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Ken Paxton, you in danger, girl. On Wednesday, The New York Times published secretly obtained audio in which the Texas Republican nominee for Senate admitted that President Donald Trump’s midterm convention hurt the GOP more than it helped. “So to be honest with you, the numbers—when we did that convention—it dropped our numbers,” Paxton says in the recording, which the Times reported…

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A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Supreme Court conservatives ensure midterm chaos…

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When it comes to Immigration and Customs Enforcement shootings, the agents are never to blame. The administration refuses to meaningfully investigate them and actively blocks states from doing their own investigations. Depressingly, this tactic works best when ICE succeeds in murdering someone—because then there’s no way for that person to describe what led up to ICE’s violence…

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5 minutes agoWalter EinenkelSee if you can decipher what this Minnesota Republican is trying to say@atruparMinnesota state Senate Republican candidate Andrea Zupancich when asked about supporting Trump’s trade war: “How can we stand behind the trade war? We need to open up. We need to be able to make sure that America comes first, and I believe he is 100% behind our steelworkers. He is behind what…

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Daily Kos Opinions is a forum for sharp commentary and shrewd conversations. These pieces reflect guest contributor views and don’t represent an official endorsement by Daily Kos. Last week, I made the argument that a new Democratic majority should pass big, popular bills and make President Donald Trump veto them. Some of that can ride through reconciliation, the budget process that only…

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Oh, thank goodness. If you’ve been worried about the upcoming election, Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth is here to make sure everything is all safe and secure, and he’s gonna go all warfighter to do it. Cyberwarfighter, that is. Having actual troops at the polls is wildly against federal law, but Hegseth has nonetheless figured out a way for the military to intervene in our free and…

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Five weeks out from the midterm elections, the Senate map is both clearer and murkier than ever. The original battleground seems largely settled, yet the anti-Republican electoral environment opens up new possibilities for Democrats. (You can read our previous Senate update here.) Let’s get to it. Go ahead and call it. The GOP appears to be largely pulling out of the race.

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The worst couple you know is officially divorcing. Former Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem and her husband, Bryon Noem, filed for divorce in South Dakota on Tuesday, tying a pretty bow on a long-winded saga that was … quite captivating. As many might recall, the couple’s tattered relationship came to the forefront of everyone’s social media accounts when a tabloid broke the news…

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MAGA influencers are slamming Republican Arkansas Gov. Sarah Huckabee Sanders for an ad released by the state that pushes welfare-to-work requirements without conforming to racist, anti-Black tropes. Huckabee Sanders, who previously served as President Donald Trump’s press secretary, released the ad on Monday. It depicts a young white man lazily playing video games as Huckabee Sanders…

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In a sign of just how dire the midterm straits are for Republicans, the GOP is now scrambling to save their Senate in Nebraska, a state President Donald Trump won by 20 percentage points just under two years ago and where Democrats haven’t won a Senate race since 2006. The White House on Tuesday announced that Trump will campaign in the Cornhusker State next week, where not only is GOP Sen.

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Better Know a Democrat is an interview series to give voters a closer look at candidates in competitive races across the U.S. As North Carolina state Senate candidate Jess Rivera seeks to unseat a Republican incumbent in the general assembly, her winning could flip the outcome of some of the country’s strictest abortion laws. “I support someone’s right to life. I support someone’s right…

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Former special counsel Jack Smith testified before the Senate Judiciary Committee Tuesday in what was a clear attempt by Republicans to distract from how bad things are. The whole thing was pretty distasteful, but GOP Sen. Eric Schmitt of Missouri took the cake—and subsequently some humble pie—with his conspiracy theory-laden gotcha question, in which he called Smith a “dirtbag.

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A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | Supreme Court conservatives ensure midterm chaos…

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President Donald Trump’s war on the First Amendment has sent public confidence in press freedom plummeting. According to a Gallup poll released Tuesday, 69% of Americans believe that U.S. media has a lot of freedom—the poll’s lowest rating yet. That’s down from 82% during former President Joe Biden’s last year in office in 2024. The poll also found that Republicans are living…

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Texas Attorney General and Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton once again proved on Monday that he is a generationally bad candidate when he defended a sweetheart deal he gave to a pedophile charged with repeated sexual abuse of a third-grade boy. The deal Paxton made with Adam Hoffman—who was represented by the donor at the center of Paxton’s impeachment scandal—has been a persistent line…

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Thanks to the doggedness of the alleged victim and Cornell University student press, it looks like New York state prosecutors have decided to maybe do some tiny part of their job and look into genuinely horrifying allegations of a 2024 fraternity gang rape. The allegations are as bleak and awful as they come, with the seven named defendants participating in a group chat that appears to have…

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House Speaker Mike Johnson said on Tuesday that if Republicans are victorious in this year’s midterm elections, they will continue the agenda that has led millions to oppose and disapprove of the Republican Party. “What we would do in the next two years is exactly what we have been doing already and that is putting the conditions in place for a strong America,” Johnson said in an interview on…

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A cartoon by Drew Sheneman. Related | Iowa Republicans turn away from Trump as midterm peril mounts…

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