DNC Chair Ken Martin has just two main responsibilities: raise money and win elections.

Right now, he’s falling short on the first—and that could put the second at risk.

What a week… Israel is at war with Iran. The United States may soon be drawn in.

Back home, a sitting U.S. Senator was handcuffed at a press conference. A New York City mayoral candidate was arrested at an immigration hearing. A Minnesota state legislator was assassinated at her home.

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It’s been 10 years since Donald Trump became a near permanent fixture in our lives… A MAGA civil war has broken out… And “objects may look closer than they appear” in New York City’s mayoral race.

President Trump on Tuesday dramatically escalated tensions with Iran, declaring that the U.S. now has “complete and total control of the skies over Iran” and demanding the country’s “unconditional surrender.”

The rhetoric came as reports swirled that the U.S. was inching closer to joining Israel’s bombing campaign against Iran.

There have been some big and important stories this week. But did you miss the smaller ones?

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What is Trump trying to do — and can he be stopped?

There’s a long-running theory that President Trump deliberately floods the news cycle with outrage after outrage to distract from more dangerous moves happening beneath the surface.

But if there’s one thing we’ve learned from the flood of tell-all memoirs and insider accounts from his first term, it’s this: there was no grand strategy — just chaos.