Andrew Perez

Trump's closing midterms message? Gas and ass. Good luck, America.

The president is demanding that Republican Senate candidates stand next to him at rallies where he talks about asses (mostly one man’s) and brags about making gas prices higher. If his candidates lose, it’s because the elections were rigged.

NEW on @zeteo.com — Venues are *pulling out* of hosting Vivek Ramaswamy for his bus tour across Ohio in the closing days of the election. “We’re getting calls that people don’t want him there,” a top Ohio Republican says. “It’s that damn ad.” From @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social:

Question I keep having: Why haven't I seen any of Trump's comments like these bragging about or dismissing higher gas prices in a Democratic ad in Maine or elsewhere x.com/Acyn/status/...

New tonight from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/venues-sta...

It's interesting how after Trump took office, Census surveys found a huge drop in the % of people who can't afford typical expenses. Went from 37% in fall 2024, to 20% in 2025. Pegged at 21% this August. Meanwhile, Pew finds 44% of people are struggling with basic expenses.

Yeah, Hegseth's staff broke Eisenhower's globe. @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social broke this news last week. You'd know that if you read @zeteo.com! zeteo.com/p/secretary-...

Trump’s super PAC started running a 90-second ad that was previously a White House video. They made no changes - other than to remove a clip of Stephen Miller’s face. The ad’s still narrated by Miller - which is certainly a choice. More here: zeteo.com/p/whats-behi...

Iirc, @zeteo.com broke news of the Hegseth / Eisenhower’s globe saga / hilarious visual metaphor in this Oct 15 profile of Trump’s “war secretary” zeteo.com/p/secretary-... I want to be clear: WaPo has pics and it’s a good story. I’m not bitching about credit I’m just pointing out that people…

The "Texas Transgender Student Union" that sent out mailers, which have become a major controversy among Republicans, is a real organization — but it was only formed in September in Wyoming as an LLC and is entirely separate from TENT, the organization marketed in the fliers.

The state of Israel (not AIPAC) is running ads and videos in Iowa, as the midterms near. The ads/videos feature footage from Trump's America 250 festivities, a clip of a Trump White House flyover, and video of Mike Huckabee, who won Iowa years ago. New at @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/why-is-isr...

Israel — not the Israel lobby, AIPAC, but the state of Israel — is running TV ads in Iowa: @andrewperez.bsky.social @zeteo.com

New — Mike Huckabee's family company is offering $5800+ trips to Israel, so tourists can meet "top Israeli officials," even while he is the Ambassador to Israel. Plus: he promised his Huck PAC would go "dormant" if he became ambassador. That didn't happen. Over the past 2 years, it's raised $4.5M.

There’s a lot of new details in here from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me but if you want some dark humor search it for “Eisenhower’s globe” and “balls” for starters

"America's prime minister" Read @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social's deep-dive profile of Stephen Miller, the "world’s most powerful unelected bureaucrat is leading Trump’s wars on immigrants, civilians, the law, and human decency." zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...

In our @zeteo.com profile of Stephen Miller, we answer a question I've had for a while: Why is Stephen Miller on TV? zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...

Read @swin24.bsky.social and @andrewperez.bsky.social's new profile of Stephen Miller, "American ‘Psycho,’ Fascist Dork." zeteo.com/p/stephen-mi...

Me to our puppy this winter, i fear

NEW via @andrewperez.bsky.social and me for @zeteo.com zeteo.com/p/de-trumpif...

New: Jasmine Crockett was offering government relations & lobbying services on a campaign-funded website. It was taken down after Zeteo reached out. Experts say they’d never seen something like this before. Rules bar members from lobbying and from using campaign funds for non-campaign purposes.

Jasmine Crockett was offering lobbying and consulting services on her campaign-funded website until @zeteo.com asked about it. New from @premthakker.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/jasmine-cr...

It’s not just anonymous sources (tho we are in the business of citing people who know what they’re talking about); one of Trump’s top pollsters is on the record throwing cold water on the GOP-wide 2026 anti- Hasan piker electoral strategy which is still going strong at the NRSC, etc. He then…

America's TV networks don't have to run this shit

zeteo.com/p/trumps-whi...

Donald Trump is demanding the propagandistic TV ads, even as some of his aides fret they ‘obviously’ break federal law. Missouri MAGA Senator Eric Schmitt, meanwhile, makes a fool of himself. Read today's 'First Draft' by @andrewperez.bsky.social and @swin24.bsky.social: zeteo.com/p/trumps-whi...

Here’s the ‘Pathetic’ Reason Trump Is Running His Corrupt ‘Love Me’ Ads In private, the president keeps whining about Republicans trying to ditch him. So his team made him a taxpayer-funded propaganda campaign. Read now: zeteo.com/p/trump-love...

“The world’s first trillionaire is running super PAC ads attacking Democrats for wanting to give every American healthcare.” Elon Musk wants to deny Americans healthcare amid his intense ideological shift to the far-right, writes @andrewperez.bsky.social. Read: zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-...

Musk once acknowledged the government ‘should take care of’ healthcare. Now, the world’s first trillionaire is running super PAC ads attacking Democrats for wanting to give every American healthcare. Read @andrewperez.bsky.social's piece: zeteo.com/p/elon-musk-...

This topic came up on the trumpapalooza night life circuit lol My final dispatch from Dallas, written with @zeteo.com editor @andrewperez.bsky.social zeteo.com/p/trump-iran...

This story from @andrewperez.bsky.social and me was one of the most fun I’ve had reporting out in recent years. I can say with extreme confidence that we fully stand by our reporting in it, making the denials in the story much funnier to me

New: Troy Jackson campaign ad hits Susan Collins for voting 96% with Trump (and notes how Collins herself 30 years ago hit her opponent for voting 93% on the party line). Also dings her for voting against releasing Epstein files & to confirm Kavanaugh + Gorsuch, who then helped overturn Roe v Wade.

President Trump and his allies “test out their strategies here because they think people elsewhere aren’t watching,” says Katie Kersh, a Dayton-based immigration lawyer with Haitian clients. “They will bring them to your state eventually. People really need to care about this more.”

"SCOOP: Trump’s Iran War Has Burned Through Well Over 90% of Key Long-Range Missiles" Sources tell Zeteo the percentage of critical long-range missiles that the Trump administration has depleted in its failing war is in ‘at least the high nineties.’ Reporting from @swin24.bsky.social for Zeteo:

AIPAC’s Michigan Senate primary ads sound strikingly similar to centrist, pro-Israel candidate Haley Stevens’ campaign memos. Coincidence? Not at all. Mehdi breaks it down. Subscribe to zeteo.com so you never miss Mehdi’s coverage youtu.be/3_pMnsHFgAA

NEWS: Taylor Farms gave *$2 million* to Trump & Republicans as they postponed a rule that could've limited the spread of outbreaks like the ongoing Cyclospora epidemic. And, years ago, the industry *also* successfully lobbied to cut a program that handled ~80% of federal produce pathogen testing.

Zeteo's Politics Editor @andrewperez.bsky.social went to Biddeford, Maine, where ICE killed Joan Sebastián Guerrero and left his blood in the street, to speak to residents and protesters about the latest state-sponsored violence. Read his account: zeteo.com/p/ice-killin...

Powerful coverage here from @andrewperez.bsky.social, one of the very best editors I’ve ever worked with