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Donald Trump doesn't have to be goaded into making fundraising calls now that his legal bills are skyrocketing.

The former president has hosted more traditional fundraising events and made donor calls, and he's quietly been raising money for the Republican National Committee's "nominee fund," which he's peeved that he can't access until he's officially the GOP nominee, reported Marc Caputo for The Bulwark.

An embattled Texas Supreme Court justice facing a tough primary was revealed in leaked audio attacking his fellow justices on the all-Republican bench as "brainwashed" for not agreeing with his far-right viewpoints.

According to the Texas Tribune, Justice John Devine, who brags about being arrested over three dozen times as an anti-abortion activist before being elected to the state's high court and proclaims church-state separation to be a "myth," made the comments to a group of East Texas voters last September.

With polls open from 7 a.m. to 8 p.m., Tuesday is the final day Michiganders can cast their vote in the presidential primary.

As state election workers prepare to tally selections for each party’s preferred presidential candidate, here are four key things to watch.

CNN earlier this week discovered new evidence that seemingly undermines testimony former Trump election lawyer Ken Chesebro gave to prosecutors in Michigan, and at least one legal expert isn't buying his excuses.

While testifying in Michigan's investigation of the Trump fake electors scheme, Chesebro denied that he ever used Twitter to post about his legal theories about blocking President Joe Biden from taking office.

One of the candidates to represent a Boston-area district in the Massachusetts Republican Party's State Committee is an avowed neo-Nazi who has pledged the mass expulsion of Jews from the United States.

"Don’t forget I’ll likely get voted into office on March 5," Lori Kauffman posted to her X account over the weekend. "Long term goals are to ban same sex marriage (never should have been legalized) and trans will be illegal. Yes illegal. I will also exile all Jews."

Donald Trump faces so much legal peril that it can be hard to keep up, so legal experts compiled an analysis so thorough that it stretches out to book length.

Two of those experts appeared on MSNBC's "Morning Joe," where they gave a summary of the 91 criminal counts Trump faces in four jurisdictions, along with the lawsuits alleging fraud, defamation, sexual abuse and violation of civil rights, and the various appeals he's made in all those cases.

Donald Trump's supporters seem to believe he's invincible, but a conservative columnist laid out his electoral weaknesses.

The former president has campaigned throughout his political career – nearly a decade long at this point – by encouraging cult-like devotion from his base at the expense of a broad coalition of voters, and that only barely worked in his first campaign, wrote Daily Beast columnist Matt Lewis.

Former Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull, a member of the center-right Liberal Party, says that he's worried about what a second Trump term will mean for Western security.

Turnbull, who had his share of contentious interactions with Trump during his tenure as PM, told Australia's ABC News that the former president is in "awe" of Russian President Vladimir Putin for reasons he doesn't quite fathom.

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough and former Republican National Committee chair Michael Steele wrote off Republican election chances for the foreseeable future.

The "Morning Joe" host pointed to turmoil within the Michigan Republican Party, whose election-denying former chair Kristina Karamo chased away donors and competent leadership and now refuses to recognize the vote to remove her, and Scarborough said that was "a sign of things to come" in the wake of Donald Trump's takeover of the GOP apparatus.

Nazis crashing CPAC didn't raise much fury or get a lot of media attention in the latest news cycle, and that has MSNBC Opinion Columnist Zeeshan Aleem calling it a seminal moment.

"It’s not always possible for the hosts of major political gatherings to perfectly regulate who enters them — but there are always choices on how to react when, say, Nazis arrive," he writes. "This is a critical frog-in-boiling-water moment for the right: The mainstream organs of American conservatism are apparently acclimating to Nazis in their pot. That this group was able to mingle with participants at a high-profile conference, wasn't kicked out of CPAC, and wasn't appropriately condemned is a sign of how contiguous mainstream conservatism has become with white supremacist politics today."

Donald Trump's performances at conservative presidential primaries have been "catastrophic" for his 2024 campaign, a Republican political operative says.

Reed Galen, former campaign manager for Sen. John McCain and Lincoln Project co-founder, appeared on "The 11th Hour" on MSNBC Monday evening.

Ex-Assistant Attorney General Jeffrey Clark cannot be subpoenaed for "documents that might have justified his efforts to put the weight of the Justice Department behind efforts to overturn" the 2020 election in Georgia "and other states," according to a D.C. Court of Appeals ruling issued Monday, Politico reports.

Along with more than a dozen others — including former President Donald Trump — Clark faces criminal charges in Fulton County for election interference, and the reports notes he was also "identified as one of six key Trump co-conspirators by special counsel Jack Smith in a Washington, D.C., indictment also related" to his attempt to overturn the election.

Republican political operatives at the anti-Donald Trump political action committee The Lincoln Project strung together Monday some of former President Donald Trump's recent tongue twisters in a new video: "Donald Trump's Weekend in 101 Seconds."

"They're destroying our country and we're gonna," Trump is heard saying, "I just wish we could do it quicker."