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Facing an electoral wipeout, Trump goes after the system
President Donald Trump is escalating his crusade to exert control of America’s elections as his party barrels towards a potentially bruising midterm. The Justice Department has already filed lawsuits in nearly every state to try and gain access to voter files. Trump revisited his longstanding bid to restrict mail voting, sparking a legal battle that…
The 2028 crop hits New Mexico for inaugural ‘Matanza’ rally
Prospective presidential candidates are known to chew over pork chops on a stick at Iowa’s iconic State Fair. They gather in South Carolina at Rep. Jim Clyburn’s “World Famous Fish Fry.” And they’re all over New Hampshire … well, any chance they get. New Mexico today is entering the convening conversation with chicharrón at the…
Spiking ambulance response times spur calls for real-time tracking
911 EMERGENCY: An ambulance in New York City now takes an average of 13 minutes to reach someone in life-threatening distress. That response time has risen five years straight and is up 41.2% from a decade ago, a city comptroller’s report revealed earlier this month. According to this year’s Mayor’s Management Report, which came out…
House battleground map tightens as GOP scrambles to shore up red seats
Senior Democrats are tempering their expectations about how big of a House majority they might win, as both parties see a tightening battlefield. The latest rounds of internal polling from both parties from the middle of October show GOP candidates gaining ground in the Midwest and narrowing races in a key Colorado seat and elsewhere,…
How a fake pollster may have moved some 2026 elections
A new company whose polls had influenced campaign decisions and helped shape the midterms narrative admitted that it was faking its polling data on Tuesday night, setting off a firestorm in the electionsphere. Wedgewood Polls, facing an imminent publication of an investigation from FiftyPlusOne showing it was fabricating its numbers, declared late Tuesday night that…
A final farewell to NYC’s horse carriage industry
GOODBYE HORSES: New York City isn’t horsing around anymore. The City Council voted overwhelmingly today to abolish the Big Apple’s horse carriage industry, handing a historic win to animal rights activists who’ve pushed to end the tourist attraction for decades. The vote doesn’t mean the industry sunsets overnight, though. The bill enacting the ban —…
The good, the bad and the unruly from over two dozen candidate debates
With less than two weeks until Election Day, most statewide debates have come and gone. Democrats tried to paint their Republican opponents into corners over loyalty to President Donald Trump, and Republicans tried to stake out nuanced positions on the Iran war and data centers. Here’s what we learned from the more than two dozen…
Democrats’ top Senate super PAC has raised $354M this year
Democrats’ top Senate-focused super PAC will report raising $354 million through Oct. 14 — including roughly $88 million in the first two weeks of the month— as Democrats race to seize control of the upper chamber in the election’s closing weeks. Senate Majority PAC shared their fundraising totals, which are higher than any previous cycle,…
Can Angie Nixon prove Democrats can win in Florida?
Can Angie Nixon prove Democrats can win in Florida? lead image Politics