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The Supreme Court Reversed Itself to Erase a District It Had Previously Ordered to Exist
The 6-3 Alabama ruling does not just weaken the Voting Rights Act -- it retroactively rewrites what courts can require states to undo.
The Senate Has Voted Seven Times to End the Iran War and Lost Every Time. That Is Now the Point.
Murkowski flipped, the vote failed 50-49, and Democrats are not trying to stop the war anymore -- they are trying to force Republicans to own it before November.
Pump Relief as Political Triage
Gas hit $4.52. Trump wants to kill the gas tax. Congress needs to pass it. The Highway Trust Fund will pay.
The Permanent Gerrymander
After the Supreme Court gutted the Voting Rights Act, Republicans are redrawing maps without legal constraint. Democrats are about to learn what structural disadvantage really feels like.
SCOTUS Just Handed Republicans a Redistricting Weapon Before the Midterms
The Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling in Louisiana v. Callais dismantled majority-Black congressional districts. States are now scrambling to redraw maps before this year's elections.
Republicans Just Introduced a National Abortion Ban Labeled Something Else
Rep. Kat Cammack's Dismemberment Abortion Ban Act criminalizes the most common second-trimester procedure. Call it what it is: a national 12-week ban written to sound procedural.
Trump Wants the Filibuster Dead. His Own Senate Won't Do It.
The SAVE America Act is stalled in the Senate not because of Democrats but because Republican senators refuse to eliminate the filibuster to pass it. Trump is furious. Thune is unmoved.
SCOTUS Gutted the Voting Rights Act. Republicans Have 180 Days to Redraw Maps.
Louisiana v. Callais ended the 40-year Gingles framework for minority representation. The race to redraw before November's midterms may flip four to six House seats.
Trump Is Purging Voter Rolls Inside the 90-Day Window. The Courts Keep Saying No. He Keeps Going.
The Justice Department is using an immigration database to challenge voter registrations in 30 states, within 90 days of the midterm election. Courts have thrown out case after case. The purges continue.
CISA Lost a Third of Its Staff. Cyber Partnerships Are at a Standstill. The Midterms Are Six Months Away.
The agency responsible for protecting US critical infrastructure and election systems has been hollowed out just as the 2026 midterms approach, and the House just passed a funding bill that cuts it further.
The SCOTUS Ruling Unlocked Maximum Gerrymandering. Republicans Are Running the Clock.
Within 48 hours of the Callais decision, Louisiana suspended its primaries, Florida passed a new map adding four Republican seats, and Trump called on Tennessee and other states to redraw their districts. The ruling did not just limit the Voting Rights Act. It started a race.
SCOTUS Strikes Down Louisiana Map, Gutting Voting Rights Act
The court rules majority-minority districts unconstitutional, handing Republicans a redistricting weapon heading into the midterms.
Trump Signed a Mail Voting Order. 23 States Sued Within Hours. The Midterms Are in 6 Months.
An executive order requiring USPS to verify voter citizenship before delivering ballots is legally dubious, operationally impossible, and may energize the very voters it aims to suppress.
Trump Killed $35 Billion in Wind Projects. Republican Districts Lost Twice as Much as Democratic Ones.
Nine House Republicans are publicly breaking with Trump on offshore wind. Courts have temporarily stopped the cancellations. Virginia's redistricting just made the political math worse for the party.
Voters Approve the Map. A Judge Says No.
Virginia's redistricting passed at the ballot box and was blocked the next morning. The midterm arms race just entered legal limbo.
Virginia Voters Decide Today Whether Democrats Can Gerrymander Back
Nearly $100 million spent on a ballot measure that bypasses Virginia's own bipartisan commission. The redistricting wars Trump started now require Democrats to become what they said they were against.
The Republican Party Is Having Its Immigration Fight In Public. One Side Wants Votes. The Other Wants Deportations.
Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar's Dignity Act would give pre-2021 undocumented immigrants legal status but no citizenship. A new PAC is spending to end her career. Manufacturers are endorsing her. The House majority is at stake.
The SAVE Act Is Not About Noncitizens. It Is About Who Controls the Voter List.
Trump's push to use DHS's SAVE program for election verification is dividing election officials ahead of midterms, and polls show it is popular.
The MAGA Stronghold Held. But a Democrat Got 42% in Marjorie Taylor Greene's Old Seat.
Clay Fuller won Georgia's 14th district special election, but the margin collapsed from a 29-point blowout to 15 points. Republicans are calling it a spending anomaly. Democrats are calling it a bellwether.
The SAVE Act Would Disenfranchise 21 Million People. Speaker Johnson Says That's the Point.
Trump's voter ID bill passed the House in February. A Republican speaker was caught on a hot mic saying it would cut 18% of the electorate. The Senate is now deciding whether that counts as a selling point.