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Republicans facing election 'whiplash' as redistricting 'bet' threatens to backfire

Republicans who built part of their redistricting strategy around Donald Trump's gains with Latino men are now facing the prospect that the bet could backfire in the midterms , according to Axios. Latino voters, whose shift toward Trump helped power his 2024 victory, are moving sharply back toward Democrats, Axios reports, citing new polling. Republicans…

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Trump ally ‘likely’ to destroy Amazon rainforest as expert delivers grim predictionThe world’s largest tropical rainforest that serves as a “critical counterweight to climate change” is under threat of complete destruction following the strong electoral performance of a far-right ally to President Donald Trump, one legal expert and former Democratic lawmaker warned Monday. Flávio Bolsonaro is a Brazilian politician and presidential…

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MAHA Moms Helped Elect Trump. Now Democrats Want Them.There is no doubt that so-called “MAHA Moms” helped secure the election for Republicans in 2024 when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. endorsed Donald Trump. Now, ahead of the midterm election, Americans are looking to their congressional representatives to continue to prioritize making America healthy again. Democrats claimed they would be the party to deliver…

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Third-party candidates decry exclusion from only debate of the Md. governor’s raceFour candidates are on Maryland’s ballot for governor, but only two will take to the debate stage Tuesday night: Gov. Wes Moore and Republican Dan Cox.

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Young voters deliver 'unambiguously good news' for Dems in pivotal swing stateDemocrats have a large advantage among young voters in Michigan across the different races coming to the ballot in November, according to a new poll from the Alliance for Youth Power PAC and YouGov released Monday, which showed “pretty unambiguously good news for Democrats,” as John Ray, a senior political analyst at YouGov Blue, described in a press…

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Trump reiterates pledge to send $5,000 checks, and hands out smaller payments, as midterm elections loomTrump renewed a $5,000 check pledge tied to Republican control of Congress as $500 ACA refunds go out and $90 Medicare rebates are scheduled.

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Texas’ glitchy voter registration system makes it harder to clear backlog, election officials sayFrustrated officials say “unacceptable” technology glitches with Texas’ TEAM system are impeding work to resolve a backlog of hundreds of thousands of records.

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Explosive CIA leak raises fears of imminent and ‘total collapse’ of major US allyCIA experts warned in a classified report that Israel could be headed toward “civil war” or “total collapse,” Drop Site News reported Monday after being briefed on the assessment by two U.S. sources. “The writers of this are Israel experts,” one of the U.S. sources told Drop Site News, speaking on the condition of anonymity for the outlet’s report, which…

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Fairshake crypto PAC network backs 32 House candidates in midtermsThe CLARITY Act failed in the Senate, raising the stakes for which lawmakers return to Congress to shape crypto regulation after the midterm elections.

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Probably Not Enough Money to Fix Paxton Campaign, Says MulvaneyMick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff in the first Trump administration, said Ken Paxton, the Republican contender for the US Senate seat in Texas, is the 'weakest candidate' in this election and that there's 'probably not enough money to fix' him. Mulvaney also weighed in on Paxton's comments to lobbyists blaming the White House for his issues…

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Blanche defends DOJ's plan to send 1,000 monitors to polls on Election DayAttorney General Todd Blanche on Sunday defended the Department of Justice's (DOJ) plan to send 1,000 election monitors to polling places on Election Day. The federal government has monitored elections since the 1960s and the DOJ will assure federal law is being enforced properly, Blanche told Shannon Bream on "Fox News Sunday." “They’re not going...

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