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Monday, October 12
GOP Scrambles To Stop Steep Midterm Losses
Cancryn, et al., CNN
The Blue Wave Looks Real Until You Look a Little Closer
Howard Kurtz, FOX News
Dems Offering a Scant Agenda. Do They Need More?
Karen Tumulty, Washington Post
Abdul El-Sayed's Unanswered Questions
Audrey Fahlberg, The Free Press
Why El-Sayed Is Struggling w/Black Voters in Michigan
Charles Blow, The Guardian
With 'Sick' Dems Like Talarico, How Are They Ahead?
Miranda Devine, NY Post
How the GOP Weaponized Trans Issues Against Democrats
Kevin Rector, LA Times
Maine Democrats Worry Susan Collins Is 'Teflon'
Grace Panetta, Salon
Will Diesel Diplomacy Decide the Midterms?
David Rundell, UnHerd
Trump's Diesel Deal Is a Catastrophic Miscalculation
Con Coughlin, The Telegraph
Vance Is Trying To Connect With Voters. Is It Working?
Akayla Gardner, MS Now
What I Saw and Heard in Vance Country
Peter Van Buren, The American Conservative
Kimberly Guilfoyle's Grifting Scandal Keeps Getting Worse
Inae Oh, Mother Jones
Elon and the Vampires
Sasha Stone, Substack
Public Execution Is Shameless and Ignoble
William McRaven, The Atlantic
World Wars Don't Start All at Once
Francis Sempa, RealClearDefense
Why We'll Keep Arguing Over the Meaning of Columbus Day
Jason Schlosberg, LAT
Latest Polls: Sen: MN, NC, ME, SC, MI, AK, TX | Gov: NM, ME, IA, MN, OH, TX, FL
Tuesday, October 13
Why It's So Hard To Fight Mass Migration
Alicia Nieves, UnHerd


Dems Getting Cover From GOP Spending Surge
David Dayen, American Prospect
The High Cost of El-Sayed
Byron York, Washington Examiner
Sherrod Brown Betting on Data Center Backlash in Ohio
Vitali & Boudreaux, MS Now
Inside Musk's Midterm Rescue Mission for Republicans
Theodore Schleifer, NY Times
We're Not at War With Russia, Oil Deal Puts U.S. First
Mollie Hemingway, FOX News
Europe Looks for Options as Ukraine Costs Mount
Tamar Jacoby, Washington Monthly
Smackdown: Bessent Gives Warren Economic Lesson
Monica Showalter, Am. Thinker
Rep. Jeffries: The Next House Speaker?
Hewitt, Rameswaram & Zengerle, Vox
Investigators Calling Rep. Omar Probe 'World War Eleven'
Drew Berkemeyer, Daily Wire
Livestreaming Hasan Execution Is High-Tech Barbarism
Sasha Abramsky, The Nation
McRaven Misfires on Public Execution
John Waters, RealClearDefense
Islam Is Not Compatible With Western Civilization
Steve Cortes, Charlie Kirk Show
Israel's War on Gaza Has Changed the World
Steve Bloomfield, The Guardian
What Might Have Saved Gaza?
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Guilfoyle's Days in Greece May Be Numbered
Steve Benen, MS Now
Censorship, Speech Police Becoming Focal Point in UK
Sharyl Attkisson, Full Measure
Senate: 46D,46R,8TU: Dem +3, Odds | House: 226D,189R,20TU: Dem +21, Odds
Wednesday, October 14
GOP Has Seen This Midterm Before - 20 Years Ago
Merrill Matthews, USA Today


3 Weeks Out, GOP Plays Defense
Bevan, Cannon, Kraushaar & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Talarico Has Democrats Dreaming Big in Texas
Zeleny & Svitek, CNN
Minnesota Fed Up w/Fraud, May Derail Dems' Midterm Dreams
Isaac Schorr, NYPost
Why Trump's Midterm Rally Blitz Probably Won't Work
Bill Scher, Washington Monthly
Dems' Not-So-Secret Midterm Campaigns for White House
Susan Page, USA Today
5 Years Later, the Truth About Garland's School Board Memo
Erika Sanzi, The Hill
Raid on Omar's House Is Dangerous Political Theater
Moira Donegan, The Guardian
Livestreaming Nidal Hasan’s Execution Is a Bad Idea
Jason Riley, WSJ
Trump’s New Press Secretary Is Unbearable
Poppy Coburn, The Telegraph
From the Ruins of Gaza, Palestinians Carry On
Mohammed Mhawish, MS Now
Why the Young Right’s Sympathy for Israel Is Dwindling
Paul Gottfried, Chronicles
Inside Kimberly Guilfoyle's Final Days as Ambassador to Greece
Mattioli, et al., WSJ
Greta Thunberg Is the Personification of Empty Activism
Joanna Williams, Telegraph
MAGA’s Talarico Conspiracy Theory Has No 'Off' Switch
Jeremiah Johnson, Substack
A Mental-Health Requirement for Lawmakers?
Raw Egg Nationalist, American Greatness
Shane Gillis and Why the Left Still Can't Take a Joke
Sasha Stone, Substack
Latest Polls: TX (Marist): Talarico 47, Paxton 45 | ME (Suffolk): Jackson +2
Thursday, October 15
How Debanking Took Hold Inside the Biggest Banks
Rupa Subramanya, The Free Press


It's Better Than Under Biden, But Inflation Still Vexes U.S.
Byron York, DC Examiner
How Trump Lost Control
Kate Andrews, Washington Post
El-Sayed Struggling To 'Set the Record Straight'
Josh Hammer, New York Post
The Jewish Case for Electing El-Sayed in Michigan
Simon Lazarus, The New Republic
Don't Count GOP Out of Midterms Yet
Jonathan Draeger, RealClearPolitics
Same Old, Same Old European Runaround
Victor Davis Hanson, American Greatness
Trump Tries Ukraine Midterm Extortion
S.V. Date, HuffPost
Rep. Omar and America
James Freeman, Wall Street Journal
What Role Should the Supreme Court Play in Politics?
John Witt, The Nation
One Could Say That Cornell Is Infantilizing Female Students
Heather Mac Donald, X
I Know Why the Mathematicians Weep
Derek Thompson, Substack
AI Pessimism Risks Handing China the Lead
Paul Sracic, RealClearPolitics
America Needs More Capital
Larry Fink, Wall Street Journal
We Know How To Fix Homelessness. Look at Denver
German Lopez, New York Times
Ossoff, Collins Get Nasty in GA
Bevan, Cannon & Walworth, RealClearPolitics on SiriusXM
James Lindsay's Fever Dream
Michael Anton, The American Mind
Friday, October 16
Why Trump Is Going In When the Money Is Coming Out
Gangitano, et al., Politico


Midterms Look Good for Dems, But That's Not a Guarantee
Hayes Brown, MS Now
Talarico Strikes Out on Easy Mode at CNN Town Hall
Nicole Russell, USA Today
A Minnesota Sleeper? Tafoya, Flanagan in 'Close' Senate Race
Zeleny & Wright, CNN
Poll: Majority Wants Less Red Tape To Cut Energy Costs
Jonathan Draeger, RCP
Alaska Considers Economic Suicide
Kimberley Strassel, Wall Street Journal
Trump's Diesel Deal Is Shameful
Thomas Friedman, New York Times
The Russia, Russia, Russia Nonsense Is So Tiring
J.B. Shurk, American Thinker
France's Students Won't Back Down
Diana Cordoba, The Nation
Thinking About Race and IQ
Peder Zane, RealClearPolitics
A Novel That Looks Deep Into a Crisis on Campus
Rumaan Alam, The New Republic
How Big Money Is Pulling the Democrats Left
Michael Baharaeen, UnHerd
The Primary Electorate Is Its Own Harshest Critic
Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics
'Nonissue' of Noncitizens Voting Is Becoming Bigger Issue
M.D. Kittle, The Federalist
Rep. Huizenga Faces Toughest Re-Election Race Yet
Jarod Facundo, Am. Prospect
Ticket-Splitting in Iowa and Kansas
Bevan, Cannon, Kimball & Walworth, RCP on SiriusXM
Zuckerberg vs. the Pint of Guinness
Jason Gay, Wall Street Journal
Latest Polls: Sen: OH, MI, IA, MN, TX, ME, KS | Gov: OH, IA, MN, CT, TX, ME, GA


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