Fact Checking
Fact-check: Are 250,000 noncitizens on US voting rolls?
[ad_1] In back-to-back events, President Donald Trump and Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin spotlighted noncitizen voting as a threat to the U.S. election system…
Tag: 2026 midterms
New York, New York Local News
Cornyn’s Nasty Attack on Paxton May Haunt Texas Republicans
[ad_1] Photo-Illustration: Cornyn Lonestar Victory Fund In many years of observing politics, I’ve seen a lot of nasty, negative ads between primary opponents who…
Orlando, Florida Local News
Trump makes the case for his foreign policy approach at State of the Union
[ad_1] President Donald Trump’s State of the Union address tilted heavily on domestic issues, but he also made the case for his foreign policy…
Orlando, Florida Local News
Trump uses longest-ever State of the Union to try to convince voters that US is ‘winning so much’
[ad_1] President Donald Trump declared during a marathon State of the Union on Tuesday that “we’re winning so much” — insisting he’d sparked an…
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Talarico Contests MAGA’s Conquest of American Christianity
[ad_1] Pete Hegseth at the Pentagon with his Christian nationalist mentor Doug Wilson. Photo: @PeteHegseth/X At the annual National Prayer Breakfast in Washington on…
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Trump May Have Already Signed His Last Big Piece of Legislation
[ad_1] Photo: Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images Hard-core conservative Republicans have been agitating lately for a follow-up to last year’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act. A…
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Texas Special-Election Shocker Signals Big Trouble for GOP
[ad_1] Photo: Desiree Rios/The New York Times/Redux It’s definitely possible to overreact to special-election results. These episodic contests, often far downballot, tend to attract…
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Trump Repackages Random Ideas Into ‘Great Healthcare Plan’
[ad_1] Out of the blue. Photo: X/@WhiteHouse For many years, dating all the way back to 2015, Donald Trump has promised he’d someday offer…
New York, New York Local News
Democrats Want to Run on Affordability. Trump Has Other Plans.
[ad_1] Congressional Democrats have their issue for 2026. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images One of the big political stories of 2025 was the Democrats’ search…
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Trump’s Latest Outrages Could Ramp Up Pressure for Another Government Shutdown
[ad_1] The lights could yet go off on January 30. Photo: Al Drago/Bloomberg/Getty Images There’s a lot of conflict in Congress to begin 2026,…
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Indiana Republicans Defied Trump and Bomb Threats to Stop Pro-GOP Redistricting
[ad_1] Photo: Kaiti Sullivan/Bloomberg/Getty Images Indiana Republicans defied bomb threats, swatting incidents, and a pressure campaign led by President Donald Trump when on Thursday…
New York, New York Local News
What Will America Look Like After 3 More Years of Trump?
[ad_1] On and on and on and on. Photo-Illustration: Intelligencer; Photos: Getty Images Donald Trump has a flexible attitude toward truth and facts, typically…
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Trump’s Gains With Latino Voters Are Evaporating
[ad_1] President Trump’s current standing among Latinos has regressed back to where it was when he lost to Joe Biden in 2020. Photo: Jason…
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Trump Could Save Himself by Saving Obamacare
[ad_1] Trump could again draw in all the congressional leaders and force them into a deal. Photo: Melina Mara/Getty Images This isn’t the first…
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GOP Redistricting May Backfire Due to Team Trump’s Incompetence
[ad_1] The Department of Justice’s assistant attorney general for civil rights, Harmeet Dhillon, who’s had a bad week. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images At some…
New York, New York Local News
Once Again, Republicans Have a Trump Problem
[ad_1] He’s going to dominate the midterms just like he dominates his party. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images While presidents are always a dominant influence…
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Trump’s Redistricting Race Is Already Going Off the Rails
[ad_1] Virginia Democratic legislative leader Scott Surovell has a redistricting tiger by the tail. Photo: Minh Connors/The Washington Post/Getty Images With all the appalling…
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Dwelling on the 2024 Defeat Is a Waste of Time for Democrats
[ad_1] These two people are not going to be on any 2026 ballots. Photo: Tasos Katopodis/Getty Images Look, I get it: There are many…
New York, New York Local News
The Other Demand Democrats Should Make During the Shutdown Fight
[ad_1] Here’s the real battleground. Photo: Matt McClain/The Washington Post/Getty Images As congressional Democrats sort through their strategic options for managing the current government…
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Gavin Newsom’s Responsible Retaliation Against Trump
[ad_1] Photo: Mario Tama/Getty Images The ability to retaliate against Donald Trump’s power grabs and other outrages is a rare pleasure for Democrats, which…