And the Hi this is the Josh Marshall podcast with Kate Rika. This week we are we're going to talk

about bloodbath that whole thing and we're going to talk about stuff on the campaign

trail we're going to talk about stuff on the campaign trail. We're going to talk about Mike Pence refusing to endorse Donald Trump at least for now, right?

Although I kind of I kind of think he's going to hold out, but you know we'll see on that.

And then we're even going to get into Benjamin Netanyahu is he's addressing Senate Republicans

today and there's even some chatter from the House representatives that they might try to do kind of a repeat of that 2015 thing where they invited him to

You know address a joint session of Congress.

Might not be joined since like Republicans only control the House.

But before we get to all that,

I want to share something with you, something very important.

And that is that yesterday we kicked off our annual membership drive at TPM.

We have two kind of events like this a year.

One of them is our membership drive and it is really important.

Now I don't, sometimes you know you hear things like this and someone says oh you know if this doesn't happen we're

closing up shop and it's a crisis and all it's it's not a crisis but this is how we run our

organization we run it with membership fees.

Just over 90% of the revenue that runs the whole company comes from members, from you.

So it is really important to just the whole way

that our organization works. And so this is, you know, we have all the different things we do through

the course of the year, getting people to sign up, making sure people, you know, continue

their subscription, but we rely on a

infusion this time of the year during our drive so it is really important and

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