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Morning Digest: Republicans abandon North Carolina—and race to rescue Kansas

Those funds will come at the expense of North Carolina Republican Michael Whatley, whom SLF has now abandoned altogether as ...
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Why the GOP's spending advantage is nowhere near as big as it looks

In many cases, the GOP’s cavalry has also been late to arrive. Organizations that book ad time early can obtain lower prices, because demand for airtime inevitably increases as an election draws ...
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Voters can stop MAGA from running elections in more than a dozen states

As Donald Trump once again seeks to subvert America’s elections, voters in three dozen states will have the opportunity next ...
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Morning Digest: GOP billionaires flood Wisconsin with cash, but Democrats are leading

A trio of conservative billionaires is spending like wild to stop Wisconsin Democrats from winning complete control of state government, but the latest survey from the state’s top pollster shows ...
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Morning Digest: Democrats try to weaponize data centers against a difficult GOP target

Pennsylvania Democrat Bob Harvie is using his first ad of the general election to attack Republican Rep. Brian Fitzpatrick over data centers, a topic Fitzpatrick has never had to address during any of ...
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Morning Digest, sponsored by Grassroots Analytics: GOP-backed referendum puts Oregon's new transportation funding plan at risk

A campaign to repeal major parts of a transportation funding plan championed by Democratic Gov. Tina Kotek announced Friday that it turned in almost 200,000 signatures to place a referendum on next ...
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The Downballot's 2Q 2026 Senate and House fundraising reports roundup

Quarterly fundraising reports for congressional candidates covering the period from April 1 to June 30 were due at the Federal Election Commission on July 15 by midnight ET. Below are our charts of ...
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Morning Digest, sponsored by FiftyPlusOne: Will Trump's endorsement save this candidate from Laura Loomer's wrath?

Gina Swoboda, the chair of the Arizona Republican Party, entered the race for the open 1st Congressional District with Donald Trump’s endorsement on Monday. But Swoboda, who is the first notable ...
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Morning Digest: Another 70-something House Democrat could lose on Saturday

Polling for state Sen. Jarrett Keohokalole shows him defeating veteran Rep. Ed Case 47-38 in Saturday’s Democratic primary for Hawaii’s 1st Congressional District, a high-profile contest where no ...
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Morning Digest: The GOP’s biggest game of chicken ends with both sides chickening out

The GOP’s biggest game of chicken just ended with both sides chickening out. AdImpact reports that an affiliate of the Senate Leadership Fund is spending more than $50 million on its opening ad ...
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Florida Democrats just picked up a second seat in Tuesday's special elections

In the second massive upset of the night for Florida Democrats, Brian Nathan, a Navy veteran and union official, flipped a state Senate seat that became vacant after Gov. Ron DeSantis tapped its ...