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MS NOW:
Trump aides explore attaching president's name to Ford's Theatre  —  The playhouse where Abraham Lincoln was assassinated has been mentioned among federal properties that could carry the president's name, people familiar with the effort told MS NOW.  —  As President Donald Trump fights …
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
Poll: Trump's approval hits a new low of 33% as Republicans sour; Democrats lead House vote by 10 with likely voters  —  This article reports results from the September 2026 Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll.  A methodology description is included at the end of this article.
Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway, Forbes and The Hill
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Marist Poll:
2026 Midterm Elections in Texas, September 2026  —  Talarico with Edge in Texas Senate Race...Hinojosa & Abbott Competitive  —  President Donald Trump may not be on the ballot this year, but his presence is felt in this year's midterm elections.  In the race for U.S. Senate in Texas …
Discussion: MS NOW, Scripps News and Forbes
Marist Poll:
2026 Midterm Elections, September 2026  —  Trump Shadows the Race for Congress as Democrats Lead by Double Digits  —  Registered voters across the country favor Democrats for Congress by 12 points, but the contest may be less about Congress than about President Donald Trump.
Zoe Tillman / Bloomberg:
Trump Seeks Power Over Midterm Voting With Redistricting, Mail Ballots
Discussion: NPR
Matt Gertz / Media Matters for America:
President Trump keeps casually accusing news outlets of treason  —  He's accused journalists of almost or actually committing treason at least 13 times since last year  —  President Donald Trump, in a Truth Social post published shortly before midnight on Tuesday, declared reporters …
Discussion: MS NOW, The Hill, Mediaite and HuffPost
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National Review:
Trump Should Rescind the Press Ban
CNN:
Defending reporter ban, Justice Department argues stories on Trump's ballroom project, Iran war threaten national security
William Vaillancourt / The Daily Beast:
White House Melts Down at CNN Host With Vile Slur
Discussion: HuffPost
Wall Street Journal:
Trump's Oil Allies See Nightmare Scenario of Diesel-Export Ban Becoming Reality  —  American oil companies are fiercely opposed to the president's nascent plan to ban exports of diesel, but vulnerable Republicans are putting pressure on him  —  American oil executives thought they had won …
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Politico:
‘Dammit, something has to happen’: White House preparing plan for 90-day diesel exports ban  —  The Trump administration is preparing a plan to ban exports of diesel for 90 days, despite splits inside the administration and with the oil industry, in a bid to bring down energy prices weighing …
Bloomberg:   Goldman Sees Gasoline-Price Blowback If US Bans Diesel Exports
Washington Post:
‘I am the code’: Trump clashed with ballroom architect over safety issues … In the weeks leading up to his resignation last year, the first architect on the White House ballroom clashed with President Donald Trump over design features that the architect believed violated building safety codes …
Greg Sargent / New Republic:
Stephen Miller's MAGA Terror Campaign Exposed by Damning New Leaks  —  Did you know that the U.S. government has an agency called the “Office of Remigration”?  In case you're unfamiliar with the term “remigration,” it's typically used by white nationalists to describe the mass expulsion …
Discussion: Breitbart
Noah Goldberg / Los Angeles Times:
Raman takes big lead over Bass in latest poll for L.A. mayor's race  — 6 min Click here to listen to this article  — The Berkeley IGS/L.A. Times poll represented the strongest showing yet for Nithya Raman, who trailed Karen Bass in almost every poll during the primary campaign and placed second to Bass in the June 2 primary.
Quinnipiac University Poll:
NY Governor's Race: Hochul Up 19 Points Over Blakeman With The Cost Of Living & Economy Top Of Voters' Minds, Quinnipiac University New York State Poll Finds; Senator Chuck Schumer's Job Approval: 36%  — mail_outline  —  Less than six weeks until Election Day …
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New York Post:   Bruce Blakeman reveals his feelings about ex-wife's $18K donation to Kathy Hochul's campaign
Paul Krugman:
It's “Underwear on the Outside” Time  —  Trump's continuing downward spiral into sundowning … In the 1971 comedy film Bananas a third-world nation's strongman announces his new policies: … Yesterday, addressing the General Assembly of the United Nations, the president of the United States declared, among other things,
Rohan Goswami / Semafor:
Paramount weighs tapping Musk for equity investment  —  The Scoop  —  Paramount, looking to firm up its financial picture as it digests Warner Bros. Discovery, is looking for fresh sources of cash.  Executives at the company have discussed asking Elon Musk to become part of a syndicate …
Olivia Diaz / New York Times:
Republican Senator Urges Congress to Investigate Donald Trump Jr.  —  In a letter, John Curtis of Utah called for the Senate Judiciary Committee to subpoena the sons of President Trump and former President Joseph R. Biden Jr.  —  A Republican senator on Tuesday called for the Senate …
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CBS News:
Republicans push for investigation into Donald Trump Jr. amid wedding party controversy
Erin Cox / Washington Post:
GOP hold on South Carolina's Senate seat is slipping  —  Cook Political Report reclassified the race favoring Sen. Darline Graham from “solid Republican” to “likely Republican.”  —  The Senate seat held by South Carolina Republicans for decades is vulnerable to flipping to Democrats, analysts said Wednesday.
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Neal Rothschild / Axios:
Cook nudges three Senate races toward Democrats
Discussion: Washington Examiner and The Hill
Wall Street Journal:
Federal Prosecutors Open Probe Into Jeffrey Epstein's Executors  —  Prosecutors have questioned Epstein victims about his longtime accountant and lawyer; both men have denied wrongdoing  —  Federal authorities have opened a probe into Darren Indyke and Richard Kahn, Jeffrey Epstein's longtime lawyer …
Andrew Kaczynski / CNN:
Republican Senate nominee said she was ‘embarrassed’ to be from the state she's now running to represent  —  Congressional news Senate election US elections Media  —  In a local radio interview earlier this month, Michele Tafoya, the Republican Senate nominee in Minnesota and former sports broadcaster …
Discussion: MS NOW, Fox News and RedState
Maya Sulkin / The Free Press:
EXCLUSIVE: ‘The New York Times’ Sued by Shareholders Over Biased Israel Coverage  —  The suit leans on a whistleblower account of a newsroom that ignored years of complaints about antisemitism and skewed reporting.  —  Upgrade to Listen  —  Shareholders of The New York Times filed a lawsuit …
Wall Street Journal:
MAGA Podcasters Are Tuning Out Trump.  We Tracked What They Are Talking About Now.  —  A Democrat threatening to flip red Texas and a murder trial that divided a jury are hot topics  —  Conservative podcasters appear to be losing interest in President Trump.
Discussion: New Republic
Paul Waldman / Public Notice:
The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood  —  The risk of bucking him is now outweighed by the risk of NOT opposing him.  —  ∙ Paid … One of the defining features of politics in this era is the iron grip Donald Trump has on the Republican Party.
Mother Jones:
Whites Only  —  The disaster the justices have unleashed has its roots in one of the darkest periods of our history.  —  On May 8, hundreds of civil rights protesters, carrying signs that said, “No Jim Crow Maps” and “Hands Off Our Vote,” descended on Baton Rouge to oppose a plan …
KFF:
KFF/AP Rural Voters Survey  —  Authors: Alex Montero, Shannon Schumacher, Julian Montalvo III, Ashley Kirzinger, and Liz Hamel  —  News Release: KFF/AP Survey Probes Rural Voters' Increasing Anxieties About the Rising Cost of Living, Including Health Costs, Heading into the Midterm Elections
Brittany Gibson / Axios:
Trump's last-ditch hunt for voter fraud  —  The Trump administration says Americans should prepare between now and Election Day for a wave of new arrests and prosecutions over alleged non-citizen voter fraud. … - “This initiative is a tier one priority,” a Justice Department official told reporters on Tuesday.
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Trump to Venezuela's Rodriguez: Elections need to happen … - Change the composition of the Venezuelan Supreme Court to make it more representative of the country. … - Reform the National Electoral Commission to ensure there's not a repeat of 2024, when it manipulated the vote count …
Ilana Berger / Media Matters for America:
Local TV news stations across the nation tell story of US farmers struggling to adapt to high diesel prices  —  Farmers who were promised “America First” policies say that $6 diesel — an all-time high — is “eating everyone's bottom line” as Trump's ongoing war with Iran stretches toward peak harvest season
Jonathan V. Last / The Bulwark:
Portrait of an Anti-Anti-Trumper in Despair  —  The fire rises.  —  Gerard Baker—once upon a time the editor-in-chief of the Wall Street Journal—had a remarkable essay in the paper yesterday.  —  Remarkable in its prissiness, foolishness, and cowardice.  —  Let's do two things today.
Discussion: HuffPost
Jim Saksa / Democracy Docket:
Trump administration will use passport data for voter citizenship checks, court filing reveals  —  The Trump administration will start using passport records as it hunts for noncitizens on the voter registration rolls, the Department of Justice (DOJ) said in a filing Tuesday evening.
Mark Hertling / The Bulwark:
Why Saudi Arabia's Houthi Problem Is Our Problem, Too  —  The Yemeni extremist group is adaptable, aggressive, and more united than its opposition.  —  I'VE SPENT A GOOD PART OF MY professional life studying and fighting in the Middle East, and even I have found the latest developments between Saudi Arabia …
 
 
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