Talking Points Memo (TPM) is a liberal political news and opinion website created and run by Josh Marshall that debuted on November 12, 2000.

[4] By 2009 it had 11 employees, and, having previously been funded by ads and reader donations,[5] received angel investments from a group led by Marc Andreessen.

[6][7] In 2009, TPM opened a Washington, D.C. office and joined the White House press pool along with several other progressive news outlets to cover the Obama administration.

This includes coining phrases such as "Bamboozlepalooza" to describe George W. Bush's efforts to privatize Social Security, which the blog opposed;[12] and "bitch-slap politics" to refer to the Swiftboating of 2004 presidential candidate John Kerry.

"[4] Guest bloggers have included Matthew Yglesias, Robert Reich, Dean Baker, Michael Crowley, and, briefly, vice-presidential candidate John Edwards.