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The last time Kansas elected a Democrat to the Senate was 1932. Yet on Friday, Democratic Senate candidate Adam Hamilton received his second endorsement from a Republican former Kansas governor in less than a month, in his race against Republican incumbent Senator Roger Marshall. The top Senate Republican super PAC is so concerned that Marshall could lose the race that it’s diverting funds to Kansas from North Carolina, where it’s canceled its remaining ads against Democrat Roy Cooper — basically conceding North Carolina (by the way, a Democrat hasn’t won statewide federal office in North Carolina in nearly two decades). To say it’s not looking good for Republicans is an understatement. Trump is an albatross around the necks of every Republican running for Congress or governor. He’s also posing problems for plenty of Republican candidates for state office. Why? It’s not that Americans have suddenly discovered that Trump is a despicable human being. His personality has been on national...
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GOP pollster exposes why Trump's 'shock value' strategy is falling flat

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President Donald Trump frequently rails about “communists” and “socialists,” and the GOP has increasingly leaned into such attacks as it has grown more desperate in the face of an uphill midterm battle . But according to a longtime GOP pollster, accusations of “ socialist ” don’t have the “shock value” they once had. As Politico explains, Republicans have struggled to define an opponent during this midterm cycle, though “Trump has frequently sought to blame Biden for high prices and other challenges that his administration has faced. Even so, the former president has become a far less useful punching bag for Republicans since leaving office and remaining largely out of the spotlight.” The same goes for former Speaker Nancy Pelosi. No other Democrats have managed to elicit the same level of conservative anger, so Trump and the GOP have turned to the classic red baiting. Besides peppering speeches with accusations of communism and socialism, “the GOP has run ads seeking to tie Democrat...
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Trump himself demanded taxpayer-funded ads praising him: report

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The New York Times reports President Donald Trump personally instructed his budget director to use taxpayer money for TV ads praising him and his presidency, “setting in motion a $20 million contract that used funds from the Department of Homeland Security, according to people familiar with the matter.” “Mr. Trump was eager to see the laudatory ads on the air and told Russell T. Vought, the director of the Office of Management and Budget, to come up with the money from within the government,” said government sources speaking with the Times. They added that Mark Paoletta, the budget office’s counsel, and Will Scharf, the White House counsel, both said it would be legal to use D.H.S. funds. And the president and Susie Wiles, the White House chief of staff, both spoke with Markwayne Mullin, the homeland security secretary, about the ads. The ads have hit expensive time slots on Fox News, CNN and MS Now, with football games on Fox and with national newscasts on CBS, ABC and NBC, includin...
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Former publisher blisters Trump admin for ordering him to fire journalists

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Former Stars and Stripes publisher Max Lederer says the Pentagon outright directed him to fire journalists for ‘insubordination’—for daring to use their freedom of speech to report truth. "I was just told, 'do what you're instructed and serve these notices,'" Lederer told an audience during a CSPAN interview, hosted by Military Veterans in Journalism. Stars and Stripes, a US military news publication funded in part by the government, is intended to have editorial independence, but the Washington Post reported in January that new hire applicants were now being asked what they will do in order to forward Donald Trump's "policy priorities," under the second Trump administration. “How would you advance the President’s Executive Orders and policy priorities in this role?" the question reads. "Identify one or two relevant Executive Orders or policy initiatives that are significant to you, and explain how you would help implement them if hired....
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Fox Business warns Trump's debt bomb about to go off

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Empower Chief Investment Strategist Marta Norton said she was getting nervous over the amount of debt some of the nation’s richest companies were incurring as a result of rampant investment in AI — the product that is largely driving President Donald Trump’s 2026 stock market growth. Fox Business host Liz Claman, of “The Claman Countdown,” initiated the discussion by bringing up the amount of debt companies are shouldering in their race for AI buildout. “What about that hyper debt scale issuance? They’re shouldering so much debt, and not just the hyperscalers. You know, in June, Nvidia had gone to the market with $25 billion in borrowing and even the best-in-class ones that do have a lot of cash on the balance sheet are very exposed. Do you see any negatives there?” “That is something that I do think we need to watch,” confided Norton. “They’re building a whole new world and they’ve eaten up a lot of their cash flow, which was enviable just a few years ago, and now it’s negligible. ...
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Support for political violence plummets —except for one group

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A recent study says Americans’ support for political violence fell in 2026, but MAGA supporters remain the most likely to justify it. PsyPost covered the research , which was published as a preprint on SocArXiv and not yet peer-reviewed. But early nationally surveys suggests that American public support for political violence decreased heading into the 2026 midterm elections, contrary to popular fears. “The findings indicate that while partisan tensions remain high, about three-quarters of U.S. adults say political violence is never justified in general, and very few say they would be willing to commit it,” reports Psypost. But those numbers do not necessarily hold true for the MAGA political enclave, say researchers. When researchers examined differences among political groups, they found that MAGA Republicans and MAGA supporters who do not identify as Republicans tended to report higher levels of justification for political violence compared to Democrats and non-MAGA Republicans. ...
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Trump voters learn the hard way: Trump 'hates' them

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President Donald Trump has made at least $1 billion so far promoting his cryptocurrency , a coin that was sold primarily to his own supporters. Those same supporters tended to lose all of their investments as a result of that business venture , which critics describe as a scam, and even Trump backers like right-wing podcaster Joe Rogan are starting to turn on the president as he continues to deregulate the crypto industry and personally profit. Speaking to former President Barack Obama's deputy national security adviser on Thursday, MS NOW host Nicolle Wallace pointed to these developments to make an important point — namely, that Trump actively hates his own supporters. "What's amazing to me, Ben, as someone who's covered Trump most days for a decade — and that's on me — is to see how much he hates his voters," Wallace told Rhodes. "I always thought that Steve Bannon was, for his political views and his contribution to the degradation of our politics, o...
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