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New Vance-friendly group launching to push GOP toward younger hardliners

A new Republican group thinks their party is too old, too moderate and too weak. So they’re launching an effort to replace the outgoing generation of politicians with a...

Border Dem poised to wield ICE purse strings rejects socialist ‘defund’ push

Rep. Henry Cuellar rejects the Abolish ICE movement, saying most Democrats oppose defunding the agency but want stronger oversight and rail guards.

Democrats’ disastrous ideas to ‘fix’ Social Security

The program's trust fund empties out in just six years, forcing automatic 22% cuts...

Biden bungled Afghan vetting. Trump must do a fresh review.

Activists are descending on Washington this week to lobby Congress to bring in more...

Only young blood can build a new NY Republican Party

Older figures from President Donald Trump and Nassau Exec Bruce Blakeman to GOP party...

Trump bets existing laws can police AI. Will they be enough?

The Trump administration is taking the position that existing criminal and civil laws will be enough to hold artificial intelligence developers accountable in an age of unpredictable AI agents, even as legal experts question whether this will suffice.  President Trump’s so-called “Super Intelligence (SI) Force” argues it can create standards for AI firms with laws...

Trump approval at record low 31 percent ahead of midterms: Survey

President Trump's approval rating on Monday reached a new record low with two weeks left until the November midterm elections, when Republicans could lose the House and Senate to Democrats. The latest polling from Reuters/Ipsos shows the president with a 31 percent approval rating, down 1 point since the previous poll two weeks ago and...

How did being a good teammate become so controversial?

Athletes cannot be celebrated for speaking out when their views fit comfortably within worldviews compatible with the establishment, but then become professionally expendable when they say something that makes others uncomfortable.

Inside the monthslong federal investigation of Rep. Ilhan Omar

Scott Johnson, a retired Minnesota attorney and co-founder of Powerline Blog, first began looking into Omar in 2016.

5 hottest midterm battlegrounds two weeks out from Election Day

In today’s issue: Election Day is fast approaching with voters now able to cast early ballots in many states throughout the country. Polls are continuing to show Democrats poised for a strong performance two weeks from today, but how much they can gain is still up in the air. All eyes are on a handful...

Why can’t I afford life? Boomer prosperity is masking a weak economy.

So which party has a better plan for addressing this problem and getting you a fair shot at the American Dream? The bad news is, the answer is "neither."

How Democrats could make Trump’s Education Department overhaul much harder

Democrats are preparing to use all the tools at their disposal to halt the dismantling of the Education Department (ED) if they win the House or Senate in November. President Trump, like many other Republicans, has long called for the department to be abolished, and his administration has slashed its workforce and created interagency...

Democratic super PAC hammers GOP over trans bathroom focus 

A Democratic super PAC is hammering Republicans over their focus on transgender issues as GOP candidates in battleground races invoke culture war issues against their Democratic opponents in the final stretch of the midterm cycle.   Progress Action Fund released a new ad on Tuesday, first shared with The Hill and part of an ad...

Corruption charges once propelled MAGA. Now they may doom it 

You can find the origins of the MAGA movement, now hurtling toward its rendezvous with the midterm electorate, in many places. The most obvious, straight-line antecedent is, of course, the Tea Party revolt of 2009 and 2010. The bipartisan backlash against the bailouts of Wall Street and Detroit fused with the conservative outrage at ObamaCare...

JB Pritzker is turning midterm money into potential 2028 leverage

Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker (D) may be trailing some of his potential 2028 Democratic presidential rivals in the early polling of the race.  But as he mulls a White House bid, the billionaire governor is leading the midterms money war, pouring millions of dollars into Democratic campaigns. It’s a move that could pay political dividends for...

The Memo: Trump plan for golf course becomes battle over court’s power

A battle over a Washington golf course has turned into a fiery showdown over the powers of the Trump administration to do as it wishes and the power of the courts to constrain it. At issue is the East Potomac Golf Links, an unglamorous but busy municipal course roughly 2 miles from the White House....

GOP Rep. Fitzpatrick vows to hold any US officials who limited Starshield ‘fully accountable’

Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick (R-Pa.) revealed Monday that he would be speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky about his country’s loss of access to Starshield, the military version of SpaceX’s Starlink internet, vowing to hold any U.S. officials who limited the application “fully accountable.” In a post to social media, Fitzpatrick said he would speak with...

El-Sayed: Ohio State owes Vance a refund

Michigan Democratic Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed brought up a Midwestern college rivalry in an attack against Vice President Vance. During a recent town hall on CBS News, Vance said that he had seen “what Abdul El-Sayed says about the war in Iran.” “I see he — criticizing decisions that the president has made, the military's...

Zelensky rolls the dice on combative Trump pressure campaign

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky is making a high-stakes bet that a combative public pressure campaign targeting President Trump — in coordination with his allies in Congress — will push the president to reverse course on concessions to Russia. Zelensky, under intense strain from relentless Russian strikes and depleted air defenses, has lashed out at Trump...

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