Democratic candidate Angie Nixon has suggested she could run again in 2028 after being narrowly defeated in her race for U.S. Senate in Florida on Tuesday, falling to Republican opponent Ashley Moody by roughly 3 points after being massively outspent in the race written off by the Democratic establishment. Moody received 50.9 percent of the vote to Nixon’s 48 percent, still overcoming a 10…
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Several statewide and state legislative contests in this week’s midterm elections have resulted in new Democratic Party “trifecta” governments — places where the party is now in control of both houses of the state legislature as well as the governor’s office. With these new wins, Democrats have the opportunity to do something once considered nearly impossible: implement a popular vote model…
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Democrats’ wave of victories in the midterms has drowned the House Freedom Caucus.
The dubiously named caucus of GOP lawmakers — a cadre known to include traffickers in white supremacy, antisemitism and Islamophobia — had been on wobbly footing in recent years amid some prominent departures and growing evidence of its political impotence.
Now the next Congress will convene with several of the staunchest caucus members missing.
Arizona Rep. Andy Biggs declined to run for re-election so he could launch a gubernatorial bid, which failed. Same with Wisconsin Rep. Tom Tiffany.
South Carolina Rep. Ralph Norman, who led failed bids for governor and the U.S. Senate this year, won’t be returning to Capitol Hill either. Pennsylvania Rep. Scott Perry lost his seat to a Democratic opponent on Tuesday. And Reps. Lauren Boebert of Colorado and Eli Crane of Arizona seem to be at risk of losing their seats as well.
Even if Boebert and Crane eventually win, they’ll have both received resounding messages from thousands of voters who clearly don’t have an appetite for extremists.
The best story Republicans can take from the dwindling House Freedom Caucus is that of Florida Rep. Byron Donalds, who won’t be returning because he was elected governor.
So continues the caucus’s ongoing evaporation. Once a hotbed for conservative firebrands, it’s being extinguished with the help of Tuesday’s “blue tsunami.”
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The broad strokes of the midterms are clear: A massive repudiation of MAGA’s fascist wave has ended the Donald Trump 2.0 era of congressional complicity with his authoritarian takeover. Trump’s lame duck presidency now begins. This lopsided electoral rejection is historically rare: Flipping control of both the House and Senate in a midterm has only occurred three times since World War II (in…
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Three news organizations whose access to the White House was restored, for now, after President Donald Trump revoked it are now asking a federal judge to also restore access to other areas where the president regularly engages with the press, including the Oval Office and Air Force One.
The new request from the previously banned news outlets — MS NOW, CNN and Politico — comes a week after the organizations amended their original lawsuit to seek access to White House areas limited to the press pool, a group of media companies that share responsibility for routinely covering the president.
Earlier this month, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly indefinitely reversed Trump’s ban on White House access and ordered the Trump administration to return credentials and access to all affected journalists. Since that ruling, however, the White House has continued to bar reporters from those three outlets from participating in the press pool, which guarantees coverage of the president at all times.
Kelly will likely set a briefing schedule for the Trump administration to respond to this new request and could hold a hearing on it in the coming weeks.
“Twice, this Court has held that Defendants may not punish Plaintiffs for their journalism by revoking their hard passes and excluding them from the White House grounds entirely,” lawyers for MS NOW, CNN and Politico wrote in the new filing. “Defendants have responded by excluding Plaintiffs from those areas where the President most often engages with the press. These exclusions violate the Constitution.”
The news organizations have asked Kelly to block the Trump administration from discriminating against the previously banned outlets in their respective pool rotations and