2+ day, 15+ hour ago   (1450+ words) Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick thinks Trump’s $5,000 midterm bribe can be paid for with funds from the so-called “Trump Platinum Card,” which hasn’t even been launched yet. Lutnick shared this ridiculous idea with NBC News on Thursday. The Platinum Card is…...

3+ day, 16+ hour ago   (1093+ words) Missouri Secretary of State Denny Hoskins relented on the state’s congressional maps Thursday, ending weeks of election season chaos sparked by a scheme to eke out another Republican seat in the House. “Following the United States Supreme Court’s stay, the…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (53+ words) The New Republic The Supreme Court rejected a brazen plot by Missouri Republican officials to hold the state’s upcoming congressional elections under an illegal map on Thursday morning, ending a week-long jumble of dueling court orders that disrupted the state’s…...

3+ day, 18+ hour ago   (1415+ words) President Trump’s executive order cracking down on mail-in voting is running into resistance in some Republican-led states. Republican election officials in seven states say that there isn’t enough time before the November midterm elections to implement Trump’s order, and have…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1132+ words) The Supreme Court has blocked a federal judge’s decision about Missouri’s voting map, further throwing the state’s election into chaos. The nation’s highest judiciary issued an order in the pending case Thursday, directing the state to rely on the original…...

3+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1072+ words) Even conservatives are skeptical about President Trump’s massive Hail Mary to give everyone $5,000 if Republicans win the midterms. But not even Fox News was buying it. “We should note though, it is not the first time he has promised a…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (13+ words) The New Republic...

5+ day, 23+ hour ago   (1248+ words) The Republican Party’s expensive “Trump-a-palooza” is doling out some of its tickets for free—though the option doesn’t actually guarantee entry. The bizarre affair, which takes place on September 9 and 10 in Dallas, does not have a single point of entry…...

6+ day, 2+ hour ago   (1379+ words) The following is a lightly edited transcript of the September 8 episode of the Daily Blast podcast. Listen to it here. We’re really lucky to be talking about it all with veteran political handicapper Charlie Cook, who has a new piece…...

6+ day, 3+ hour ago   (407+ words) You must be as excited as I am for this week’s GOP midterm convention. I’m being serious—well, kind of. I’m excited because a midterm convention is such a preposterous notion, such a display of desperate, indulgent, Napoleonic vanity, it…...