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The latest headlines on the 2026 midterms and U.S. politics from news outlets across the spectrum, election-related first. Updated every hour; each opens on the outlet's site.
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Aggression Against Iran Has Been Bipartisan. Will Midterm Results Change That?
The US and Israel repeatedly subverted Iranian sovereignty, threatened nuclear war, and destabilized the Middle East. Read more
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Trump Revives Election Fraud Claims Days After Pledging to Accept Midterms
“Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest?” Trump wrote on Truth Social. Read more
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LA’s DSA Rep.-Elect Says She Won’t Back Hakeem Jeffries for House Speaker
“As of right now, my vote is no,” Angela Gonzales-Torres says. “Over 100,000 Angelenos voted for courage.” Read more
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Trump Is Claiming Voter Fraud. Will the MAGA Power Structure Join In?
Just as day follows night and spring follows winter, one of the most inevitable occurrences in American life has begun again: Donald Trump is baselessly complaining about voter fraud following an election he did not win. Read more
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Trump Admin Awarded $40M in Federal Contracts to Firm Linked to President’s Sons
Donald Jr. and Eric Trump work as advisers for a firm that invested in the awardee’s parent company in February. Read more
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Impeachment Vote Looms for Hegseth
“I think there’s a high chance that it will be successful,” a member of Congress told The Intercept. Read more
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"Right Now My Vote Is No": L.A.'s DSA Rep.-Elect Gonzales-Torres on Backing Jeffries for House Speaker
The next Congress will include about 100 new lawmakers in the House of Representatives, the largest freshman wave in decades. That also includes six newly elected members of the Democratic Socialists of America, bringing the total number of DSA members in… Read more
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Trump, Toast or Toasted…
Peter Kuper America has been burned by his corruption. Read more
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"Hatemonger" as Chief of Staff: Trump Taps Stephen Miller to Top Role After Massive Election Defeat
Stephen Miller, the architect of the Trump administration’s mass deportation policies, has replaced Susie Wiles as White House chief of staff. In a recent 60 Minutes interview, President Donald Trump acknowledged that his immigration policies may be “too… Read more
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This Bipartisan Energy Deal Could Clear the Way for Trump’s Arch
Now that the most historic midterm election in memory is almost over, some of the more mundane, and yet potentially significant, issues in the new political landscape are emerging. Read more
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What Are Trump Toadies to Do Now? Pivot Hard, Obviously.
Two days after Election Day, Laura Loomer, a conspiracy theorist and proud Islamophobe who has served as one of President Donald Trump’s most fervent and influential backers, was in a reflective mood. Read more
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Trump Enters the Anger Stage Over GOP’s Catastrophic Losses
For a few very strange days this week, President Trump didn’t publicly acknowledge the Republican Party’s catastrophic losses in the midterm elections. Instead, the day after the election, he took journalists on a surprise tour of his under-construction White… Read more
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The Trump Era Is Bad. But Is It Evil?
Skepticism toward moral absolutes has made the modern mind leery of the very idea of evil. Philosopher Susan Neiman makes the case that explaining wrongdoing is not the same as reckoning with its moral significance. Read more
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How a Socialist Can Govern a City Under the Thumb of the Trump Administration
Janeese Lewis George is part of a new class of socialist mayors. Unlike her peers, she’ll be running a city under federal rule. Read more
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Republicans Are Desperate to Pretend They Never Supported the War With Iran
Only in defeat are Republicans eager to distance themselves from the war they used to champion. Read more
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Is There a Left Candidate for President?
“All I know is that the populist lane is wide open for someone to seize it.” Read more
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Public Citizen Opposes Senate Permitting Bill
Next week, the U.S. Senate is set to debate and vote on the Bipartisan American Affordability and Jobs Act of 2026 (BAAJA) ( S. 5653 ), a compromise permitting reform deal. Read more
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What's Behind Trump’s Obsession With Butts?
Jeet Heer Or, reflections on the anality of evil. Read more
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Trump Hurt Average Americans, So They Voted Against the GOP
Populism isn’t just a switch the GOP could have chosen to flip on in this election but didn’t. Its governing record under Donald Trump has been one of harm and contempt for working people. Voters knew that and punished Republicans for it. Read more
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Hasan Piker: Democrats Won Midterms, But Now They Have to Deliver on Voter Demands for Change
Tuesday was a historic night for progressive Democrats and, in particular, candidates backed by the Democratic Socialists of America. Six new DSA -endorsed candidates were elected to the House, and democratic socialists won mayoral races in Los Angeles… Read more
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National Politics Will Never Be the Same: Juan González on How Latino Voters Remade the Political Map
The midterms saw a landslide of Latinos vote for Democrats. In Texas, California, Kansas and Colorado, Latinos who had voted for Republicans just two years ago voted for Democrats in large numbers, helping secure Democratic control of both the House and the… Read more
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End the Private Health Insurance Tax: Pass Medicare for All
Make no mistake: the thousands of dollars that come out of your paycheck each year to pay for health insurance is a tax, just one paid to a private insurer rather than the federal government. Medicare for All would actually lower your taxes. Read more
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Notes From the Blue Star State
James K. Galbraith Texas is predominantly and pragmatically populist. If the national Democratic Party wishes to conquer the Electoral College for a generation, it will follow the lead of the voters. Read more
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California UFCW Leaders Really Don’t Want Union Elections
United Food and Commercial Workers Local 8–Golden State has been headed by one family since 1984. Reform candidates say union staff are using intimidation tactics to prevent a competitive election this year. Read more
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Stephen Miller Is the Real President Now
Jeet Heer Trump just promoted his worst, most dangerous adviser. Get ready for a constitutional crisis. Read more
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