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When 'Country Over Party' Goes Only One Way
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Haley Stevens Is Sending the Wrong Message
Jonathan Chait, The Atlantic
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Will 2026 for GOP Be Same as 2022 Was for Dems?
Victor Davis Hanson, AG
GOP Counting on Election Day Turnout Despite Enthusiasm Gap
Isaac Arnsdorf, WP
A Closing Argument for America on Election Eve
Kenin Spivak, RealClearPolitics
Focus on the Kitchen Table, Not Culture War Noise
Maria Cardona, RealClearPolitics
Don't Count Susan Collins Out
Miranda Devine, New York Post
Ken Paxton’s Last Stand
Jack Herrera, Washington Post
Texas Early Vote Results
Bill King, RealClearPolitics
Alaska Town Reckons With 'Decoy Dan' Election Fallout
Barrett & Nelson, WSJ
The One Blue State the Blue Wave Might Not Reach
Ana Marie Cox, The New Republic
Dems Are Coming. Time To Worry About 2028
Charles C.W. Cooke, National Review
If There's a Blue Wave on Tuesday, What Comes Next?
Nesrine Malik, The Guardian
When Dems Tell You What They'll Do, Believe Them
Brian Joondeph, American Thinker
Europe's Great Pension Covenant Unravels
Fairless & Bisserbe, Wall Street Journal
The Bill Is Coming Due for Leftism, Globalism
Fred Fleitz, American Greatness
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A Blue Wave or a Blue Flood Next Tuesday?
David Smith, The Guardian
Dems Catering To Extremists Another Victory for Far-Left
Michael Goodwin, NY Post
Gen Z Voters Feel Betrayed by Trump. Time To Show It
Sara Pequeno, USA Today
Democrats, Beware Fool's Gold of Midterm Success
Ruy Teixeira, Washington Post
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Susan Collins Is Always Keeping Score
Kruse & Lerer, New York Times
What's the Matter With Kansas
Sean Trende, The Poll Vault
Win or Lose, El-Sayed's Campaign May Change Everything
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Josh Dawsey, WSJ
Baked Alaska: This Is Not Election High-Jinx But Outright Fraud
Mark Penn, X
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Aidan McLaughlin, Vanity Fair
Poland's Battle Against the Eurocrats
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Democrat Lawfare Targets Journalists in Minnesota
Mike Davis, FOX News
Tune Out National Naysayers, Tune In To Local Officials
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What Happens When Political Opposites Go Fishing
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Hayes Brown, MS Now
Secret Plan To Cheat Shows Peltola's Disdain for Alaskans
Sen. Dan Sullivan, CNN
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Heather Digby Parton, Salon
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David Deavel, AMAC
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Mark Z. Barabak, LA Times
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Frank Miele, RealClearPolitics
Karen Bass Fighting Tooth & Nail To Keep Her Mayorship
Charles Blow, The Guardian
SCOTUS Must Take Herridge Case, Protect Sources
Jonathan Turley, FOX News
The Dangerous Illusion of 'a Little Epic Fury’
Joe Kent & Brett Erickson, The Hill
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Political Landscape

GOP Campaigns Use Social Pressure To Turn Out Voters

Cindy Siegel was walking through a Houston-area grocery store as she pulled up an app on her phone. With a few easy clicks on Abbott Impact, she could see everyone in her contacts and whether they were registered to vote and had cast a ballot yet. The Harris County GOP chair banks up to 200 messages or calls per day, in between coordinating with campaigns and helping set up polling locations. Read More

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Trump Administration

Trump Calls for Alaska's Peltola To Be Taken Off Senate Ballot

So they said they didn't do this, and it turned out they did. The New York Times just released actually an incredible story on it. They created a fake candidate. They took a candidate named Dan Sullivan to run against another candidate who's a great senator named Dan Sullivan in order to cheat in the election. And they said they didn't do it, and we caught him cold. Read More

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Analysis & Commentary

Kudlow: Real GDP Rose 3.4%--Get Out There and Sell It, Republicans

There’s so much talk about Democratic dirty tricks and decoy candidates in Alaska, along with Congresswoman Ilhan Omar’s husband problem in Minnesota. Along with socialists running away from socialism in Michigan, Minnesota, Florida, and elsewhere. Perhaps the most important issue for voters, though, is almost getting blocked out. Read More

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