Don't hold your breath waiting for President Trump to condemn the leading GOP think tank's defense of Tucker Carlson's decision to host and uplift Nick Fuentes. Extremism isn't the exception in Trump's GOP – it's the driving force.

My latest in @timesofisrael.com on how to evaluate polls purporting to measure the Jewish vote (particularly important given misinformation circulating about the share @zohrankmamdani.bsky.social received). blogs.timesofisrael.com/beware-of-th...

Reminds of the time Chris Christie got the beach to himself

Watch "Kornacki: How Mikie Sherrill swept New Jersey despite Trump’s 2024 gains" - youtu.be/zydFieHyxCM?...

Election results in the New Jersey governor race present some warning signs for Republicans, NBC News' Steve Kornacki explains.

Maryland Governor Wes Moore lights up former Governor Larry Hogan over his criticism of the creation of a redistricting commission for Maryland.

The GOP isn’t just flirting with extremism anymore—it’s opening the door. After Tucker Carlson gave a platform to white nationalist Nick Fuentes, and the Heritage Foundation defended it, the fight inside the Republican Party became impossible to ignore. open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Important read from @drmoore.bsky.social on the defense of corruption of the church: www.christianitytoday.com/2025/11/nazi...

Early voting Nov 12 - 26 #TN07 make sure you get your votes in! And vote for @aftynbehn.bsky.social She will take care of this district! She is the real deal!

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Reminds of the time Chris Christie got the beach to himself

Hassett: "The impact on the economy of the shutdown is far worse than we expected because it's gone on for so long. Goldman estimate it's over a percent or a percent & a half of GDP. I think we were thinking we were gonna have at least 3% growth in Q4. Now we're expecting something like half that."

TENNESSEE PEEPS: It’s time to get to know @Aftynbehn.bsky.social, who is running in the Special Election for the TN07 seat in Congress. Early voting starts Nov. 12th. ELECTION DAY is Dec. 2nd.

Nice www.nj.com/politics/202...

Ted Cruz: "The votes are not there to end the filibuster."

WSJ Editorial Board hits Trump hard: Trump blamed Republican election defeats on the shutdown and the fact that he wasn’t on the ballot... Mr. Trump was on the ballot—not literally, but nonetheless as the main motivating force behind a dominating Democratic turnout. www.wsj.com/opinion/2025...

WSJ Editorial Board: “The polls showed the economy is by far the biggest issue, and Mr. Trump’s approval rating on inflation and economy is under water.” www.wsj.com/opinion/2025...

A federal judge in Rhode Island has said the Trump administration must fully cover food stamp benefits for tens of millions of Americans in November. https://cnn.it/47KumOX

After years of decline, 18–29-year-olds delivered a 35-point margin for @SpanbergerForVA — the biggest for Dems since 2017. Older voters barely moved, but young voters anchored the Democratic turnaround.

WSJ Editorial Board: “The polls showed the economy is by far the biggest issue, and Mr. Trump’s approval rating on inflation and economy is under water.” www.wsj.com/opinion/2025...

WSJ Editorial Board hits Trump hard: Trump blamed Republican election defeats on the shutdown and the fact that he wasn’t on the ballot... Mr. Trump was on the ballot—not literally, but nonetheless as the main motivating force behind a dominating Democratic turnout. www.wsj.com/opinion/2025...

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Ted Cruz: "Last night was a disaster. It was an electoral blowout. The results in New Jersey were disastrous. The results in Virginia were terrible."

Democrats scored their first non-federal statewide wins since 2006. And party leaders can’t help but look back even further to 1992, when Republican Bobby Baker’s PSC victory signaled the GOP’s emerging power in Georgia. www.ajc.com/politics/202...

This really hasn’t gotten enough attention this week. @wired.com #ICE www.wired.com/story/fbi-wa...

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Nearly every Virginia county and city voted more Democratic in the state governor's race than in the 2024 presidential election. There was a similar shift in New Jersey. nyti.ms/4qPKXty

"Ben Shapiro did a very viral, very, long, very good rant about who should not be welcome in the Republican coalition." Better late than never? It's @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social, @timmiller.bsky.social, and @jvl.bsky.social in the latest episode of The Next Level:

Just left the latest hearing in Jim Comey's criminal case. It did not go well for DOJ The magistrate judge scolded them for an "indict first, investigate second" posture and ordered them to turn over reams of material — including all grand jury info — to Comey's team Details TK

"Yesterday showed us what a wave election looks like. And what was the best predictor of the vote, and the source of the wave? Donald Trump. Take a look at the correlation of his approval rating in the exit polls and the actual vote. This bodes well for 2026." www.thebulwark.com/p/vive-la-re...

Tucker Carlson’s friendly interview with white nationalist Nick Fuentes has led to a major reckoning in the Republican party. WIRED reporter @davidgilbert.bsky.social breaks it down. 👇 Read more here: wrd.cm/4nHcuKP

On a call with reporters, DNC chair Ken Martin responds to JD Vance claiming Dems only won big last night because races were in blue states. "Well that's bullshit. We won in red counties, blue counties, purple counties," Martin says. And it was all "a rejection of Trump."

BREAKING: Democrats make history and break super majority in deep red Mississippi. Republicans now have 34 seats in the Mississippi Senate, one short of a super majority. No one expected this.

Voters in Maine approved a “red flag” law on Tuesday, giving families the option to petition a judge to order weapons removed temporarily from a troubled relative. nyti.ms/4oyMMJF

BREAKING: Maine voters pass a “red flag law” allowing temporary removal of firearms, a response to 2023 mass shooting in Lewiston. Follow AP for live updates.

The ADL has decided to treat fascists as allies and progressives as enemies. For a group that is tasked with protecting American Jews, that is a world historic fuck up. I will never forgive these people for their moral decrepitude.

The Washington Post on Abigail Spanberger: "No woman has led Virginia since its colonial government was formed 406 years ago."

The women justices (all of them) are working over the Solicitor General in this tariff argument like nobody’s business.

And boom goes the dynamite open.substack.com/pub/adamkinz...

Pundits were uniformly blathering about how Sherrill was running a purportedly bad, "boring" race - until they found out she ran an excellent boring race.

BREAKING: Democrat Johnny DuPree has flipped a Republican-held Mississippi Senate district in a special election. DuPree was previously the mayor of Hattiesburg. His win imperils the Mississippi Senate GOP's narrow supermajority. www.mississippifreepress.org/democrat-joh...

Brand new data: Republicans blamed for the shutdown (+12) and for health care premiums going up (+28!!). These are stunning numbers. Republicans aren't immune from the pressure this creates. Time to press our advantage. Stand for what we believe in.

Democratic governors represent the promise of functional democracy. They have been critical to Democrats’ recovery to date, and they will be the tip of the spear in fending off a desperate, lame-duck president and a MAGA Congress headed for defeat. open.substack.com/pub/contrari...

Thank you to 2 brave women - Mikie Sherrill and Abigail Spanberger- who have been running and winning since 2018. It takes so much courage and strength and sacrifice to run for office — especially for women. As moms and as public servants, they are inspiring and the future of the Democratic party.

Trump has decimated Republican support in one year. EVERY county in both Virginia and New Jersey has moved blue, some by double digits! LFG!

The US government has reached a major milestone of dysfunction as Congress has allowed a federal shutdown to drag into its 36th day — the longest in history — amid a stalemate over health-care and spending priorities. bloom.bg/498xdUl 📷: Michael Nagle/Bloomberg

WOW. 81% of women 18-29 voted for Mamdani, 80% for Sherril, and 78% for Spanberger. Gen Z women aren't playing around.

Notable on NJ

What we know, 12:10am [Now in 2 parts] —Prop 50 wins —VA Dems flip Gov, LG, AG —Dems flip ≈13 seats in VA House —Dems defend NJ-Gov + Assembly —Dems win NJ+VA trifectas —Mamdani wins —PA Dems win supreme court —ME vote-restricting measure loses —GA Dems flip 2 statewide offices —Krasner & Bragg win