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7:35 AM ET, November 1, 2026

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New York Times:
A Midterm Campaign Dominated by Concerns Over High Prices Nears Its End  —  Across the country, many voters have drawn a straight line between President Trump's policies and inflation.  —  Financial concerns have been the most pressing issue for voters in four of the six previous midterm elections of this century.
Discussion: Fox News
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Cat Zakrzewski / Washington Post:
The corruption election: Democrats link Trump's wealth to voters' economic pain  —  Candidates are painting the president and Republican incumbents as enriching themselves while ordinary Americans struggle to make ends meet.  —  SummaryLoading...  Last year, a super PAC dedicated …
Discussion: New Yorker and New York Times
Ronald Brownstein / CNN:
If a blue wave is coming, here are the races where it will start  —  Donald Trump US elections House election Senate election  —  Midterm elections are almost always bad for the president's party.  Sometimes they are very bad for the president's party.  And every so often they are historically bad.
Discussion: Politico
Anna Griffin / New York Times:
Democrats File Suit Over Closed Polling Places in Rural Alaska  —  Voting sites in 18 far-flung communities failed to open, the suit claims.  —  As a Justice Department lawsuit challenging the presence of two U.S. Senate candidates named Dan Sullivan on the Alaska ballot plays out …
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Amy Sherman / PBS NewsHour:
When will we know 2026 midterm election results?  It may take some time, but that's normal  —  If you go to bed on election night and don't know who won a midterm congressional race, that's normal.  And if you wake up the next morning and find that a candidate who was behind hours earlier has since pulled ahead, that's normal, too.
Natasha Korecki / NBC News:
‘Sea change’: Early voting numbers show Hispanic turnout exploding in Texas  —  It's not yet clear who people are voting for.  But Hispanic early voting turnout is up, including large numbers of people who haven't participated in recent elections.  —  Since July, the sign at the streetside memorial …
Discussion: CBS News
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Jennifer Bendery / HuffPost:
‘Screwed Up’: Latino Voters In Texas' Rio Grande Valley Regret Backing Trump In 2024
Discussion: El País, Mediaite and Al Jazeera
New York Times:
El-Sayed Doesn't Want Haley Stevens to Join Him at Sunday Event  —  Tensions have flared between Dr. Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic Senate nominee in Michigan, and his former primary rival.  “I don't want any distractions,” Dr. El-Sayed said Saturday.  —  Dr. Abdul El-Sayed …
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Ben Johansen / Politico:
The last weekend of midterm campaigning begins
Discussion: Mediaite
Reid J. Epstein / New York Times:
Why Haley Stevens Can't Stop Talking About Abdul El-Sayed
Katie Robertson / New York Times:
As Political Ad Spending Skyrockets, Broadcast TV Remains King  —  Even though marketers have increasingly shifted their dollars to other media, local stations are reaping a bonanza during these midterm elections.  Nowhere is this is more evident than in Texas.
Tim Arango / New York Times:
Culture War Tensions Roil Beverly Hills School Board Race  —  Battles over Israel, antisemitism and race have shaken Beverly Hills in recent years and divided the formerly Democratic enclave.  —  Since the Covid-19 pandemic, school board elections around the country, once sleepy affairs …
Marina Dunbar / The Guardian:
Judge dismisses Trump lawsuit against Wall Street Journal over Epstein birthday letter  —  Ruling ‘with prejudice’ means US president may not amend or refile his lawsuit over his alleged birthday letter to Jeffrey Epstein  —  A US judge dismissed Donald Trump's lawsuit against the Wall Street Journal …
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New York Times:
Gaffes and Men's Bodies: Analysis of Trump's Speeches at Age 80  —  A Times review of the president's public speeches finds that he is more profane, more absolutist, longer-winded and less coherent than he was in 2016.  —  NEWS ANALYSIS  —  A Times review of the president's public speeches finds …
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
2026 Democratic candidates throw Joe Biden under the bus on the border  —  From Senate to House races, in red and purple areas, Democrats are looking to make a clean break from Joe Biden's unpopular border enforcement policies in a bid to redefine the party.
Discussion: NewsMax.com and Al Jazeera
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Hans Nichols / Axios:
Your election night cheat sheet
Discussion: NPR and OutsideTheBeltway
Kayla Guo / The Texas Tribune:
Ken Paxton appears to cancel final rally of his “Come and Take It” tour at the Alamo  —  Paxton's campaign initially said he would close his get-out-the-vote push at the landmark.  Instead, his campaign schedule lists events in North Texas on the eve of Election Day.  —  TAKE OUR CONTENT — PLEASE!
Andrew Childers / Democracy Docket:
DHS Secretary Mullin claims 300,000 noncitizens under investigation for illegally voting  —  Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Markwayne Mullin claimed his department is investigating 300,000 cases of potential noncitizens voting, with 1,600 active investigations.
Discussion: NewsMax.com
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Jacob Knutson / Democracy Docket:
Judge orders DOJ to stop threatening election officials
Nicholas Riccardi / Associated Press:
More than 40% of names on DOJ list of alleged noncitizens not on California's voter rolls  —  More than 4 in 10 names flagged as possible noncitizen voters in California by the Trump administration cannot even be found on the state's voter rolls, according to a legal filing Saturday by an immigrant rights group.
Tyler Pager / New York Times:
Trump Calls Former Lawyer's $50 Million Deal ‘Obnoxious and Outrageous’  —  At a Halloween event in Florida, President Trump told reporters that Alina Habba Mildon's lucrative work for someone seeking a pardon was “not acceptable.”  —  President Trump on Saturday strongly criticized his former lawyer …
Discussion: Mediaite and Daily Kos
Laurie Perez / CBS News:
Video shows immigration agent detaining man in North Hollywood, pointing gun at bystander  —  Los Angeles leaders are speaking out after video captured the moments when what appeared to be a U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent pointed a gun at a bystander as a different man was detained in North Hollywood on Friday.
Discussion: Los Angeles Times
Bloomberg:
German Protests Turn Violent as Activists Clash With Police  —  Mass demonstrations in Germany that passed largely peacefully on Saturday turned violent as night fell and rioters faced off against police in Frankfurt, Cologne, Hamburg and Berlin.  —  Authorities blocked off Frankfurt's main …
U.S. Embassy & Consulates in Russia:
Security Alert: Threat to Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow (October 31, 2026)  —  Security Alert: Threat to Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow  —  Security Alert: Threat to Tsaritsyno Museum Reserve in Moscow (October 31, 2026)  —  The U.S. Embassy in Moscow is aware of a credible threat …
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Ros Krasny / Bloomberg:
US Embassy Warns of Mass Casualty Threat at Moscow Museum
 
 
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Patrick Marley / Washington Post:
In unusual email, Social Security Administration touts Trump days before elections
Discussion: El País
Cameron Cummins-Smith / Liberal Currents:
Vote Democratic to Fight Socialism
Penelope Laurans / Yale News:
William Nordhaus, Nobel laureate who integrated economics and climate change, devoted Yale citizen
Discussion: Cafe Hayek and Paul Krugman
Politico:
In a New Jersey House race, Trump is putting a centuries-old family legacy at risk
Axios:
The AI boom's political reckoning
Discussion: Bloomberg
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New York Times:
Inside the Times's Decisions on the Alaska Senate Race Story
Discussion: The Hill and Al Jazeera
Mike Konczal:
2028 Won't Be the 2020 Ideas Primary Again
Discussion: Politico
Jonathan Edwards / Washington Post:
Kennedy Center leaders threatened payroll to push Trump naming, lawmaker alleges
Discussion: CNN
Josh Marshall / Talking Points Memo:
Let's Talk About Alaska
Discussion: OutsideTheBeltway and NewsNation
 

 
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