How Katie Miller lobbied for her husband's promotion  —  President Donald Trump's decision to make Stephen Miller the White House chief of staff followed a weeks-long lobbying effort from Katie Miller, his wife.  —  Katie Miller told people to call the president on her husband's behalf …

How Elon Musk Frittered Away Nearly $500 Million on the Midterms  —  Behind the scenes, the world's richest person spent a record amount over two years to bend the country's politics to his will.  He couldn't.  —  The world's richest person had face-planted — and was now trying to turn back time.

The Short, Unhappy Marriage of MAHA and the GOP … Paula Obeid raced through Costco on a Wednesday afternoon in October, gathering supplies for the rally she was organizing that night in Scottsdale: sauerkraut, organic beef jerky, plastic plates without decorative trims that could contain harmful chemicals.

A Top Navy Officer Fired by Hegseth Is Elected to Congress  —  Nancy Lacore, a Democrat, has expressed interest in being on the Armed Services Committee.  — Copy  —  Democrat Nancy Lacore, a retired Navy vice admiral fired by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth last year, has won her congressional race …

Free Press Forced To Issue Correction After Reporting Abdul El-Sayed Gave His Victory Speech ‘In Arabic’  —  The Free Press was forced to issue a correction after reporter Maya Sulkin erroneously said that Senator-elect Abdul El-Sayed (D-MI) gave his victory speech “in Arabic.”

Wisconsin state trooper detained by ICE while boarding domestic flight to be released  —  DODGE COUNTY, Wis. —  A Wisconsin state trooper was detained by U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement at Dane County Regional Airport on Thursday.  —  It happened during a targeted ICE operation …

Democrats, Newly Ascendant, Begin a Fight to Shape the Party's Future  —  At a moment of opportunity for the party, its long-feuding factions are seizing on the midterm results to make their case for tacking to the center or to the left.  —  A pastor in Kansas.  A Paralympian in Iowa.

With So Much New Blood in the Senate, the Average Age Is Falling.  To 63.  —  Incoming senators are nearly 15 years younger than departing ones, on average.  But the chamber's overall age isn't shifting much.  —  When the new Senate convenes in January, it will welcome some (relatively) young new legislators.

US believes Nvidia's Huang had romantic relationship with alleged Chinese spy  —  American intelligence warned the tech boss was involved with executive recruited by China to gather information on US group  —  The US government believes Nvidia's chief executive Jensen Huang had a romantic relationship …

Pro-Talarico PAC pulls back curtain on historic investment  —  In January, the leading super political action committee backing James Talarico spotted a problem in the data: Talarico was running behind where he needed to be in Hispanic-heavy South Texas in order to win the March primary.

California rejects billionaire tax proposal in win for executives, Newsom  —  California voters are rejecting a proposal to impose a wealth tax on billionaire residents, marking a major win for tech and business executives, who spent hundreds of millions against the measure, according to a projection from Decision Desk HQ (DDHQ).

Mississippi Senate race votes at risk after state eliminates mail ballot curing rule  —  The extremely tight U.S. Senate race in Mississippi is now coming down to the final few provisional and mail ballots, which could determine the outcome.  But a few months ago, Mississippi's secretary …

Incoming Democratic senators don't want Chuck Schumer as majority leader  —  New lawmakers from Annie Andrews and Adam Hamilton to Abdul El-Sayed indicate they will not support him  —  Incoming Democratic senators want someone other than Chuck Schumer to become the next majority leader in the US Senate …

The Epstein Election and the End of MAGA  —  This article was featured in the One Story to Read Today newsletter.  Sign up for it here.  —  In the final weeks before the midterms, the name Epstein was everywhere—in political ads, in stump speeches, on T-shirts at campaign rallies …

Breaking the Decade-Long Trump Fever  —  The President's unique brand of lurid authoritarianism has finally lost appeal, and he has lost the plot.  —  Two generations ago, in the fall of 1974, President Gerald Ford and the Republican Party approached the midterm elections with considerable dread.

House Democrats “inundated” with anti-Jeffries calls  —  Democratic House members and members-elect are being bombarded with phone calls and emails urging them not to elect Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-N.Y.) as speaker, more than a dozen lawmakers and aides tell Axios.

What was voters' beef?  Beef prices  —  If you had to pick one political advertisement to sum up voters' biggest economic beef heading into the midterms, it might have been the one about, well, beef:  — A viral spot for Mississippi's Democratic Senate candidate, Scott Colom …

Johnson's meeting request  —  Sen. Ron Johnson is sending a letter Monday requesting a conference meeting to discuss the midterm results and a delay in the leadership election.  Johnson has gathered enough signatures to force the meeting under the Senate GOP's rules and is proposing the gathering for 9 a.m. Tuesday.

7 charts that illustrate the scope of Democrats' big 2026 wave  —  Monster showings in the early vote, big swings in Trump country, records broken in key Senate races and more show the depth and breadth of the 2026 midterm results.  —  The scope of Democrats' resounding midterm victory …

“The Global Capital of Protestantism” — Peter Thiel Recruits Nashville Against Pope Leo XIV  —  In a secretly recorded lecture, JD Vance's top donor called the Catholic Church a dubious ally and told Nashville to fight.  Fifteen days later, Catholics swung 21 points and voters sided with Leo.

White House Weighs Executive Order Attaching Terrorist Label to Some Nonprofits  —  The order, which hasn't been finalized, would immediately suspend groups' tax-exempt status  —  WASHINGTON—The Trump administration is considering an executive order that would list some nonprofit organizations …

He'll Be Clerk of One of the Country's Largest Counties.  He's 19.  —  Sebastian Matta, a sophomore at Arizona State University, was elected on Tuesday as Superior Court clerk in Maricopa County, Ariz.  —  If you live in Arizona's Maricopa County, Sebastian Matta will soon be in charge …

Mysterious Request Scrambles Major Supreme Court Gun Case  —  In an unusual move, the lead plaintiff in one of two cases challenging semiautomatic weapons bans has asked to drop out weeks before the cases are heard.  —  The Supreme Court received an unusual request late last week …