Trump’s collapsing support has transformed once safe Republican contests into competitive races, giving Democrats a path to House and Senate control even as several Democratic candidates struggle against local problems and a wider anti incumbent backlash.
A Demand Justice report argues that decades of corporate and conservative legal organizing have turned federal courts into barriers against antitrust enforcement, worker protections, agency independence, and other progressive reforms, while Democratic appointees also draw criticism.
In her final hours leading DHS, Kristi Noem directed lavish airplane spending toward a donor’s company, capping a tenure marked by costly contracts, promotional ads, disputed immigration claims, and criticism from Republican Sen. Thom Tillis.
After a protester interrupted his Florida appearance, JD Vance responded with insults and accusations of a Democratic setup, deflecting from criticism tied to the administration, the Epstein files, war in Iran, and rising costs.
Chicago alderpeople withheld approval of Stonepeak Partners’ parking meter purchase until it divested Omni Air International, after the airline’s ICE flights largely stopped. The final deal added pension money, lower fees, and 5% profit sharing for the city.
Republicans accustomed to effortless victories are stumbling through competitive races as Trump’s collapsing approval, rural economic pain, neglected candidate scandals, and clumsy reversals force them to confront voters they spent years taking for granted.
Timothy Ryback’s account of the 53 days Hitler used to destroy German democracy provides a grim comparison for Trump, whose narcissistic incoherence, reckless policies, and incompetent loyalists have repeatedly sabotaged the authoritarian project described by Robert Kuttner.
U.S. Southern Command chief Gen. Francis Donovan says land strikes, arrests and raids are among the options as the Trump administration expands its military campaign against suspected drug trafficking targets across Latin America.