2026 Midterm Elections

Tina Peters, who served prison time for tampering with voting machines to prove President Donald Trump won in 2020, has turned down a job helping run elections in California.

Shasta County Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis confirmed the decision in an interview Tuesday with the Los Angeles Times.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) all but conceded in a Tuesday interview on Fox News that they don't have the money to hold the Senate seat in Texas without help from President Donald Trump and his outside billionaire allies.

The Texas race, the latest in a long line of attempts by Democrats to compete in a longtime Republican bastion, has polled competitive all summer, with Democratic state Rep. James Talarico maintaining small but persistent leads against scandal-plagued Republican state Attorney General Ken Paxton.

The Department of Homeland Security has quietly published a new webpage designed to help carry out President Donald Trump’s unprecedented plan to create federal lists of eligible voters in all 50 states.

The newly published “State Citizenship Lists Portal” popped up Tuesday and currently displays a blue box declaring that the lists are “coming soon,” according to a report by Democracy Docket.

A sleeper upset could be brewing in Democrats' battle for the House, in the Tampa region of Florida — at least, if one candidate's internal polling is on the mark.

On Tuesday, a survey conducted by Hart Research on behalf of the Leela Gray campaign found incumbent MAGA Republican Anna Paulina Luna of Florida trailing, 51 to 46, in Florida's 13th Congressional District. Unaffiliated voters are backing Gray 56-39, and approval for President Donald Trump is sitting at just 43 percent. The sample's recalled vote in 2024 was for Trump by 12 points.

House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) lashed out at CNN congressional correspondent Manu Raju on Tuesday after the reporter confronted him over his past predictions that the war in Iran would end quickly and cause only a temporary rise in gas prices.

“You said repeatedly that this war was going to be over soon,” Raju told Johnson during a tense exchange on Capitol Hill. “You said that this would be a temporary blip — short-term — on gas prices. It has been more than six months. People are getting hurt still at the pump.”

President Donald Trump’s escalating threats to effectively destroy Iran set off alarm Tuesday, with one foreign-policy analyst warning that the president appeared to be signaling that nuclear weapons were “on the table now.”

Trump announced on Truth Social that the United States was striking Iranian targets near the Strait of Hormuz in retaliation for what he called Iran’s failed attempt to add sea mines to the waterway and its launch of eight missiles toward a U.S. military base in Jordan.

Ohio Democratic congressional candidate Brian Poindexter's past arrests were revealed by a new report by a conservative outlet.

Poindexter, a Cleveland city councilman and former union organizer, was arrested in 1998 on suspicion of swallowing a rock of crack cocaine during a traffic stop and in 2013 for allegedly slapping a stranger at a Cleveland Indians game, according to police records obtained by the Washington Free Beacon.

Despite warnings, President Donald Trump threw his support behind scandal-plagued Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and now the entire GOP is having to live with the consequences.

In a column for the conservative National Review, analyst Jeffrey Blehar reminded readers that he has long opposed replacing Sen. John Cornyn (R-TX) with “the spectacularly corrupt, vaguely amphibious-looking state attorney general,” and, based upon recent polling, he has been proven right.

A Florida Republican who rode President Donald Trump's endorsement through his primary is suddenly keeping his distance now that he's locked up a spot on the November ballot.

According to the Washington Examiner, former state Rep. Mike Beltran is running for the newly redrawn 14th Congressional District, where he'll face longtime Democratic Rep. Kathy Castor in what has long been a Democratic stronghold.

California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom demanded that Trump officials face “prison time” following the release of a bombshell whistleblower report on suspected election interference.

President Donald Trump has long sought to restrict mail-in voting for the upcoming midterms. His controversial voter ID bill known as the SAVE Act includes several restrictions on mail-in voting, but has stalled in Congress, and an executive order he signed in March to restrict mail-in voting has been temporarily blocked from being implemented.

A new U.S. Postal Service whistleblower report set off public outcry about President Donald Trump's attempt to seize control of the midterm elections.

USPS is pressing ahead with a "secretive, rushed" system to implement Trump's order giving the agency control over mail-ballot verification — in violation of court orders, according to a new whistleblower report released by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT).

U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff Chairman Dan Caine delivered what one expert described as a “significant” blow to President Donald Trump’s alleged scheme to meddle in the upcoming midterms.

In a letter to Sen. Elissa Slotkin (D-MI) shared by CNN’s Zachary Cohen on Monday, Caine confirmed that senior military leaders had “no plans” to deploy federal military personnel or National Guard members to polling places during the midterms, adding that he had “neither received nor anticipate receiving any unlawful order concerning the role of the Joint Force in the upcoming November 2026 midterm elections.”