Teo Armus
@teoarmus.bsky.social
Reporter @washingtonpost.com covering politics, demographics & immigration. Argentino neoyorquino 🇦🇷🗽. Signal: teoarmus.27. Se habla español. washingtonpost.com/people/teo-armus
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...
How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist
Supporters and detractors agreed that voters appeared to be increasingly worried over whether Hong could beat GOP nominee Tom Tiffany.
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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...
How mainstream Democrats pulled off a big upset against a democratic socialist
Supporters and detractors agreed that voters appeared to be increasingly worried over whether Hong could beat GOP nominee Tom Tiffany.
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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
Political dynasties carry new baggage as voters vilify the elite
Family names have long given candidates a boost. In the era of No Kings, they can also make for an easy attack.
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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...
In tragedy-torn Uvalde, it’s a scandal-ridden incumbent or ‘the AK Guy’
Rep. Tony Gonzales (R-Texas) is accused of having an affair with an aide who later killed herself. His primary challenger, Brandon Herrera, is running on a pro-gun platform.
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Federal agent secured gun from Minn. man before fatal shooting, videos show
A Washington Post analysis of videos sheds light on the encounter that left 37-year-old Alex Pretti dead.
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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
Most immigrants arrested in Trump’s D.C. crackdown had no criminal records
A Post analysis of federal data shows that the arrests of immigrants with no prior criminal record shot up sixfold during the Trump administration’s crackdown.
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“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.
Border Patrol’s Charlotte sting reaches into country clubs, upscale shops
As undocumented immigrants stayed home and federal agents swept through the city, even the wealthiest neighborhoods got a glimpse of what life without migrants might look like.
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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...
Democrat Jay Jones projected to win Virginia attorney general’s race
Democrat Jay Jones and Republican Jason Miyares are battling in a contest for Virginia attorney general that was rocked by violently worded leaked text messages.
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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
This gay Republican could make history. He’d like to talk about something else.
Virginia’s John Reid could become the country’s first openly gay Republican elected to statewide office. Attacks from within his party have made his sexuality an issue, he says.
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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:
From the Virginia community on Reddit: We’re reporters with The Washington Post who cover Virginia. Ask us anything about the upcoming election!
Explore this post and more from the Virginia community
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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...
Trump refugee plan seeks 7,000 Afrikaners — and virtually no one else
The Trump administration’s rush to process thousands of White South Africans as refugees coincides with plans for overall admissions set as low as 7,500.
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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...
In the colossus of beef, Argentines are increasingly turning to pork
Grill-obsessed Argentines, facing inflation and economic shock therapy, consumed less beef per capita in 2024 than at any point in the past century.
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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...
Trump’s D.C. crime emergency is over. Immigration officers are still patrolling with D.C. police.
The Washington Post reviewed photos and videos of at least half a dozen incidents since Sept. 10. They show D.C. police officers with masked agents in vests labeled HSI for Homeland Security Investiga...
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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...
To fight the narcos, Mexico tries a new approach: A song contest
A Eurovision-style competition to counter narcocorridos, popular songs that romanticize the drug trade, draws viewers — and skeptics.
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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.
Washington Post Guild@postguild.bsky.social · 12mo agoStatement from Post Guild Leadership: The Washington Post Guild condemns the unjust firing of columnist Karen Attiah
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
ICE holding facilities overcrowded amid surge in immigration arrests
Immigration agents have arrested so many people in their D.C. crackdown that they are crowding the agency’s processing site in Northern Virginia, lawyers say.
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told lovingly and beautifully by the brilliant @teoarmus.bsky.social
Julia Gelatt@juliagelatt.bsky.social · 12mo agoWapo 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
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
They watched ICE detain their dad. Now D.C. neighbors escort them to school.
Immigrant neighborhoods across the District have organized “walking school buses” to shuttle kids to classes during President Donald Trump’s federalization of D.C. police.
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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
Amid crackdown, Mexicans are sending less money home. It’s leaving a mark.
Falling remittances are squeezing businesses, impacting jobs and leaving homes half-built – conditions that typically drive people to migrate.
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