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November 10, 2026

This week: The Dec. 11 funding deadline, the defense fight and the Hegseth impeachment push

Congress has until December 11 to fund the government. A defense fight and a Hegseth impeachment vote are in the way.

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November 3, 2026

This week: Election Day 2026, what to do and what to watch

Election Day is here. What is at stake, what to do before you vote, and when to expect results.

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October 27, 2026

This week: Party spending after NRSC v. FEC and the fight over ad rates

The Supreme Court lifted the cap on party spending. A week before the midterms, the money and an ad-rate fight are both in play.

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October 20, 2026

This week: The Omar investigation and what it takes to revoke citizenship

Federal agents searched a congresswoman’s home, and the question is her age on citizenship papers from 2000.

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October 13, 2026

This week: The Hasan execution and a proposed livestream

The Pentagon says it will livestream a firing squad execution, and the president says he will decide.

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October 6, 2026

This week: The Iran war, the Strait of Hormuz, and a rejected offer

Seven months into the Iran war, the strait is still shut, the blockade is still on, and Trump has turned down Iran’s latest offer.

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September 29, 2026

This week: The Supreme Court and the SAVE voter citizenship database

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let the Trump administration go back to using its expanded SAVE database to check voters’ citizenship, five weeks before the midterms.

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September 22, 2026

This week: Maduro’s head-of-state immunity claim

Nicolás Maduro’s lawyers say his drug-trafficking case should be dismissed — because by their account, he’s still Venezuela’s president.

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September 15, 2026

This week: The Epstein files compliance fight

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1. A federal judge says the DOJ still hasn’t complied — and isn’t ruling out contempt.

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September 8, 2026

This week: Trump’s mail-in voting order, part two

A federal judge has blocked Trump’s mail-voting order four times since June. The fight is back before the Supreme Court, with a ruling expected this week.

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September 1, 2026

This week: Trump’s mail-in voting order

Trump’s mail-voting order was cleared by the Supreme Court, then blocked again by a federal judge two days later. Six weeks to Election Day.

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August 25, 2026

This week: The National Guard in D.C.

The National Guard’s D.C. deployment was extended through Inauguration Day 2029. A federal judge ruled it unlawful. An appeals court let it continue anyway.

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August 18, 2026

This week: The ACA subsidy cliff

Enhanced ACA subsidies expired in January. Premiums are up 58%, deductibles up 37%, and 4.8 million people lost coverage. Congress had a compromise on the table — and let it die over an unrelated fight.

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August 11, 2026

This week: Data centers and the bipartisan backlash

New York just froze new data center construction for a year. Republicans and Democrats in three other states want the same thing. What's driving it, and both sides' case.

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August 4, 2026

This week: The Gaza disarmament roadmap

Trump's Board of Peace unveiled a 15-point roadmap to disarm Hamas and withdraw Israel from Gaza. Both sides accepted it — neither agrees on who moves first.

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July 28, 2026

This week: The Iran war powers vote

Congress voted twice to end the war in Iran. The House passed, 214-208. The Senate came two votes short, 47-49. Neither one stopped anything.

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July 21, 2026

This week: Presidential removal power

The Supreme Court just gave the president the power to fire independent agency commissioners at will, ending a 91-year-old protection. A decade of legal erosion, and what both sides are saying.

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July 13, 2026

This week: Coordinated party spending

The Supreme Court just lifted the cap on how much a political party can spend coordinating with its own candidate. A 6-3 ruling, fifty years of campaign finance law, and the strongest case on each side.

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July 7, 2026

This week: The filibuster

The president wants the filibuster dead. The Senate Majority Leader says the votes aren’t close. What the 60-vote rule is, and what both sides are saying.

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July 1, 2026

This week: The Supreme Court’s 6-3 pattern

The Supreme Court’s 2025–2026 term isn’t over. But the pattern is. Four major rulings. Four 6-to-3 votes. Here’s what the Court decided — and what’s still coming.

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June 24, 2026

This week: The new Iran deal vs. the old one

Trump called the JCPOA the worst deal ever. In June 2026, he signed a 14-point memorandum to end the Iran war. Here’s how the two compare.

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June 16, 2026

This week: Proof of citizenship to vote

A law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. 21 million Americans may not have the document. A Senate vote that keeps failing.

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June 9, 2026

This week: Currency & the $250 bill

A Treasury prototype. Trump’s face on a $250 bill. A law from 1866. The debate about what currency is actually for.

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June 2, 2026

This week: Birthright citizenship

The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether being born in the United States makes you a citizen. The answer was settled in 1898. The question is back.

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May 26, 2026

This week: The Medicaid argument

The government says it cut $1.02 trillion from Medicaid. The administration says there were no cuts. The CBO projects 10.5 million people lose coverage.

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May 19, 2026

This week: Warrantless surveillance

The government can search your emails without a warrant. It has done it hundreds of thousands of times. Congress can’t decide whether to stop it.

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May 12, 2026

This week: Mid-decade redistricting

Both parties are redrawing the map ahead of November — and the map war may determine who controls Congress.

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May 5, 2026

This week: Redistricting & the Voting Rights Act

The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map — and gutted a 60-year-old voting rights protection in the process.

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April 28, 2026

This week: The courts vs. the White House

The federal judiciary has become the most consistent check on executive power — and it's being tested like never before.

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April 21, 2026

This week: Federal spending cuts & DOGE

DOGE's cuts are real — but so is the legal resistance.

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April 14, 2026

This week: Medicaid cuts

The biggest Medicaid overhaul in decades is underway.

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Congress has until December 11 to fund the government. A defense fight and a Hegseth impeachment vote are in the way.

Election Day is here. What is at stake, what to do before you vote, and when to expect results.

The Supreme Court lifted the cap on party spending. A week before the midterms, the money and an ad-rate fight are both in play.

Federal agents searched a congresswoman’s home, and the question is her age on citizenship papers from 2000.

The Pentagon says it will livestream a firing squad execution, and the president says he will decide.

Seven months into the Iran war, the strait is still shut, the blockade is still on, and Trump has turned down Iran’s latest offer.

The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let the Trump administration go back to using its expanded SAVE database to check voters’ citizenship, five weeks before the midterms.

Nicolás Maduro’s lawyers say his drug-trafficking case should be dismissed — because by their account, he’s still Venezuela’s president.

Congress passed the Epstein Files Transparency Act 427-1. A federal judge says the DOJ still hasn’t complied — and isn’t ruling out contempt.

A federal judge has blocked Trump’s mail-voting order four times since June. The fight is back before the Supreme Court, with a ruling expected this week.

Trump’s mail-voting order was cleared by the Supreme Court, then blocked again by a federal judge two days later. Six weeks to Election Day.

The National Guard’s D.C. deployment was extended through Inauguration Day 2029. A federal judge ruled it unlawful. An appeals court let it continue anyway.

Enhanced ACA subsidies expired in January. Premiums are up 58%, deductibles up 37%, and 4.8 million people lost coverage. Congress had a compromise on the table — and let it die over an unrelated fight.

New York just froze new data center construction for a year. Republicans and Democrats in three other states want the same thing. What's driving it, and both sides' case.

Trump's Board of Peace unveiled a 15-point roadmap to disarm Hamas and withdraw Israel from Gaza. Both sides accepted it — neither agrees on who moves first.

Congress voted twice to end the war in Iran. The House passed, 214-208. The Senate came two votes short, 47-49. Neither one stopped anything.

The Supreme Court just gave the president the power to fire independent agency commissioners at will, ending a 91-year-old protection. A decade of legal erosion, and what both sides are saying.

The Supreme Court just lifted the cap on how much a political party can spend coordinating with its own candidate. A 6-3 ruling, fifty years of campaign finance law, and the strongest case on each side.

The president wants the filibuster dead. The Senate Majority Leader says the votes aren’t close. What the 60-vote rule is, and what both sides are saying.

The Supreme Court’s 2025–2026 term isn’t over. But the pattern is. Four major rulings. Four 6-to-3 votes. Here’s what the Court decided — and what’s still coming.

Trump called the JCPOA the worst deal ever. In June 2026, he signed a 14-point memorandum to end the Iran war. Here’s how the two compare.

A law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. 21 million Americans may not have the document. A Senate vote that keeps failing.

A Treasury prototype. Trump’s face on a $250 bill. A law from 1866. The debate about what currency is actually for.

The Supreme Court is about to rule on whether being born in the United States makes you a citizen. The answer was settled in 1898. The question is back.

The government says it cut $1.02 trillion from Medicaid. The administration says there were no cuts. The CBO projects 10.5 million people lose coverage.

The government can search your emails without a warrant. It has done it hundreds of thousands of times. Congress can’t decide whether to stop it.

Both parties are redrawing the map ahead of November — and the map war may determine who controls Congress.

The Supreme Court struck down Louisiana's congressional map — and gutted a 60-year-old voting rights protection in the process.

The federal judiciary has become the most consistent check on executive power — and it's being tested like never before.

DOGE's cuts are real — but so is the legal resistance.

The biggest Medicaid overhaul in decades is underway.

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