As candidates across fourteen Senate races sell partisan fantasy, voters must reject extreme promises and enforce divided government to hold both political parties accountable.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Rep. Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers after pressure from her fiancé Jason Turkish, detonating her standing in the Democratic Party for a toxic stunt.
By Dana Whitfield ·
As NBC News shows Democrats fighting for Senate control, both parties peddle the fantasy that an election victory can overcome institutional gridlock and unilateral executive power.
By Dana Whitfield ·
After losing a bitter primary, Representative Haley Stevens endorsed Republican Mike Rogers for Senate, a move that prioritizes personal grievance over the institutional stability of her party.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Donald Trump is wrong because he has replaced the basic laws of arithmetic with a fiscal fairy tale. Two days before the midterms, Trump campaigned in Iowa and Kansas. He promised each American $5,000 if Republicans win the House and Senate. As a former budget analyst, I find this offensive. There is no ledger where this money exists. There is no bill to fund it. It is not a policy.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Abdul El-Sayed and Haley Stevens bicker in Michigan, handing Donald Trump a gift and proving that party factions prefer a fight to a Senate majority.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Abdul El-Sayed is treating a general election like a primary, and it is a catastrophic mistake. By disinviting Rep. Haley Stevens from a campaign event three days before the election, El-Sayed has traded a viable coalition for a purity test. In the final hours of a race, the only metric that matters is the math of the majority. El-Sayed is failing that math.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Rep. Haley Stevens will campaign with Abdul El-Sayed in Detroit to unify a fractured party, a necessary but fragile truce to stop Republican Mike Rogers.
By Dana Whitfield ·
With control of the Senate hanging on a few toss-up races, the GOP's decision to run flawed candidates in red states creates a path for a Democratic takeover.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Health Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. falsely claimed Arabs do not produce science to attack candidate Abdul El-Sayed, a move that uses white supremacist tropes to dehumanize millions.
By Maya Ellison ·
Mike Rogers and Scott Colom are betting on identity and anger to win the 2026 midterms, but this magical thinking ignores the basic arithmetic of the electorate.
By Dana Whitfield ·
Donald Trump attacked Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan with post-9/11 smears, turning the security state into a political weapon that voters must reject.
By Alma Cordero ·
Donald Trump called Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed a 'jihadist' at a Michigan rally, weaponizing 9/11 to cast a citizen as an alien in a dangerous act of political bigotry.
By Alma Cordero ·
High early-vote enthusiasm and a 33% approval rating for Donald Trump have put Republicans on the defensive, making a Democratic Senate majority the most workable outcome.
By Dana Whitfield ·
By using religious identity to question Abdul El-Sayed's loyalty, Mike Rogers employs a rhetorical shortcut that threatens the legitimacy of the democratic process and the American Constitution.
By Adele Rutherford ·
In a final Senate debate, Mike Rogers distanced himself from Donald Trump's Canada tariffs, a pragmatic pivot that exposes Abdul El-Sayed's refusal to acknowledge political nuance.
By Dana Whitfield ·