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The entire premise of the influencer economy is that you are getting somebody's honest opinion. That is the product. Not a press release, not a campaign ad, just a person with a phone telling you what they actually think. Read More.

Senate Majority Leader John Thune warned this week that Republicans could lose control of the Senate in November. Read More.

For a year now, the political press has explained Democratic primaries through a single lens: young challengers versus old incumbents. Generational change. Fresh faces. Time for the boomers to go. Read More.

Constitutional Rights PAC has spent this entire summer arguing that only American citizens should vote in American elections, that voter rolls should be accurate, and that the SAVE America Act deserves a floor vote the Senate refuses to schedule. Read More.

The House returns Monday and will move quickly on a Senate-passed stopgap bill to fund the government at current levels through December 11. It will pass four full weeks before the September 30 deadline, which by congressional standards is roughly the equivalent of arriving at the airport a day early. Read More.

The Washington Post published a story this morning under a headline its own newsroom must have winced at: Congress could get a lot whiter with Democratic redistricting. Read More.

Republican voters have spent three weeks being told that September is when the Senate gets serious about the SAVE America Act. Leadership went home in August without passing it. The explanation offered was that the votes were not there and that the fight would resume when senators returned. Read More.

Darline Graham won South Carolina's Senate runoff Tuesday by about five points, turning back Congressman Ralph Norman with President Trump's endorsement and more than $800,000 from MAGA Inc. behind her. Read More.

South Carolina votes today, and conservatives across the country should be paying attention to a runoff most of the national press has filed under human interest. Read More.

The grassroots revolt over the SAVE America Act has now reached Senate leadership, and Majority Whip John Barrasso's answer this week is a good illustration of why it is not subsiding. Read More.

Every cycle produces a moment when the people who track these races professionally start saying the same thing at the same time. That moment arrived this week, and conservatives who care about holding the Senate need to read the numbers rather than the commentary. Read More.

David Morens, who spent sixteen years inside the Office of the Director at the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, pleaded guilty Tuesday to conspiracy to commit offenses against and defraud the United States. He is 78 years old and faces up to five years in federal prison. Read More.

Florida votes today. Polls opened at 7 a.m. and close at 7 p.m. local time, which means the panhandle finishes an hour behind the rest of the state and the full picture will not be clear until after 8 p.m. Eastern. Here is what actually matters, and it is not only the name at the top of the ballot. Read More.

Abdul El-Sayed, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Michigan, went on a friendly livestream over the weekend and told President Trump to come at him. He predicted that Trump's attacks would turn him into the "main character of the midterms," and said he was entirely comfortable with that. Read More.

Massachusetts signed a new abortion law on Monday, and the press has settled into the usual choreography. Governor Maura Healey talks about protecting women. Critics get labeled extremists. Everybody agrees the details are too complicated for regular people to worry their heads about. Read More.