A newsletter focused on campaigns, the tech industry's role in politics, and power. Also a home for Jake Lahut's freelance feature reporting, scooplets, analysis, and other notebook items (no paywalls, but pay to support).
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Blake Gendebien, surveilled by drones, responds to Anthony Constantino (NY-21)
Welcome back to The Hut. I hope you had not too gnarly of a start to your week, and you can catch me on Nicolle Wallace tomorrow. (I’ll update the subscriber chat with a specific hit time once I know. It sounds like it’ll be for the full ho...
A rebrand + an interview with Anthony Constantino
Welcome to the first edition of my rebranded newsletter, The Hut. I figured it’s shorter and cleaner in your inboxes. I’ll be keeping the Straight from the Hut domain name, because who has time for that. Also, once again, thank you to all o...
The White House AI rebrand fallacy
Lately I’ve been struck by one thing in my conversations with Republicans working on midterm campaigns, as well as those in and around the White House.
The AI and tech industry’s biggest problem, they tell me, is a branding one.
They see...
The Trumpiest YouTube page takes a hit
Editor’s note: Welcome back! Especially all of you Nicole Wallace and Antonia Hylton viewers. After I scheduled this post to go up, the Detroit News reported that Jackson Karki, the 19-year-old Marquette County GOP chairman working for the...
Mailbag + tune into MS NOW at 3pm ET
Hi everyone,
If you have nothing else to do this afternoon, I’m going to be on MS NOW for the full hour at 3 o’clock.
It’ll be a great panel discussing one of the more peculiar news weeks of Trump 2.0, and it comes as MS was barred from...
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Reporter covering the Trump White House, the tech right & the 2026 midterms. Scoops in NY mag, WIRED, CJR & local dailies.
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