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Andrew Egger / The Bulwark:
The Alex Pretti Election — It's Election Day, and boy, do we have election coverage for you: Tim, Sarah, and JVL will kick off our election night broadcast at 7:00 p.m. EST on Substack, YouTube, Facebook, and Twitch. Sam and the rest of the Bulwark team will carry us through the night as results come in across the country.
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Politico:
'We forgot what it's like to be populist': Republicans see Trump's 2024 crumbling — New results from the POLITICO Poll show that one in 10 Trump voters are planning to vote for Democrats on Tuesday. — Republicans' 2024 coalition is cracking in real time.
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Salon, CBS News and The Independent
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Republicans Are About to Pay for Trump's Mistakes … When it becomes clear Tuesday night or Wednesday morning that Republicans have taken “a thumper,” to borrow Bill Clinton's phrase, President Donald Trump will lunge for scapegoats. — Trump will claim Republican candidates should have embraced him more …
Susan B. Glasser / New Yorker:
Finally, the Beginning of Trump's End — In recent decades, the second terms of American Presidents have not ended well. Ronald Reagan had the Iran-Contra affair; Bill Clinton, after attempting to cover up his affair with a former intern, became the first chief executive impeached since the mid-nineteenth century.
Glenn Kessler / MS NOW:
I've spent years fact-checking Trump. Here are 5 election claims he's already making — and the facts undercutting them.
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Democracy Docket, CBS News, Iowa Starting Line, KSTP-TV, The Guardian and Votebeat
Garrett Downs / CNBC:
What the 2026 midterm elections could mean for Trump's final two years
What the 2026 midterm elections could mean for Trump's final two years
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France 24, Washington Examiner, OutsideTheBeltway, ABC News, Al Jazeera, Talking Points Memo and New York Times
Mike Zapler / Axios:
Democrats could learn wrong message from a blowout victory — Democrats are poised to romp in today's election — easily winning the House and, according to most forecasts, flipping the Senate too. … Even the GOP has a better brand. … Confusing the two could tempt Democrats to overread …
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G. Elliott Morris / FiftyPlusOne:
The final polls and race ratings show a late shift toward Democrats — The party has gained ground in the generic ballot and several key Senate races, according to both the polls and expert handicappers — G. Elliott Morris, FiftyPlusOne, and Katie Marriner
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Political.org, Paul Krugman, MS NOW and Newsweek
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
2026 ELECTION DAY LIVE BLOG — What to follow on Election Day and how to watch results come in, Strength In Numbers style — Intro — Welcome to the Strength In Numbers Election Day live blog! This page is your one-stop shop for all things data-driven commentary on Election Day 2026.
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The Downballot
G. Elliott Morris / Strength In Numbers:
FINAL forecast: a blue wave, or a blue tsunami?
SB Sarah / Smart Bitches, Trashy BooksSmart Bitches …:
The New York Times Terminates Contract with Romance Columnist Olivia Waite After Bluesky Repost — Please be advised that the following article discusses rape allegations. — ... The New York Times has terminated their contract with author Olivia Waite, their romance columnist …
E. Lansing / US Department of Justice:
DOJ To Monitor Elections in All 50 States for First Time — For Immediate Release — One of the Department of Justice's (DOJ) most important missions is ensuring election integrity, supporting free and fair elections, and protecting the right to vote for U.S. citizens across the United States.
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Rolling Stone:
Trump Deploys Election Monitors to Battleground Polling Places
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The Washington Sun and NBC Connecticut
ABC News:
Election Day 2026 live updates: DOJ election monitors to be dispatched across all 50 states
Election Day 2026 live updates: DOJ election monitors to be dispatched across all 50 states
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Democracy Docket, Washington Examiner, Straight Arrow, Newsweek and Political.org
Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump midterm election lawsuits, state pushback come to a head Tuesday
Trump midterm election lawsuits, state pushback come to a head Tuesday
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Political.org
New York Times:
Google Will Turn Off Search for Schools That Reject A.I. — Google is making it easier to restrict its A.I. tools for students. But schools that block A.I. entirely will lose student access to Google's search engine. — Google announced Tuesday that early next year it would turn off …
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Forbes, KFTC-TV, TechCrunch, The Verge, Chalkbeat and Google, more at Techmeme »
David E. Sanger / New York Times:
Trump Says U.S. to End $4 Billion in Aid to Israel in Favor of New Deal — The president's announcement on Election Day, which he said was part of an agreement reached months ago, was a sign of how quickly the politics surrounding Israel have shifted. — President Trump said on Tuesday …
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Daily Mail, KRDO and New Jewish Narrative
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Alexander Smith / NBC News:
U.S. will stop $4B in aid to Israel at the end of the year, Trump says
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Washington Examiner, Straight Arrow, Reuters and New Republic
Ben Finley / Associated Press:
Trump says US will halt $4B in aid to Israel as the Mideast ally shifts to buying military hardware
Trump says US will halt $4B in aid to Israel as the Mideast ally shifts to buying military hardware
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The Hill, GZERO, Washington Examiner, Bloomberg, CBS News, Fox News, Ace of Spades HQ, Truthout, Politico, Israpundit, The Daily Wire, New York Post, Deseret News, Stars & Stripes, The Daily Caller, America News Nation, Blaze Media, Los Angeles Times, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Political.org, The Independent, Jewish Insider, Al Jazeera, Mediaite, France 24 and Toledo Blade
Kelsey Brugger / Politico:
Election Day in America — Voters are taking to the polls in a midterm election that will define the future of both parties. — Collins' office vandalized on Election Eve — BANGOR, MAINE - Sen. Susan Collins' Biddeford office was vandalized overnight for the second time in a month …
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Scripps News and Fox News
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Jared Mitovich / Wall Street Journal:
Susan Collins's Office Vandalized Overnight
Susan Collins's Office Vandalized Overnight
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NewsMax.com and The Maine Wire
Michelle Del Rey / The Washington Sun:
Ballot Scanners Fail Across New York's Westchester County — The New York Attorney General's Office said it is monitoring a widespread technical issue with ballot scanning machines in Westchester County that may force the county's election workers to count votes by hand.
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Herb Scribner / Axios:
Voting machine chaos hits key House battleground
Voting machine chaos hits key House battleground
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Fox News, Bloomberg, Westchester County, RedState, Forbes, The Gateway Pundit, The Post Millennial and CBS News
Gavin J. Quinton / The Washington Sun:
Justice Department Bars Jack Smith From Testifying in Trump's BBC Lawsuit — The BBC wants to question the former special counsel about the president's role in Jan. 6. — Copy — The Justice Department has refused to give former special counsel Jack Smith permission to testify …
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Variety
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Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Strikes Iran's Qeshm Island as Trump Talks Down War Risks — Trump told reporters Monday 'we haven't been doing any fighting for months' — The U.S. attacked Iran's Qeshm Island on Monday, U.S. officials said, in the latest of a series of limited strikes Washington has secretly carried …
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MS NOW, Washington Post, New York Magazine, CBS News, Mediaite, New York Times, The Dean's Report, Stars & Stripes, The Daily Caller, Breitbart, Foreign Policy, Reuters, RedState, The Free Press, Semafor, CNN, The Guardian, Forbes, Erick Erickson's Show Notes, The Hill, New York Post, Joe.My.God., Vox, Associated Press and Bloomberg
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Lisa Needham / Public Notice:
James O'Keefe's Minnesota stunt backfires spectacularly — The fraud came from inside the house. … Well, well, well. — Do you think those cringy scammers, James O'Keefe and Cam Higby, have enjoyed being hoisted by their own petard, as it were? Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty …
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The Mahablog and UNICORN RIOT
Bret Stephens / New York Times:
What a Vote for Abdul El-Sayed Means — On a recent visit to Temple Israel in West Bloomfield Township, Mich., I heard from someone who described the state's U.S. Senate race this year as a choice either against antisemitism or for democracy. — What he meant was that a vote for Mike Rogers …
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Jewish Telegraphic Agency, RNS and Washington Examiner
Ken Burns / New York Times:
Why I'm Optimistic About the Midterms — There have been three great crises in American history: the Civil War, perhaps the defining event in our history after the Revolution itself, the Great Depression and World War II. These events tested our republic and our resolve in fundamental ways …
Jessica Piper / Politico:
Election Day in America — Voters are taking to the polls in a midterm election that will define the future of both parties. — What time do the polls close? When we'll start getting key election results. — The first polls of the midterms will close at 6 p.m. on the East Coast …
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MS NOW, Slate, The Atlantic, The Guardian, Washington Post, Associated Press, New York Post, CBS News and New York Times
Associated Press:
Man charged with mailing hundreds of letters containing powder to officials ahead of the election — Federal authorities have charged an Oklahoma man with sending hundreds of letters containing nonhazardous white powder to public officials ahead of the 2024 and 2026 elections.
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CBS News, Fox News, FOX 9 Minneapolis-St. Paul and Political.org
Marc Caputo / Axios:
Fired general accused of being source for Wall Street Journal, NYT — The Pentagon's former top military planner is under federal investigation and may face a court-martial for allegedly leaking to reporters from the Wall Street Journal and New York Times, according to three sources familiar with the controversy.
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NewsMax.com and Mediaite
Chloe Taylor / CNBC:
Trump is going to get ‘trounced’ in the midterms — and knows it, Anthony Scaramucci tells CNBC … U.S. President Donald Trump will get “trounced” in Tuesday's midterm elections, Anthony Scaramucci, former White House communications director and founder of SkyBridge Capital, told CNBC.
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The Independent
Sidney Blumenthal / The Guardian:
Trump's midterm campaign has distilled his vile message — The president has spewed vulgar and hateful rhetoric even as he reveals his disdain for his followers — Far from veering off his track, Trump in his ceaselessly vile midterm campaign statements has attained an optimal level of Trumpism.
Alex Leary / Wall Street Journal:
Florida Republicans Uneasy About Byron Donalds's Race for Governor — For nervous Florida Republicans, it all comes down to Tuesday. Gubernatorial candidate Byron Donalds and the rest of the GOP ticket are counting on a big Election Day turnout to overcome strong Democratic early voting.
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NewsMax.com, Political.org, WTOP News, ABC News, New York Times, Florida Politics, Reason and The Verge
Miles Klee / Wired:
The Online Right's Closing Campaign Argument: Fascist Anakin Skywalker Memes — With Democrats poised to make significant gains in Tuesday's midterm elections, Trump supporters have been reduced to posting bizarre Star Wars fan fiction. — If you quit checking X months ago …
