to combat my obsession with scrolling X, Instagram and TikTok.

  • 1 week ago | chriscillizza.substack.com | Chris Cillizza

    This, from the New York Times, is incredible:Less than three months after the young political activist David Hogg was elected as a vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, he is undertaking a new project that is sure to rankle some fellow Democrats: spending millions of dollars to oust Democratic members of Congress in primary elections next year.

  • 1 week ago | chriscillizza.substack.com | Chris Cillizza

    New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is up to something. And I think I know what it is. And, no, I don’t mean anything nefarious. I simply mean that she’s got her eye on her political future — and is putting the pieces in place to grab what she wants. The latest evidence? She raised nearly $10 million in the first three months of 2025, a stunning total for a House member and almost two-thirds of what she raised total in 2023 and 2024 combined.

  • 1 week ago | chriscillizza.substack.com | Chris Cillizza

    I have been thinking a lot lately about the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the Maryland man who the Trump administration admits they wrongly deported in a round-up of supposed members of the MS-13 gang last month. Why? Because how I feel about the Garcia case — he remains in an El Salvadoran prison despite a seeming Supreme Court order urging the U.S. government to aid his return to American — is, well, divided.

  • 1 week ago | chriscillizza.substack.com | Chris Cillizza

    On Tuesday night in Chicago, Joe Biden will formally re-enter the political arena, delivering a speech to a disability-rights organization. The question: Does anyone really want him back? Biden effectively bowed out of the national political scene on July 21 when, weeks after a disastrous debate performance, he announced he was dropping out of the 2024 presidential race. The president was a political ghost during his last months in the White House.

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RT @wildstein: After a 25-hour speech last week, @CoryBooker now has a favorable rating of 65% among Democrats in a new national poll. Th…

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11 Apr 25

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