Jeffries called a cross-party endorsement 'partisan hack' in September, pushed Stevens from his caucus Monday for hers.

…(cont) I have this one highlighted, too: Monday, Haley Stevens went on the radio and somebody asked her straight out whether she'd been pushed into endorsing Rogers. She said she made the decision herself. Fine. I believe people can make their own decisions. I'm just trying to work out the headcount — if it was her decision alone, how many people were in the room when she made it, and how many of them also work for the Michigan Democratic Party?

In my glove box I keep two insurance cards, this year's and last year's, because I'm slow to throw the old one out in time. If you ask me which card is good, I don't guess from the color or the logo — I read the date in the corner. That's the whole trick. The date tells you, not the card. I keep thinking about that glove box reading this story, because the video gets repeated on the news, and the bill just sits there, filed, same place it's been the whole time.

Here's what else I had written down, earlier in the week, before any of this: the Michigan Democratic Party's chair removed Stevens from the state party outright, for endorsing the man in the video over Abdul El-Sayed. That's one body, one action, done. I want to be careful here because there's a second one and I don't want to mix them up.

So — excuse me, before you go, because I almost let you walk out without this — Monday, separately, House Democrats moved to push Stevens out of their caucus in Washington. Truthout's headline on it calls her endorsement a "despicable betrayal" — those are the House Democrats' words, not the state chair's, and not mine. Hakeem Jeffries called a Republican's cross-party endorsement a "partisan hack" back in September and said he was weighing next steps. Monday, apparently, he found one.

I'm sorry to come back to it — I already wrote it down once — but there are three federals in my notebook now, not two: the one in the video, the one in the bill, and the one Stevens just lost her seat to, Monday, because the caucus that voted her out isn't a state body, it's federal, same as the House she sat in. So I'll ask whoever covers this for a living, since I only get to ask once: which one's binding, the one on the video, or the one that's already federal?