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Since 2006, Laslo’s pushed the new media envelope for an array of eclectic outlets, including Emmy Award-winning VICE News Tonight with HBO, award-winning NPR member stations, The Daily Beast, This American Life or Laslo’s much-cited tech-forward political coverage for WIRED magazine.

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Misinformation: Democrats may laugh off Donald Trump but they fear MAGA misinformation

Mis- & dis-information are flying in key battleground states. While a lot of attention has gone to combatting election interference efforts from President Trump, not enough attention has been paid to the powerful misinformation campaigns already underway from MAGA faithful like Elon Musk. “He should be arrested for putting misinformation out there about people voting,” Rep. Rashida Tlaib told me. Photo original to The LCB: Logan Michael

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The Courts: Are Democrats putting too much trust in courts to safeguard the midterms? (Part II)

“Do you trust the courts these days?” Raw Story pressed the former Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Southern District of New York (SDNY). 

“I trust all courts but the Supreme Court,” Rep. Dan Goldman (D-NY) told me as he scurried up the Capitol’s steps on his way to vote on the House floor last month. 

That’s the rub. Democrats’ defensive playbook unravels if the legal tides turn and their legal arguments are rejected or if their lawsuits get tossed altogether.

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The President: Are Dems ready if Trump declares a national election emergency? Not really. (Part I)

Democrats have spent months researching arcane election law, preparing legal briefings and even role-playing ahead of this fall’s midterms so they’re ready, in real time, to combat as many as 150 potential threats President Donald Trump might throw at them. But, even with all the meticulous preparation, the Democratic Party doesn’t seem to have a solid plan if Trump declares a national emergency ahead of Election Day, reports Matt Laslo, founder of Washington, D.C.’s only digital and broadcast-first wire service, The LCB.

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Five-word pledge splitting Democrats: Socialism v Capitalism — is a Democratic civil war afoot?

Capitalist or (democratic) socialist? That’s the question starting to drive a wedge between the moderate and AOC’s progressive wing of the Democratic Party. Party leaders say there’s nothing to see here, even after the three progressives New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani endorsed won their primaries earlier this week, which has the party’s leftward flank all but dancing in the streets. 

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Wyoming Public Media: Chris Christie called out Sen. Barrasso when he withdrew from the presidential race. Why does it matter?

Veteran Washington correspondent Matt Laslo covered energy, climate change, gun control, The Cheneys, the federal budget, tech, new media and wild fires, along with the Jan. 6, 2021 US Capitol insurrection, for Wyoming Public Media for more than a decade.

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The LCB captured this exclusive video of Minnesota Sen. Amy Klobuchar calling out Missouri Sen. Eric Schmitt during former Special Counsel Jack Smith’s contentious 2026 hearing before the Senate Judiciary Committee.