Alex Kotch   Verified account

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Senior investigative reporter at . NC native, musician, PhD, award winner. Tips: alex@alexkotch.com. DM for Signal.

Brooklyn, NY
Joined May 2010

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  1. . "will not accept contributions from the fossil fuel industry, to help build confidence in her leadership of the Select Committee," her spox tells me. My latest at

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  2. . has introduced legislation to repeal PAYGO with , , and more as co-sponsors.

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  4. Good votes! But they seem in conflict with seeking Wall Street money.

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  5. Apropos of nothing, to quote the great : "Motherfuck you and your punk-ass ghetto bird."

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  6. I was about to tweet that I think it's very likely ends up president some day. Not because she's good at social media. Because of her policies, honesty, ambition & popular appeal.

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  7. My latest at : The new chair of the Foreign Affairs Committee is a big recipient of campaign cash from the defense industry—an industry his committee oversees.

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  8. 17 hours ago

    In 2017-18, Engel received nearly $140,000 from individuals & PACs considering "pro-Israel" by . The U.S. subsidizes Israel so it can buy American aircraft & weapons. Mandy Smithberger of called this kind of scenario "concerning."

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  9. Twitter says this has become 's most highly retweeted post to date -- in under five hours

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  11. Jan 2

    🚨 Job Alert! 🚨 Come work with me and a bunch of other great journalists at - We're hiring a News Editor, and the deadline for applications is Jan. 11!

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  12. 18 hours ago

    NEW: Democratic is now chair of the Foreign Affairs Cmte, which oversees arms exports. He's received big campaign donations from major defense companies & their lobbyists, who lobby Congress on foreign military sales.

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  13. When I say "recent progressive," this is what I mean.

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  15. DEM SWAMP UPDATE: left Congress yesterday. He’s already had talks with the Entertainment Software Association about becoming its new head lobbyist, per .

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  16. About SCOTUS taking up the NC and MD partisan gerrymandering case...

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  17. This is truly amazing. The Justice Department admits that, under Trump, it effectively made up and misstated information to link immigrants to terrorism, but that it won't retract or correct the culprit report.

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  18. Charles Koch is dancing on his giant Kansas rooftop right now.

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  19. scoop: Beto O'Rourke says he's "supportive of the concept" of a Green New Deal, becoming the latest potential 2020 contender to embrace the policy. Notable that he drew criticism last month for accepting donations from fossil fuel executives.

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  20. Interesting what can happen when you’ve got an election coming up in a purple state & the majority of Americans don’t like your party’s politics.

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  21. Jan 3

    Dear reporters: Before you put pen to paper, I’m warning you, this is a total nothingburger made up BS conflating actual voter rolls (active voters) with who aren’t on the voter rolls at all (inactive voters), basically old registration files in storage. Don’t believe the hype.

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