Incredible finding from Pew: Out of 107 democracies worldwide, only one -- Micronesia -- draws legislative districts through the same convoluted process the United States does. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

New: Meet the most confident Democrats in America. At the DGA meeting in Phoenix, confident predictions they’ll have a majority of govs after ‘26 and one of them will become president. But also plenty of acknowledgments blue states need to do better. www.huffpost.com/entry/meet-t...

New from @delaneyrules.bsky.social: House Ag Committee chair says RFK push to let states ban unhealthy food from SNAP will drive up grocery prices, an intra-party break over a key part of the MAHA Agenda. www.huffpost.com/entry/snap-j...

Subject lines you would not have expected in 2017. INBOX: Former Gov. Ralph Northam Endorses Tom Perriello for Congress

NEW: The redistricting wars aren't going to end with the midterms. -Hochul committed to pushing through new maps in NY, Bennet + Weiser say the same in Colorado -Dems will look to redraw in Wisconsin if they win a trifecta - other possibilities in MN, NV, MI. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-re...

New: With Crockett's entrance into Texas Senate, the Democratic Party is starting to see the downsides of its Tea Party moment. -Dem Sens largely avoid weighing in on the race. -TX-Sen not high enough priority at the moment for establishment to spend big political capital to keep her out.

New Pan-Atlantic Research Center poll of Maine Dem Gov. Janet Mills 43% GOP Sen. Susan Collins 43% Dem Graham Platner 43% Collins 42% In the Dem primary, they have Mills up 47% to 37% over Platner, with big splits around age and gender. hs-21701012.f.hubspotstarter.net/hubfs/217010...

Everyone's mad at FDA head Marty Makary over his review of the abortion pill mifepristone -- even anti-abortion organizations.

Exclusive: ICE has developed a plan to arrest undocumented migrants who try to voluntarily leave the U.S. via the Mexico border, so they can face formal removal. Why bother? Possibly to juice deportation numbers. It's being referred to as "Operation Irish Goodbye." www.huffpost.com/entry/ice-pl...

NEW: Colorado State Sen. Julie Gonzales, a DSA member, is launching a primary challenge to Democratic Sen. John Hickenlooper. It's the first big progressive primary challenge to an incumbent senator this cycle. www.huffpost.com/entry/progre...

Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.) asked for dollar amounts and Trump contacts. Donors responded by boasting about their philanthropy and love of America.

Absolutely bonkers details here about how Democrats trying to defang a corruption watchdog in New Jersey treated Sen. Andy Kim when he tried to speak against it. www.nytimes.com/2025/12/02/n...

Progressive group @boldprogressives.org is endorsing Graham Platner in the Maine Senate primary and is out with a poll showing Platner with a big lead over Mills in the primary Platner 58% Mills 38% Poll conducted by Z to A Strategies from 11/14 to 11/18.

Most presidents run into trouble near the end of their first year and so is Trump. But Trump isn't like any other president. So what does rising disapproval, a fracturing coalition, election losses and policy reversals mean when the president is an authoritarian? www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

The COVID backlash theory was popular among a certain group of very online writers and thinkers, but a simple look at its total absence from paid political media would have told you it wasn't actually a big vote mover for either party, especially after 2020.

Airman Logan Ireland thought with 15 yrs of service he would at least get retirement benefits even as he was being pushed out after SCOTUS green lit Trump's trans military ban. The Air Force approved and then revoked his benefits. Now Ireland is now fighting back. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Shutdown takeaways w/ @paulblumenthal.bsky.social: • Mods folding hurts the case for "combative centrism" • This wasn't about protecting the filibuster • Dems controlled the news cycle • This only matters for Nov if Trump approval stays down • This thing was probably doomed from the start

This article will be a fascinating artifact: A number of Trump allies complaining about someone who is simply more effective at manipulating Trump than they are. It's other boyars complaining a boyar is corrupting the good tsar. www.politico.com/news/2025/11...

On stage at Crooked Con, Jon Lovett presses Sen. Ruben Gallego on Schumer’s non-endorsement in the NYC mayor’s race. “I don’t know” why Schumer didn’t endorse either way. But said it would’ve been better to pick a side: “You made it a bigger story by trying to avoid the story.”

DNC Chair Ken Martin slammed Trump as “soulless” and “depraved” for throwing a Gatsby-themed party right before a planned cutoff of federal food benefits. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Putting forth a staunch Trump ally like Stefanik to run in a blue state like NY is a vivid example of the problem of handing the GOP’s decision-making and candidate selection entirely over to Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/elise-...

So which DC sandwich shop is going to sell the Sean Dunn sandwich and make a mint this weekend?

This quote from Jamie Dimon about the WH ballroom donations exemplifies how at least some Democrats want business leaders to be thinking: "We have to be very careful how anything is perceived — and also how the next DOJ is going to deal with it." www.huffpost.com/entry/jamie-...

New: The most significant part of Tuesday's results may be the Latino vote shift -Cements Latinos as the key swing voters of the '20s -4 highest % Latino counties in VA saw biggest shifts to Spanberger www.huffpost.com/entry/desper...

New from @jbendery.bsky.social: Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi is officially retiring from Congress. www.huffpost.com/entry/nancy-...

Border Patrol agent Lairmore testifies that he was not injured by the sandwich, but he felt the impact through his ballistic vest. The sandwich came apart and "kind of exploded" on his chest upon impact, he says. "I could smell the onions and mustard."

UMass-Amherst/WCVB out with the first poll I've seen of the Massachusetts Senate primary since Moulton entered the race. Markey 44% Moulton 25% Markey 31% Moulton 24% Pressley 20% Surveyed 416 likely primary voters, 6% MOE. htv-prod-media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/senate...

New: The most surprising part of the 2025 elections, and one with major implications for 2026, is how the GOP candidates have barely even tried to distance themselves from an increasingly unpopular Trump. www.huffpost.com/entry/2025-e...

New: A number of moderate Democratic Senate candidates are going shaky on reforming or eliminating the filibuster. Mills wants to keep it, Pappas seems torn, Cooper + Turek didn't respond to questions. www.huffpost.com/entry/establ...

Dems reading the Trump section of polls then the section about what voters think of Democrats

New: A number of moderate Democratic Senate candidates are going shaky on reforming or eliminating the filibuster. Mills wants to keep it, Pappas seems torn, Cooper + Turek didn't respond to questions. www.huffpost.com/entry/establ...

Internal DHS memo shows Trump plans to keep paying ICE agents and Border Patrol officers throughout the shutdown, while other feds go without pay. Even the DHS administrative staff processing the paychecks won't get theirs, employee tells me. www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Why are Senate Democrats recruiting 77-year-old Janet Mills? Because they're focused proven vote-winners: Everyone likes that they recruited Cooper + Brown. But the same philosophy is leading them to back Mills, Stevens and Turek, which is causing grumbling. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-de...

This is a noteworthy escalation from Sanders, who actually very rarely gets crosswise with the DSCC -- the only time he has endorsed against the DSCC's pick in his career was in Kentucky in 2020. This cycle, he's backing both Platner + El-Sayed.

New Pew Research Center data: 66% say Trump has improperly used his office to punish people 62% say he's improperly encouraged fed'l investigation of his opponents 61% say he's improperly used his office to enrich himself. www.pewresearch.org/short-reads/...

New: "Am I the Cuomo in this situation?" Democrats' youth movement is heading to Arizona, where 25-year-old influencer Deja Foxx is making noise, but frontrunner Adelita Grijalva should make a tougher out than a certain former NY guv. www.huffpost.com/entry/arizon...

New: I wrote about New Yorkers for Lower Costs, the partially grassroots-funded super PAC backing Mamdani that wouldn't make sense anywhere outside of NYC. Their efforts provide some insights into Mamdani's broader strategy, and a contrast to Cuomo's super PAC: www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

New: If it can happen to Cuomo, it can happen to them. Why the former governor's struggles in the NYC mayor race should be a blaring alarm for establishment Democrats elsewhere. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

The Senate's draft of the reconciliation bill is horrendous for federal workers. New hires would have to sacrifice 10% of their salary or else be classified as "at-will." A blatant scheme to undo job security and upend the civil service. www.huffpost.com/entry/senate...

NEW: Andrew Cuomo is mounting a stunning political comeback despite 12 women accusing him of sexual harassment just 3 years ago. I spoke with several of the women whose claims were substantiated by three investigations. They feel betrayed & forgotten. www.huffpost.com/entry/andrew...

"The Government has apparently suggested to this Court — belatedly, and in sealed ex parte communications — that it was working to secure Abrego Garcia’s return" What a filing in the Abrego Garcia case shows about sealed motions that led to a one week discovery stay www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

Microsoft has dropped a law firm that settled with the Trump administration in favor of one that is fighting the president’s executive orders, in a sign that those firms can still attract clients.

NEW: Republicans are laying the groundwork to restrict the abortion pill using a new junk science report.

One other question we asked on our latest economic poll: Assuming pay was the same, would you rather have a manufacturing or office job? 73% office 26% manufacturing s3.documentcloud.org/documents/25...

The House Education and Workforce section of the reconciliation bill would eliminate the Education Department's authority to cancel student debt for borrowers whose schools defraud them. So if you're a victim of fraud by your college, you'd still have to pay that loan that was fraudulently derived.

Trump sent the Justice Department after ActBlue, an effort to target his political opposition with criminal investigations

New: Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker is moving to have his state boycott El Salvador in response to Bukele's assistance of Trump, ordering a review of pension investments and procurement contracts. Allies hope other Dem states will follow suit. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...

Yes, Donald Trump is defying the Supreme Court www.huffpost.com/entry/donald...

New: I reported out Democrats' intra-party battle on tariff messaging. -This is partially/mostly a wonk fight about staffing the next D admin. -Allowing space for some tariffs an average message in D polling. -Tariff-friendly Dems are a mix of progs & moderates. www.huffpost.com/entry/democr...