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Now: National campaign editor for . Former: politics writer for . Still: Pining for the next E Street tour. cathleen.decker@washpost.com

Joined May 2009

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  1. A freshman, a viral video and a profanity revive Trump impeachment talk Via and

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  2. Trump threatens years-long shutdown for his wall as GOP support begins to fracture, via

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  3. ‘I can do it if I want’: Trump threatens to invoke emergency powers to build border wall

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    Millions face delayed tax refunds, cuts to food stamps as White House scrambles to deal with shutdown’s consequences

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  5. Supreme Court to decide if trademark protection can be denied to ‘scandalous’ brands via

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  6. In addition to Trump going back on his own negotiating position (see shutdown), he goes back on his own policies. An example:

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  7. NEW via : Supreme Court to hear cases on partisan gerrymandering

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    This article from 2016 on the kind of landlord Trump was in the '80s is a must-read. Court papers from one woman: "I am a very sick woman battling for my life...I have begged for reasonableness. The landlord will not be reasonable."

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  9. Trump, asked, as a landlord, if he thought landlords would go easy on federal workers now not being paid: "I think they will." Insists without any proof that those federal workers are highly supportive of him closing down the government to hold out for a border wall.

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  10. "Yes I have and I can do it if I want...We can call a national emergency and do it very quickly." Trump on whether he can bypass Congress to build the wall.

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  11. Trump again says he thinks that Democrats will be more accepting of a steel wall than a concrete one. Pelosi yesterday: "No, no. Nothing for the wall....How many more times can we say no? Nothing for the wall."

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  12. Trump mansplaining the wall to , saying he did not say during the campaign that the wall should be made of concrete. (He did.)

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  13. New sheriffs in town as African Americans win top law enforcement posts in N.C.

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  15. Jan 3

    Fact check: Did California’s sanctuary law protect a suspected cop killer? (Apparently not, despite official stmts to the contrary)

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    Jan 3

    The Style section turns 50 on Sunday. Here are 9 stories from five decades -- not a greatest-hits album (which would be impossible to compile) but a good sampling of what we've done and still do.

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