8+ hour, 25+ min ago   (260+ words) “A trespasser tried to enter former Vice President Kamala Harris’ cliffside home in Malibu on Friday evening,” the Los Angeles Times reports. Think You Know Politics? A new game every day. Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director…...

14+ hour, 20+ min ago   (294+ words) “Republicans used their midterm convention this week to ask voters to preserve their congressional majorities and let them ‘finish the job,’” Politico reports. ”But with few consensus legislative goals, it’s far from clear what job they want to finish.” Think…...

20+ hour, 42+ min ago   (171+ words) The Economist: “As the midterms approach, America’s two main parties are conducting opposite experiments. Republicans march in lockstep behind Donald Trump, who summoned his troops to Dallas this week to celebrate his awesomeness…” “Democrats, by contrast, are bickering over their…...

21+ hour, 33+ min ago   (212+ words) “On the night Republicans gathered to mourn the killing of Charlie Kirk and warn against the dangers of violent rhetoric, a crowd at the party’s irregular midterm convention in Dallas repeatedly called for a sitting Senate candidate to be shot,…...

23+ hour, 27+ min ago   (146+ words) “Republicans breathed a sigh of relief that the GOP midterm convention didn’t go poorly. But many aren’t convinced it will help in November,” Politico reports. ”On flights out of Dallas Friday morning, Republicans were grateful that the novel concept of…...

1+ day, 11+ min ago   (162+ words) New York Times: “Although this year’s Democratic primary season brought a surge of left-wing momentum, and a handful of victories by democratic socialists running for Congress in Colorado, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania and Florida, no credible midterm candidate identifies as…...

1+ day, 9+ min ago   (130+ words) “House Democrats are eagerly preparing to wield a power they do not yet have,” the Washington Post reports. ”Favored to regain the majority in November’s midterm elections — and with little official business to consider in the handful of days left…...

1+ day, 31+ min ago   (124+ words) “Democratic socialists are having a breakout year, including a win in a mayoral primary in Providence, R.I. on Wednesday. Though many of the group’s contenders have fallen short, candidates recommended or endorsed by a chapter of the Democratic Socialists of…...

2+ day, 9+ hour ago   (164+ words) “The Republicans selected Dallas for their unusual midterm gathering in large part out of convenience. It’s a big city accustomed to big conventions, in a Republican-friendly state where they could confidently pull off a relatively last-minute event of the scope…...

2+ day, 11+ hour ago   (133+ words) “Sen. Ted Cruz gave a red-meat speech at the Republican convention on Thursday in which he accused the Democratic Party of succumbing to ‘communists and Islamists’ who hate Christians, Jews, capitalism and America,” the Wall Street Journal reports. “It carried…...