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Conservative influencer Nick Sortor posted audio he said proved Texas Senate candidate James Talarico had been discharged from an Ohio mental health facility. The facility said he was never a patient there. Talarico said he’s never even been to Ohio.

This is the Tangle Sunday Edition, a brief roundup of our independent politics coverage plus some extra features for your Sunday morning reading.

Is this the AI election deception incident we’ve been waiting for? In this clip from Suspension of the Rules, the hosts discuss the viral audio recording that claimed Texas Senate candidate James Talarico had checked into a health care facility, the New York Times footage showing he was home sick with the flu, and whether the episode fulfills Isaac’s 2025 prediction that a f...

A small county council race in Indiana just went national. Asked to name an unpopular decision she’d make in office, Democratic candidate Jaime West answered: “Firing all Republicans.” Her closing message to voters? “We have guns too.”

Is there finally a line on corruption in the Trump administration? In this clip from Suspension of the Rules, the hosts discuss the Wall Street Journal’s report that Kimberly Guilfoyle pressed a Kentucky congressional candidate to wire $100,000 to her American Express account, her exit from the administration, and why the bar for punishing political corruption seems so high ...