Elections

Why the Midterm Polls Are Already Broken

The Pressure Line the Polls Refuse to Measure The numbers lied in Michigan. They lied in Wisconsin. They will lie again. In Michigan, the final wave of public polls showed Abdul El-Sayed ahead of Haley Stevens by double digits. Some had him up fourteen, eighteen, even twenty points in the closing days. The actual result was a one-point race. Stevens conceded, but the margin told the real story. In Wisconsin, Francesca Hong, the DSA-aligned state representative, led late surveys by twenty points and more. Marquette and others had her comfortably ahead. She lost by a fraction of a point to David…

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A Contrast for America

One Hundred Days. One Decision. One hundred days from the midterms, Speaker Mike Johnson draws the line with the clarity the moment demands: common sense or crazy. America or communism. The choice is yours. In 100 days, the people of this country have a critical choice: common sense or crazy.As the Democrat Party surrenders to the extreme far Left, Republicans continue to deliver for the American people. But we aren't finished yet.It's time to choose between our country and… pic.twitter.com/U3IncYxp0P— Mike Johnson (@MikeJohnson) July 26, 2026 It's time to choose between our country and communism. It's a contrast for America, and…

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New Jersey’s Voter Roll Failure

A Textbook Case for Passing the SAVE America Act On Tuesday, New Jersey Governor Mikie Sherrill stepped to the podium and admitted what Democrats have spent years denying: non-citizens had made their way onto the state’s voter rolls, and some had voted. Roughly 6,600 people who had explicitly answered “no” when asked if they were United States citizens still ended up registered between June 2023 and June 2024. Preliminary numbers showed fewer than 400 cast ballots. Sherrill blamed a software glitch at the Motor Vehicle Commission under her predecessor, Phil Murphy. She ordered removals, launched an investigation, and promised accountability. Then…

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The Democrat Fracture

The Pieces Are Falling Right Into Republican Hands The Democrat Party is fracturing in real time, and the pieces are landing exactly where Republicans can pick them up. Last night in New York, Zohran Mamdani’s socialist machine knocked off two incumbents tied to House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries. One of the winners, Aber Kwas, is the child of illegal immigrants who won a state senate race. She has already blamed 9/11 on America’s “system of capitalism, racism, white supremacy, and Islamophobia.” Another Mamdani-backed candidate helped lead an organization whose stated goal includes the “eradication of Western civilization.” These are not fringe…

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Federal Judge Strikes Down Voter Citizenship Checks

Privacy Protections or Roadblock to Election Integrity? On Monday, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., blocked key federal tools meant to help states verify whether people on the voter rolls are actually U.S. citizens. The ruling in League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security vacates the 2025 updates to the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, better known as SAVE. For those of us who’ve spent years watching how government systems either protect or undermine self-government, this isn’t just another administrative-law skirmish. It strikes at the heart of federalism, election integrity, and whether outdated privacy statutes from the Watergate era…

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The Incoherent, Inauthentic Brute

Why Democrats Own Graham Platner Democrats spent years perfecting the art of the skin suit, wearing the outward appearance of working-class grit, moral clarity, and principled outrage while the underlying reality was privilege, grievance, and raw political calculation. They draped themselves in the language of #MeToo, “believe all women,” and fighting fascism. Then they nominated Graham Platner for U.S. Senate in Maine, a direct sequel to the themes explored in last month’s “The Skin Suits.” He won the primary decisively. The party that once purged its own for far lesser offenses has now strapped this incoherent, inauthentic brute to its back…

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California’s Engineered Election Opacity

How the Democrat Machine Protects Itself and Why Election Day Must Mean Election Day It’s Sunday, June 7, five full days after Election Day on June 2, and LA County officials continue counting ballots in the Los Angeles mayor’s race. Incumbent Karen Bass maintains a solid lead at roughly 34.8% and advances to the November runoff. The real contest for second place continues: Independent outsider Spencer Pratt still leads progressive Councilmember Nithya Raman by about 7,500 votes at ~78% counted. Yet each new batch of late mail and provisional ballots narrows that gap. Raman will almost certainly overtake Pratt in the…

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History Rhymes

Why Democrats Are in Deep Trouble Five months out from the 2026 midterms, Andrew Cuomo delivered a blunt assessment that should send alarm bells ringing through the Democrat Party. He observed that he has never seen a time when his party had no agenda, no message, no coherent vision. This diagnosis is particularly devastating because it directly echoes one of the most instructive midterm cautionary tales in recent American political history: the 1998 Republican collapse under Newt Gingrich. 💥NEW: Stephen A. Smith & Andrew Cuomo *GO OFF* on Dem Party💥SMITH: “They don’t wanna listen!”CUOMO: “The hope is the other side, the…

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The Skin Suits

Why Inauthenticity and Chaos Will Doom Talarico and Platner Democrats have a serious candidate selection problem heading into the 2026 midterms. In two states with some of the strongest, most distinct political cultures in America, they have advanced nominees who are profoundly mismatched with the very electorates they need to persuade. One is culturally inauthentic. The other is personally and temperamentally chaotic. These are not minor liabilities to be messaged away or spun. They are the defining characteristics of their candidacies, and they are likely fatal in Texas and Maine. James Talarico is not authentic. Graham Platner is not steady. In…

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Going on Offense Wins the Midterms

How Republicans Can Seize the Midterms by Attacking the Failed Hart-Celler Legacy In 1965, Congress inserted the camel’s nose under the tent. Lawmakers sold the Hart-Celler Act as a modest, humane tweak: ending national origins quotas while promising no major shift in America’s overall immigration numbers or cultural character. Sixty years later, the tent is overflowing. We now live with a record foreign-born population, sustained wage pressure on American workers, stalled assimilation in many communities, overburdened schools and housing, and growing public safety concerns. As I have documented in prior columns, this post-1965 system has systematically depressed wages for native-born Americans…

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