Will the November midterm elections be free and fair? That’s the question I asked a number of political scientists over the last week, and their answers did not necessarily make me feel better. And, to be clear, even asking the question gives me heartburn. Half a decade ago, a lot of my work revolved around understanding and explaining exactly why the Republican conspiracy theories about a stolen election were false. Now, in another reality, I find myself trying to understand and explain how America’s vaunted electoral system might not be as resilient as we should hope.
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DAVIS: Can Trump Rig the 2026 Midterms?
Now, I won’t say, ‘Cancel the election. They should cancel the election,’ because the fake news will say, ‘He wants the elections canceled. He’s a dictator.’” That’s what president Donald Trump told a group of Republican lawmakers last week. Republicans have been so successful, the president said, that “when you think of it, we shouldn’t even have an election.”
Boebert Plans To Get ‘Swampy’ Following Trump’s Veto
Following President Donald Trump’s veto of Rep. Lauren Boebert’s (R-CO) “Finish the Arkansas Valley Conduit Act” bill at the end of December and the subsequent failed vote in the House of Representatives to overturn his decision on Jan. 8, the congresswoman representing Colorado’s fourth congressional district has made it clear that this won’t be the end of her fight for the legislation.
DAVIS: Venezuela, Manifest Destiny, and the Farce of Christian Nationalist Foreign Policy
As fighter jets screeched through the sky above Caracas on the third night of the year, raining munitions on residential buildings, the clouds of destruction took on the shape of a Rorschach test for American audiences. In my eyes, those clouds resolved into the image of a bloody history, an image of the dozens of other times the United States has wrought chaos in Latin America for national resources. In the eyes of many, the rubble-made Rorschach blot took on a complex character, one strongman chaotically removing another. The nation’s growing cohort of Christian nationalists saw something else, though; something no one with a passing knowledge of politics, international relations, or Venezuela is capable of seeing: revival.
Trump Says He’ll Void Any Law Signed by Biden With An Autopen
By Jennifer Shutt — President Donald Trump said Friday he will try to reverse any law, pardon or still-in-effect executive order that former President Joe Biden signed with an autopen, though it wasn’t immediately clear how that would work or whether it would be legal.
DAVIS: What Do We Do Now?
There’s this kind of frightening but flattering thing that happens when you do the work that I do, when you spend a lot of time writing and reading about and working against the forces undermining a better society, when your friends and loved ones are aware that you are hopelessly impaled upon a fascination with the beliefs and mechanisms which are constantly creating and destroying our world. People ask you questions they might not have ever asked out loud before. Questions like, “is it really as bad as it seems?” and “is there any way out of this?” and “for the love of god, what do we do?”
DAVIS: The Ethnic Cleansing of America
Living through history, the kind of history that you know will make it into the textbooks, is a surreal thing. The threats can be seen approaching for years on end, the parallels to other times in history can be perfectly obvious, and yet there can remain a thin, persistent membrane of unreality between us and the belief that what happened in those other times, those other places, can actually happen to us here.
DAVIS: When Spiritual Warfare Becomes Christian Terrorism
Around 3:30 a.m. on Saturday, June 14, a man dressed as a police officer knocked on the door of a home in New Hope, Minnesota. When the inhabitants, a married couple in their 50s, opened the door, he shot them to death. His target was the woman, Democratic Speaker Emerita of the state House of Representatives, Melissa Hortman. An hour earlier, the killer had shot another couple, that time targeting the man, Democratic state Sen. John Hoffman. In the killer’s car, police later found a target list including information on other Democratic lawmakers, abortion rights activists, and a Planned Parenthood clinic.
Get a ‘Repentant Trump Voter’ Sticker When You Tell Us Why You Regret Voting for Trump
At this tragic moment, you’d think it would be easy to find Republicans who would tell the Colorado Times Recorder why they regret voting for Donald Trump.
Evans Claims Tariffs Would Benefit Local Industries; Economists Disagree
During an April 2 telephone conversation with constituents held by U.S. Rep. Gabe Evans (R-CO), one caller from Greeley raised concerns about Trump’s decision to impose steep tariffs across the board, calling them a “regressive tax,” and asked Evans what he was doing to save his constituents money.