Huge win for James Talarico in Texas tonight. Democrats: it’s time to come together and make 2026 the year we flip Texas and take back the Senate.

Wow: under the radar special election in Arkansas tonight for House District 70, a GOP-held seat in suburban Little Rock. Democrat Alex Holladay with a huge 27-point win over Republican Bryan Renshaw. Another red to blue flip for Democrats.

These Texas primary numbers are incredibly good for any Democrat who wants to put Texas on the map this November.

Never forget those who enabled this.

Donald Trump ran on lowering prices, releasing the Epstein files, and ending foreign wars. In two years he rolled out illegal tariffs that raised prices, engaged in a cover up of the Epstein files, and incited war across the entire Middle East.

Trump is babbling. Democrats are winning. Overperforming by 37 points in tonight’s Pennsylvania House special election.

To recap: The guy who ran on lowering costs, ending foreign wars, and releasing the Epstein files has instead illegally rolled out tariffs that raise prices, brought us to the brink of war in Iran, and forced his DOJ to hide the Epstein files.

The Supreme Court rules 6–3 that Donald Trump has been illegally taxing Americans, and instead of complying with the law he immediately imposes a new 10% tax on all imported goods. It’s open defiance of the Constitution and another bill handed straight to working families.

Seems important to note that last summer the Trump administration emphatically claimed there was “no evidence” to justify investigating uncharged third parties in the Epstein files. So were they wrong, or were they lying?

Just an astoundingly bad AP poll for Trump • 36% overall job approval • 72% disapprove of Greenland threats • 66% describe economy as doing poorly • 60% unfavorable view of ICE Cannot stress enough: the vast majority of Americans think this presidency is a failure.

It is simply journalistic malpractice at this point to treat anything Trump officials say as factual. Even in sworn court filings, under penalty of perjury, officials have repeatedly been caught lying and hiding evidence to gaslight the American people.

Trump won on one promise: fix the economy. Two years later, job growth has cratered and Americans feel worse than they did before he took office. Voters will remember in November.

Hard to take national security lectures seriously from an administration that confused a party balloon for a foreign drone and erroneously shut down airspace over a major metropolitan area for a week.

It’s hard to even watch Pam Bondi’s behavior today. Chaos was clearly the strategy. But Americans have real questions about the Epstein scandal and when the Attorney General responds with childish contempt, it raises the obvious question: why is she protecting pedophiles?

Rhode Island was rocked last week by the resignation of embattled RIDOT Director Peter Alviti. In @thepvdeye.bsky.social, I make the case that this is a rare opportunity to structurally fix transit governance and restore independent leadership at @ripta.com.

New this morning from @mattmfm.bsky.social in the @thepvdeye.bsky.social opinion section: "As the governor searches for a new DOT director, lawmakers should act this session to revisit and repeal the 2023 change that made the RIDOT director the chair of RIPTA’s governing board."

Really not sure folks are fully processing the fact that the President of the United States trying to arrest six Democrats in Congress is an unprecedented act of political persecution. There’s been nothing like this in U.S. history.

Enough is enough: Donald Trump using the Department of Justice to target six sitting members of Congress crosses a red line for American democracy, and Democrats cannot provide a single vote that legitimizes this unprecedented constitutional crisis.

Breaking News: NBC News reports the Trump White House tried to get a grand jury today to indict six sitting Democratic members of Congress. This is a five-alarm constitutional crisis.

Congresswoman @balint.house.gov reviewed the unredacted Epstein files yesterday and said they contradict Trump’s claim that he expelled Epstein from Mar-a-Lago. She made clear, “That is not true. It’s a lie.”

Watching leaders resign worldwide over Epstein connections while Republicans rally to protect Howard Lutnick, after he clearly lied about doing business with a pedophile, is one of the most grotesque moral failures in modern politics.

Refusing to call Donald Trump a convicted felon and court adjudicated rapist is one of the small acts of bias towards Republicans that the press engages in.

The right is investing heavily in organizing young men. Democrats need to get serious about fighting back. @men4choice.bsky.social is showing how it’s done — organizing young men to fight for abortion rights. Give ’em a follow and check out their work.

Not one to give Republicans strategic advice, but siloing yourself into ideological echo chambers while rejecting shared American cultural moments like the Super Bowl and the Olympics is a remarkable way to marginalize yourself politically.

In the past 72 hours, Donald Trump has posted a racist cartoon of the Obamas as apes, said it’s “very hard” to root for American Olympians, and complained that the Super Bowl halftime show “doesn’t represent” America.

Halftime Show: “Together, we are America.” Trump: “It is affront to the greatness of America. This show is a slap in the face to our country.”

Yikes: the alternative TPUSA “All-American” Halftime Show had fewer than 14,000 views.

Closing jumbotron Super Bowl Halftime Show message from Bad Bunny: “The only thing more powerful than hate is love.”

This is, unironically, the queerest Super Bowl halftime show ever — and it’s incredible.

Not sure we can really enjoy the Super Bowl unless we get a photo of RFK Jr. enjoying his yogurt snack.

Axios suggests “cutting back on wings and soda for the game” as Super Bowl watch party staples see double digit price hikes versus last year. After Trump promised to lower prices on Day One, Americans are now being told to ration party snacks.

Worth stating plainly: when Olympic athletes criticize the Trump agenda as damaging to American ideals and the GOP responds with threats and calls to silence them, it literally validates the criticism.

Right wing free speech absolutism is the most dishonest grift in American politics.

Nothing exposes the fraudulence of Fox News’ culture war beat like whipping up a scandal over Obama eating arugula, only to nod along with MAGA guys about yogurt as a Super Bowl snack.

Just an extraordinary performance for Democrats tonight in the Louisiana special election — winning a Trump +13 seat with a 38-point overperformance. This is how a wave starts, folks.

Jon Ossoff renames the MAGA elites running the country: the Epstein class. “We were told that MAGA was for working class Americans. But this is a government of, by, and for the ultra rich. It’s the wealthiest Cabinet ever. This is the Epstein class.”

There’s nothing more insincere than Republicans suddenly discovering a deep moral opposition to gerrymandering the moment Democrats stop unilaterally disarming.

As Republicans complain about Virginia restricting redistricting, a reminder that Democrats tried to enact a national ban on partisan gerrymandering. Every single Republican voted no.

November 3, 2026 can’t come soon enough.

It is journalistic malpractice to accept “a staffer mistakenly posted a racist video” as a sufficient explanation regarding the most secure social media account on Earth, absent immediate transparency about who has access, who posted it, and whether they have been fired.

For someone who treats shitposting like a full-time job, it’s extremely revealing which days JD Vance decides to stay off social media.

Let’s be clear: there is no universe where Karoline Leavitt should still have a job by the end of today. Dismissing the response to a racist meme from the president as “fake outrage,” saying it “doesn’t matter,” and waving it off as a Lion King joke is a fireable offense.

Shocked to learn the guy who built a national political career peddling grotesque racism against the first Black president is posting openly racist memes about the first Black president.

“U.S. employers announced 108,435 layoffs for the month, up 118% from the same period a year ago. The total marked the highest for any January since 2009, while the economy was in the final months of its steepest downturn since the Great Depression.”

Heartbroken for the journalists laid off at WaPo. But shaming subscribers for canceling misses the point: it’s a degraded product. The fact is Bezos could fund the paper for centuries and chooses not to — because it’s more useful to him as a tool for influence than as a newsroom.

Senate and House Democrats have just released their demanded changes to rein in ICE. As Trump allies ramp up threats to use ICE to interfere in the Midterms, it includes a ban on ICE enforcement near polling places.

It’s a little too on the nose that Jeff Bezos decided to fire hundreds of journalists within a week of a movie release that had him cutting a $28 million check to the President’s wife.

Republicans’ own internal poll makes it clear: @jamestalarico.bsky.social is the strongest Democrat in the Texas Senate race. If Democrats want to put Texas on the map, the path is clear.

Steve Bannon openly calling for state-sponsored voter intimidation: “You’re damn right we’re going to have ICE surround the polls.” It is critical that any DHS funding agreement include explicit safeguards to prevent ICE from interfering in elections.

Just an insane story: a U.S. citizen sent a simple email to a federal prosecutor to oppose deporting an Afghan asylum seeker. DHS responded by pulling his personal data from Google using an administrative warrant and showing up at his home to harass him.