Politics

Voters are turning against the Republicans. But the clearest possible message is needed to safeguard democracy The psychologist Jennifer Freyd identified a pattern often used by perpetrators: deny, accuse, and reverse victim and offender. More than one observer has noted that Donald Trump employs that pattern politically. With polls suggesting Republicans are likely to lose the House and perhaps the Senate too in the midterms, the man who refused to accept Americans’ democratic verdict in 2020 is hawking a narrative of cheating Democrats who will steal seats via illegitimate votes. The January 6 insurrection showed how acute the peril to American democracy had become. It is more so now. This time, Republican efforts to undermine the results began well in advance. In 2020, Mr Trump’s vice-president, Mike Pence, the attorney general, William Barr, and others refused his most outrageous demands; now the justice department is supine. And the supreme court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act , which safeguarded against the worst kinds of racial discrimination, means that states no longer require pre-approval for decisions that could well tilt a race. Districts have already been redrawn. Continue reading...

Representative Haley Stevens, who lost the Democratic primary for Michigan’s US Senate seat, appeared at a church event Sunday with Republican candidate Mike Rogers, sealing her rupture with Democrat Abdul El-Sayed.

Reported strikes on two refineries risk angering the US president days before his country’s midterm elections Ukraine has resumed its attacks on Russian oil refineries in defiance of pressure from Donald Trump ahead of the US midterm elections, with a ceasefire in the occupied town of Oleshky due to end late on Sunday. Russian state media said on Sunday Ukrainian long-range drones had set fire to the Kstovo refinery in Nizhny Novgorod oblast overnight, following soon after a major strike against another big refinery in Samara oblast, owned by the Russian state energy giant Rosneft. Continue reading...

Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) said he’s confident that the Republican Party will maintain its majority in the U.S. Senate following the upcoming elections. Host Kristen Welker said, “Senator, in August you said you were The post Sen. Tim Scott: ‘Unequivocally Yes,’ GOP Will Hold the Majority in the Senate appeared first on Breitbart .

A former elementary school teacher who gave birth to a child fathered by her underage ex-student has pleaded guilty to sexual misconduct charges -- while her victim claimed he started the relationship and wanted her charges dropped. The post Teacher Who Had Baby with Student, 13, Pleads Guilty as Her Victim Defends the Relationship appeared first on Breitbart .

Haley Stevens, who had the support of the Senate Democrats' campaign arm in the primary, had previously said she was supporting the Democratic ticket.

Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI) appeared at a church service in Detroit with Republican Senate candidate Mike Rogers after sparring with Democratic candidate Abdul el Sayed over the weekend. Stevens had originally announced on Friday that she had accepted an invitation from Rep. Jim Clyburn (D-SC) to appear at a church service in Detroit with el […]

California voters this midterm cycle will decide whether the state will impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, as wealthy Californians organize against the measure and experts say its potential broader impact on the state’s economy is nuanced.  By voting “yes” on proposition 40, Californians would support a one-time 5 percent tax on billionaires’ wealth.…

To get us out of this war, Trump needs to focus on reopening the Strait of Hormuz and tune out voices advocating for more of the same failed tactics.

On Sept. 15, I stood on a hilltop at Banias Church in northern Israel, surrounded by 1,200 Israeli flags. Each represented someone murdered on Oct. 7, 2023. I thought about how easily a number can hide the people behind it. Every person had a family, a future, and a place in someone else’s life. Those […]

Democrat Abdul El-Sayed’s former opponent in the Michigan Senate primary is appearing with Republican candidate Mike Rogers at a church in Detroit after intraparty tensions have boiled over days before the election

Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan says he doubts his Democratic rival's claims she had no idea that a man also named Dan Sullivan was recruited by her top aides onto the Alaska ballot to act as a spoiler

Over half of surveyed voters in a new poll would like to see Democrats take control of Congress in the 2026 midterm elections. According to the last NBC poll ahead of Tuesday’s midterm elections, 52% of Americans want to see a Democratic-controlled Congress, while 45% want to see a Republican-controlled Congress. The margin increased by […]

President Trump has a simple answer for stopping Democrats if they take control of both houses of Congress Tuesday.

The Squad Victory Fund raised a record $2.35 million this cycle while explicitly barring donations from the Fraternal Order of Police union.

A federal judge appointed by former President Barack Obama dismissed a lawsuit by the Trump administration seeking a delay in certifying the Senate election if a Democrat scheme to confuse voters costs incumbent Sen. Dan Sullivan (R-AK) the victory.  Judge Sharon Gleason dismissed a suit on Sunday from the Justice Department that argued that the ...