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  Corruption rises near the top of voter concerns – a rare midterm twist https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/1030/corruption-midterm-voter-issues "The midterm elections of 2026 are all about affordability – the cost of groceries, gas, healthcare, housing. Or at least that’s been the dominant narrative in the most competitive states and districts, as control of Congress and many statehouses hangs in the balance. But in the home stretch to next Tuesday, another issue is breaking t...

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  Young men have soured on Trump and the GOP. But will they vote on Tuesday? https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2026/1029/young-men-voters-trump-gop "In 2024, unhappy with the high cost of living under the Biden administration, Steven Fitzgerald cast his ballot for Donald Trump. Now, the Generation Z real estate investor from western Maryland says he regrets it. 'The focus of the administration...was supposed to be on making the economy better, houses more affordable...I don...

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  The Trump Administration Is Spying on Americans at a Scale Not Seen Since the 1960s https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a74282488/trump-administration-spies-ice-dhs-surveillance/ "Among the records revealed during the discovery process in these cases are dozens of reports, audio transcripts, emails, intercepted Signal chats, photographs, database queries, and more. They reveal the inner workings of the domestic terrorism investigations...authorized by the controversial Natio...

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  Trump Is Still Finding Vile Ways to Screw Vulnerable Americans Out of What They’re Owed https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a74262623/trump-pardons-restitution-victims/ "I confess I had no idea that presidential commutations and pardons wiped out all the assigned restitution payments to the victims of those pardoned by the president. A president who, by all accounts, is running a pardon mill as though he were an Appalachian druggist dealing out oxy by the fistful."...

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  A Disturbing New Report Reveals the Extent of Trump and Epstein’s Twisted Relationship https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a74275811/trump-epstein-report/ "On Monday, the Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee released a report that, by all rights, should have fitted this president, his administration, and its congressional enablers for a shroud. It presented evidence that the president of the United States, in partnership with the sex criminal Jeffrey Epstein, allegedly...

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  The staggering $446m Elon Musk has spent on the US midterms – visualized https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/oct/31/elon-musk-midterms-spending-visualized "Musk, the world’s richest person, has funnelled at least $445.77m into Republican-aligned political action committees (Pacs) and groups since last year, according to US Federal Election Commission data as of 29 October. The contributions have made him the Republicans’ most prominent financial backer and the large...

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  Trump boosted half of US coal plants with taxpayer dollars and ‘free passes to pollute’, report says https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/oct/31/trump-coal-plants-taxpayer-dollars "The Trump administration has given support to almost half of the nation’s coal plants, helping them to continue operating despite economic and regulatory headwinds, according to a new analysis by the Environmental Defense Fund. The analysis...found that 90 [nearly half] received support from the Trump a...

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  Billionaires or Democracy https://www.thenation.com/article/politics/california-proposition-40-billionaire-wealth-tax/ "In a democracy, there is a simple principle: Voters decide, not the people with the most money. Today, that principle is under extraordinary strain. The 170 biggest-spending billionaire families have already contributed a record-breaking $1.7 billion to the 2026 midterm elections. Elon Musk, now the world’s first trillionaire, has spent more than $480 million to bend...

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  Trump Has Tried to Exert More Control Over Elections. Here Are the Key Findings From Our Reporting. https://www.propublica.org/article/midterm-election-propublica-reporting-findings "...Trump has systematically demolished institutional guardrails that prevented him from overturning the 2020 presidential election, ProPublica’s reporting has shown. Trump has empowered his loyalists to try to transform the voting process. He launched an unprecedented — and largely unsuccessful — effort t...

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  Jared Kushner Is the Worst Thing to Ever Happen to This Country, Maybe the World https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a74263816/jared-kushner-scandal-middle-eastern-oil-money/ "During their search through these secret files, the Dutch found something astonishing: screenshots of Jared Kushner’s iPhone. As they monitored Kushner’s phone, they discovered he used it to log in to a UAE bank account. By the time the Dutch spies had visibility into the phone, the account had received h...

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  Trump aims to leave a physical legacy in D.C., bulldozing norms along the way https://www.npr.org/2026/09/28/nx-s1-5930441/trump-construction-projects-legacy "Trump tore down the East Wing of the White House to build an even bigger ballroom (and military complex underneath). He built a helipad on the South Lawn after separately paving over the Rose Garden. He had the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool repaved...a project that was supposed to take two weeks but is still unfinished many months...