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Your Election Day guide: the races that could decide Congress

Hi, this weekend’s newsletter is a little different. It focuses on what you should know about Election Day, which is Tuesday, November 3. There is, of course, a lot that happened in the US, Gaza, the West Bank and Iran this week. All of it is important. But what

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Democrats Favored to Take House as DOJ Moves to Challenge Alaska Senate Race — Before Votes Are Counted

Plus: More mystery around who throttled Ukraine’s access to key military satellites, Israel forcibly displaces thousands in Hebron days before its election, and the US pulls personnel ahead of possible new strikes on Iran

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A Fishing Expedition with a Search Warrant: How Trump Turned DHS Loose on Ilhan Omar

This week in brief ▶️ Federal agents raided Rep. Ilhan Omar’s home weeks before election day in an effort to denaturalize and deport her ▶️ DOJ sues California and threatens to criminally prosecute election officials ▶️ Settler attacks on Palestinian olive harvest pass last year’s total and an American journalist'

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Trump panics, the Gaza genocide at three years, and the Pentagon plans a live-streamed execution

Here are the news stories that deserve your attention for the week October 4, 2026: 1) War on Iran The war on Iran remains at an impasse. There is now “talk” about talks, and President Trump said this week that the US will not attack Iran before the November 3

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Lock In. Thirty Days Until Election Day

Trump says he might hit Iran after the midterms and won't rule out the Insurrection Act before them, as up to 10,000 more troops head to the Middle East. Plus, new satellite images show how much of Gaza Israel has destroyed.

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The White House Kicked Out the Press. Then Launched Its Own TV Channel.

Plus: Trump rejects Iran's ceasefire and plans to bomb after the midterms, the US moves to sanction the ICC, and eight suicide attempts on one Navy strike group.

The week that had me asking: Do we even live in a democracy anymore?

The president and billionaires assault the thing that makes America American... the freedom to say whatever-the-freak you want.

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If it looks like a bribe and smells like a bribe...

Plus: the Navy's admission that Iran "blew the hell out" of one US base, newly declassified pre-9/11 intelligence documents, and one AI researcher's warning for humanity.

War on Iran Escalates, a Bombshell Whistleblower Report on Voting, and the Pentagon in Chaos

Plus: ICE plans to spend millions on "robot dogs" and how your taxpayer dollars were spent on a website for racist, MAGA arcade games

Six Months into a Four Week War

Plus: the US cuts a shady deal for 65 billion barrels of Venezuela's oil, ICE breaks its arrest record, Trump renames a Great Lake, your toilet paper's about to get more expensive and Fauci's contempt probe stalls

Iran Forgot One Thing: Trump Doesn't Care

They bet Trump would tire of the war and walk away. Instead, a US carrier crew is falling apart at sea — and the president says troops haven't been deployed "nearly long enough."

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No Way to Win & No Way Out: Trump's War on Iran Metastasizes

Plus: Hamas calls Israel's bluff, 350,000 Haitians face deportation, and Republicans put science on trial.

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A "Head for an Eye": From Iran to the West Bank, the US and Israel Share a Collective Punishment Doctrine

Here are the news stories that deserve your attention for the week July 19, 2026: The week in brief: Four fallen US soldiers return home from the Middle East — and Trump downplays their deaths 🔹 Four Palestinians and two Israeli soldiers are killed in the West Bank, and Israeli politicians seize

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Back to War with Iran + The Midterm Pivot Nobody's Buying (Yet)

Plus: another father killed by ICE, Israel plans settlements in Gaza, and the president starts selling his own posts

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Not Fair, Not Square: How the Trump Administration is Trying to Steal the Midterms

⚡This week in brief: Trump is back with new ways to sabotage the midterm elections 🔹 Despite a ceasefire in Gaza, Israel continues to block aid, kill and injure dozens and is holding a beloved doctor hostage 🔹 Federal agents are accused of fatally shooting another person in their car and making

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Supreme Court Clears Way for Mass Deportations

Plus, Bill Pulte's first week as DNI is going exactly how you'd expect (not great) and Trump's Reflecting Pool claims don't add up.

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The Art of a Bad Deal

Trump promised victory. His Iran agreement looks more like failure.

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Deal or no deal?

Trump claims the US and Iran will sign a deal on Sunday to extend ceasefire but Iran disagrees while Netanyahu is caught off guard. Plus, one small victory that is bringing millions of Americans joy.

War and no peace

Netanyahu is dead set on war and Trump seems incapable of stopping him. Plus, why Albanians are pissed at the Trump family and the latest on Ebola.

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"Who will force Israel to stop?"

Netanyahu escalates in Lebanon and Gaza as a ceasefire deal in Iran nears. Plus, a federal judge reopens Trump's $10 billion lawsuit against the IRS to investigate claims that he defrauded the court

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Gerrymandering, punishing Cubans, and Trump's latest grift

America has come full circle after 250 years, thanks to King Trump and his Republican court

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Believe the evidence of your eyes and ears

The Trump Administration is selling you lies on Iran. Plus: courts hit Democrats (and democracy) ahead of the midterms and did the FDA commissioner cave on flavored vapes to save his job?

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Welcome (back) to the '60s

The Supreme Court guts the Voting Rights Act and the Iran war is polling like Vietnam. Sometimes the arc doesn't bend towards justice.

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Tenuous Ceasefires and Troubles in Trump World

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Ceasefires are in place but can either of them hold?