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Former special counsel Jack Smith arrives to testify during the Senate Judiciary Committee hearing titled “Oversight of Jack Smith’s Abuse of Authority and the Targeting of Republicans and Related Matters,” in Hart Senate Office Building on Tuesday, September 29, 2026. (Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call via Getty Images)

We need Jack Smith’s defiance right now

Troy Farah
Donald Trump dons a "Trump 2028" red hat to close out his rambling attack on the press at the WHCA make-up dinner, rescheduled after a shooting at the April event. (Mandel NGAN / Getty Images)

Trump's pardons unlike other presidents

Caren Morrison - The Conversation
Sen. Mitch McConnell arrives for a vote at the U.S. Capitol on Sept. 14, 2026. It was his first public appearance in more than 90 days. (Finn Gomez/Getty Images)

Mitch is back and it’s terrifying

Troy Farah
Marathon Petroleum Corp's Los Angeles Refinery, one of the largest oil refineries in the North America on March 10, 2026. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

Trump's own energy crisis traps him

Troy Farah
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton speaks during the annual Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) meeting on February 23, 2024, in National Harbor, Maryland. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Paxton’s ethical financial dilemma

Zach Despart, Alexandra Glorioso, Kayla Guo - ProPublica
Second lady Usha Vance and Vice President JD Vance arrive for a military mothers celebration in the East Room of the White House on May 6, 2026. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JD's chivalry to Usha fools no one

Amanda Marcotte
An Amazon Web Services data center in Stone Ridge, Virginia, seen on Aug. 26, 2026. Data centers' economic benefits versus their energy and water demands have become a debate ahead of the midterms. (Anna Moneymaker / Getty Images)

Data center rebellion causes tech panic

Amanda Marcotte
(Douglas Rissing via Getty Images)

Don’t trust the name on the PAC

Brian Sheppard, Andrew Moshirnia - The Conversation
A Trump executive order to limit mail-in ballots just hit a roadblock as a federal court ruled against the administration to enforce the order. But there's still four months until the midterms. (Ronaldo Bolaños / Getty Images)

SCOTUS allows mail-in voting changes

Troy Farah
James Talarico. (Photo by John Moore/Getty Images )

Talarico floods Texas airwaves

Gabby Birenbaum - The Texas Tribune
Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY), Michigan Democratic candidate for Senate Abdul El-Sayed and U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) greet the crowd after El-Sayed spoke at The People V. The Powerful rally at the Detroit Opera House on July 18, 2026 in Detroit, Michigan. (Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images)

Democrats' working‑class voter problem

Nicholas Jacobs - The Conversation
Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche attends a news conference on November 19, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Andrew Harnik/Getty Images))

Trump's AG pick takes aim at abortion

Shefali Luthra - The 19th
Graham Platner speaks during a May Day rally organized by local unions, on May 1, 2026 outside City Hall in Portland, Maine. (Photo by Graeme Sloan/Getty Images)

Maine progressives still have a leg up

Russell Payne
Reps. Adelita Grijalva, D-Ariz., and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., with California congressional candidate Randy Villegas (front) Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass., New York congressional candidate Brad Lander and Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. (back) (Illustration by Salon / Getty Images / Andrew Harnik / Kayla Bartkowski / Andrew Lichtenstein / Nathan Posner / Jon Kopaloff / Tom Williams)

The “Squad” is about to get a lot bigger

Russell Payne
On election morning, New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani joins former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander as he campaigns for Congress outside of an election polling center, June 23, 2026 in the Lower East Side neighborhood of New York City. (Photo by Andrew Lichtenstein/Corbis via Getty Images)

New York is exporting Mamdani politics

Russell Payne
Former President Barack Obama stands on stage with daughter Sasha Obama during the dedication ceremony for the opening of the Barack Obama Presidential Center in John Lewis Plaza on June 18, 2026 in Chicago, Illinois. (Photo by Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Trump's envy soars over Obama Center

Amanda Marcotte
Vice President JD Vance during the 20th annual National Catholic Prayer Breakfast in Washington, D.C., Feb. 28, 2025. (Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)

JD's sad book tour shows why he's losing

Amanda Marcotte
From left, state Rep. Scott Bottoms, Victor Marx and state Sen. Barbara Kirkmeyer during a GOP gubernatorial debate at the Cable Center in Denver, June 2, 2026. (Aaron Ontiveroz/The Denver Post via Getty Images)

Even purple Colorado's GOP has gone nuts

Amanda Marcotte
Democratic Mule and Republican Elephant statues. (Visions of America/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)

Democrats’ conservative romance

Russell Payne
Abbas Alawieh, cofounder of the uncommitted movement during the DNC in Chicago, Illinois on August 20, 2024. (Photo by Nick Oxford for The Washington Post via Getty Images)

A plan to win back lost Democrat voters

Tatyana Tandanpolie
President Donald Trump is greeted by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, left, and Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick as he arrives on Air Force One at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on Wednesday November 20, 2019. (Jay Janner/The Austin American-Statesman via Getty Images)

Trump drives Texas GOP transformation

Eleanor Klibanoff - The Texas Tribune
Rep. Tom Suozzi (D-NY) speaks with members of the media outside the U.S. Capitol on December 17, 2025 in Washington, DC. (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Tom Suozzi lives at C Street

Jonathan Larsen
Dark money (Douglas Rissing via Getty Images)

The looming battle to hem in dark money

Russell Payne
Tulsi Gabbard (Photo by Heather Diehl/Getty Images)

Gabbard resigns as intelligence director

Garrett Owen
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