"With each passing election since the Citizens United decision, billionaires have systematically bought up our democracy."

“No one outside the administration knows what a ‘Midterm Surprise’ means, but nothing this administration has done so far has come out of nowhere," one expert told Common Dreams.

News in a Nut’sHell

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Also: a senator’s own forms, a justice’s oil stock, and the man suing federal agents. Plus, the 22 races that could decide the House.

While talking to reporters, Trump was asked about possibly getting impeached again, and the president threatened that he could still go after Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama, and Joe Biden.

Former President Barack Obama has been out of office for nearly a decade, but this fact didn’t stop Trump Energy Secretary Chris Wright from blaming the ex-president for high diesel prices.

Republicans are facing potential losses everywhere, but now they are rushing money into South Carolina, as the Trump-created fiasco in deep red South Carolina could flip a Senate seat blue.

Thanks to Donald Trump’s attack on working Americans, a majority of Americans want Medicare for All for the first time since KFF began polling on it in 2016.

Trump family corruption has gotten so bad that even Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) said that the corruption in the First Family is a concern and should be investigated.

American analysts have long viewed inequality as a byproduct of technological causes. But Claudia Sheinbaum’s Morena Party has boosted workers’ income without any technological tradeoffs.

People's Action builds the power of poor and working people in rural, suburban, and urban areas to win change through issue campaigns and elections.

it won’t work

Sen. Susan Collins and Troy Jackson had their first of four US Senate debates in Maine, and Collins was awful. The three decade long incumbent showed why she is in real trouble.

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Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) pointed out that when Trump said that his super PAC would pay for illegally taxpayer-funded ads that he had been running, the president admitted to a new crime. https://open.

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President Trump is breaking the law to rig the 2026 midterms, warn democracy watchdogs. Unprecedented efforts to retain GOP control of Congress.

“Everyone should be alarmed that ICE is preparing to deploy a tool designed to inflict, at best, intense pain," said one watchdog.