A new Politico analysis suggests the 2026 midterms are unlikely to resemble the 2018 blue wave — largely because the House map has been engineered to prevent it.

Two rounds of post-2018 gerrymandering have sharply reduced the number of truly competitive districts, leaving Democrats with far less low-hanging fruit than they had eight years ago.

One of the more revealing moments in Chris Whipple’s Vanity Fair interviews with White House chief of staff Susie Wiles is her insistence that she isn’t an enabler of Donald Trump’s worst behavior.

Said Wiles: “I’m not an enabler. I’m also not a bitch.”

The signs are piling up that Donald Trump is slipping into lame-duck territory even before the year is out.

Democrats are winning races they have no business winning under normal political conditions. The latest example came this week in Miami, where voters elected a Democratic mayor for the first time in three decades. 

President Trump traveled to Pennsylvania last night for what was billed as a speech on affordability.

But like most of his speeches, he quickly soon veered into something very different — “the weave” he calls it. 

For most of this year, Democrats have been notching surprisingly strong results in special elections across the country.

It’s easy to get lost in the partisan storylines — energized Democratic voters, sagging GOP turnout, and the ongoing chaos inside the Republican Party.

Republicans managed to hang on in Tennessee’s 7th district last night. But you wouldn’t know it from the mood inside the party this morning.

The margin — a staggering 13-point swing toward Democrats — is setting off alarms for a simple reason: thirty-five House Republicans won their seats in 2024 by smaller margins than that.

House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) publicly blasted Speaker Mike Johnson (R-NY) for blocking a provision she wants included in the annual defense authorization bill.

The dispute has now exploded into a rare, open feud within GOP leadership.

For all of Donald Trump’s talk about a turnaround, the economy still doesn’t feel any better to most Americans.

Prices aren’t snapping back, paychecks aren’t stretching further, and there’s little reason to believe voters will feel meaningfully richer by this time next year.

The Department of Government Efficiency — the once-hyped pet project Donald Trump launched with Elon Musk at the start of his second term — has quietly ceased to exist.

A new report over the weekend flatly concludes that the government-slashing agency “doesn’t exist” anymore.

Donald Trump’s meeting with New York City Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani caught nearly everyone off guard for its warmth — a striking bit of stagecraft given their stark political differences.

But it’s also classic Trump.