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Regardless of whether Democrats keep the White House or Republicans retake the presidency, their ability to actually pass their agenda through Congress will depend on which party controls the U.S. Senate. And right now, both parties are going all-in on a state former President Donald Trump easily won in both 2016 and 2020.

According to Semafor, Sen. Jon Tester (D-Montana) is in the midst of the most heated Senate contest in the country, and millions of dollars are being spent both on his behalf and against him. While Tester is the sole remaining Democrat holding any statewide office in the Big Sky State, he's fended off well-funded Republican challengers in both 2012 and 2018, despite Montana voting for Republican presidential candidates in every election dating back to 1996.

Because outgoing Sen. Joe Manchin's (I-West Virginia) seat is almost certain to flip in November given that West Virginia is a deep-red Republican stronghold, Tester's reelection will likely be a must if Democrats hope to prevent the GOP from taking the upper chamber of Congress....

CHICAGO — Dakota Adams is not your typical Democratic delegate.

First, there’s the superficial: His long, blond hair hangs loose about his shoulder. The 27-year-old wears eye liner, and a metal dumbbell through the bridge of his nose between his eyebrows, and black nail polish. He wears a denim vest over a black T-shirt and nearly matching black parachute pants. His tennis shoes are spattered with white house paint.

More notably is what lies deeper: Adams’ father, Stewart Rhodes, founded the Oath Keepers, a militia group instrumental in helping President Donald Trump attempt to maintain his grip on power after losing the 2020 election. Rhodes is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....

WASHINGTON — Republicans continue lambasting Democrats for wanting to “pack” the Supreme Court with additional justices.

But GOP rhetoric is distorting reality.

Most vulnerable Senate Democrats are actually running away from progressive calls to expand the court beyond its current nine justices. Even President Joe Biden, who last month unveiled a Supreme Court reform proposal, excluded the addition of additional justices....

WASHINGTON — Some of former President Donald Trump’s fiercest allies in Congress may be multi-millionaires, but that doesn’t mean they’re opening up their wallets for the reality TV star turned contestant for America's most indicted.

“There’s only so much money,” Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) told Raw Story.

With creditors demanding a $454 million bond as his appeals slowly wind through the courts, Trump’s personal deficits have been the talk of the Capitol in recent days. ...

The political action committee for Fox Corporation, the parent company of conservative-boosting Fox News, gave $25,000 to Democratic candidates and causes in January alone, according to a Raw Story review of federal campaign records.

The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee received $15,000 from FOX PAC, and the New Democrat Coalition Action Fund received $5,000.

The campaign for Tom Suozzi (D-NY) — who last week won back his House seat vacated by embattled former Rep. George Santos (R-NY) — received $2,500 from the PAC. So did the campaign of Sen. Jon Tester (D-MT), who’s running for re-election in one of the most contested Senate races in the nation....

WASHINGTON – House Republicans are divided over what to do about their internal divisions – or even whether anything’s the matter at all.

Welcome to Speaker Mike Johnson’s Capitol.

After a string of recent tactical blunders – from a failed impeachment vote to pulling the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (or FISA) reauthorization measure he put on the floor this week – some Republicans in the House of Representatives are reassessing the successor to deposed Speaker Kevin McCarthy....