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President Donald Trump has already put the wheels in motion for a “legal” reversal of the voters’ choice in Texas, Alaska and other battleground states where the US Senate’s control is in the balance. open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

For the fabulously wealthy, paying taxes is pretty much optional. They can borrow against their vast wealth, which is mostly an untaxed capital gain, without paying taxes. When they die, the capital gain goes to zero. And loopholes exist to bypass the estate tax too.

October 26, 2026

Speaker Mike Johnson could then stall Democratic winners, as he delayed Arizona Representative Adelita Grijalva’s swearing-in for nearly two months in 2025. Should the speaker block the new majority, the remedy will lie outside Congress, in a sustained nation... wendy664.substack.com/p/you-are-th...

Don Davis, U.S. House, 1st District (incumbent). Voted for Nancy Mace’s amendments barring TRICARE coverage of tr... He also voted yes on Marjorie Taylor Greene’s bill criminalizing gender-affirming care. Jamie Ager, U.S. House, 11th District. Called trans women “men,” openly supports a sports ban.

Find your line. You have one; everyone has one. You wouldn’t vote for a Democrat who ran ads calling for a ban on abortion or for bringing back the Defense of Marriage Act. You wouldn’t vote for one who sought to roll back the Civil Rights Act and laughed at the people it would hurt. Draw that li...

Consider how when Abdul El-Sayed was challenged by a paid heckler he turned it into a thoughtful discussion, while in two of Trump’s rallies in the past week he’s encouraged his mob as they beat senseless people who dared challenge him or call for the release of the Epstein files. Or how Trump’s...

At a rally yesterday, he told the audience: “We’re making a freaking fortune.” But “we” is doing a lot of work in that statement. Oil companies and their investors—like Trump—are indeed making a fortune, but the rest of the country is suffering under climbing gasoline prices and record high dies...

No, they were middle-aged men wearing powdered wigs, elaborately embroidered hostess jackets, silk hose, and shoes with enormous buckles and substantial heels. In other words, our Constitution was written and signed by drag queens.

"Trans people are a tiny group with no power" This isn't true, and I hope my trans readers can internalize this. You are more powerful than you think. Trans and gender expansive people are 2.34% of the US population in the latest survey. That is more than enough to swing a race.

Over the five Sundays of November we’ll travel from Christopher Columbus’ slave business to the slave patrols across the Old South to the Klan, the Black Panthers, and Ronald Reagan’s “sudden” enthusiasm for gun control. Finally, we’ll expose the massive “fra... open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

Damn www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

And it's about to get much worse! More than half of those with debt owed $1,000 or more, and about one in six owed $5,000 or more. About a third of American families, the report found, went without needed medical care last year because of the cost. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/23/y...

October 24, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-24...

What I wrote about Gavin Newsom a year ago is never more applicable to several Democrats today. I foresaw this coming, and I continue to hold this true.

I will never vote for an anti-transgender Democrat like Josh Turek and you should not either. I'll probably be writing my case to abstain from a handful of races like his on Monday. Josh Turek is showing the exact slippery slope I've called out, in real time.

October 23, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-23...

The Hidden History of American Healthcare: The four months Medicare desegregated America open.substack.com/pub/thomhart...

There are people, even some trans people, who think that we can give up sports to appease bigots. That if we give up on sports, this all goes away. That is a lie. I have reported on this for years, and EVERY state that passed a sports ban as a moderate compromise has gone on to pass worse.

Voters in Arizona, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska and Washington will be casting their ballots on issues like athletic participation, healthcare access and invasive sex tests This Midterm Season, 5 States Are Voting on Anti-Trans Ballot Measures. What You Need to Know open.substack.com/pub/uncloset...

a normal political process provoked an imperious and apparently furious Musk to reply with an implied threat: “Live by the sword, die by the sword. Those who pick fights with me should understand that I will find out who …” If ever there was a business that merited nationalization, Starlink is it.

Solid metaphor for the entire administration, honestly

“What is so important for everyone to understand is that the moment you compromise the rights of a trans person in America, you compromise the rights of every citizen in America.” ~ AOC

In a lawsuit filed Thursday, October 22, the Trump Justice Department is asking a federal judge to intervene in Alaska’s Senate election and prevent state officials from certifying certain results if Republican incumbent Dan Sullivan loses to Democrat Mary Peltola. open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

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The wild thing is the same people who say kids can’t even be exposed to the word transgender in schools and banning books for the mere mention of a trans character are spending millions blasting out knowledge that trans people exist to kids across the country.

“This is not a normal deployment,” multiple sources said. They described a level of mismanagement they had never seen before. “So Much Worse Than People Realize”: Never-Before-Seen Images Reveal Damage at U.S. Bases as Troops Describe Being Abandoned open.substack.com/pub/meidasto...

America’s 45-year crisis runs deeper than politics, raising a defining question about whether the nation can rebuild economic fairness, restore democracy, and revive the American Dream… hartmannreport.com/p/has-reagan...

The Department of Defense has asked for an additional $200 billion for the war, and Trump has asked for $1.5 trillion to fund the military in 2027, which Frum notes is up 44% from before the war on Iran. October 21, 2026 heathercoxrichardson.substack.com/p/october-21...

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