2026 Midterms | The Dingo Daily

Nov 04, 2026

Democrats Just Wiped the Floor With the Party Trump Rebuilt in His Own Image

Democrats didn't just win on Tuesday. According to Axios, they won by epic, sometimes historic margins in red states and blue states, at the top of the ballot...

Nov 04, 2026

Trump Called Him a Jihadist, Chanted 'Deport!' at Him. Abdul El-Sayed Won Anyway.

The president of the United States stood in front of a crowd in Port Huron and said he was there to stop "a jihadist Muslim Brotherhood member from becoming a...

Nov 03, 2026

Democrats Win the House, Tell Trump Officials to 'LAWYER UP' in All Caps

The votes were barely counted before Democrats started drafting the paperwork. "LAWYER UP," wrote Rep. Robert Garcia, the man in line to run the House...

Nov 03, 2026

Trump Inspected Jon Husted's Butt on Stage, Then Husted Lost Ohio

Two weeks before Election Day, the sitting president of the United States stood in front of a crowd in Youngstown and announced that he had been "examining"...

Nov 03, 2026

Mike Collins Defended Trump's Iran War and Tariffs, Then Lost Georgia

Georgia Republicans spent the 2026 cycle calling Jon Ossoff the most vulnerable Democrat in the Senate. On Tuesday night, he won re-election over Rep. Mike...

Nov 03, 2026

South Carolina Elects Democrat After GOP Appointee Says 'National Security Is Not My Thing'

A pediatrician just won Lindsey Graham's old Senate seat in a state Donald Trump carried by nearly 18 points. She beat his sister, a woman who ran the state...

Nov 03, 2026

Florida Democrats Gave Their Socialist a Shot, Then Lost to the Candidate Who Skipped Every Debate

Ashley Moody, the senator who declined to debate her opponent, did fewer public events than her opponent, and signed off on the Hope Florida deal that sent $10...

Nov 03, 2026

Indicted Rep Wins 86% of the Vote After Giving Birth Five Weeks Ago

Rep. LaMonica McIver of New Jersey is facing federal charges, gave birth to her second child on Oct. 1, and still won re-election Tuesday night with roughly...

Nov 03, 2026

Trump Predicts Cooper Will Win NC Senate Seat. 'It's Crazy,' He Adds

Roy Cooper is going to the United States Senate, and Donald Trump called it weeks ago, standing in front of a crowd in North Carolina while the guy he...

Nov 03, 2026

DOJ Promised a Judge Its 1,000 Poll Monitors Are Just 'Clerical Staff'

The Justice Department planned to send more than 1,000 people to polling places on Election Day, and the question a federal judge had to settle on the eve of...

Nov 03, 2026

Trump Voters Grade Him C-, F, and 'Scary' as Midterms Arrive

Eleven people who have voted for Donald Trump over the past decade were asked how they feel about the country one week before the midterms. They said "messy,"...

Nov 02, 2026

Iowa Dem Pulls Ahead on Kalshi, Says 'Oh My God' in a Driveway

Josh Turek was standing in a driveway in western Iowa with former Sen. Tom Harkin when Harkin pulled out his phone and showed him prediction market odds...

Nov 02, 2026

Democrats Need Texas, Iowa and Ohio to Take the Senate. Yes, Really.

Control of Congress is on the ballot Tuesday, and the map reads like a prank. The Senate hangs on whether Democrats can win deep-red Texas, where Republicans...

Oct 30, 2026

Elon Musk Spent $276 Million Buying a Senate So Democracy Won't End

Elon Musk has warned that a Democratic sweep in 2028 would mean "the end of democracy in any meaningful sense of the word." The man delivering this warning has...

Oct 30, 2026

Trump Cancels Final Rallies, Rage-Quits a Reuters Reporter: 'You're Sick'

With days left before the midterms, Donald Trump cancelled in-person rallies in Iowa and Kansas and decided to campaign by phone instead. When a Reuters...

Oct 29, 2026

The Pope Requested an Illinois Mail Ballot and Trump Called Him 'WEAK on Crime'

The first American pope in history has requested a mail ballot to vote in Illinois, which means the leader of 1.4 billion Catholics is about to cast a vote in...

Oct 29, 2026

Deb Haaland Is About to Make History, and She's Too Busy to Notice

Deb Haaland is on the verge of becoming the first Native American woman elected governor of any US state, and she admits she sometimes forgets about it because...

Oct 27, 2026

Murkowski Endorses a Democrat for Governor, Trump Calls Her 'Worst Senator, by Far'

A sitting Republican senator just endorsed a Democrat for governor of a state Donald Trump has won three times, one week before Election Day. Lisa Murkowski...

Oct 26, 2026

GOP Nominee Used a Dead 8-Year-Old's Mom's 911 Call in an Attack Ad

Rick Jackson, the Republican nominee for Georgia governor, ran an attack ad built around photographs of a murdered 8-year-old girl and her mother's anguished...

Oct 25, 2026

Obama: Trump Has the White House Looking Like Saddam Hussein Opened a Cheesecake Factory

Barack Obama returned to the campaign trail on Saturday and used his first midterm rally to say Donald Trump has the White House looking "like Saddam Hussein...

Oct 25, 2026

'Brilliant James': The 37-Year-Old Bald Dad Who Might Save Trump's Midterms

Donald Trump has a nickname for the guy running the Republican midterm operation, and it is "Brilliant James." One source told the Guardian he is "twice, five...

Oct 24, 2026

GOP Congressman Vanishes for 3 Months, Misses 100 Votes, Still Calls the Press Thing a 'Narrative'

Tom Kean Jr. had a $2.4 million war chest, a Trump endorsement, and a district drawn to protect him. Then he went missing from Congress and public life for...

Oct 23, 2026

Rashida Tlaib Said She'd Impeach 'the Motherfucker.' Now She Says Not So Fast.

In 2019, Rep. Rashida Tlaib stood in front of a crowd and promised to impeach "the motherfucker." In October 2026, the loudest impeachment voices in the House...

Oct 22, 2026

Young Voters Are Showing Up in November Mostly to Fire Trump

Nine percent. That is the share of Americans under 30 who say the country is headed in the right direction, the lowest number in the history of the Harvard...

Oct 22, 2026

Minnesota Republicans Haven't Won Statewide Since 2006. Now Michele Tafoya Is Within Four Points.

Minnesota has not elected a Republican to statewide office since 2006, back when the iPhone was a rumor and "Mike Lindell" was a guy selling pillows instead of...

Oct 21, 2026

Trump Gushes Over Rally Attendee Who Punched Protester: 'Man, I Loved That'

A man appeared to hit a protester at Donald Trump's rally in Clemson, South Carolina, and the president of the United States responded by asking who threw the...

Oct 21, 2026

Trump Tells Kansas Voters He'll Only Fix Fuel Rules 'For Him' If Marshall Wins

Donald Trump stood in front of a Kansas crowd and said he would make year-round E15 fuel permanent if Sen. Roger Marshall wins, but if Democrat Adam Hamilton...

Oct 21, 2026

Poll: 15% of Trump Voters Regret It, 58% Want Congress to Rein Him In

Nearly 15% of self-described Trump voters now regret voting the way they did, and Trump's approval has sunk to 34%. With less than two weeks until Election...

Oct 20, 2026

Bloomberg Drops $80M on Democrats While Trump Moves $400M Around

Michael Bloomberg is spending $80 million to help Democrats win the House, which sounds like a lot until you learn that Donald Trump says he's putting $400...

Oct 20, 2026

Vivek Ramaswamy Ran an Ad Starring the Mother Who Stayed Married to Her Daughter's Abuser

Vivek Ramaswamy's campaign for Ohio governor has released an attack ad starring the mother of his Democratic opponent, Amy Acton, who says Acton's tale of...

Oct 20, 2026

Rogan and the Bro Podcasters Are Losing the Young Men They Delivered for Trump

The podcasters and online personalities who helped haul young men into Donald Trump's column in 2024 are reportedly losing their shine with the very audience...

Oct 19, 2026

Abdul El-Sayed Is Hunting Democratic Votes in the Upper Peninsula, Where Democrats Go to Die

Michigan's Democratic Senate candidate just drove into the Upper Peninsula, a region that has not sent a Democrat to Congress in over a decade, to ask for...

Oct 18, 2026

Kansas Hasn't Elected a Democratic Senator Since 1932. A Methodist Pastor Wants to Fix That

Kansas hasn't sent a Democrat to the U.S. Senate since 1932, a streak old enough to have lived through the Hoover administration and the invention of the...

Oct 18, 2026

GOP Congresswoman Tells Trump He's "Gone Too Far," Gets Called a "Back Stabber"

Rep. María Elvira Salazar, a Cuban-American Republican in her third term, stood in front of the White House last month and told President Trump he had "gone...

Oct 17, 2026

GOP Digs Up Peggy Flanagan's Dead Grandfather, Who Died When She Was 3

A Minnesota outlet has unearthed the psychiatric history of Democratic Senate candidate Peggy Flanagan's maternal grandfather, a man who died in 1983 when she...

Oct 16, 2026

Jon Ossoff Has 'Zero Interest' in 2028, Says Man Everyone Is Watching

Jon Ossoff has said he has "zero interest" in running for president in 2028 to a local TV station, to CNN, to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, to MS Now...

Oct 14, 2026

Boebert and McGuire, Who Never Sweated Before, Are Now Campaigning Like They Might Lose

Republicans who haven't had a real reelection fight in years are suddenly campaigning like they're running in swing districts. Lauren Boebert and John McGuire,...

Oct 12, 2026

Trump Is Now Polling Below Jan. 6 in Arizona, and Gas Is $4.50

A nonpartisan Arizona pollster says Donald Trump's approval rating in the state is now lower than it was right after the January 6 attack on the Capitol. His...

Oct 12, 2026

Republicans Out-Raise Democrats by $400 Million, Whine About 'Headwinds'

Republicans have outspent Democrats by $400 million this cycle, and their own strategists are still bracing for a rough election night. The party of Donald...

Oct 08, 2026

Mike Collins Can't Explain Tariffs, Blames Biden, Debates a Ghost

Georgia held a Senate debate Thursday night, and the main event was a man being asked the same question over and over while declining to answer it. Republican...

Oct 07, 2026

Trump Mails $500 Checks to People Whose Premiums He Let Triple

A woman in West Virginia drained her retirement savings to pay $1,967 a month for health insurance after Republicans let ACA subsidies die. Now she has a $500...

Oct 06, 2026

Republicans Are Spending Millions Defending Kansas and South Carolina. Kansas.

A top Republican super PAC just canceled its remaining ad buys in North Carolina and started shipping that cash to Kansas and South Carolina. Read that again....

Oct 06, 2026

America Just Joined Russia and Belarus in Banning Election Monitors

For the first time in more than two decades, international election observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe will not be...

Oct 06, 2026

45% of Voters Say Their Midterm Ballot Is Just a Vote Against Trump

Four weeks out from the midterms, the latest NPR/PBS News/Marist poll finds that 45% of registered voters say their vote for Congress is a vote against Donald...

Oct 05, 2026

Vance Tells GOP to Lie About Democrats Being Crazy, While Admitting They're Not

JD Vance is trying to save the Republican Party's midterm prospects by asking voters to give Trump "another chance" — without apologizing for anything,...

Oct 04, 2026

Rahm Emanuel Tells Dems to Skip Impeachment and Just Be Normal

Rahm Emanuel, the man who once told a colleague he was 'f---ing dead' for a bad vote, went on Meet the Press Sunday and told Democrats to please, for the love...

Oct 03, 2026

Trump Tells Ohio Crowd to 'Pretend' He's Running, Crowd Half-Empty

Donald Trump stood in a high school gymnasium in Vandalia, Ohio on Saturday night and told voters their best strategy for winning the midterms was to pretend...

Oct 03, 2026

Gina Hinojosa Is Up 3 on Greg Abbott and the DGA Is Still Sitting on Its Wallet

Gina Hinojosa is beating Greg Abbott in Texas, and the Democratic Governors Association is responding to this news the way it responds to most good news: by...

Oct 03, 2026

Trump's $90 Election Bribe for Seniors Is So Cheap It's Almost Impressive

With the midterms six weeks out and his approval rating in the gutter, Donald Trump has landed on a bold political strategy: send 20 million elderly Americans...

Oct 01, 2026

Trump Threatens to 'Go After' Democrats If They Win the House

A sitting president just told one of America's most widely read magazines that he plans to weaponize federal power against the opposing party if they win a...

Oct 01, 2026

Jon Stewart to Schumer and Jeffries: 'Do Something With It, You B-----ds'

Jon Stewart looked at the prospect of Democrats winning a historic midterm landslide and his first instinct was dread. Not because of the victory itself, but...

Sep 27, 2026

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Now Running for Governor of Ohio. Sure. Why Not.

Vivek Ramaswamy, the guy who spent 2023 auditioning for a Fox News hosting slot by pretending to run for president, is now the Republican nominee for governor...

Sep 26, 2026

Forecasters Now Say Democrats' Poll Lead Is the Real Deal

The professional skeptics are coming around. According to The Hill, independent election forecasters — the same people paid to be cold-eyed and unsentimental...

Sep 26, 2026

Trump Told Voters to Pretend He's on the Ballot. They Did.

Donald Trump looked at the 2026 midterm map and told voters to treat it like he was personally on every ballot. Republicans across the country are now...

Sep 23, 2026

Tim Scott Tells GOP Behind Closed Doors: 'Fight for Our Lives'

Six weeks before the midterms, the man in charge of keeping the Senate Republican called a closed-door meeting with his colleagues and told them, without...

Sep 22, 2026

298,000 Americans in the UK Could Vote. Only 3.8% Did.

There are roughly 298,000 voting-age American citizens living in the United Kingdom right now. In the last midterm elections, fewer than four percent of them...

Sep 20, 2026

America Is 10/10 Pissed Off and the 2026 Midterms Are About to Prove It

The Working Families Party's national director Maurice Mitchell put it in terms that no focus group could have workshopped: most Americans are, quote, '10 out...

Sep 19, 2026

GOP Dumps Millions Into NFL Ads to Win Back Men Who've Abandoned Trump

The Republican Party's midterm strategy apparently bottoms out at this: buy enough football commercials and maybe men will forget what's happened to their...

Sep 19, 2026

78% of Hispanic Voters Want Democrats Back in Congress

The voters who helped put Donald Trump back in the White House are now, to put it plainly, furious at him. According to a September New York Times/Siena...

Sep 17, 2026

GOP Rep Tells Trump His Own Immigration Crackdown 'Gone Too Far'

A sitting Republican congresswoman just cut a campaign ad telling the president of her own party that his signature policy has gone too far. That's not a leak....

Sep 10, 2026

Trump Promises $5K Checks If You Vote Right, GOP Calls It Bribery

Donald Trump stood at the Republican midterm convention in Dallas and promised every American adult a $5,000 check — but only if you keep his party in power....

Sep 10, 2026

Trump Promises Every American $5K He Doesn't Have Yet

Donald Trump stood in front of a arena full of people in sparkly MAGA hats on Wednesday night and promised every adult American $5,000 if Republicans win...

Sep 09, 2026

Fetterman Endorses a Republican at the GOP Convention. Yes, Really.

Democratic Senator John Fetterman walked into the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night and endorsed a Republican senator on national television,...

Sep 09, 2026

GOP Holds 'Trumpapalooza' While 35 House Republicans Hide

Republicans gathered in Dallas Tuesday night for what they're actually calling 'Trumpapalooza,' a two-day convention designed to fire up the MAGA base heading...

Sep 09, 2026

GOP House Candidate Called Homeless People 'Cheaper Than Ham'

A Republican running for a competitive Texas congressional seat once filmed himself shooting a ham and remarking that buying it for target practice was "still...

Sep 08, 2026

Trump's $403M War Chest Is Basically a Trump Fan Fund

Donald Trump is sitting on $403 million in Super PAC money with midterm elections approaching, and according to multiple reports, his plan is to spend it on...

Sep 08, 2026

Republicans Could Lose Congress While Trump Builds a Ballroom

With two months until Election Day, public polling suggests Republicans may be on track to lose control of both chambers of Congress — in part because voters...

Sep 06, 2026

Raskin: Trump 'Undoubtedly' Impeachable, But Healthcare Comes First

Rep. Jamie Raskin went on national television Sunday and told America that Donald Trump has 'undoubtedly' committed impeachable offenses, that 'nothing comes...

Sep 05, 2026

GOP Privately Knows Trump Is Killing Them, Publicly Cheers Anyway

The Republican Party has a Trump problem, knows it has a Trump problem, and is absolutely going to do nothing about it. With 59 days until the November...

Sep 04, 2026

Trump Is Actively Helping Democrats Win the Midterms

Donald Trump, a man who has spent a decade screaming about winning, appears to be doing everything in his power to lose. The midterm elections are weeks away,...

Sep 03, 2026

Musk Dumps $800K into Midterms in 12 Days, May Sink the Candidates He's Saving

Elon Musk spent $800,000 in 12 days trying to save Republicans from losing Congress, which would be more impressive if Elon Musk weren't one of the least...

Sep 03, 2026

Musk Promised to Spend 'A Lot Less' on Politics. Then Came the $100M Midterm Fund.

Last year, Elon Musk looked into a camera and said he thought he'd "done enough" political spending and planned to do "a lot less" in the future. Then he...

Aug 29, 2026

Michigan GOP Senate Candidate: I Saw Bin Laden's Body. He Saw a Photo.

Michigan Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers sent a fundraising email telling supporters he saw Osama bin Laden's dead body "with my own eyes." He did not....

Aug 26, 2026

Jeffries Won't Rule Out Impeachment If Dems Win the House

Ten weeks out from the midterms, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries sat down with Wolf Blitzer and said the quiet part at a reasonable volume: if Democrats...

Aug 25, 2026

Democrats Are Posting Thirst Traps Now. It Might Actually Work.

The Democratic Party, which a March poll found is viewed less favorably than ICE, has arrived at its solution: post thirsty videos of buff guys in tight...

Aug 21, 2026

Trump's Senate Pick Doesn't Know Taiwan Is a Thing, Thinks SC Has 50M People

The Trump-endorsed candidate for a United States Senate seat told a debate audience she is 'not that informed on national security,' and also that South...

Aug 20, 2026

Trump Voters Tell Focus Group He's More Worried About His Ballroom Than Their Bills

A dozen swing voters in Iowa and Georgia — nine of whom voted for Donald Trump in 2024 — sat down for focus groups this week and delivered a verdict that his...

Aug 20, 2026

Trump Voters Are Selling Laptops to Pay Bills and Blaming Trump

Nine of twelve undecided voters in Iowa and Georgia voted for Donald Trump two years ago. Eight of them now disapprove of his job performance. And at least one...

Aug 20, 2026

Bernie Backs Nixon After She Crushed the Dem Establishment's Guy

Two days after Angie Nixon sent the Democratic Party establishment into a quiet, tight-lipped panic by defeating heavily funded favorite Alex Vindman in...

Aug 18, 2026

Florida Dems Pick Socialist Over $16M Impeachment Hero

A progressive member of the Democratic Socialists of America just knocked out the man who helped spark Donald Trump's first impeachment, despite being outspent...

Aug 14, 2026

Expelled for Gun Protest, Justin Pearson Just Won a Primary Against Elon Musk's Backyard

Justin Pearson got expelled from the Tennessee state legislature for protesting gun violence. Three years later, he just won a Democratic congressional primary...

Aug 13, 2026

Trump's Own Pollster Tells Republicans: Drop SAVE Act, Talk Health Care

Donald Trump's own campaign pollster just told Senate Republicans, in a private briefing, to stop talking about the thing Donald Trump won't shut up about....

Aug 11, 2026

Klobuchar Wins MN Governor Primary With 86% of the Vote

Amy Klobuchar didn't win Minnesota's Democratic gubernatorial primary so much as she absorbed it. With 86% of the vote and six other candidates apparently...

Aug 09, 2026

Accused of Abuse, Ohio Rep. Max Miller Misses His Own Exit Ramp

Ohio Congressman Max Miller, facing domestic abuse allegations from his ex-wife and a public resignation demand from his own father-in-law, had one job: decide...

Aug 09, 2026

Trump Posted a Side-by-Side of Himself and a Muslim Candidate to Say 'Two VERY DIFFERENT Americas' — The Candidate Said 'Yeah, He's Right'

Donald Trump posted a side-by-side photo of himself and Melania next to Abdul El-Sayed and his hijab-wearing wife on Truth Social, captioned "Two VERY...

Aug 09, 2026

Young Conservatives Admit the Economy Sucks, Then Vote Republican Anyway

A group of young conservatives gathered in Washington this summer to talk about how unaffordable housing is, how hopeless their generation feels, and how the...

Aug 09, 2026

Democrats Keep Losing Working-Class Voters Because Donors > Workers

A major new report on Democratic coalition politics has found exactly what you suspected but nobody in a party leadership meeting will say out loud: the...

Aug 07, 2026

GOP's Big Midterm Play: 'Sure We're Bad, But Have You Seen Them?'

The Republican Party, currently helmed by a president with approval ratings in the 30s who is running an active war in Iran, has landed on its closing argument...

Aug 06, 2026

Trump's Endorsement Loses in Tennessee as Ogles Gets Booted

Tennessee Republicans looked at their Trump-endorsed congressman and said, politely but firmly, no thanks. Rep. Andy Ogles, a second-term MAGA loyalist, lost...

Aug 06, 2026

Marsha Blackburn Wants to Run Tennessee. Trump Begged Her Not To.

Donald Trump publicly begged Marsha Blackburn not to run for governor of Tennessee. She ran anyway. And now the most MAGA-branded senator in the Volunteer...

Aug 05, 2026

Detroit Voters Dump Crypto-Losing, Israel-Rebranding Incumbent for 34-Year-Old Democratic Socialist

A two-term incumbent congressman who lost more than $2 million in campaign funds through cryptocurrency investments, used taxpayer money to run what looked...

Aug 05, 2026

Progressives Finally Win Something Real: El-Sayed Beats AIPAC's $52M in Michigan

Outside groups dumped $52 million into Michigan's Democratic Senate primary, much of it from AIPAC and its aligned PACs trying to stop a progressive...

Aug 05, 2026

Democrats Just Put Boebert, Hudson, and 10 Others on Their Hit List

Ninety days out from the midterm elections, House Democrats just added 12 new Republican-held districts to their target list — including the seat belonging to...

Aug 04, 2026

Mike Lindell Quits MyPillow to Run for Governor on Pillow Bribery Charges

Mike Lindell, the MyPillow guy, the man who spent millions of his own money chasing a voter fraud conspiracy that courts rejected roughly 60 times, has now...

Aug 04, 2026

The Democrat Who Flipped a Trump District Is Getting Stabbed by Her Own Party

Marie Gluesenkamp Perez did the impossible: she flipped a district Trump has carried three times, ran seven points ahead of her own party's presidential...

Aug 04, 2026

Democrats Betting a Medicare-for-All Outsider Can Win Michigan's Senate Seat

The Democratic Party is about to find out, in real time, whether running a Medicare-for-All anti-establishment candidate in a must-win Senate race is a bold...

Aug 03, 2026

Trump Tells Rep. Miller 'Things Aren't Looking Good' After Assault Reports

President Trump called Republican Rep. Max Miller on Monday and told him his reelection looks rough, days after reports emerged that Miller assaulted his...

Aug 03, 2026

Trump's Endorsement Has Never Won This District. He Endorsed Someone Anyway.

A Trump-backed candidate has never won Washington's 4th Congressional District. Not once. So naturally, Donald Trump went ahead and endorsed someone in the...

Aug 02, 2026

GOP Sen. Tells His Own Son-in-Law to Quit Congress and Get Help

Ohio Republican Senator Bernie Moreno went on X Sunday and told the world that his former son-in-law, sitting U.S. Representative Max Miller, 'fails' the basic...

Aug 02, 2026

29-Year-Old Socialist Just Ended a 15-Term Congressman's Career in Colorado

A 29-year-old Democratic Socialist just ended the congressional career of a woman who had held her seat since 1997. Melat Kiros defeated 15-term Rep. Diana...

Aug 02, 2026

Ohio GOP Rep's Father-in-Law Calls Him a 'Danger' on Live TV

An Ohio Republican congressman went on livestream Sunday to deny abusing his ex-wife and young daughter. His ex-father-in-law, who also happens to be a sitting...

Aug 02, 2026

Trump Told Advisers He Doesn't Care If GOP Loses Congress

The president of the United States has told his closest advisers that he genuinely does not care if his party loses control of Congress this fall. Not as a...

Aug 01, 2026

Vivek Ramaswamy Is Losing to a Democrat in Trump's Ohio

Vivek Ramaswamy is statistically tied with a Democrat in a state Donald Trump won by 12 points less than two years ago. He spent part of this week at a county...

Jul 31, 2026

Michigan Could Hand Democratic Socialists Their Biggest Win Yet

Establishment Democrats spent years insisting the progressive insurgency was a coastal boutique phenomenon that would flame out before it reached anything that...

Jul 31, 2026

Republicans Gutted Healthcare for 10M People. Now They're Running Ads About It.

Republicans passed a law that will leave roughly 10 million fewer Americans with health insurance by 2034, watched enrollment drop by 3 million people in the...

Jul 30, 2026

Trump's Approval Hits 34% — Tied With His Jan. 6 Low

Donald Trump's approval rating has collapsed to 34%, according to a new CNN poll, matching the lowest point of his political career: the days immediately after...

Jul 29, 2026

Musk Revives $260M Trump PAC to Flood 2026 Midterms

Elon Musk has apparently looked at the last two years of American political life and thought, yes, more of this please. According to Axios, Musk is reviving...

Jul 29, 2026

Free Childcare Is Winning Elections and Republicans Have No Answer

For fifty years, Republicans killed universal childcare by calling it a threat to "family values," and Democrats mostly let them. Then the cost of daycare blew...

Jul 26, 2026

85 Million Americans Have Checked Out of Democracy. Here's Why.

Thirty-five percent of the American electorate, roughly 85 million people, have effectively rage-quit democracy. Not because they stopped caring about their...

Jul 24, 2026

Trump's Pick for Lindsey Graham's Seat Is Losing to the Ghost of Lindsey Graham

Darline Graham has everything a Republican Senate candidate could want heading into a primary: a Trump endorsement, a sympathy wave after her brother Lindsey's...

Jul 21, 2026

Trump's Team Has $530M+ to Burn on Midterms and Nobody Has to Know Where It Came From

Donald Trump's political machine rolled into the Four Seasons hotel in Washington on Tuesday for a strategy session, which is already a more elegant venue than...

Jul 19, 2026

GOP Insider Admits 2026 Plan: 'Voters Have to Hate Dems More Than They Hate Us'

A Republican operative connected to Donald Trump's political operation just told Axios, out loud, using their actual mouth, that the party's entire 2026...

Jul 17, 2026

GOP Outspends Dems $53M to $17M on Immigration Ads—and Counting

Republicans have spent $53 million on immigration-related political ads since January. Democrats have spent $17 million. That gap is not a rounding error — it...

Jul 16, 2026

DNC Made Leaders Sign NDAs Before Talking About How Broke It Is

The Democratic National Committee, a political party that would very much like you to donate money to help them fight for democracy, made its own senior...

Jul 15, 2026

Trump Endorses MyPillow Guy for Governor of a State He Might Not Live In

Donald Trump has endorsed MyPillow founder Mike Lindell for governor of Minnesota, a state where Lindell is currently losing by 17 points and which he may not...

Jul 09, 2026

DCCC Burns Donor Cash on Primaries Again, and Democrats Are Furious

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, fresh off a string of questionable primary interventions this cycle, has decided the obvious solution is to do...

Jun 30, 2026

GOP Rep Vanished for 142 Days. Turns Out It Was Depression.

For 142 days, a sitting member of Congress simply disappeared. No explanation. No timeline. Not even his own aides knew what was going on. On Tuesday, Rep. Tom...

Jun 27, 2026

Trump's Senate Puppet Show Hits Louisiana: Will His Pick Actually Win?

On Saturday, Louisiana Republicans will decide whether Donald Trump still runs the GOP's personnel department or whether his endorsement stamp is starting to...

Jun 24, 2026

Gallego to Democrats: 'No National Party Without the Latino Vote' — And You Still Don't Get It

At a summit full of the sharpest minds in Latino politics, Arizona Senator Ruben Gallego walked up to a microphone and told his own party something it has...

Jun 23, 2026

Trump Endorses Both Candidates in Same Race to Avoid Losing Again

Donald Trump, the man who built his entire political brand on winning, has found a creative new strategy for staying undefeated: endorse everyone. Three days...

Jun 23, 2026

Trump's Name Is Kryptonite in Utah's GOP Primary

In one of the reddest states in America, Republican congressional candidates have apparently decided that the best thing to do with Donald Trump's name is...

Jun 22, 2026

Trump's Own Pollster Says Blue-Collar Base Is Abandoning Him

The voters who built Donald Trump's political career are turning on him, and the person sounding the loudest alarm is a pollster who has worked for Trump for...

Jun 22, 2026

Voters to Both Parties: Fix Healthcare or Lose in November

American voters have a simple message for every candidate running in November: make healthcare cheaper or get out of the way. A new Axios-Ipsos poll finds that...

Jun 20, 2026

A Kennedy Who Wrote 7 Vogue Articles Is Running for Congress

New York's 12th congressional district is holding what should be a routine Democratic primary for a safe Manhattan seat, and instead has somehow produced a...

Jun 19, 2026

Trump Endorses Both Candidates in Same Race Because Why Not

Donald Trump, a man who once staked his entire political identity on being a winner, has decided that the safest way to stay a winner is to endorse everyone....

Jun 19, 2026

GOP Rep Missed 135 Votes in 100 Days and Now Wants Your Vote

A sitting United States congressman disappeared from Capitol Hill for more than 100 days, missed 135 roll call votes, refused to tell anyone what was wrong...

Jun 18, 2026

NJ Rep Vanishes for 100+ Days, Reappears Just in Time to Ask for Votes

A sitting member of Congress disappeared for more than 100 days, told his constituents essentially nothing about why, and is now planning to waltz back into...

Jun 17, 2026

Trump Dumps His 'MAGA Warrior' Pastor After Texting Scandal

Donald Trump called Jackson Lahmeyer a 'MAGA Warrior' right up until he didn't. On Wednesday afternoon, Trump yanked his endorsement of the Oklahoma...

Jun 17, 2026

Trump Spent His Endorsement on Georgia's Governor Race and Lost to a Guy With $100M and a God Complex

Donald Trump endorsed Burt Jones for Georgia governor, campaigned for him, and got Brian Kemp to pile on at the last minute. Rick Jackson spent over $100...

Jun 16, 2026

Trump's Last-Minute Georgia Endorsement Is Either Genius or Desperation, Depending on Tuesday

Donald Trump waited until the last possible weekend before Georgia's Senate runoff to endorse Rep. Mike Collins over Derek Dooley, a move so late in the game...

Jun 15, 2026

Republicans Now Running Dem Primaries, and Democrats Have No One to Blame But Themselves

Republicans are now spending real money to pick which Democrats they'll face in November, boosting the weakest primary candidates in what Axios describes as a...

Jun 15, 2026

George Conway Promises Trump an Orange Jumpsuit and a Third Impeachment

George Conway looked directly into a camera, pointed at the U.S. Capitol, and told Donald Trump he's going to put him in an orange jumpsuit. This was a...

Jun 15, 2026

Campaigns Are Paying Influencers Millions and Losing Anyway

Tom Steyer spent tens of thousands of dollars on political influencers with millions of followers, and he didn't even make it to the general election in...

Jun 14, 2026

Trump's 42% Approval Is Dragging Republicans Into a Midterm Ditch

Donald Trump's approval rating has cratered to 42% among registered voters, the lowest number of his second term, according to a new NBC News poll published...

Jun 14, 2026

The Guy Still Knocking Doors After 2024 Has a Point

After the 2024 shellacking, a lot of Democrats decided the problem was the doors. Saul Austerlitz, who has been knocking them for nearly a decade, would like...