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Morning Digest: A toxic GOP nominee for governor has Democrats eyeing Boebert for defeat

The 3rd District, based in the Pueblo area and Western Slope, is now held by Hurd, who beat Frisch by a relatively close ...
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Morning Digest: Republicans are sweating all five Texas seats they gerrymandered

Texas Republicans are also playing defense, thanks in part to their gerrymander. While they didn’t weaken any of their ...
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The top ballot measures of 2026

On this week’s episode of The Downballot podcast, Hannah Ledford of the Fairness Project explains how her organization ...
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Why the GOP's spending advantage is nowhere near as big as it looks

In many cases, the GOP’s cavalry has also been late to arrive. Organizations that book ad time early can obtain lower prices, because demand for airtime inevitably increases as an election draws ...
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House race polling also points to a big blue wave

And in 2018, during the last blue wave, you can’t even see two distinct dots because the results were virtually identical.
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Morning Digest: The South Dakota GOP wants to roll back Medicaid expansion—and direct democracy

Another Republican, state Rep. Will Mortenson, argued to South Dakota Searchlight last month that this summary, also known as ...
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Morning Digest: Why Democrats think this is the year they can beat Kris Kobach—again

Kobach, who held a high-level position in the U.S. Justice Department during the early years of George W. Bush’s presidency, ...
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Morning Digest: New spending shows Senate battlefield expanding into the Deep South

An unnamed GOP source described the move as an “insurance policy” to help the new senator, the sister and successor to the ...
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Morning Digest: Republicans abandon North Carolina—and race to rescue Kansas

Those funds will come at the expense of North Carolina Republican Michael Whatley, whom SLF has now abandoned altogether as ...
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How voters across the country can block MAGA judges from joining state supreme courts

At a time when Donald Trump and the MAGA movement seek to undermine fair elections, civil rights, and the rule of law—and ...
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Morning Digest: The GOP is pouring millions into a Long Island race. Democrats seem unbothered.

County Executive Bruce Blakeman won reelection by a wide 56-44 margin last November as fellow Republicans across the country suffered severe losses. The rest of the GOP ticket also convincingly turned ...