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How the Texas primary could rewrite the Democrats’ campaign playbook

Russell Payne
Both Jasmine Crockett and James Talarico have a theory of politics to test

Do special election results spell doom for Republicans in 2026?

Charlie Hunt
Results from the first 15 months of Trump's reign appear to spell very bad news for the Republicans

Early vote turnout in Texas outpacing past elections, fueled by Democratic primary voters

Paul Cobler
Turnout during the first week of voting exceeded the same period for the past two presidential elections

Special elections pattern suggests GOP could face rout in midterms

Garrett Owen
Democrats are outperforming past baselines in Trump-era districts, though the Senate map remains steep

Six deaths in six weeks: What to know about ICE detentions in Texas

Lomi Kriel, Colleen DeGuzman, Apurva Mahajan
Last year was the deadliest year in ICE detention in two decades. Nearly a quarter of those deaths were in Texas

How Jesse Jackson made room for white workers

Jason Kyle Howard
Before Democrats fractured, Jackson united workers across race and region — and provided a model for today’s party

RFK Jr. is winning MAHA’s vaccine war

Heather Digby Parton
In choosing a leading vaccine critic to run the CDC, the HHS secretary continues to endanger public health

Samuel Alito could give Trump another Supreme Court pick

David Daley
A strategically-timed retirement announcement means the GOP could soon have another seat to fill on the high court

Amid mass ICE arrests, Trump pardon recipient Hernández given special treatment

Keri Blakinger
The former Honduran president was pardoned and was whisked away to a luxury hotel in New York City

House passes elections overhaul bill that could make it harder for married women to vote

Marissa Martinez
The SAVE America Act could make it difficult for people who have changed their names to vote

Meet the Hell Cats — a key to Democrats’ hopes of taking the House

Mariel Padilla
A Signal group chat strategy hub for these Democratic women veterans running in high-stakes races

Gavin Newsom is much worse than you think

Norman Solomon
The California governor's policy priorities undermine his Trump trolling — and his progressive credentials

Facing midterm wipeout, Arizona Republicans revive sharia law panic

Russell Payne
The return of a decades-old scare offers clues to 2026 campaign tactics

Shock Democratic upset in Texas shows voters still hate book bans

Amanda Marcotte
Running against Moms for Liberty is a winning 2026 strategy

Pam Bondi has a Fox News problem

Sophia Tesfaye
From cable news hits to viral X posts, top DOJ figures are igniting backlash — and exposing deeper dysfunction

In NJ special election, it’s not the left that’s divided

Russell Payne
The Feb. 5 special election upends familiar assumptions about which factions struggle to unify

How Taylor Rehmet upset a MAGA candidate to flip a North Texas Senate district

Alejandro Serrano
Rehmet won a district Donald Trump carried by 17 points

Two CBP agents identified in Alex Pretti shooting

J. David McSwane
Two agents who fired on Pretti identified as Border Patrol agent Jesus Ochoa and CBP officer Raymundo Gutierrez

Even Republicans are asking what is wrong with Trump

Brian Karem
The president's ineptitude over Minneapolis has some in the GOP saying he's "falling apart"

Trump regrets not calling up troops after the 2020 election. What stops him in 2026?

Nathaniel Rakich, Votebeat
There are significant barriers — but some officials are still worried

Sunday shows expose cracks in Trump’s Greenland strategy

CK Smith
Bipartisan lawmakers acknowledged the diplomatic and constitutional risks of Trump's empire-building approach

Postmark changes could cause midterm election chaos

Russell Payne
A seemingly minor change could have huge ripple effects for rural and military voters

Inside the North Carolina GOP’s decade-long push to seize power from state’s Democratic governors

Doug Bock Clark
GOP lawmakers have passed law after law stripping powers from Democratic governors

Pushing Democrats to move beyond resistance

Christopher D. Cook
Rural Americans — and a Rural New Deal — could be the key to a new wave of economic populism
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