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-...

Now splashed @huffpost.com: The $100 million three-way battle over AI that is splitting both parties and the tech industry and could define the midterms. Populist backlash to data centers vs. the AI industry vs. scientists worried about existential risk. www.huffpost.com/entry/the-co...

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-...