Teo Armus

The Washington Post's ace data team analyzed what types of voters will have the most sway in deciding competitive House districts. Can you guess? Via @teoarmus.bsky.social @ence.bsky.social @erxclau.me www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist, via Patrick Marley, @teoarmus.bsky.social & @ence.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Mainstream Democrats in Wisconsin pulled off an unlikely victory against a heavily favored democratic socialist in the state’s gubernatorial primary Tuesday. @ence.bsky.social @teoarmus.bsky.social & Patrick Marley break down how... www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Most Americans say they would not back a democratic socialist for president, a Washington Post-Ipsos poll finds. New with @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Younger adults and postgraduates are most willing to consider voting for a democratic socialist for president — Washington Post-Ipsos poll. (@teoarmus.bsky.social and @sfcpoll.bsky.social) More, via Opinion Today: opiniontoday.substack.com/p/260731

Teo Armus, WAPO: "Yet at a moment when resentment of elites and the establishment has been growing in both parties ... family ties can also present significant downsides for 'nepo candidates,' as they have been dubbed by some rival campaigns." @teoarmus.bsky.social [Gift Article] wapo.st/4vt5fu7

The new Florida maps will split a growing Puerto Rican community in Kissimmee. Even some Republicans are unhappy. “You’re not giving the voters the respect they deserve,” a former Florida GOP field organizer told @teoarmus.bsky.social. Read our deep dive: www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Less than 4 years ago, 21 were killed by a gunman. Now Uvalde appears likely to elect "the AK guy." This from @teoarmus.bsky.social tells much about the reality of gun politics in Texas -- In tragedy-torn Uvalde, it’s a scandal-ridden incumbent or ‘the AK Guy’ www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

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NEW: More than 80% of the immigrants arrested in D.C. during Trump’s federal law enforcement surge this year had no criminal convictions or charges, new data shows, even though that crackdown was portrayed as targeting violent crime. w/ Emmanuel Martinez wapo.st/4iC8oCR

“It’s taking a toll everywhere.” Charlotte's Border Patrol operation has rippled across the lines of race and class, spilling into tony neighborhoods where many residents gave little thought to how President Trump’s deportation push would affect them.

very lovely day in alexandria, va. this morning

Virginia Democrats stick with Jay Jones, electing him attorney general despite violent text messages in which he nonchalantly mused about shooting the former GOP speaker of the House of Delegates in the head. @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Grateful to have my thoughts included in this terrific @washingtonpost.com piece about the gay Republican running to be VA’s Lt Gov by @teoarmus.bsky.social wapo.st/3WvuRqV

Virginia is never lacking in political drama when elections come around -- and I'm doing a Reddit AMA with my colleagues Greg Schneider & Erin Cox to answer your questions about races for governor, LG, attorney general & the House of Delegates. It's tomorrow (10/30) at 2 p.m. ET. Ask away here:

NEW: The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall refugee admissions into the US over the next fiscal year set as low as 7,500. w/ @mradamtaylor.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec...

A story I wrote from Buenos in Aires in January on meat in Argentina ... suddenly all the more relevant in the U.S. as Trump proposes importing Argentine beef www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

NEW: Trump's 30-day crime emergency in DC is over. But DHS agents are still joining DC police patrols & roll calls, even though DC law bars police from helping fed immigration agents. The result? Immigrants are ending up in ICE custody. w/ Emma Uber www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Claudia Sheinbaum’s government doesn’t want to ban narcocorridos. They want to compete with them @teoarmus.bsky.social reports from CDMX www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

The Washington Post can't claim to defend free speech while firing Karen Attiah for exercising hers. The Post should be a newsroom that promotes the freedom of ideas, speech and the press.

NEW: ICE has arrested so many people in Trump's D.C. crackdown that it's crowding the agency’s Northern Virginia processing site, lawyers say, creating "dangerous" conditions in a site not meant to keep people overnight. w/ Dan Rosenzweig-Ziff & @marialuisapaul.bsky.social

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Wapo article does a good job covering two realities: How deeply watching a parents‘ immigration arrest affects kids, and how DC residents are organizing “walking buses” and neighborhood lookouts to help kids with immigrant parents get safely to school. wapo.st/3VNYZ08

New tonight: The Virginia Court of Appeals appears to have reinstated Arlington’s “missing middle” plan, reversing an order from a circuit court judge that put a stop to the EHO policy.

Amid deportations and fear, Mexicans in the U.S. are sending less money home, squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate @teoarmus.bsky.social and Karla Gachet report from San Bartolomé Quialana wapo.st/45vO9BX

NEW: Amid Trump's immigration crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. The drop is squeezing businesses, cutting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that often drive people to migrate. On the front page of today's @washingtonpost.com, with stunning photos by Karla Gachet

Federal agents violently detained a food delivery driver as he emerged from a D.C. coffee shop Saturday morning. The incident captured on video showed the officers throwing him to the ground and beating him before sweeping him away in an unmarked vehicle. wapo.st/45Egtkc

NEW in @washingtonpost.com: As Panama has been caving in to Trump's demands and shifting away from China, not even a historic monument is being spared from this geopolitical fight. My latest, on Central America's largest ethnic Chinese community -- now caught in the middle:

On the front page of today’s @washingtonpost.com: What 16 of the migrants deported by the U.S. to El Salvador’s CECOT experienced in that notorious mega prison w/ Sam Schmidt, Helena Carpio @marialuisapaul.bsky.social @silviafosterfrau.bsky.social @asteckelberg.bsky.social

“Welcome to hell” We spoke to 16 Venezuelans the U.S. sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador. This is the most complete view yet of the conditions they faced — which, some experts said, may violate conventions against torture. www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

NEW: In a time of travel bans and visa fees, Trump is moving to let Argentine tourists into the US without a visa — a political gift to his friend Javier Milei. But a State Dept cable acknowledges that Argentina doesn’t meet a key requirement for that exemption. w/ @hannahnatanson.bsky.social

Julio González Jr., released last week from the Terrorism Confinement Center, said he was beaten, robbed of thousands of dollars and denied a lawyer. “I practically felt like an animal,” González told The Post.

Julio González Jr. thought he was being deported back to Venezuela. Instead, the plane landed in El Salvador. “The horror movie started there,” he said. What the Venezuelans freed from CECOT experienced at the world’s largest prison, w/ Samantha Schmidt, Helena Carpio & @arelisrhdz.bsky.social

Cristosal has relied on U.S. funding to document detainee abuse, investigate corruption and advocate for critics targeted by the Salvadoran government. Trump cut their funding; now the rights organization is fleeing the country @teoarmus.bsky.social reports www.washingtonpost.com/world/2025/0...

Surprising and illuminating story from @teoarmus.bsky.social about immigrants increasingly sending their savings home as their futures in the U.S. dim: www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

Statement from the Arlington County Board re: latest missing middle ruling: “The Court of Appeals chose to hold a hearing following their June 24 order. That hearing was held Monday, July 8. The previous order was withdrawn pending the issuance of a new order after this week’s hearing.”

Arlington's missing middle policy ending single-family-only zoning was effectively reinstated Tuesday by a Virginia panel of judges, who ruled that homeowners suing over that effort did not adequately take real estate developers to court, too. www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/202...

Analysis by Teo Armus | The political spotlight this year is on Virginia, which kicked off its statewide election cycle on Tuesday. Here’s what stood out as November’s matchups came into view:

His great-grandfather enshrined birthright citizenship. His mother was jailed in WWII internment. Now, Norman Wong has become an unlikely spokesman in the fight for American citizenship, with its presumed guarantees of civil rights, free speech and due process. www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...

The Trump administration ground refugee admissions to a halt, suspending a program that lets in thousands of people fleeing war or political persecution -- except now for one group: White South Africans. @teoarmus.bsky.social www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/...