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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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Trump Obsesses Over Dana White After He Refuses to Join White House
President Trump appears to be doubling down on trying to get UFC President CEO Dana White to be White House press secretary. Trump posted multiple AI-generated videos of White on Truth Social Monday afternoon, including one where music plays as White… Read more
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Lauren Boebert Defeated by Blue Wave as Democrat Cruises to Victory
Colorado MAGA Representative Lauren Boebert has been washed away in the blue wave, losing her election to Democrat Eileen Laubacher in a stunning upset that is one of many GOP midterm failures. Read more
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MAGA Rep. Asked Trump Team to Intervene in Criminal Investigation
Representative Andy Ogles’s legal team pleaded with the Trump administration to drop a probe into his campaign finances. Months later, the Justice Department complied. Read more
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Thomas Massie Forces Vote on Impeaching Pete Hegseth
Representative Thomas Massie presented eight articles of impeachment against Secretary of Defense Pete Hegseth Monday afternoon. Massie posted his draft resolution hours earlier on X with the message, “I’ve seen some of my colleagues say @SecWar Hegseth has… Read more
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Trump Blurts Out Surprise Admission About Losses, Wrecking MAGA’s Spin
Everybody has had a good chuckle over Donald Trump’s new admission—delivered in an interview with CBS News—that his immigration agenda helped cause last week’s GOP’s electoral bloodbath. Read more
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Pete Hegseth’s Future Looks Grim as Even Trump Starts to Turn on Him
Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth appears to be on the verge of getting kicked out of Washington. Capitol Hill Republicans—including the president—have started to turn on Hegseth publicly. Read more
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Two More Top Officials Jump Ship After GOP Election Wipeout
The Trump administration is hemorrhaging officials following Republicans’ crushing defeat in the midterm elections and Stephen Miller’s ascension to White House chief of staff. Read more
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Trump Finally Emerges From Election Loss Stupor to Cry Fraud
President Donald Trump emerged Monday with muddled accusations of election fraud, nearly a week after saying he would accept the sweeping Republican losses in the midterm elections. “Does anybody really believe that this ‘Election’ was honest. Read more
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Ex-RFK Jr. Aide Goes Scorched Earth on Team Trump
MAHA stalwart Calley Means, who resigned from the Department of Health and Human Services two weeks ago, has accused former White House chief of staff Susie Wiles and her team of insiders of bowing to “unrelenting” pressure from industry lobbyists—and even… Read more
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MAGA Crashes Out After Trump Says He’s Too Hard on Immigration
The president is claiming he’ll take a softer tone on immigration now that Stephen Miller, his despotic deportation chief, is his chief of staff—and his longtime MAGA allies are not happy with the unexpected switch-up. Read more
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Trump Crumbles Trying to Defend How Much Money He’s Made as President
President Donald Trump had a tough time on CBS’s 60 Minutes trying to defend the massive increase in his wealth since the start of his second term. In an interview that aired Sunday, interviewer Ross Douthat pointed out to the president that his net worth has… Read more
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Republicans Pull Huge 180 on JD Vance for 2028 After Elections Loss
Republicans are already turning on Vice President JD Vance’s nascent presidential run, in favor of candidates from the Sunshine State. As Election Day results rolled in last week, Vance received a text from one of his confidants advising him to consider… Read more
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Transcript: Trump Unravels as GOPers Admit He Wrecked Their 2028 Map
The following is a lightly edited transcript of the November 9 episode of The Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here . Greg Sargent: This is The Daily Blast from The New Republic , produced and presented by the DSR Network. I’m your host, Greg Sargent. Read more
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The Midterms Were Bad for Republicans. 2028 Is Going to Be Even Worse.
If you’re looking for evidence that the right isn’t sure how to respond to the Republican Party’s historic collapse in Tuesday’s midterm elections, you could do worse than a graphic Fox News host Laura Ingraham blasted to her audience on Thursday. Read more
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Affordability or Accountability? Dear God, Democrats. Do Both—and More
The intra-Democratic debate that I despise above all others is the one that holds that Democrats must either do X or Y, but cannot possibly do both X and Y. It has made me insane for years. Read more
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Angry Trump Unravels as GOPers Openly Admit He Wrecked Their 2028 Map
Republicans are “panicking” about what the midterm debacle has done to their presidential map for 2028, Politico reports . Some Republicans fear Texas is now very gettable for the Democratic electoral college map. Read more
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Stephen Miller Will Drag the GOP Further Into the Electoral Abyss
As a high school student, Stephen Miller once told a booing crowd of his classmates that he was “sick and tired of being told to pick up my trash when we have plenty of janitors who are paid to do it for us.” Now he gets to reckon with a colossal political… Read more
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Trump Runs Away as Reporter Reminds Him He’s a Big, Giant Loser
President Donald Trump scurried away from reporters Friday who asked about his new loser status. Trump had an awkward interaction with reporters outside the White House after they asked him to explain his decision to replace chief of staff Susie Wiles with… Read more
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Trump Plans to Accuse Nonprofits of Having Terrorist Ties
When in doubt, call them a terrorist. The White House is tapping into its standby strategy in its latest attempt to cripple nonprofits. Donald Trump is weighing an executive order that would brand some nonprofits as having terrorist ties, The Wall Street… Read more
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Abdul El-Sayed Launches “Habibi PAC” Days After Winning Election
Days after defeating Republican Mike Rogers in Michigan’s Senate election—overcoming $38 million in American Israel Public Affairs Committee funds , a tidal wave of bigotry and Islamophobia, and an eleventh-hour betrayal by Democratic Representative Haley… Read more
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Trump Promotes Stephen Miller as He Doubles Down on Extreme Agenda
Stephen Miller will be taking over as White House chief of staff beginning Monday. Trump made the announcement on Truth Social Friday afternoon, saying that “Susie Wiles, who has done an outstanding job, will be moving over to the Trump Political Operation. Read more
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Democrats Put Tech Giants That Courted Trump at the Top of Target List
Democrats are eyeing investigations into some of America’s largest corporations that tried to curry favor with President Trump. The Washington Post reports that now that Democrats won back control of Congress, they are planning to probe powerful entities in… Read more
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Trump Official Doug Burgum Has Been Pushing Data Centers for a Reason
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum has been pushing to build artificial intelligence data centers on public lands since he first joined President Trump’s Cabinet. Read more
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Trump Aides Are Eying the Exits After Disastrous Elections
Donald Trump’s midterm bust has even his White House aides eyeing the exit. “There is no holding back on the desire to leave now,” one former White House official told MS NOW Friday. Read more
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Chuck Schumer’s Time May Be Up as Van Hollen Suddenly Pivots
Senator Chris Van Hollen is open to running for Senate majority leader, amid mounting calls for Senator Chuck Schumer to pass the torch. Van Hollen has “received an outpouring of calls and is now in active listening mode,” a person familiar with the Maryland… Read more
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Todd Blanche Loses His Mind Over Looming Democratic Investigations
Attorney General Todd Blanche has completely lost the plot. The Justice Department chief effectively confessed on CNN Sunday that the historically independent agency will investigate Democratic lawmakers at Donald Trump’s behest. Read more
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Protests Erupt as ICE Agents Block Ambulances From Hospital
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents showed up at a hospital in Los Angeles on Saturday and blocked off the ambulance entrance. KABC-TV, a Los Angeles TV station, reports that ICE showed up at about midnight at Adventist Health White Memorial Medical… Read more
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The Most Open-and-Shut Impeachment Case Is Not Pete Hegseth
On Saturday, Donald Trump ordered the Justice Department to investigate members of Congress for the offense of proposing to impeach his attorney general. He branded the talk “extortion at the highest level” and announced, “I am ordering the Department of… Read more
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How ICE Keeps an Eye on Protestors
While much of the florid, fashy antics of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, or ICE, has lingered long in the memory, there’s one thing the agency has been doing that’s largely flown under the radar—its efforts to surveil protesters using sophisticated… Read more
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Anthropic’s Customers Are Also Its Test Subjects
For most businesses, an S-1 filing is fairly straightforward—a combination of due-diligence box-checking exercise and sales pitch. The registration statement is filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission ahead of an Initial Public Offering, or IPO… Read more
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The Votes Are In. The Mandate Is Accountability.
On Wednesday morning, nearly 30 million people in Texas woke up to the news that for the first time in a generation they had turned their state blue, winning the governor’s mansion, a United States Senate seat, comptroller, land, agriculture, and railroad… Read more
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POTUS’s History Lessons
It started with a BlackBerry—that now-defunct wireless device and precursor to present-day smartphones. Photographer and author Peter Adams was interested in how consumer products influence politics, and kept returning to the “BarackBerry,” the vintage silver… Read more
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In Memoriam: The Cybertruck
The Cybertruck, the vehicle of choice for guys who like to say “my pronouns are U, S, and A” and—if they ever did find a woman who wanted to have sex with them—would throw an absolute fit over being asked to wear a condom, is being taken out back and told to… Read more
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Democratic “Moderation” Isn’t What Produced the Wave
You can watch this episode of Right Now With Perry Bacon above or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . You can read a transcript here . The midterms were not a story of Democratic moderation , political scientists Adam Bonica and Jake Grumbach… Read more
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Transcript: Democratic “Moderation” Isn’t What Produced the Wave
This is a lightly edited transcript of the November 5 edition of Right Now With Perry Bacon. You can watch the video here or by following this show on YouTube or Substack . Perry Bacon: Good afternoon. This is Right Now on The New Republic . Read more
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ICE’s Own Report Found It’s Not Giving Detainees Sufficient Care
Immigration and Customs Enforcement investigators determined that failing medical care preceded the deaths of 23 immigrants in detention. The San Francisco Chronicle obtained internal reports on the deaths of 29 immigrant detainees who died between January… Read more
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U.S. Hits Bonkers Measles High as RFK Jr.’s CDC Hides Death Totals
The U.S. is on the cusp of losing its measles elimination status. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention confirmed 5,182 measles infections nationwide Friday, the highest case load of the disease that the country has experienced since 1991. Read more
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Stunning Map Shows Just How Much the Country Swung Left in Elections
Want to see just how far left the United States shifted in Tuesday’s midterm elections? Look no further. A map produced by Ground News using data from civicAPI showed just how far each U.S. Read more
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Amy Acton Says She Won’t Speak to Vivek Ramaswamy After Beating Him
Dr. Amy Acton is washing her hands of Vivek Ramaswamy and his dirty campaign tactics. Ohio’s first female governor-elect told CBS Mornings Friday that she has “no intention” of speaking to the losing Republican after he produced a disturbing political advert… Read more
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Two Top Justice Department Officials Jump Ship on the Same Day
On the heels of assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon’s departure Thursday, two more leading officials from the Department of Justice are resigning. Politico reports that John Eisenberg, the assistant attorney general in charge of national security, and… Read more
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