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MAHA Could Decide the Midterms

Mar 31, 2026Center Right

Is the Make America Healthy Again movement big enough to matter in the midterm elections? With the war in Iran raging, Republicans are growing nervous about losing both the House and Senate - and spending the rest of President Trump's second term bogged down in impeachment hearings. One new poll suggests MAHA could be one [...]Read More...

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Colorado proves Mamdani’s midterm wins were not a fluke

Washington Examiner

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Colorado proves Mamdani’s midterm wins were not a fluke

Socialist Melat Kiros soundly defeated 15-term incumbent Rep. Diana DeGette (D-CO) last night in the Democratic Socialists of America’s first test after its New York congressional sweep last month. The socialist insurgency proved its popularity beyond Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s five boroughs. “We will not wait to take the fight to Donald Trump and the oligarchy,” […]

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Northern lights could dazzle to start July 4 weekend

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Northern lights could dazzle to start July 4 weekend

Sure, you may be hoping to see fireworks or a drone show over the July 4 weekend, but nature may be gearing up to give you its own colorful nighttime display.

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$Republican says Trump's top election priority 'dead' in Senate as GOP fractures ahead of midterms$

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Republican says Trump's top election priority 'dead' in Senate as GOP fractures ahead of midterms

Sen. Thom Tillis says the SAVE America Act lacks the funding and time to be implemented before midterm elections, calling the push "theater."

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America's housing market could run out of something more important than homes

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America's housing market could run out of something more important than homes

A new report challenges the housing shortage narrative, arguing slower population growth and reduced immigration could mean fewer homebuyers ahead.

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Taxes on Trump's $1.4 billion crypto income could total hundreds of millions

Politics - CBSNews.com

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Taxes on Trump's $1.4 billion crypto income could total hundreds of millions

The White House declined to say how much the president paid in taxes on his crypto windfall.

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Inside Trump’s schemes to corrupt the midterms

Alternet.org

Yesterday

Inside Trump’s schemes to corrupt the midterms

With the 2026 midterms a little over four months away and President Donald Trump continuing to suffer from weak approval ratings in poll after poll, Democratic strategists are feeling cautiously optimistic about their ability to recapture the U.S. House of Representatives — and they believe the U.S. Senate is in play for them as well. But according to the New York Times, Trump has a variety of schemes designed to shield Republicans from major losses in November.Trump, journalists Karen Yourish, Nick Corasaniti and Charlie Smart report in the Times, "is trying to use the levers of the federal government, along with personal influence over state and local lawmakers, to reshape the rules governing the 2026 midterms and future elections in extraordinary ways.""Many of these efforts have been blocked by courts, stymied by the Constitution or stopped in Congress," the reporters explain. "But the relentless assault by the president on the electoral process — both administratively and rhetorically — is likely to sow doubt and lay groundwork for extensive challenges to election results. Agencies and officials across the federal government have, at the direction of Mr. Trump, undertaken dozens of actions grounded in novel strategies and aimed at insulating Republicans from potential losses in November. Those actions fall into six major categories, and some fall into more than one."Those six categories, according to Yourish, Corasaniti and Smart, are: (1) "taking steps to nationalize elections," (2) "trying to tighten voting restrictions," (3) "pushing for mid-decade redistricting," (4) "cutting election security," (5) "undermining faith in the electoral system by questioning previous results," and (6) "punishing those who have worked against election denialism." Trump, the Times reporters note, has "installed" a long list of "election deniers" in the federal government — including Jeanine Pirro, Harmeet K. Dhillon and FBI Director Kash Patel at the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ), Patrick Weaver at the Defense Department, and Heather Honey and Secretary Markwayne Mullin at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)."While Mr. Trump's attempts to use executive orders to change elections have been largely blocked by courts," Yourish, Corasaniti and Smart explain, "the president and his allies have found other avenues to add new restrictions to voting that are designed to help them win at the ballot box. Soon after Mr. Trump took office, the Justice Department dropped or halted all of its open voting rights lawsuits that preceded Mr. Trump's inauguration, easing the path for partisan gerrymanders and voting laws to withstand legal scrutiny. That included dropping a lawsuit against a voting law in Georgia. The number of lawyers working in the voting-rights arm of the Justice Department, one of the government's critical bulwarks against civil rights abuses in voting and elections, has dwindled from about 30 at the end of the Biden administration to the single digits after resignations, cuts and reassignments."

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Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms

Democracy Now!

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Supreme Court Approves Mail-In Voting, But Trump Keeps Pushing Extremist SAVE Act Ahead of Midterms

President Donald Trump has received another setback in his ongoing quest to control U.S. elections. In a 5-4 split, the Supreme Court ruled that mail-in ballots do not need to be received by Election Day to be counted, as long as they were postmarked by then. Although a “rare victory for voting rights,” the conservative justices’ assertion that voting by mail is prone to fraud — a disproven theory that Trump blames his loss in the 2020 election for — is “very disturbing,” says Ari Berman, the national voting rights correspondent for Mother Jones. “My fear is that this is going to embolden Republicans to double down on their efforts to try to get rid of mail voting, including the SAVE America Act, Trump’s sweeping voter suppression bill, which he seems desperate to go to any lengths to try to pass,” says Berman, who also comments on the court’s decision to strike down a federal law limiting campaign spending.

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Lakers could sign Jonathan Kuminga by making key move

New York Post

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Lakers could sign Jonathan Kuminga by making key move

The Lakers have been extremely aggressive in free agency this offseason after superstar Luka Doncic relayed his desire for major roster improvements heading into the 2026-27 season. The free agency period began with several subtractions, primarily the departure of LeBron James. The Lakers also lost other key free agents in sharpshooter Luke Kennard and defensive...

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