Turek wins a Dem Senate primary in Iowa that never quite became a marquee progressive vs. moderate showdown. A key moment may have been Bernie-endorsed Nathan Sage backing Turek, which undermined Wahls' preferred narrative. www.huffpost.com/entry/modera...

Adam Hamawy won the Democratic Primary in NJ-12, a remarkable display of how the pro-Palestine movement has grown politically -- able to corral small dollar donors to give him a $$ lead and use super PAC support to get him over the finish line. www.huffpost.com/entry/adam-h...

New: The Pro-Palestine movement is on the verge of one of its biggest electoral victories. Adam Hamawy, whose experiences at a trauma surgeon in Gaza make up a core part of his candidacy, is the frontrunner in tomorrow’s NJ-12 primary. www.huffpost.com/entry/pro-pa...

New: Democrats are trying to adopt a friendlier approach to the oil and gas industry. Tom Steyer’s assault on Xavier Becerra’s “I need Chevron” comments is treating whether the party’s voters will buy it. www.huffpost.com/entry/califo...

Trump bought stock in the UFC’s parent company while promoting fights set to take place at the White House on his birthday, HuffPost has learned

Giving keynote speech at South Carolina Dem Party dinner, @andybeshearky.bsky.social had a long riff going after "advocacy speak," specifically calling out the terms "justice-involved population," "substance use disorder" and "food insecurity."

There's been some suggestions Platner's working-class appeal is mostly a myth, but a new Pan-Atlantic poll has him up 48-41 over Collins, and notably outperforming Gideon among voters in the 2nd District and those w/o a college degree. panatlanticresearch.com/omnibus

This is easily the biggest Democratic general election flop in the second Trump era -->

A conference held by Democrats' most prominent think tank made one thing clear: The party establishment doesn't think moderation or generational change is the answer, they just think fighting harder is. It's a rejection of Bidenism, led by Biden alums. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

As Trump's gone on a winning streak in primaries + courtrooms, his standing with the broader public continues declining. The risk for the GOP is that Trump tightening his grip on the party makes it harder for candidates in tough races to break with him. www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

If you went back in time to April 2017 and told the Republican operatives working on GA-6 that their party would be despairing about their chances to oust Ossoff a decade later, they would assume the intervening decade would have gone differently than it had.

At CAP Ideas conference in DC, @gavinnewsom.bsky.social sums up something a lot of mainstream Democratic leaders seem to think: "A year ago, I thought our path back as Democrats ... was through the center. Now, I think it's through the fight."

New: For more than a decade, Dems have successfully meddled in GOP primaries to elevate unelectable candidates. In '26, the GOP thinks D primary voters are angry enough to fall for the same tricks. Their campaign got off to a good start in Nebraska. www.huffpost.com/entry/denise...

New: The apparent GOP meddling campaign in Nebraska's 2nd District is prompting some head-scratching among Democrats. Rs seems to want to run against the moderate candidate who would NOT give them an outside shot at eliminating Omaha's electoral vote. www.huffpost.com/entry/republ...

One thing to note about this race: While Turek is more moderate, the broad strokes of their pitches to voters are very similar -- populism/anti-corruption talk about getting special interests out of the way in order to lower prices.

New: With the Maine primary over, the next big Dem Senate clash will be in Iowa. Turek is getting a big boost from VoteVets, Wahls is running an explicitly anti-Schumer campaign in response. Winner could determine whether Ds can make Iowa a battleground. www.huffpost.com/entry/iowas-...

HuffPost is hiring two politics reporters, both of them reporting to yours truly. The first will cover the midterms and the 2028 presidential race: job-boards.greenhouse.io/buzzfeed/job...

New: Democrats are winning the redistricting wars. A key reason why? They were facing bottom-up pressure from their grassroots, while Republicans were dealing with top-down pressure coming from Trump. One is easier to resist than the other. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

What will determine tonight's Virginia redistricting vote: What % of Harris voters vote 'no' -- if it's between 5-10%, Democrats probably get their new maps. If it's around 15%, things look really good for the GOP. www.huffpost.com/entry/vote-t...

I spoke to an ICE observer who was detained last week after following DHS agents to record them. She was not arrested. Five days later, her Global Entry was revoked. A day after I asked DHS about her case, her Global Entry was restored. www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-wa...

Florida Democrats just flipped a Republican statehouse seat that includes Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home

After crypto sunk Porter + Brown last cycle, Dems were clearly wary of getting on the wrong side of the industry but some are rethinking things after two candidates survived crypto-funded ad onslaughts in Illinois -->

This is turning into a very mixed night for the super PACs --> Ford win is an L for both Crypto + AIPAC Stratton win would be an L for crypto Donna Miller win is a W for AIPAC, L for AI Biss or Abughazaleh win is a L for AIPAC Bean is a win for crypto, AI and AIPAC

New: The District AIPAC Couldn't Conquer. What the group's apparent failure in Illinois' 9th District, one of the most Jewish districts in the country, says about the long battle between them and progressives. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-di...

New w/ @delaneyrules.bsky.social: Two former House members with backing from moneyed outside interests are in strong position to win Tuesday's primaries, showing how big money could dash Democratic hopes for generational change in the party. www.huffpost.com/entry/old-he...

New: Polling from a coalition of Black civic groups and unions found fear of violence + retaliation is keeping Black voters away from political participation in Trump 2.0, helping lead to a "resistance of privilege." www.huffpost.com/entry/black-...

So SCOTUS, with its fabricated-out-of-thin-air immunity doctrine, has actually made American presidents less accountable than LITERAL royalty.

Jesse Jackson's campaigns for president in 1984 and 1988 helped create the image of what the modern Democratic Party seeks to be but rarely seems to achieve: a multiracial coalition of voters dedicated to economic fairness. www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-...

Justice Dems are backing Kat Abughazaleh in the Illinois' 9th primary -- there are growing worries among sone on the left that Evanston Mayor Daniel Biss and Abughazaleh could split the progressive vote here and allow AIPAC-backed Laura Fine to triumph. www.huffpost.com/entry/latest...

New: Corporate PAC $$$ is emerging as a major dividing line in Democratic primary battles, causing nasty fights in the Illinois, Minnesota and Michigan Senate races. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-mo...

The first two Democrats a new AI super PAC are backing are... 1. Jesse Jackson, Jr., who did 30 months in prison in a corruption scandal. 2. Melissa Bean, who was considered among Wall Street's favorite Democrats during an earlier stint in Congress.

“I don’t know who he is," Trump claimed four months ago.

Incredible.

Analilia Mejia's win in NJ-11 is now official after Tom Malinowski conceded this morning, cementing a big win for the left and an embarrassing own goal for pro-Israel groups. www.huffpost.com/entry/bernie...

GRIFFIN: “.. This administration has definitely made mis-steps in choosing decisions or courses that have been very, very enriching to the families of those in the administration.” @financialtimes.com www.ft.com/content/129b...

New: Trump admin was warned about possible Feeding Out Future fraud in 2020 -- and did nothing www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota NABJ chapter, was also arrested by federal agents this morning I was sent this video of agents at her door:

Most interesting part in the new Pew poll on Trump is the decline in GOP confidence, which is really starting to mirror Dems losing confidence in Biden. Just 2/3 of GOP-leaning voters think he has the mental capacity to do the job and only 42% thinks he acts ethically.

From Nate Cohn's latest newsletter, this is why it's a lot more useful to think about "affordability" in terms of the cost of living rather than strictly about inflation: Voters are concerned about the cost of a middle-class life more than about the cost of things they buy daily -->

Such doubt was consistently echoed by senior officials in Biden admin deliberations, thru the end of their tenure — driving top officials to doubt humanitarian + intelligence experts unlike elsewhere & making it hard to justify shifts in US policy that could have saved lives. More soon in my book.

New Emerson poll of Michigan has McMorrow 22%, Stevens 17%, El-Sayed 16% in the Democratic Senate primary. Here's the general election head-to-heads: McMorrow 46% Rogers 43% Stevens 47% Rogers 42% El-Sayed 43% Rogers 43% emersoncollegepolling.com/michigan-202...

New: Orbin Mauricio Henríquez Serrano was scared to go into work on Jan. 11. He went anyway, stopping for gas along the way. Millions of people saw what happened next: Immigration agents surrounded his car and brutally arrested him. He told me what happened next: www.huffpost.com/entry/orbin-...

New: There are advanced discussions about a super PAC backing Jasmine Crockett in the Democratic primary for Texas Senate, with potential backing from megadonor Karla Jurvetson. www.huffpost.com/entry/jasmin...

There are a lot of parallels between this precise moment and the summer of 2020, but this is a key one: Because of COVID then and a winter storm now, a huge portion of the country is trapped inside with nothing to do but scroll social media and consume/share information.

Scoop: U.S. Customs and Border Protection is requiring officers to undergo more crowd-control training to square off with demonstrators in cities like Minneapolis. This will likely result in more officers certified to shoot pepper balls and tear gas canisters. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Read @igorbobic.bsky.social on the growing ideological divide in the Minnesota Senate primary in the wake of the ICE shooting in Minneapolis, including a very harsh back and forth between Craig and Flanagan. www.huffpost.com/entry/minnes...

New: Chuck Schumer, Kirsten Gillibrand and the DSCC have faced an unprecedented amount of intra-party criticism this cycle. With Peltola entering the Alaska Senate race, they think they have the answer to shut their critics up: Winning back the Senate. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

This is an outrage. www.washingtonpost.com/national-sec... Read @hannahnatanson.bsky.social's work: * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202... * www.washingtonpost.com/politics/int...

You either resign a conservative hero, or serve long enough to become Jefferson Beauregard Sessions IV

New: In an interview with HuffPost, Minn. AG Keith Ellison said he thinks the order for the feds to stop sharing information re: Wednesday's shooting with the state came from the president. "This directive appears to be coming from Trump himself," Ellison said. www.huffpost.com/entry/keith-...