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A Note On the Florida Senate Race
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/a-note-on-the-florida-senate-race
Published: October 9, 2026 20:17
Iāve mentioned a few times that I think Democrat Angie Nixon, just based on my watching her in campaign appearances...
Cotton Heaving as He Races toward November
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/cotton-heaving-as-he-races-toward-november
Published: October 9, 2026 20:01
I needs to start these kinds of posts by saying: No. I absolutely do not believe Tom Cotton will lose...
Buckle Up: The Final 3 Weeks of the Campaign Are Gonna Be Some Kind of UGLY
Published: October 9, 2026 15:56
One Dark Damn Day Weāve endured some very dark days in Trump II, but yesterday was particularly grim ā and...
Going Live at 1 pm ET: Digital Emperors
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Published: October 9, 2026 14:55
Today at 1 p.m. ET on TPMās Untitled Friday Show (Name TBD), Iāll be joined by one of oldest colleagues...
Ramaswamy Campaigned With Pastor Who Says āSatanā Is Using Islam to Launch āWarā Against America
Published: October 9, 2026 12:00
Vivek Ramaswamy, the Republican nominee for governor of Ohio, campaigned earlier this year at a church alongside an Islamophobic pastor...
Republicansā New Plan to Save the Senate: Start a Race War in Minnesota
Published: October 9, 2026 11:53
As polls show Republicans doing poorly in safely red states, the party is looking toward blue states in which its...
Somehow, Mike Collins Was Completely Unprepared for Questions About His Neo-Nazi Ties During Senate Debate
Published: October 9, 2026 01:33
Rep. Mike Collins (R-GA) failed to answer a question about who won the 2020 election, said tariffs were making trade...
Trump Mails Americans Checks Ahead of Midterms, Seeking to Compensate for What His Party Did to Healthcare
Published: October 8, 2026 22:07
President Donald Trump has in recent weeks unveiled multiple schemes to send checks to millions of Americans, adding letters explaining...
Trump Admin Gears Up for Post-Midterm Crackdown on Abortion Drug
Published: October 8, 2026 20:30
A Calculated Delay The Trump Justice Department has mapped out its coming attack on mifepristone ā much thirsted for by...
Oh Hey, More AI Stuff ā Is This Our Reliable Narrator?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-hey-more-ai-stuff-is-this-our-reliable-narrator
Published: October 8, 2026 19:36
Yet another update on the running AI discussion. Hereās an interview Ezra Klein did with a guy named David Robinson....
Democrats Issue Stark Election Warning: āIād Be Shocked If He Didnāt Try To Cheatā
Published: October 8, 2026 17:49
The alarm bells are ringing. Five House Democrats appeared at a shadow hearing on Wednesday during which they warned that...
Docs Reveal New Details About Dramatic Admin Efforts to Substantiate the Non-Citizen Voting Myth
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-franchise/dhs-documents-noncitizen-voting
Published: October 8, 2026 17:12
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise! With just weeks until the midterm elections, the Trump administration is, unsurprisingly, still...
New Details Emerge on Stephen Millerās Meddling at the Trump DOJ
Published: October 8, 2026 15:17
The Tip of the Politicization Spear Since the dawn of Trump II, Stephen Miller has been the barely hidden hand...
Sam Alito Wants You to Forget How the Conservative Legal Movement Always Works
Published: October 8, 2026 15:04
This article is part ofĀ TPM Cafe,Ā TPMās home for opinion and news analysis.Ā It was originally published atĀ Balls and Strikes. On Tuesday,...
The AI Panic and the Hunt for Reliable Narrators
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/the-ai-panic-and-the-hunt-for-reliable-narrators
Published: October 8, 2026 13:59
This is an update to my post from Tuesday about the āexistential riskā panic. A good friend of mine reached...
Still More Extremists Surface in Senate Candidate Mike Collinsā Orbit
Published: October 8, 2026 12:12
How Many of These Guys Are There? The latest report about far-right extremists in Georgia Republican candidate Mike Collinsā orbit...
Do Me This Favor
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Published: October 8, 2026 01:53
If you ever spend time on Youtube I hope youāll take a moment to subscribe to our Youtube page which...
Trump Admin Keeps Digging for Info About Trans Kids in Blue States
Published: October 7, 2026 20:20
A āBad Faithā Crusade The Trump Justice Department went to court Wednesday to continue its fishing expedition for the most...
Trump Rages, Rages Against the Dying of the Light
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/trump-rages-rages-against-the-dying-of-the-light
Published: October 7, 2026 19:18
This is the weekly, free edition of The Backchannel. If youād like to receive the free edition of The Backchannel...
Desperate GOP Scrambles to Defend Once-Solid Red Seats
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/desperate-gop-scrambles-to-defend-once-solid-red-seats
Published: October 7, 2026 15:19
Worse Than 2006? Republican political consultants are practically falling over each other to make the most dire pronouncements about the...
Trump Wants the Fed to Rescue Him Ahead of the Midterms. Thatās Probably Not Going to Happen.
Published: October 7, 2026 14:45
President Donald Trump has made no secret of his desire to exert control over the Federal Reserveās economic policy. His...
Tina Peters Has Trumpās Ear on the Midterms
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/the-brief/tina-peters-has-trumps-ear-on-the-midterms
Published: October 7, 2026 12:12
Ed Martin Tells All (Sort of) President Donald Trump is, apparently, being advised on the midterms by former Colorado elections...
Welcome to Polltober! A TPM YouTube Exclusive Series
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/welcome-to-polltober-a-tpm-youtube-exclusive-series
Published: October 6, 2026 21:50
You have questions, we have answers. Since TPM readers are as obsessed with political minutiae as our reporters are, weāre...
Alito Says Heās Staying Put as Democrats Plan Judicial Blockade
Published: October 6, 2026 21:15
Alitoās October Surprise Justice Samuel Alito said that he plans to stay on the bench through the current Supreme Court...
Who Is Behind the AI/Existential Risk Scare?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/who-is-behind-the-ai-existential-risk-scare
Published: October 6, 2026 19:53
For years, and especially in the last month or so, weāve been collectively inundated with an AI industry which, uncannily...
Weāre Launching a Special New YouTube Series Around the Midterms!
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/were-launching-a-special-new-youtube-series-around-the-midterms
Published: October 6, 2026 17:07
You have questions, we have answers. Since TPM readers are as obsessed with political minutiae as our staffers are, weāre...
Court Ruling Hobbles Trump DOJās Jihad Against Elusive Threat of Noncitizen Voting
Published: October 6, 2026 15:00
Judge Strikes Down Federal Ban on Noncitizen Voting In a potentially very important ruling last week, a federal judge in...
Senator Regrets Confirming Pete Hegseth, Becomes Latest to Confess He Made a Mistake
Published: October 6, 2026 12:12
Welcome, Thom, to the Senate āOopsā Caucus Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) has a book to promote. In it, he revealed...
Sign Of The Times ā¦ Texas Edition
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/sign-of-the-times-texas-edition
Published: October 6, 2026 12:06
Itās surprising to see Donald Trump campaigning in Texas a month before a midterm election, as he will this week....
Susan Collins Voted to Confirm Russ Vought. Is She Having Second Thoughts?
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/susan-collins-russ-vought-second-thoughts
Published: October 6, 2026 10:16
In recent weeks, as the Office of Management and Budget Director Russ Vought has floated novel ways to steamroll Congress,...
Chilling ICE Challenge Coin Features a Slogan About āHuntingā Humans
Published: October 5, 2026 20:59
Editorās note: Nicole is taking some much-deserved time off around her birthday this week, so other TPM staffers will be...
Turkish and Pakistani Troops to Saudi Arabia
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/turkish-and-pakistani-troops-to-saudi-arabia
Published: October 5, 2026 19:08
Hard to know quite what to make of this, or how much to make of it. But weāre getting what...
Memories of the Hastert Years ā¦ and the Ironies of History
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/memories-of-the-hastert-years-and-the-ironies-of-history
Published: October 5, 2026 16:16
Itās hard to know what to say about former Republican Speaker of the House Denny Hastert, whose death at the...
With Four Weeks to Go, Dems Are in the Driverās Seat
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/with-four-weeks-to-go-dems-are-in-the-drivers-seat
Published: October 5, 2026 15:08
In the Stretch Run ā¦ With voting coming to a close four weeks from tomorrow, Morning Memo will be shifting...
Things Get Messy in Georgia After Election Board Director Writes Letter to Todd Blanche
Published: October 5, 2026 12:20
Georgia Election Board Employee Allegedly Goes Rogue, Requests Federal Intervention Last week, a letter surfaced from the Georgia Election Board,...
RFK Jrās Relentless Anti-Vax Push Will Disproportionately Hurt Children on Medicaid
Published: October 5, 2026 12:00
Robert F. Kennedy Jr. has already demonstrated his Department of Health and Human Services has no concern for disparities.Ā Following...
Candidate Quality
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Published: October 3, 2026 14:23
The New York Times and Siena released another batch of polls this morning across a swath of red states. The...
The Bizarre AI Ad Trying to Make an Extremist Candidate Look Like Jesus
Published: October 3, 2026 12:00
Remember the Metaverse? Techās Hunger for the Next Big Thing Long Predated AI
Published: October 2, 2026 17:43
Weāve been following this conversation here in The Editorsā Blog about what AI is, what it can do and whether...
Bill Pulte Guts the IG Office That Investigated Him
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/bill-pulte-guts-the-ig-office-that-investigated-him
Published: October 2, 2026 15:57
Cuts Would Put IG Office Out of Business In a move that smacks of retaliation, Federal Housing Finance Agency director...
A State That Enshrined Abortion Into Its Constitution Is Now at Risk of Losing It
Published: October 2, 2026 14:36
This story was originally reported by Shefali Luthra of The 19th. Meet Shefali and read more of their reporting on...
Yet More ā¦
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Published: October 2, 2026 13:43
Weāre seeing article after article now restating in slightly different ways the same basic point about the AI infrastructure boom:...
JD Vance Says Black, Socialist Candidate for Senate Doesnāt āBelong in Americaā
Published: October 2, 2026 12:21
A New Chapter in Vanceās Effort to Police Whoās American JD Vance visited Florida yesterday, stumping for candidates in races...
Chris Rufo ā Known For āDEIā and āCRTā Panics ā Tries to Make āthe Indian Questionā a Thing
Published: October 2, 2026 12:00
To the degree that a ārespectableā or āmoderateā right exists today in America, Christopher Rufo is considered part of it....
Bain Capital Brainstorms Where The AI Revenueās Gonna Come From
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/bain-capital-brainstorms-where-the-ai-revenues-gonna-come-from
Published: October 1, 2026 22:44
A friend sent me this new Bain Capital study on the growth required to match the current levels of capital...
Calls for Investigations Into Trumpās Narcissistic Midterm Ads Pile Up
Published: October 1, 2026 21:04
āNearly Every Claim Uttered in These Ads Is Falseā Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD), the top Democrat on the House Judiciary...
Old-School Republicans Are Responsible for Trumpās Attempts to End American Democracy
Published: October 1, 2026 18:00
Hello, and welcome back to The Franchise The Missouri gerrymandering fight felt a lot like old-school Republican politics: boring, procedural...
Trump DOJ Doubles Down on Attacking Judges
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/trump-doj-doubles-down-on-attacking-judges
Published: October 1, 2026 16:37
Blanche Targets Minnesota Judges Under the pretext of an ethics complaint against all but one of the active federal judges...
Russ Vought Insists He Has a Neat Trick to Override Congress. Itās More āa Confession,ā Experts Say
Published: October 1, 2026 14:49
Following a failed bid by Senate Democrats to block it, President Donald Trump and Office of Management and Budget (OMB)...
Republican Senator Greenlights Russ Voughtās Latest Impoundment
Published: October 1, 2026 12:14
A Republican Gives a Thumbs Up to White House Effort to Seize Congressā Power Yesterday afternoon, TPMās Emine YĆ¼cel got...
Dems Block Data Center Bill Designed to Boost Hustedās Campaign: āA Proxy for Corruptionā
Published: September 30, 2026 21:07
āThey Are the Party of Data Centersā Sen. Jon Husted (R-OH) has some major data center skeletons in his closet...
New IRS Citizenship Question Could Make It Easier for Census Bureau to Shift Political Power
Published: September 30, 2026 20:40
A proposed change to a key tax form could help the Trump administration achieve new anti-immigrant policy objectives, including preventing...
Senate Dems Will Attempt to Stop Trump White Houseās Latest Illegal Pocket Rescission
Published: September 30, 2026 18:44
Senate Appropriations Committee Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) and Senate Budget Committee Ranking Member Jeff Merkley (D-OR) will try to...
Doubts About the AI Boom Are Seeping Into Elite Headlines
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/doubts-about-the-ai-boom-are-seeping-into-elite-headlines
Published: September 30, 2026 18:24
In my recent writing about LLMs and AI, Iāve mainly focused on what it can do, what it is, what...
Appeals Courts Slowly Awaken to Trump II Threat
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/morning-memo/appeals-courts-slowly-awaken-to-trump-ii-threat
Published: September 30, 2026 15:31
Two Steps Forward, One Step Back In the defining legal struggle of our time ā whether the federal judiciary will...
Republicans Canāt Stop Talking About Banning Trans Athletes
https://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/republicans-cant-stop-talking-about-banning-trans-athletes
Published: September 30, 2026 12:31
This story was originally reported by Brooke Migdon of The 19th. Meet Brooke and read more of their reporting on...
5 Points About a Senatorās Disastrous But Hilarious Attempt to Accuse Jack Smith of Perjury
Published: September 30, 2026 12:11
By now, I assume youāve read about what happened. Maybe youāve seen the video. But yesterday was one of those...