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Despite Donald Trump’s efforts, the Postal Service is still delivering ballots, the Justice Department has not gained control of voter rolls, and dozens of other one-off schemes have failed. buff.ly/jAfm30x
On a single day in March, from a single address in Richmond, Kentucky, at least ten New York and New Jersey nursing home investors donated $329,000 to congressional Republicans. buff.ly/LdeGdaR
If the polls are any judge, Black voters are enraged about the Supreme Court gutting the signature legislative accomplishment of the Civil Rights Movement. buff.ly/GZtpDMH
It’s prime fleece season in New England and beyond, but Ben Waxman is losing business. For his company, tariffs mean surcharges from their domestic suppliers who ship overseas. And the trade war and irregular negotiations aren't creating jobs. buff.ly/DM17tcX
Adam Hamilton’s favorite two phrases are “This is not OK” and “This is not who we are.” He was saying those lines so much around the house that his wife asked him to stop talking and go do something about it. buff.ly/kbpG5bZ
For months, state attorneys general, secretaries of state, and a large coalition of pro-democracy groups have been doing simulation exercises anticipating every possible ploy. prospect.org/?p=147094
ALT Voters at a polling place
Adam Hamilton’s favorite two phrases are “This is not OK” and “This is not who we are.” prospect.org/?p=147034
ALT Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Adam Hamilton
Lost in the three congressmen’s culture warmongering about Somali welfare cheats in Minnesota was an exponentially bigger and more extensive network of profiteers failing to deliver needed services. prospect.org/?p=147015
ALT A person using a walker in faded colors and black-and-white.
Across the South, Black communities have seen their political representation decimated by the effect of Callais. prospect.org/?p=147022
ALT Democratic candidate for U.S. Senate Angie Nixon gestures. She is dressed in a hot pink shirt with a pink scarf.
We’ll see massive flight from the Republican column by Latino voters, for which Miller will bear the same kind of responsibility as Ben-Gvir bears for Israel’s Arab surge. buff.ly/sJgvPkR
Republicans have cut big checks to help Mike Lawler save his seat in the run-up to the general election. Much of that spending can be attributed to the Congressional Leadership Fund super PAC, which has spent nearly $9 million against Cait Conley. buff.ly/toRD9Sr
The largest progressive domestic-focused Jewish organization in the country is mobilizing volunteers to canvas for Abdul El-Sayed, not just to get out the vote, but to hold substantive conversations about Israel, Palestine, antisemitism, and safety. buff.ly/5iyAyEX
According to ethics watchdogs, Kristi Rogers’s position, which has not been previously reported, raises the potential for serious conflicts of interest should her husband win his hotly contested Senate race against Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. buff.ly/WdPWddZ
People need their villains, and El-Sayed offers them one. But Michigan’s U.S. Senate candidate has not sat back amid the howling bigotry of Donald Trump, JD Vance, his corporate stuffed-shirt opponent, Mike Rogers. buff.ly/CaVFfDg
Both Trump and Netanyahu bear responsibility for deliberately investing national police power in the hands of racist fanatics. prospect.org/?p=147017
ALT Israel's National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir
In a midterm where Republicans are lacking a record to run on, their last resort, as one Trump operative told Axios this summer, has been to make it “a hate election.” prospect.org/?p=146937
ALT Abdul El-Sayed greets supporters during a campaign event
Kristi Rogers runs a Beltway trade group representing energy traders, mining companies, and manufacturers in their efforts to influence federal officials and federal policy. prospect.org/?p=146964
ALT Republican nominee for U.S. Senate Mike Rogers and his wife Kristi
Cait Conley, a member of the centrist Blue Dog Democrats, counts herself among the roughly 300 congressional hopefuls running to unrig Washington. prospect.org/?p=146993
ALT Cait Conley, left, and End Citizens United’s Tiffany Muller
“We pick off Republicans by saying that we take the burden off of employers that are paying obscene rates for health care for their employees. You know how much better that can make our economy, make their businesses,” Troy Jackson told the Prospect. buff.ly/nqFzeSO
A new resolution demands that Congress withhold support for AI companies that bankrupt themselves and instead respond to any future recession by supporting ordinary people. buff.ly/vjr3ruk
