Your guide to how election night will unfold
Republicans
Posted inPolitics
The Asymmetric Campaigns of 2026
Democrats’ strategy has been to run on the economy. Republicans’ strategy has been to suppress or negate the vote.
Posted inTAP
Will Trump Illegally Disrupt the Blue Wave?
Tuesday’s election is likely to come off with only episodic disruptions, but there are some risks worth worrying about—and acting to prevent.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
A Mysterious Nursing Home Money Bomb
The GOP’s three most vociferous hunters of Minnesota Somali fraud received nearly half a million dollars from some of health care’s most notorious figures.
Posted inTAP
Instigators of Electoral Backlash: Israel’s Ben-Gvir and Our Own Stephen Miller
Israel’s racist policing helped produce an Arab surge at the polls; ICE’s marauding will yield a Latino flight from Republicans.
Posted inPolitics
Abdul El-Sayed Is Running Through, Not Around, the Right’s Racism
The Michigan Senate candidate is enduring Islamophobic attacks by refusing to accept the conservative narrative and pointing out their distract-and-divide strategy.
Posted inMoney, Politics, and Power
Mike Rogers’s Wife Runs a Consultancy That Sells Government Access
She got corporations to meet with members of Congress, and cabinet members—for a $100,000 initiation fee. If her husband reaches the Senate, ethics questions could grow.
Posted inHealth and Social Policy
New Medicaid Requirements Galvanizing Dems in Battleground States
Advocates are hosting a series of conferences about deadly GOP health care spending cuts; Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee found five contracting goliaths are set to reap outsized benefits.
Posted inPolitics
Guerrilla Projections and Defending Democracy in Missouri
Democratic activists want to strengthen the right to place initiatives on the statewide ballot, and defeat Republican efforts to repeal ballot measures they’ve already passed.
Posted inEconomic Policy
Saving Social Security
While they’re at it, Democrats can make the program even better and shame Republicans who resist.