| But Trump has some leverage in the court of public opinion. A strong majority of Americans appear to be giving the equivalent of a shrug at all this. A new, bipartisan Fox News poll found 6 in 10 Americans say Russia's involvement didn't help Trump win --- including 45 percent of Democrats. The Fix's Aaron Blake says that's good news for Trump. He seems to be increasingly isolated on what Russia did, but not that it mattered. Blake: “For now, basically only partisans appear to think it truly mattered, and even many Democrats are skeptical that it did. That's telling.” Get smart quick on a political drama everyone's talking about: North Carolina A protester shouts as she is arrested outside the House gallery during a special session of the North Carolina General Assembly on Friday. (Ethan Hyman/The News & Observer via AP) Democrats knocked off North Carolina's Republican governor in the fall, but Republicans aren't handing over power the same way they inherited it. The Republican-dominated legislature convened a dramatic, controversial special session this week to push through a pair of bills severely limiting Gov.-elect Roy Cooper's (D) power when he takes office in January. On Friday, Gov. Pat McCrory (R) signed the bills into law, a move widely seen as a middle finger to his successor. And get smart on basically everything Trump says Our next president tweets A LOT. But those tweets often rank low on the accuracy scale. So The Fix's Philip Bump made a tool to help us decode fact from fiction. You can download this free Google Chrome extension that slips some context below his tweets. Sometimes the context will fact-check our president-elect's tweets, other times it will provide more context about who, say, Rex Tillerson is. “It's still in the early stages,” writes Bump, “but our goal is to provide additional context where needed for Trump's tweets moving forward.” Our goal with this newsletter is to provide you additional context on the day's biggest political stories. Let me know how I'm doing. And while you're at it, send me your questions about this insane year in politics for an upcoming special edition of The 5-Minute Fix. Thanks, as always, for reading! | 