Max Burns
Democratic strategist
Max Burns is a Democratic strategist and founder of Third Degree Strategies. Find him on X, @themaxburns.
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Opinion
Mike Johnson may have already lost
The Speaker of the House doesn’t appear to be the leader of his own caucus anymore.
Opinion
How the White House’s attempt to publicly shame me as a journalist backfired
The White House’s attempt to shame journalists for reporting the truth only shows how low President Trump’s energy is these days.
MS NOW Opinion
Virginia’s gubernatorial election is a referendum on the government shutdown
The wrath of out-of-work federal workers could decide the race between Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears and Democrat former Rep. Abigail Spanberger.
MS NOW Opinion
The Trump-approved Qatari base in Idaho should raise major security concerns
If Democrats want voters to treat this like the national security crisis it is, they’ll need to get a lot more comfortable explaining why Qatar isn’t our friend.
MS NOW Opinion
Kamala Harris’ book pinpoints one of Democrats’ biggest problems
The former vice president is no longer willing to take incoming fire for a White House team that apparently showed little loyalty or decency to her.
MS NOW Opinion
Trump’s new order gives feds sweeping new powers to violate medical privacy rights
Trump’s new policy would mark a historic expansion of federal police power into services largely carried out by nonprofits and local governments.
MS NOW Opinion
The dysfunction of Virginia’s Republican Party is getting harder to hide
The reshuffle of Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears’ staff comes as the state’s Republicans are trying, and failing, to convince voters they’re still a functional party.
MS NOW Opinion
Trump’s Truth Social post highlights a key betrayal of farmers. Here’s what he omits.
Farmers have warned their Republican lawmakers for months that mass deportations and tariff battles would cripple rural states’ agricultural economies.
MS NOW Opinion
Republican lawmakers are dangling a sword over thousands of VA workers
GOP lawmakers are discovering there’s such a thing as asking too much of America’s veterans.
MS NOW Opinion
Virginia Republicans are reeling — and they have no one to blame but themselves
Today’s MAGA-fied Republicans have entirely forgotten how to govern — or even how to police their own bad behavior.