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A white V-tail Beechcraft Bonanza sits half-submerged in dark lake water at night, lit by a rescue boat spotlight, with red and blue emergency lights reflecting on the water from the wooded shoreline

Wisconsin Governor Candidate Tom Tiffany Swam Out of a Sinking Plane on Lake Wausau

Wisconsin governor candidate Tom Tiffany escaped a sinking 1959 Beechcraft on Lake Wausau. The wires stopped at the rescue. The arrangement is the story.

Wisconsin Governor Candidate Tom Tiffany Swam Out of a Sinking Plane on Lake Wausau

Trump Is Promising $5,000 Checks Funded by Tariffs the Supreme Court Struck Down in February

Missouri’s Map Fell to 300,000 Signatures, a Veto the Elections Clause Could Not Reach

Blocking the AfD in Saxony-Anhalt Now Takes All Five Remaining Parties

Ohio’s Utility Regulator Made Data Centers Pay in 2025, and $45 Million in Midterm Ads Still Promise to Do It

The Supreme Court Locked In Midterm Ad Rates Without Ruling on Whether They Are Legal

Lindell Never Paid the $825,000, and the Court Rejected His Recount Theory Anyway

The Chinese Parts in America’s Voting Machines Are Real, Which Is Why Homeland Security Can Get Away With This

The Supreme Court Unblocked Trump’s Mail-Voting Order Without Ruling It Legal

Byron Donalds Won Florida’s Governor Primary Without the One Endorsement That Should Have Mattered

A Nevada Judge Threw Out the Fake Electors Case Because the Defendants Never Hid What They Did

Wisconsin Democrats Chose Electability by 3,000 Votes, and It Took a Governor to Do It

Minnesota Republicans Spent the Summer Campaigning Against Their Own Front-Runner

AIPAC Spent a Record $30 Million to Stop Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan. He Won Anyway.

Fact Check: Trump’s Five Big Election Claims, and What His Own Documents Actually Say

ABC and NBC Refused to Air Trump’s Election Speech, and His Own Party Begged Him Not to Give It

Trump Fires the Last Election Assistance Commissioners Four Months Before the Midterms

The Supreme Court Saved Mail-Ballot Grace Periods 5-4, and the RNC’s Own Textualism Did the Work

Mamdani’s Candidates Sweep New York Primaries in a Direct Rebuke to Democratic Leadership

Colombia Elects ‘El Tigre’ in a Razor-Thin Runoff That Redraws Latin America’s Political Map

Graham Platner’s Nazi Tattoo Is Back in the Headlines, and Democrats Still Cannot Agree on What to Do About It

Ken Paxton Defeats John Cornyn in Texas Senate Primary: 2026 Runoff Results and What Comes Next

67 Million Voter Records Checked: Inside the Trump Administration’s Controversial Midterm Eligibility Purge

SCOTUS Lets Alabama Erase a Black-Majority District Eight Days Before the Primary

SUPREME COURT GUTS VOTING RIGHTS ACT IN 6-3 LOUISIANA RULING, RESHAPING THE 2028 MAP

Virginia Redistricting Results 2026: Voters Approve New Map That Could Hand Democrats Control of the House

Viktor Orbán Defeated: Hungary Election Results 2026 Show Péter Magyar’s Pro-Democracy Movement Ends 16 Years of Authoritarian Rule

Eric Swalwell Drops Out of California Governor Race After Sexual Misconduct Allegations Upend Democratic Primary

Georgia Runoff for Marjorie Taylor Greene’s Old Seat Could Tighten the House to a Razor’s Edge

Supreme Court Poised to End Mail-In Ballot Grace Periods Ahead of 2026 Midterm Elections