2026 Memorial Day Message…The Power of a Beanie Baby!
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2026 Memorial Day Message…The Power of a Beanie Baby!
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2026 Memorial Day Message…The Power of a Beanie Baby!
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With the 2026 midterm elections just 100 days away, several important races have yet to hold their primaries, with national implications. The 2026 primaries have largely been characterized by two trends — President Donald Trump’s hold on the Republican Party being cemented through successful endorsements, and the Democratic Party’s left-wing being strengthened through victories of […]
Democrats are favored to win the House but are slight underdogs in the fight for the Senate with 100 days to go before the midterms, according to the latest forecast from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ). Both parties are dealing with headwinds as they head into the home stretch of the high-stakes election. Republicans are worried…
The first round of August Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in 17 days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Aug. 12. The second round will go out on Aug. 19 to those born between […]
A father has been nabbed by ICE agents just 12 days after the premature birth of his daughter. Juan Chavez Velasco, 35, was grabbed by Immigration and Customs Enforcement while on his way to deliver milk to the newborn in Weslaco, Texas. Immigration agents pulled in front of his car and hauled him off despite Chavez telling the team he had a wife in the hospital and he was protected by DACA. The deferred action for childhood arrivals response did little for the agents, who said it "doesn't matter" and took Chavez away. Chavez, who says he "never got to hold" his child before being taken by ICE agents to Webb County Detention Center, is one of a growing number of Dreamers who believed they were protected by DACA before being nabbed by agents. The 35-year-old, speaking with MSNOW, said, "I feel betrayed. I feel very sad and heartbroken because I would have thought that the Trump administration would be more compassionate towards people like me who contribute to the country and have basically lived here all our lives."I love this country. I love what I’ve been able to accomplish here. We’re all contributing, we’re all paying taxes, this is our home. I’m not asking for a free ride. "I feel like a majority of people would agree that we deserve something because it wasn’t our fault to be here and because we love this country. We want to be here, we want to be part of this. We want to be Americans, because we’re Americans at heart."His wife, Villarreal, added, "He has no criminal history. Never has had any type of criminal history. He did everything right." Their daughter, Elianna, was born on February 6.Chavez Velasco’s DACA status expired on March 10 while he was being held at Webb County Detention Center, and despite filing a renewal request with the government. Jodi Goodwin, Chavez Velasco’s attorney, hopes the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services renews his DACA and that ICE releases him. “We’re straddling a tightrope, because we need time and we don’t have that kind of time if they’re going to put him on a plane,” Goodwin said. “I don’t have a lot of faith in what we’re doing here, because I don’t have any faith in ICE whatsoever."
Data: The Cook Political Report with Amy Walter. Map: Erin Davis/Axios VisualsThe midterm elections are 100 days out. Political reporter Hans Nichols, lead author of the Hill Leaders newsletter, shares his intel on the state of the races:The big picture: The House environment favors the Dems. The terrain favors Republicans. The same is broadly true on the Senate side — except the structural advantages are even greater for Republicans.THE HOUSE — currently 218 Rs, 212 Ds, 1 independent, and 4 vacanciesWhy Democrats are upbeatThe polls. The latest Fox News poll has Democrats ahead by 7 points on the generic ballot. Toss in Democratic enthusiasm — and the fact that Democratic candidates have outperformed 2024 nominee Kamala Harris in the vast majority of special elections — and you can see why House Republicans are privately so nervous.The cost of living. Yes, inflation has cooled. But prices have risen during the first two years of President Trump's current term, and that's especially true on the one billboard everyone sees — gas prices. The real political gift for Democrats is the direct link between $4-a-gallon gasoline and the unpopular war in Iran that Trump launched.Why Republicans are cautiously optimisticRedistricting. Add up all the mid-cycle redistricting in nine states, squint through a Republican lens, and you'll see nine new GOP seats. Put on Democratic glasses and assume that Republicans are renting a few of those seats (especially in mostly Hispanic parts of the Rio Grande Valley) instead of owning them, and it looks closer to six seats.Either way, Republicans like where they ended up in the redistricting wars of 2026.There are now 23 Democrats running for the House in districts Trump in 2024 — vs. eight Republicans who represent districts Harris won (half are in California).One key battlegroundFor House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.), the road to the majority runs through Iowa, which has been hit hard by inflation (think fertilizer as much as diesel) and retaliatory agriculture tariffs. In 2018, Democrats picked up two of the three seats the GOP held. On a good night this year, they'd pick up two of the current four Republican seats. Three for four would be a great night. But if Republicans hold all four of those seats, it's hard to see a Democrat winning the gavel.THE SENATE — currently 53 Rs, 45 Ds, and 2 independents who caucus with DsWhy Republicans are upbeatThe national environment is grim, but every state is its own ecosystem and the map favors Republicans. Democrats need to flip four seats, including at least two in solidly red states.Maine. Give Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) credit. He recruited his way out of a bad map. But he didn't run the table, and in Maine his worst nightmare came true: Democrats have an untested candidate against a proven winner.After populist Democrat Graham Platner flamed out (predictably, Schumer would tell you), Republicans are about to unload on the new substitute nominee, Troy Jackson. Meanwhile, incumbent GOP Sen. Susan Collins is well-funded and ready to make her case that she delivers for Maine as appropriations chair — shipbuilding, rural hospitals, firehouses.If Democrats lose Maine, they'll need to win in three double-digit Trump states. Schumer loves a pair of recruits in two such red states because they've won statewide before: former Sen. Sherrod Brown in Ohio and former Rep. Mary Peltola in Alaska. Then Democrats will need some magic in Texas or Iowa — or both, if Democrats lose Michigan.This brings us to the final wildcard of the Democratic primary season: the Aug. 4 showdown between Rep. Haley Stevens and progressive insurgent Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan.Stevens' money advantage is staggering — $50 million to $1 million on the PAC front in the last two months. And yet the race is tied in the polls.Many establishment Democrats think El-Sayed — who has the support of progressive Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) — is too far left to win a general election. El-Sayed's run for Senate is something of a proving ground for AOC, who's weighing a bid for Senate or president in 2028.
Benjamin Netanyahu will meet President Trump and attend Lindsey Graham's memorial service in Washington as U.S.-Israel operations against Iran continue.
