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Leading House Democrat Reverses Position, Says Trump Should Be Impeached

Leading House Democrat Reverses Position, Says Trump Should Be Impeached

Rep. Adam Smith (D-Washington) had previously expressed resistance to impeaching Trump back in May.

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Republicans’ Final Pitch to Midterm Voters: Outright Christian Nationalism

Republicans’ Final Pitch to Midterm Voters: Outright Christian Nationalism

Republicans are invoking Christianity to mobilize voters and attack the legitimacy of Muslim candidates.

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“Our Democracy Is in Danger” — Judge Rejects Trump Bid to Block 20K Votes in CA

“Our Democracy Is in Danger” — Judge Rejects Trump Bid to Block 20K Votes in CA

Washington state officials found several errors in the list of voters the White House has deemed ineligible.

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Ramaswamy’s Poll Numbers Drop 6 Points Following Ad Featuring Amy Acton’s Mother

Ramaswamy’s Poll Numbers Drop 6 Points Following Ad Featuring Amy Acton’s Mother

Democratic candidate Amy Acton alleges her estranged mother did nothing to protect her from her late stepfather’s abuse.

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Far Right Influencer James O’Keefe Charged With Voter Fraud in Minnesota

Far Right Influencer James O’Keefe Charged With Voter Fraud in Minnesota

O’Keefe used a racist accent and wore what he dubbed “Muslim garb” in his failed attempt to expose “fraud.”

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Tom Tiffany, GOP Candidate for WI Governor, Refuses to Sign Pro-Democracy Pledge

Tom Tiffany, GOP Candidate for WI Governor, Refuses to Sign Pro-Democracy Pledge

Among other items, the pledge asked candidates to “refrain from knowingly propagating falsehoods” about elections.

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Trump Welcomes Bolsonaro to US, Echoes His Unsubstantiated Election Fraud Claims

Trump Welcomes Bolsonaro to US, Echoes His Unsubstantiated Election Fraud Claims

Bolsonaro and his family reportedly arrived in Miami on Wednesday.

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Trump Says He’ll Accept Midterm Results If He Deems Them “Honest”

Trump Says He’ll Accept Midterm Results If He Deems Them “Honest”

Trump has repeatedly — and baselessly — suggested that widespread voter fraud may play a role in this year’s races.

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Student-Led Movement Could Lower Voting Age to 16 for Local Races in Culver City

Student-Led Movement Could Lower Voting Age to 16 for Local Races in Culver City

Students were motivated to push the proposal due to drastic cuts in funding for their schools that they had no say in.

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Alaska Officials Seek Dismissal of DOJ Suit Seeking to Block Election Results

Alaska Officials Seek Dismissal of DOJ Suit Seeking to Block Election Results

Officials have “taken significant steps to distinguish” two candidates with the same name on the ballot, they said.

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Kagan Warns Far Right Supreme Court Rulings Will Undermine American Democracy

Kagan Warns Far Right Supreme Court Rulings Will Undermine American Democracy

The American people view the current political system as “a nightmare,” Kagan said, “and they’re right.”

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Todd Blanche Won’t Rule Out DOJ Disruption of Midterm Elections Certification

Todd Blanche Won’t Rule Out DOJ Disruption of Midterm Elections Certification

Seven in 10 Americans don't believe President Donald Trump will accept the midterm results.

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Trump Critic Louise Lucas Indicted as DOJ Ignores Election-Year Guidelines

Trump Critic Louise Lucas Indicted as DOJ Ignores Election-Year Guidelines

“I spent my life fighting back, and I'm not stopping now,” said Virginia State Sen. Louise Lucas.

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Reports: US and Israel Set to Restart Major Operations in Iran After Midterms

A majority of voters in the US say that Trump’s decision to launch a war against Iran was a mistake.

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Prosecutors Filed Over 900 Cases of “Pregnancy-Related Crimes” Since Dobbs

Most of the charges being brought stem from laws that were never meant to apply to pregnancy.

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Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Halt Care for Incarcerated Trans People

The decision is a rare win for transgender rights at the conservative-leaning Supreme Court.

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Acton Says Ramaswamy Exploited Her Estranged Mother for Political Gain

Ohio gubernatorial candidate Amy Acton accused her mother's then-husband of sexual assault when she was a child.

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Poll: 7 in 10 Americans Doubt Trump Will Accept Midterm Results

The president has said that he will only accept the results of the midterms if he deems them to be “honest.”

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Mahmoud Khalil Files Appeal to SCOTUS to Block Trump Admin From Detaining Him

The pro-Palestine activist says the Trump administration is infringing upon his free speech rights.

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Senate Democrats Demand Trump Administration Reveal Full Costs of Iran War

“Americans deserve to know how much of their money is being burned on Trump's war,” Sen. Elizabeth Warren said.

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Anthropic Proposes AI Bill With 50-Death Threshold Before Models Can Be Halted

The company has reportedly been working with lawmakers on a lax regulatory model since the start of summer.

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Border Czar Homan Confirms Trump Admin Is Looking to Denaturalize Ilhan Omar

Previous inquiries into Ilhan Omar's citizenship have found no evidence of fraud.

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Abdul El-Sayed Schools Heckler Who Questioned His Loyalty to the US

The heckler asked El-Sayed if he disavowed the Muslim Brotherhood, which the candidate has done in past remarks.

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More Than $137 Million Has Been Spent on AI-Generated Midterm Ads

The vast majority of ads emanate from GOP campaigns, depicting their Democratic opponents in fictionalized scenarios.

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HHS Demands Answers From Orgs Over Support for Youth Gender-Affirming Care

Studies have demonstrated that gender-affirming care for transgender young people can be life-saving treatment.

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New Bill Seeks to Expose What Major Banks Knew Regarding Epstein’s Spending

“We need to know what financial institutions and their executives knew about Epstein,” Rep. Robert Garcia said.

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ICE Is Fast-Tracking a Nationwide Domestic Spy Program Across Dozens of Cities

The agency plans to contract with around 142 agents to take part in domestic spying operations.

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Trump Tells MAGA Audience Leakers Should “Be Shot”

Trump has a long history of deriding leakers and the press, accusing those who publish leaked stories of “treason.”

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Americans’ Confidence in Food Safety Plummets Amid Summer of Recalls

Experts have expressed deep concern over Trump administration cuts to federal food monitoring systems.

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As Inflation Goes Up, New Poll Shows 4 in 10 Struggle to Pay Basic Necessities

The latest Consumer Price Index report shows that inflation has gone up 3.7 percent over the past year.

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Trump’s New Press Sec Faces Scrutiny Over Lawyer Claims, Anti-Abortion Views

Zacharia's claims of being a lawyer and her spreading of anti-abortion disinformation have received renewed examination.

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Supreme Court to Hear Trump Arguments to Keep Musk’s DOGE Records Secret

Elon Musk has spent over $360 million in support of Trump's MAGA allies for this year's midterm elections.

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Report: Trump Is Having Second Thoughts About Livestreaming Military Execution

Trump isn't “particularly enthusiastic” about Pete Hegseth's plan to livestream a military execution in December.

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US Measles Cases Top 4,200 as Pennsylvania Reports Sixth Death Related to Virus

The CDC website has only recognized two of the six measles-related deaths recorded in Pennsylvania this year.

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Leaked Audio Features MI GOP Candidate Rogers Mocking Affordability Concerns

Rogers minimized worries about rising costs due to Trump administration policies as “derangement.”

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Trump Bought Millions in SpaceX Bonds, Then Eased Space Travel Regulations

Trump's financial disclosures also show he bought millions in stock from Meta as the company ramps up its AI efforts.

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Mike Johnson Suggests He’ll Quit Congress If Voters Reject GOP in Midterms

The latest polls show Democrats outperforming Republicans in the midterms by around eight points.

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Trump Approves WI Disaster Aid, Credits GOP Candidate Rather Than Actual Governor

Trump's announcement ignored the current Wisconsin governor, who had applied for aid back in August.

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FBI Adds Torture Charges Against Maduro as US Faces Questions Over Its Abuses

New torture charges against Maduro come as the US faces scrutiny over its treatment of migrants.

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Trump Admits He Wants to Privatize Social Security

“I wanted to do it so badly,” Trump said of his desire to privatize Social Security in his first year in office.

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Paxton Audio Reveals He Thinks Trump’s Policies Are “Dragging” Down His Campaign

“I don't know what's behind some of the decisions” Trump is making, Paxton says in the audio recording.

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Trump Won’t Reimburse Taxpayers for Ads Promoting Himself Paid for by Government

Trump has spent at least $10 million in taxpayer funds on TV ads ahead of the midterm elections.

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Trump Condemned for Invoking Nuclear Attacks on US Cities to Defend Iran War

Trump’s attempt to defend the war comes as polling shows that the conflict is deeply unpopular among US voters.

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US Surpasses 4,000 Cases of Measles, Highest Numbers Seen in a Generation

“Even if I got hit by a truck tonight, HHS will never go back to what it was before,” Robert F. Kennedy Jr. bragged.

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Two-Thirds of Americans See Social Media as Harmful to Democracy

Experts have pointed out that “falsehoods” on social media often “outperform true information” due to algorithm choices.

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Vance Sees “Nothing Unusual” in Taxpayer-Funded Ads Promoting Trump

Some critics have decried the ads as likely illegal, and potentially an impeachable offense.

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At Ohio Campaign Rally, Trump Threatens to Withhold Aid If Democrats Get Elected

“I'm not going to help” if an Ohio Democratic candidate for governor wins, Trump said.

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Trump Says Iran War “Should Help” Republicans in Midterms

Recent polling shows more than 6 in 10 Americans want the war to end as soon as possible.

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Dem Candidate Sends “Cease and Desist” Order to Republican Over Deepfake Ads

Democrat Rebecca Cooke said the deepfakes produced by GOP Rep. Derrick Van Orden “undermine our democratic process.”

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Vance Tells FL Senate Candidate to “Get the Hell Out” of US Over Political Views

“This is my home,” Angie Nixon, the democratic socialist candidate targeted by Vance, said in response.

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