Your Daily Kos live blog for Sept. 30.

Check out the latest “Room Temp” podcast with Markos Moulitsas and Janesh Rahlan.

A cartoon by Clay Bennett.

Five weeks out from the midterm elections, the Senate map is both clearer and murkier than ever.

Try telling a voter you had the majority, that you control the rules, and let a rule beat you anyway. See how that goes.

Here’s your Daily Kos Recap for Sept. 30.

In a midterms wave fueled by resistance and revenge, the Democratic candidate for governor is singing a different tune.

Endless Urgency is about building independent media that follows the power, connects the dots, and says what needs to be said—without waiting for permission.

Democrats in Congress demand answers and accountability for Trump's misuse of taxpayer dollars for "illegal" ads.

Endless Urgency is always free to read, but this community only grows because people choose to invest in it.

Minimum-salary laws are a growing strategy for raising educator pay.

Minimum-salary laws are a growing strategy for raising educator pay.

Endless Urgency is always free to read, but this community only grows because people choose to invest in it.

The Supreme Court’s conservatives are allowing Trump to continue third-country deportations with no due process.

The Trump administration can’t get enough of famous men with rap sheets.

A new poll released Wednesday shows Republicans struggling in Texas—even more than they thought.

A cartoon by Tim Campbell.

When it comes to ICE shootings, the agents are never to blame.

A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to fast-track records involving Trump and the administration’s handling of the Epstein files, finding the fight raises “possible questions about the gove...

At Quantico, Pete Hegseth paired a sweeping cut to senior military positions with culture-war rhetoric and an attack on journalists reporting on the Trump regime’s war.

YouTube video by Katie Phang

Trump’s latest bizarre move came in the form of an executive order banning ticks and mosquitoes from Washington, D.C.

He hasn’t been president for almost a decade now.

Try telling a voter you had the majority, that you control the rules, and let a rule beat you anyway. See how that goes.

Treasury quietly gave Trump ballroom donor a pass to deal with sanctioned Russian bank

President Donald Trump’s abysmal approval rating threatens to drag the GOP into the political abyss.

Totally competent Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has got this, you guys.

Experts at PERI present a radical plan to overhaul US foreign policy, reduce military spending, and invest in programs benefiting working-class Americans.

President Donald Trump's illegal war with Iran has cost US taxpayers almost $40 billion, draining resources and impacting consumer prices.

Experts at PERI present a radical plan to overhaul US foreign policy, reduce military spending, and invest in programs benefiting working-class Americans.