AdImpact says $11.87B was spent on midterms ads. One of the top buyers was…Steyer for Governor adimpact.com/election-day...
NEW: Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry
Trump Official Who Wants Data Centers on Public Lands Has Tens of Millions Invested in AI Industry
Interior Secretary Doug Burgum, who is heavily invested in the AI industry, is leading the charge to allow tech companies to build data centers on the public lands he oversees.
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Tesla will wind down production of the Cybertruck at its gigafactory in Texas next year, Chief Executive Elon Musk said. In a post on X, Musk said the move is to “make room” for increased production of its self-driving Cybercab. Read more: 🔗 on.wsj.com/487Qm70
"The evening’s big ratings winner was NBC ... NBC led all the major cable and broadcast networks with 6.7 million viewers — a total that did not include a significant online audience for a livestream of its indefatigable data nerd, Steve Kornacki." www.nytimes.com/2026/11/05/b...
Steve Kornacki and NBC Drew Crowds as Midterms Got a Ratings Bump
More than 31 million viewers followed along with the Democrats’ big night on television, a 23 percent jump from the 2022 midterm elections.
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(WSJ) - The White House delivered a warning to conservative groups on Thursday: We’re watching you. @wsj.com www.wsj.com/politics/ele...
Texas pollster Nancy Zdunkewicz called it weeks ago. She told me then her polling spelled trouble for Abbott and Paxton. “It’s wild. Places that Trump won by, like, 10 to 15 points are places where it’s majority negative toward him," she said in mid-October. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Two weeks from Election Day, Texas Republicans start finger-pointing ahead of potential losses
Deep divisions within the party afflict Texas Republicans as they move into the midterms.
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One factor that helped fuel Democrats' dominance in Texas last night: Parental anger over the GOP's multiyear to war to force private school vouchers, ban library books and impose conservative Christian values on public schoolchildren. “Parents are just hopping mad,” one Republican told us.
Anger over GOP education agenda helped fuel Democratic sweeps in Texas, advocates say
Before they flipped Texas blue, Gina Hinojosa and James Talarico made names for themselves fighting book bans, private school vouchers and restrictions on classroom instruction.
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Scoop: With Democrats set to take control of Congress with a resounding mandate for change, Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker - a potential 2028 candidate- is urging his party to advance an aggressive legislative and oversight agenda on Day One. He has a 75-page roadmap. www.nbcnews.com/politics/con...
Illinois Gov. JB Pritzker rolls out a Day One road map for Congress
Putting down a marker ahead of a potential presidential bid, Pritzker says the new Democratic Congress must swiftly advance an aggressive legislative agenda.
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Oil companies are reporting another quarter of sky-high profits as the war in Iran pushes up the price of oil — and prices at the pump. n.pr/4itcPA6
Oil company earnings skyrocket — again
Oil companies are reporting another quarter of sky-high profits as the war in Iran pushes up the price of oil — and prices at the pump.
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New: Tarrant County, a vast urban Republican county, is the front line in the high stakes Texas Senate race. One strategist working to elect James Talarico said Dems need to win it by 3 to 5 points if he’s really on a path to victory statewide. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
‘There goes Texas’: The swing county that could determine the state’s next senator
Fort Worth’s Tarrant County, the biggest county President Donald Trump carried in 2024, exemplifies some of the trends that have made Texas a battleground this year.
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NEW: Could Trump be the Republican president to lose Texas? Republicans say there's an irony that the man who twice won the state by double digits has put their party in a vulnerable position by backing the scandal-ridden Paxton. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Could Trump be the Republican president to lose Texas?
After winning the state by double digits in the last two presidential races, some Texas Republicans now see Trump as a liability.
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New ad in Texas Senate race features a string of Republicans -a senator, a congressman, a speaker of the state House, 1st AG and impeachment prosecutor- calling Ken Paxton "unethical" "immoral" "unfit for office" and "corrupt." Paid for by Lone Star Rising PAC. www.youtube.com/watch?app=de...
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New: Texas Senate candidates James Talarico changed his event venue tomorrow in Lubbock due to high interest. "James is honored by the excitement the people of Lubbock have shown towards his campaign ..."
Me: "Even if it was unpopular, are you saying the Democratic Party should not speak out against the president sending migrants who have committed no crimes to be tortured in a foreign gulag?" @mattyglesias.bsky.social: "Yeah." Me: "Just stay silent?" Yglesias: "...You gotta win first."
The U.S. is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections on.wsj.com/3WIr5O8
The U.S. is expected to remove 50% tariffs on some Canadian products in a bid to help Maine Sen. Susan Collins and other Republicans in the upcoming midterm elections
The move, which could come as soon as Friday, would remove tariffs on some agricultural and forestry goods but could raise levies on other products.
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The U.S. Army paid General Dynamics millions for a factory that kept churning out botched artillery shells. A former Army official called it an “absolute disaster” and said the Army “should’ve gone after recovering money from General Dynamics.” (Published August)
Fiasco in the Factory: Taxpayers Funded a $533 Million Artillery Plant That Made Nothing
General Dynamics opened a Texas factory to churn out artillery shells for Ukraine, but the machines kept breaking. Robot arms smashed into things. Hunks of metal crashed to the floor. There was even a...
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The president of Brazil has won a court case against Meta, after accusing them of restricting his posts and algorithmically favoring his opponent, Flavio Bolsonaro www.nbcnews.com/world/south-...
Brazil’s Lula wins electoral court challenge against Meta for alleged pro-Bolsonaro algorithm bias
A judge ruled that the tech company must adopt measures to immediately secure equal treatment of the two presidential candidates ahead of an Oct. 25 runoff.
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NEW: Rogers runs a very different campaign than AES. Fewer big events. Fewer interviews. Lower prof on social He joked his wife would leave if he posted TikToks like Abdul's Republicans say he's hitting his marks but want more "volume" w/ @henryjgomez.bsky.social www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Mike Rogers bets he can outflank Abdul El-Sayed with a low-key campaign in Michigan’s Senate brawl
Rogers, a former Republican congressman who is seeking to flip a Democratic seat against a pugnacious millennial, prefers “small meetings” to El-Sayed’s “big stages.”
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How a conspiracy theory about James Talarico raced through the right-wing internet www.nbcnews.com/tech/interne... by @davidingram.bsky.social @natashakorecki.bsky.social
How a conspiracy theory about James Talarico raced through the right-wing internet
Republicans thought they had political gold after James Talarico disappeared from the campaign trail, citing the flu. They may have miscalculated.
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A sliver of meadow and trees on the edge of Yosemite has become an unlikely battleground over whether development is allowed in national parks. 🔗 on.wsj.com/4rZwQma
New: Texas Democratic Senate candidate James Talarico keeps getting the better of national Republicans. “I wouldn’t even say they had egg on their face — it was more like ‘s----’ on their face,” a national Republican strategist said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Republican attempts to trip up James Talarico keep backfiring
Democrats say the GOP has “Talarico Derangement Syndrome” after mental health rumors were debunked. One Republican said conservatives had far worse than egg on their faces.
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In the waning days of a campaign that could help decide control of the Senate, Texas Republicans remain bitterly at odds. “There’s no doubt on our end that John Cornyn and Karl Rove are working against us,” a Republican working on Paxton’s race said. www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Bad blood spills over in the Texas Senate race — and it’s tearing Republicans apart
Wounds haven’t healed from the contentious primary in which Ken Paxton defeated Sen. John Cornyn, and allies of both say the other side needs to do more to bring the party together.
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This is a really good piece by @natashakorecki.bsky.social at NBC News: "Many Latinos were better versed in the details of Salgado Araujo’s shooting death than in the names and backgrounds of those running for some of the highest-profile offices in their state..." www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
How the shooting death of a Houston father is igniting Latino politics in Texas
Lorenzo Salgado Araujo was shot and killed on his way to work by ICE agents, who said he used his vehicle as a weapon. An outraged community is demanding justice — and change.
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The letters started arriving in June, from a big developer who said he would give $10,000 to every family in town. The township just needed to let NorthPoint Development build its data center, the first of 15 buildings the firm planned on 1,300 acres in the Pocono foothills.
Every Household in This Rural Town Receives $10,000 if a Data Center Gets Built
Many Pennsylvania residents in Hazle Township are pushing back against the data center, despite the lure of the cash payout.
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How an American teacher’s $5,000 donation helped turn a Chinese desert into a lush, green forest www.nbcnews.com/world/china/...
How an American teacher’s $5,000 donation helped turn a Chinese desert into a lush, green forest
Ronald Sakolsky couldn’t believe his eyes when he visited China’s Mu Us Desert for the first time in 26 years. “Seeing it with my own eyes, that was the biggest surprise,” he said.
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SCOOP: Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say, by @zachdespart.bsky.social @kaylaguo.bsky.social and Alexandra Glorioso w/ @texastribune.org
Ken Paxton’s Financial Disclosures Appear to Violate Federal Ethics Law, Experts Say
The Republican U.S. Senate nominee from Texas appears to have omitted rental income and multiple mortgages from his recent financial disclosures, making it difficult for voters to get the full picture...
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Scoop: Dems mount massive effort to counter voter sabotage -New Battlefield Project to deploy tens of thousands of 'democracy protectors' trained to emulate anti-ICE in MN – Dems call for *in-person* voting – also ... Hillary Clinton election integrity table-top www.nbcnews.com/politics/202...
Democrats mobilize an ‘unprecedented’ defense to combat potential election disruption
Tabletop exercises with Hillary Clinton, training for tens of thousands to act as “democracy protectors” and a new push for in-person voting are some of the things underway.
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