Brittany Prime

@TheDispatch conservative • former @NoLabelsOrg & GOP • alum @UVA • the more political side of @BLPrime • tweets self-destruct.

[Josh Barro @jbarro]

Some things about our child protection regime strike me as impossible to square with the Bill of Rights. How can the government possibly be able to tell someone he can't be alone with his kids based on anonymous double hearsay, even temporarily? https://t.co/DC0g7rtRR2

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

A big victory for the No Party People.

[Unite America @uniteamerica]

🎉 Victory in D.C.! 🎉

The DC Council voted today to fund open primaries, upholding an overwhelming voter mandate to reform elections in the nation’s capital. In November 2024, Washington, D.C., voters passed Initiative 83 with 72% of the vote, approving both open primaries and ranked choice voting for local elections. Last year, the DC Council voted to fund and implement ranked choice voting, but declined to fund open primaries.

Following today’s decision, nearly 86,000 independent voters will be able to participate in primary elections for city offices — after being excluded from those same elections just last week.

This is a huge victory for all DC voters — but especially to the 86,000 independents who, prior to today, had no meaningful say in their representation. All tax-paying citizens in the District will now have the freedom to vote in the most consequential elections.

Congratulations to @LisaDTRice and the team at @growdemocracyDC who led the charge. We look forward to supporting the successful implementation of open primaries in D.C.!

https://t.co/hffA7c5uMU

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

Fighter jets roaring overhead… not as neat when you’re sound asleep at 11:30pm.

[Alex Seitz-Wald @aseitzwald]

Sorry, but nobody is beating Susan Collins by a wide margin. She's an absolute powerhouse, won by *9 points* in 2020 against a qualified and uncontroversial Dem who outspent her 2-to-1 on the same ballot Joe Biden won Maine. Any Dem would be lucky to eek out a razor-thin win.

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

Fifield described Platner in a diary entry in June 2016 as “the most toxic literally abusive man on earth”

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

2026 re: Platner to @igorbobic
2018 re: Kavanaugh

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

Are they also tearing down the south facade because that’s… not what the White House looks like?

[The White House @WhiteHouse]

To those negatively chirping: quiet. 🤫

It will all work out well in the end - it always does.

[John McCormack @McCormackJohn]

New: @BenSasse sits down for an interview with me at a bar in Manhattan.

We talked about many topics—from his childhood to politics to Heaven—and why his message about “redeeming the time” after his terminal cancer diagnosis is resonating with so many.

https://t.co/qTBhOjcnHv

[Annie Karni @anniekarni]

So let’s not call it “journalistic malpractice.”

[Sarah Longwell @SarahLongwell25]

“Sure, Ken Paxton’s corruption cost Texas taxpayers $6.6 million in settlement fees, and he was impeached for bribery, and he gave a sweetheart deal to a guy charged with child sex abuse, BUT James Talarico’s Christianity is kinda lib, so…gotta go with Paxton.”

[McKay Coppins @mckaycoppins]

Proponents have tried to legalize assisted suicide in Connecticut 11 times in the last 13 years. It's failed every time, thanks to an unlikely coalition of social conservatives, Catholic bishops, progressives, and disability-rights advocates. Smart story by @charleshilu73:
https://t.co/jlQXz9MM3O

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

192 pages and "economy" appears 6 times.

[Kaitlan Collins @kaitlancollins]

The DNC 2024 autopsy
https://t.co/UmlSf8RWnl

[Jonah Goldberg @JonahDispatch]

The Trump slush fund is a clear cut impeachable offense. https://t.co/nUveUBkApa

[Brittany Prime @PrimePoliticker]

One already exists!

[Patrick Svitek @PatrickSvitek]

Chants of "2028" break out during Massie's speech after he suggests there should be a third party called the "Unity Party" #KY04

[Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes]

Also, if Paxton wins, he'll be a senator.

Bad for conservatives, bad for Texas, bad for the country, bad for competent governance...

[David M. Drucker @DavidMDrucker]

What CORNYN told me in January: “One of the things the president could decide to do is, after the primary on March the 3rd, he could get involved then ... And, as I’ve told him, once he makes an endorsement, I said that basically, the race is over, and he knows that.” @thedispatch

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

The societal trend I’m most worried about these days is also one receiving very little attention from policymakers, most of whom would rather talk about anything other than schools.

graphic via @nytimes

[John Arnold @johnarnold]

So funny that for California governor, the Democratic Socialists of America endorsed billionaire Tom Steyer, whose resume includes Stanford MBA, Morgan Stanley, Goldman, private-equity, and hedge-fund founder whose firm invested in private prisons and coal.

[Stephen Hayes @stephenfhayes]

NEW: Can Kevin Warsh have the smaller Fed he wants? Thrilled to welcome @kylascan to DispatchMarkets, unlocked courtesy of our partners at the @USChamber.

https://t.co/bPwNonyl8U