A Whole-of-Government Response to One Joke
On October 24, a former president compared a gilded White House to a restaurant. By October 31, the sitting president, the Treasury Secretary, a cable news crew, and the right-wing blogosphere had dec…
Tag: midterms (31 articles)
Trump's DOJ Has Found Exactly 28 Fraud Cases
The most aggressive election crackdown in American history has produced exactly 28 suspects, 0.0001 percent of one state's voters, and a president who admits he ordered it. "I'm the one that said do i…
AI's Money Machine Just Quit on the Midterms
The AI industry spent $50 million trying to buy the midterms, then quietly walked out of the general elections because it finally noticed its own product was the scandal. "Something's clearly not work…
The Midterms Are for Sale. Musk Paid First.
Four days before the midterms, corporations have already spent $737 million to buy them, and the only lever left is one line on a Montana ballot. "They are spending to buy influence, determine outcome…
Where Trump Goes, Impeachment Follows
The party that removed the president twice cannot bring itself to say the word, and the man it impeached has turned his opponents' process into a campaign threat. "I mean, honestly, if we wanted to pl…
Maine Trained Its Cops to Keep Trump's Feds Out
One week before the midterms, the Justice Department is sending 1,000 federal observers to polling places, and the state of Maine has responded the only way it knows how: by printing the federal statu…
The Off Switch Nobody Will Flip
An 80-year-old commander in chief could not say the name of the man he was campaigning for, and the Constitution's emergency off switch has entered the conversation for the third time this year. "They…
The Voter Fraud Doesn’t Exist. The Raids Do.
The voter fraud is a ghost. The armed agents at the doors are real. "They will all go to jail for a long period of time!!!" — President Donald Trump, after Los Angeles County refused to run a 20,000-n…
MAGA's Vile New Low, Endorsed From the Top
The floor of American politics keeps dropping, and this week the president put his name on it. "It's not easy for a mother to say this, but Amy has a serious problem. She is a liar. She lies about her…
The Midterms Are A Ceasefire, Not A Peace
The most powerful government on Earth has agreed to a ceasefire with an expiration date, and the date is your election. "Hunting season is open as soon as the elections end and it's obvious that they'…
The Only Fraud Trump Can't Find
The Justice Department says it is building a criminal case that a sitting member of Congress is not a citizen. The problem is that the case has already been investigated. Trump's own first-term offici…
They Raided Ilhan Omar Four Days From Early Voting
The government's top investigative unit kicked down a congresswoman's door at dawn, four days before early voting opened in her state, to chase paperwork her father signed when she was twelve. "She wi…
Trump's 21,600-Pound Exit Strategy
The Pentagon has a 21,600 pound bomb that cannot destroy the target it was aimed at, and a president who needs the explosion more than the outcome. "The MOAB is a massive information operation type we…
The Hoosier Verdict
Indiana spent the last five years selling its power, its water, its farmland, and its patience to whoever was building the future. The future just sent the invoice. "The people are speaking, and they'…
Three Weeks Before the Midterms, They Raided Her House
Before dawn on a Monday in October, federal agents carried boxes of seized evidence out of the home of a sitting member of Congress, three weeks before the election that will decide who controls the H…
He Wanted Their Charts. They Wanted His Boss's
The administration's favorite weapon is a demand for medical records, and the weapon just found a target with a sealed door behind it. "Talafreako needs to release the medical records (if they exist a…
The Midterm Casino Has a Trump Family Discount
By November, every House race will carry a price on a betting machine, and the richest family in American politics holds a stake in the house. "Any conversation about what's going on with prediction m…
He'll Pay You $5,000 to Vote for Him
The president has priced the November 3 ballot: $90 if you are on Medicare, $500 if you bought your own health insurance, and $5,000 to every adult citizen if your party wins. "That's not capitalism o…
He Called It a Scam. Now He's Telling His Base to Vote It
The man who built a second term on the claim that the ballot was broken just told his base to use the broken ballot. "Whether you vote early, absentee, by mail, or in-person, we must 'swamp' the Radic…
Schmitt Airballs the Perjury Trap Over a Caitlin Clark Game
He walked into the Senate hearing with a smoking gun, and he walked out holding a game program from College Park, Maryland. "I think you've already perjured yourself." — Sen. Eric Schmitt (R-MO), mome…
Trump Rejected The Deal That Would've Ended The War
A war that could have ended in seven days now has a new deadline: November 3. The president, a self-described dealmaker, turned down the only deal on the table. "I Rejected Their Deal. They Want To Ma…
Texas Swallowed 200,000 Voter Registrations
The state that leads the nation in demanding proof of citizenship at the polls cannot find the voters it already registered. "This is what a broken, corrupt political system looks like: Texans follow …
Cheat Like Hell: The January 3 Playbook
The president told his party to cheat, a retired judge published the mechanism for the coup, and the fate of the 120th Congress may now rest on one of the least known jobs in Washington: clerk of the …
Diesel at Six-Fifty Is the GOP's Kryptonite
One number on a diesel pump is now worth more to the Republican Party than the president of the United States, and everyone in the room knows it. "It's a referendum on our government. [Trump] is the h…
You've Seen Me Deliver: The Collins Bribery Files
The FBI had a 50-page map to corruption in Congress. Then the administration purged everyone who could read it, weeks before the senator it implored went back on the ballot. "I was fooled and foolish …
Fetterman Is Fundraising on GOP Email Lists
The most erratic Democratic senator in the country is now raising money for his reelection on the same email lists Republicans use to push Trump's voting restrictions, vowing to "reject the extremes" …
The $5,000 Check He Can't Pay For
The cheapest way to keep a government, the president has decided, is to offer every adult a $5,000 check that only pays out if his party stays in power. "Here is my promise: if the Republicans win the…
The Senator Who Ghosted His State
The senator who calls himself the 51st vote the country needs has spent the last two years missing almost every meeting it. "Why do I have to keep meeting with chop." "I'm convinced they just want fre…
The President Drew a Map. It Said 'Ours'
An 80-year-old president spent a weekend coloring in an empire on social media, and the most unsettling reaction to the map was not outrage. It was agreement. "That's not insanity. That's intention." …
Raise Your Right Hand: The GOP's Oath Rally
The Republican Party's first midterm convention in the modern era ended the only way it could: with the president asking a half-empty arena to raise its hands and swear an oath of fealty. "Please rais…
Trump Pledges $5,000 Dividend if GOP Wins Midterms
A president who has run up a $40 trillion national debt tells a crowd he can pay every adult American $5,000, and calls it a dividend. "If the Republicans win, you win with us and you get $5,000. It w…