Minnesota Governor Tim Walz announced his bid for reelection on Tuesday.
Walz released the first ad of his reelection campaign alongside his announcement posted to social media. The two-term governor apparently wants to stay in St. Paul after he and former Vice President Kamala Harris were soundly defeated in Harris’ 2024 presidential campaign.
The ad does not mention President Donald Trump by name, but Walz alludes to his one-time opponent.
“I&#8217;ve always tried to do what&#8217;s right for Minnesota, and I&#8217;ll never stop fighting to protect us from the chaos, corruption, and cruelty coming out of Washington,” Walz says, repeating a strategy echoed across many Democratic campaigns of lawmakers who chose to run against Trump, though his name may not even appear on another ballot.
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I’m running for reelection to continue serving as Governor of Minnesota.
We’ve made historic progress in our state, but we’re not done yet. I’m staying in the fight — and I need you with me. <a href="https://t.co/NsVCXfq4M2">pic.twitter.com/NsVCXfq4M2</a>
— Tim Walz (@Tim_Walz) <a href="https://twitter.com/Tim_Walz/status/1967936393747063151?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 16, 2025</a></blockquote>
Walz counted among his successes “paid family leave,” “the child tax credit,” and raising “graduation rates to the highest ever.”
Harris tapped Walz as her running mate after she replaced former president Joe Biden at the top of the ticket. Biden bowed out of the race under pressure from Democratic donors after he appeared mentally impaired during a debate with Trump. Despite the numerous defenses made by Biden allies discounting the former president’s age and mental flubs, Biden appeared confused, lost, and, at times, incoherent on stage with Trump.
During the campaign, Walz was <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/11/us/tim-walz-china.html">scrutinized</a> over his cozy relationship with China, one of the United States’ foremost geopolitical opponents. Walz has said he has visited China over 30 times. He traveled to the country numerous times in the 90s and early 2000s on school trips where he introduced dozens of students to Chinese history and culture. Walz also said he honeymooned in the Communist-run state.
Walz has served as Minnesota’s governor since 2018 and presided over the state during the riots following George Floyd’s death in 2020. The riots, which swept the nation, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/riots-looting-that-followed-george-floyds-death-could-cost-2-billion-most-expensive-incident-in-insurance-history">caused</a> billions of dollars in damage and were particularly severe in the Twin Cities area. Minneapolis alone suffered hundreds of millions of dollars in damage.
During the riots, the governor did not activate Minnesota’s National Guard until three days into massive riots that overwhelmed Minneapolis police and resulted in the torching of one police station. When the National Guard was activated, its remit was mostly the protection of federal property and did not extend to stopping riots.
Walz later <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy9e4008252o">defended</a> his record on the riots by saying “we tried to do the best we can.”
The Minnesota governor earlier this month appeared to joke about Trump’s death, riling Republicans.
“Look I get it, you get up in the morning and you doom scroll through things, although I will say this, the last few days you woke up thinking there might be news,” Walz said at a Labor Day picnic, appearing to reference online rumors that Trump had died after the president had avoided the public eye for a couple days.
“Just saying, just saying, there will be news sometime, just so you know, there will be news,” Walz said.
Walz’s wistful remarks earned rebukes from Republicans who said that Walz was mocking Trump’s health and wishing for the death of the president.

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In a move that underscores the growing arrogance of the Democratic Party’s far-left flank, New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani refused to endorse sitting New York Gov. Kathy Hochul for re-election just one day after she publicly backed his candidacy — a gesture that cost her political capital among moderates and independents.
After weeks of hesitation, Hochul, the embattled Democrat, finally bent the knee and endorsed Mamdani over the weekend. She published an <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/14/opinion/hochul-endorsement-mamdani.html">op-ed</a> in The New York Times, making the case that unity against Donald Trump was more important than her ideological rift with Mamdani — a radical democratic socialist who backs higher taxes, defunding the police, and “reimagining” capitalism.
But Mamdani, true to form, wasted no time revealing just how transactional the endorsement would be. Speaking to reporters on Monday, he <a href="https://www.nydailynews.com/2025/09/15/mamdani-declines-to-immediately-back-hochuls-reelection-after-she-offers-him-coveted-endorsement/">casually brushed aside</a> the idea of returning the favor. “My focus is on November,” Mamdani said, refusing to endorse Hochul’s 2026 re-election bid. He offered perfunctory gratitude for her support — then pivoted back to his talking points.
The message was clear: Mamdani is happy to accept Hochul’s help, but he has no intention of helping her fend off what could be a brutal primary challenge from her own left flank — or a general election fight against Republican Congresswoman Elise Stefanik, who’s already blasting Hochul for supporting “a raging antisemite communist.”
Hochul didn’t simply endorse Mamdani out of genuine alignment. She did it as a calculated gamble — to shore up support among progressives ahead of a likely challenge from Lt. Gov. Antonio Delgado and to boost turnout in NYC. And yet, Mamdani couldn’t even offer her the bare minimum in return.
This one-sided “alliance” is exposing the very rift that is tearing the Democratic Party apart. Hochul admitted in her own op-ed that she and Mamdani were “unlikely allies” and that they “don’t see eye to eye.” She explicitly distanced herself from his most extreme proposals — including hiking taxes on the wealthy and gutting the NYPD — while also noting concerns over antisemitism.
Meanwhile, other prominent New York Democrats like Sen. Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries have still refused to endorse Mamdani at all.
Stefanik wasted no time capitalizing on Hochul’s endorsement, <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/stefanik-rips-hochul-for-backing-raging-antisemite-communist-zohran-mamdani?author=Hank+Berrien&amp;category=News&amp;elementPosition=1&amp;row=0&amp;rowType=Vertical+List&amp;title=Stefanik+Rips+Hochul+For+Backing+%E2%80%98Raging+Antisemite+Communist%E2%80%99+Zohran+Mamdani">torching</a> the governor for “putting jet fuel on commie Mamdani” and vowing to save New York from the radicalism she said is destroying the state.
Hochul handed Mamdani a lifeline in the name of party unity. In return, he handed her political disrespect and strategic silence.
It’s the perfect encapsulation of today’s Democratic Party: “moderates” grovel to radicals as the radicals grind them down.

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Missouri Republicans sent a new congressional district map to the desk of Governor Mike Kehoe on Friday.
The map is expected to create one more Republican-favored congressional district in the deep red state. The Senate passed the map 21-11 on Friday after the House passed the same map earlier in the week. President Donald Trump praised Missouri lawmakers for passing the map.
“Thank you very much to the Great State of Missouri for the redistricting, which will, hopefully, give us an additional Seat in Congress! A new, much fairer, and much improved, Congressional Map, has now overwhelmingly passed both Chambers of the Missouri Legislature,” Trump posted on Truth Social.
Trump added that the map “will help send an additional MAGA Republican to Congress in the 2026 Midterm Elections. It is wonderful to see Republicans in the &#8216;Show Me State&#8217; standing up to Save our Country, and, MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN.”
The map is expected to yield a 7-1 congressional seat advantage for Republicans as opposed to the current 6-2 map.
Senator Nick Schroer, a Republican and member of the state’s conservative Freedom Caucus, told The Daily Wire that Republicans previously created a special carve-out district for Kansas City area Democrat Rep. Emanuel Cleaver last time the maps were passed. The new maps will not split St. Charles County or Warren County like the current map does.
“So by way of keeping these counties back together, creating a map that is compact and contiguous, in essence, it&#8217;s making that seat more competitive,” Schroer told The Daily Wire.
While Democrats accused Trump of meddling in the state’s politics, Republican lawmakers praised him for his advocacy for new maps in the state.
“To that point, this has been absolutely refreshing to have a president that is so involved and communicates so well to state legislatures,” Rep. Holly Jones told The Daily Wire. “That has been amazing that the administration wants to work with us so closely.”
That sentiment was echoed by Rep. Justin Sparks.
“Having a presidential administration recognize that in order to get his mandate and his agenda passed that he has to work with the state legislatures to get that accomplished has been refreshing and very effective, and we&#8217;ve been very happy to help,” Sparks told The Daily Wire.
Texas passed new maps earlier this year that are expected to create five more Republican-favored seats.

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Two weeks after the brutal murder of 27-year-old Iryna Zarutska, former North Carolina Democratic Governor Roy Cooper finally broke his silence — only to face a firestorm of backlash for turning the tragedy into a political flex.
Rather than expressing straightforward sympathy or addressing public concerns, Cooper, who is running for U.S. Senate and would likely face Republican front-runner Michael Whatley in the general election, issued a campaign-style statement that many called self-serving and deflective. He wrote, “The murder of Iryna Zarutska is a horrible tragedy … I&#8217;ve been Attorney General and Governor, dedicating my career to putting violent criminals behind bars and keeping them there … It’s time Michael Whatley and the GOP get serious in Washington about funding our law enforcement, and that’s what I’ll do as Senator.”
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The murder of Iryna Zarutska is a horrible tragedy and we must do everything we can to keep people safe.
Only a cynical DC insider would think it&#8217;s acceptable to use her death for political points, especially one who supported cutting funding to law enforcement in NC.
— Roy Cooper (@RoyCooperNC) <a href="https://twitter.com/RoyCooperNC/status/1965546035515981935?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Critics didn’t hold back. Instead of offering accountability or solutions, Cooper used Zarutska’s death as a springboard for Senate campaign talking points, drawing condemnation from across the political spectrum.
“This man waited TWO WEEKS to comment on the brutal murder of Iryna Zarutska and then used it to launch an attack ad for his Senate run,” wrote conservative commentator Will Chamberlain.
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Both Roy Cooper and Josh Stein are implicitly blaming Iryna Zarutska’s death on a lack of police funding &#8211; when police arrested the perp 14 times.
They will not take responsibility for their misguided reforms that let psychotic murderers run wild.
Their careers need to end. <a href="https://t.co/Uqw3NLWuYs">pic.twitter.com/Uqw3NLWuYs</a>
— Will Chamberlain (@willchamberlain) <a href="https://twitter.com/willchamberlain/status/1965561751115890881?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 9, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The most devastating takedown came from citizens and analysts who connected Cooper’s soft-on-crime policies to the environment that enabled Zarutska’s killer, who had a long history of violent behavior and had been repeatedly released without bail.
One viral post highlighted Cooper’s 2020 creation of the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC), which implemented 125 “reform” recommendations, including reducing the use of cash bail, downgrading certain criminal offenses to infractions, and expanding “restorative justice” alternatives.
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Hello Governor Cooper,
It is neither cynical nor partisan to ask how your decisions contributed to the environment in which this happened.
In June 2020, you created the Task Force for Racial Equity in Criminal Justice (TREC) through Executive Order 145. That task force issued… <a href="https://t.co/49OdFZS3s4">pic.twitter.com/49OdFZS3s4</a>
— DataRepublican (small r) (@DataRepublican) <a href="https://twitter.com/DataRepublican/status/1965589477956727087?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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Under Cooper’s leadership, critics say, the justice system shifted from deterrence to leniency, and repeat violent offenders benefited. The suspect in Zarutska’s murder was reportedly released multiple times, despite clear red flags.
“You argue that critics ‘supported cutting funding to law enforcement,’” the post continued. “But these facts show under your leadership, the state itself redirected focus from deterrence and incapacitation toward leniency and diversion. Magistrates, operating within that climate, released Brown without bail even after multiple dangerous encounters. That’s downstream of leadership which prizes symbolic equity reforms over public safety … starting with you.”
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The deepest pit in hell is where you belong
Not just because you were attorney general letting this animal run amok
Not just because you were governor letting this animal run amok
But to try to lie and play dumb running for Senate when blood is on your hands you sick monster <a href="https://t.co/bkPaYoKtXp">https://t.co/bkPaYoKtXp</a>
— Comfortably Smug (@ComfortablySmug) <a href="https://twitter.com/ComfortablySmug/status/1965607819253866839?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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The man partly responsible for Iryna Zarutska&#8217;s killing, former NC Democratic Gov. (and Senate candidate) Roy Cooper, waits 18 DAYS before commenting.
He is a national embarrassment. <a href="https://twitter.com/hashtag/ncpol?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">#ncpol</a> <a href="https://t.co/HP0PTQRTus">https://t.co/HP0PTQRTus</a>
— Sloan Rachmuth (@SloanRachmuth) <a href="https://twitter.com/SloanRachmuth/status/1965597628189843818?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 10, 2025</a></blockquote>
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‘Sick Monster’: North Carolina Dem Slammed For Tone-Deaf Statement On Brutal Murder Of Iryna Zarutska

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In her new book about her failed 2024 campaign, former Vice President Kamala Harris blasts former President Joe Biden, claiming his re-election bid was driven by ego and that his team actively sought to undermine her in the White House.
The Atlantic on Wednesday <a href="https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2025/09/kamala-harris-107-days-excerpt/684150/">published</a> portions of Harris’s new memoir, “107 Days,” in which she attacks Biden and his team as she discusses her campaign against Donald Trump. 
According to Harris, whenever the prospect of Biden running again was raised, the standard response inside the White House was, “It’s Joe and Jill’s decision.”
“We all said that, like a mantra, as if we’d all been hypnotized. Was it grace, or was it recklessness? In retrospect, I think it was recklessness,” she wrote. “The stakes were simply too high. This wasn’t a choice that should have been left to an individual’s ego, an individual’s ambition. It should have been more than a personal decision.”
Harris said that she couldn’t push Biden to step aside earlier, insisting it would have been seen as a &#8220;self-serving&#8221; move.
“And of all the people in the White House, I was in the worst position to make the case that he should drop out. I knew it would come off to him as incredibly self-serving if I advised him not to run. He would see it as naked ambition, perhaps as poisonous disloyalty, even if my only message was: Don’t let the other guy win,” she wrote. 
Harris denied that there was “some big conspiracy” to hide Biden’s “infirmity,” and claimed that he was “able to discharge the duties of president.” 
“I don’t believe it was incapacity. If I believed that, I would have said so. As loyal as I am to President Biden, I am more loyal to my country,” she said. 
In the excerpts, Harris also claimed Biden’s team repeatedly threw her under the bus for political purposes. She said that when she came under fire from conservative media, “the White House rarely pushed back with my actual résumé.”
“They had a huge comms team; they had Karine Jean-Pierre briefing in the pressroom every day. But getting anything positive said about my work or any defense against untrue attacks was almost impossible,” she wrote. “Worse, I often learned that the president’s staff was adding fuel to negative narratives that sprang up around me.”
She said it seemed like Biden’s team “seemed as if they decided I should be knocked down a little bit more.” Harris was particularly upset that Biden didn’t do more to defend her after he designated her border czar, a title she claimed was mischaracterized by conservative media. 
Harris argued that elevating her profile could have improved Biden’s image with voters.
“Their thinking was zero-sum: If she’s shining, he’s dimmed. None of them grasped that if I did well, he did well. That given the concerns about his age, my visible success as his vice president was vital,” she wrote. 
Harris’s book is set to be released on September 23.

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Kamala Turns On Biden In First Excerpt From New Memoir: ‘It Was Recklessness’

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President Donald Trump said that tech tycoon and once-close ally Elon Musk doesn’t have a choice but to align with Republicans against the political Left.
Trump made the prediction on &#8220;The Scott Jennings Show&#8221; in an interview aired on Wednesday. The president said that Musk made a mistake in attacking the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; but that he would be welcomed back when he “works out” some problems.
“I don&#8217;t think he has a choice. So, what&#8217;s he gonna do? He&#8217;s going to go with the radical Left lunatics? You know, they&#8217;re lunatics. I don&#8217;t think he has a choice,” said Trump.
“He&#8217;s a man of common sense. He&#8217;s a good man. He got off the reservation incorrectly, and that&#8217;s okay because, you know, it&#8217;s just one of those things. But he&#8217;s a good person,” the president continued. “He&#8217;s got, you know, 80% super genius, and then 20% he&#8217;s got some problems. And when he works out the 20%, he&#8217;ll be great.”
Trump said that Musk regrets his split from the White House and the center of the Republican Party.
“He&#8217;s got some difficulty, but I liked him. I always liked him. I like him now, but he went off the reservation, and he wished he didn&#8217;t do it,” said Trump.
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President <a href="https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@realDonaldTrump</a> reveals where things stand personally with <a href="https://twitter.com/elonmusk?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">@elonmusk</a>&#8230;
These are two brilliant men and great Americans. I, like millions of others, really would love to see them get the band back together soon 👇 <a href="https://t.co/pywib1gJo0">pic.twitter.com/pywib1gJo0</a>
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) <a href="https://twitter.com/ScottJenningsKY/status/1963347028198781416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw">September 3, 2025</a></blockquote>
Musk broke with Trump over the &#8220;One Big, Beautiful Bill,&#8221; criticizing the president’s landmark piece of legislation as a bloated bill with far too much spending. The tech tycoon then <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/elon-musk-officially-announces-new-political-party-after-fallout-with-trump">pledged</a> to launch his own political party, the America Party.
“By a factor of 2 to 1, you want a new political party and you shall have it!” Musk said on X in July, referring to a poll he ran on his social media platform.
“When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste &amp; graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy,” he continued. “Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom.”
Musk has reportedly put his plans for a new party on hold. The billionaire is hesitant to move forward with a new political party due to the rifts it would create between him and top figures in the GOP. One of those figures is Vice President JD Vance, whom Musk is reportedly <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-hits-pause-on-new-party-launch-while-he-weighs-backing-vance-in-2028">considering</a> backing in 2028.
Last month, Vance <a href="https://www.dailywire.com/news/musk-hits-pause-on-new-party-launch-while-he-weighs-backing-vance-in-2028">offered</a> similar comments to Trump about Musk, stating that Musk was instrumental in the president&#8217;s 2024 election victory.
“He did help us a lot in the election. And the president even says, with all his frustration, Elon was a very, very critical part of the team last election, and so my hope is by the midterms things are kind of back to normal,” Vance said.

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Even as the momentum to protect American elections from foreign influence continues to move forward in 2025, more action is needed, an election integrity watchdog warned in a Wednesday report first shared with The Daily Wire. 
The <a href="https://honestelections.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/HEP-Securing-the-Vote-2025.pdf">report</a> from the Honest Elections Project documents how eight states have moved in the last year to close a loophole that allows foreign nationals to fund state-level ballot measure campaigns. These campaigns can range from battles over abortion and marijuana to proposals governing how elections are conducted. 
“Foreign nationals are prohibited from funding candidate campaigns and PACs, but most states lack similar protections for ballot measure campaigns,” the report says. “As a result, foreign nationals and foreign-funded entities are free to fund and influence campaigns that change state constitutions or even rewrite the rules of the very elections that foreigners are forbidden to influence.”
States that moved to ban foreign funding for ballot initiatives included Arkansas, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Tennessee, and Wyoming.
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Efforts to ban foreign funding have failed in some conservative states like Texas, where Democrats used a procedural move to hold up the proposal. The report was critical of a bill in Montana on foreign spending, arguing that it had no legislative teeth. 
“Despite these setbacks, states across the country made extraordinary progress towards closing the foreign funding loophole in 2025—most on a bipartisan basis,” the report said. “That bipartisanship only goes so far, however: few of the measures that ultimately passed had Democratic co-sponsors, and none were advanced in Democrat-controlled legislatures.”
The reports point to the influence of Hansjörg Wyss, a leftist Swiss billionaire, who has <a href="https://americansforpublictrust.org/wp-content/uploads/2025/03/Sixteen-Thirty-Fund-Spending-on-Ballot-Issue-Campaigns.pdf">reportedly</a> donated over $280 million to the leftist Sixteen Thirty Fund. The Sixteen Thirty Fund has, in turn, spent around $130 million on state and local ballot initiatives since 2014. 
According to Americans for Public Trust, the funding from the Sixteen Thirty Fund for ballot initiatives included about $33.5 million in Michigan, $20.7 million in Ohio, $17 million in Florida, $13 million in Missouri, and $10.9 million in Colorado. 
Honest Elections Project argued that the spending in Michigan “drove ballot measures on redistricting and election rules that fundamentally reshaped the democratic process for partisan advantage.” 
When asked about the increase in states looking to ban foreign spending on elections, a spokesman for Sixteen Thirty Fund said it backed the DISCLOSE Act, legislation backed by Democrat Senator Sheldon Whitehouse that would expand &#8220;the prohibition on campaign spending by foreign nationals,&#8221; according to the Congressional Research Service. 
&#8220;Sixteen Thirty Fund is compliant with all applicable laws and regulations, including those governing state and local ballot elections,&#8221; the spokesman said. &#8220;Our organization has publicly advocated for the passing of the DISCLOSE Act, which would increase campaign finance transparency and accountability.&#8221;
In response to this funding, the report called for lawmakers in Michigan, Florida, and other states to take action. 
The ballot initiative loophole makes American elections vulnerable to the influence of foreign nationals from countries like China, Russia, and Iran, the report said. 
Leftist lawyer Marc Elias lost a case over the summer attempting to block the enactment of the law blocking foreign funding of ballot campaigns in Kansas. He previously lost a similar lawsuit in Ohio. 
The report also highlighted the passage of laws in several states banning ranked-choice voting, a system where ballots are counted in rounds and the person who starts with the most votes doesn’t necessarily win based on how other voters rank them. 
Ranked choice voting “replaces the principle of ‘one person, one vote’ with a complicated process in which voters rank numerous candidates in each race and winners are computed by eliminating poor-performing candidates, redistributing votes, and eliminating exhausted ballots,” the report said. 
In 2025, Arkansas, West Virginia, Iowa, Kansas, North Dakota, and Wyoming all banned ranked choice voting. The previous year, ballot efforts to introduce ranked choice voting failed in Montana, Idaho, Oregon, Nevada, and Colorado. 
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The Honest Elections Project called for Georgia, Indiana, North Carolina, Ohio, and Texas to all take steps to proactively ban ranked choice voting. 
“In 2025, states across the country took extraordinary steps to ban the foreign funding of ballot issue campaigns and ranked-choice voting, two of the biggest threats to election integrity and voter confidence facing the nation, and they did so in record numbers,” Jason Snead, Executive Director of the Honest Elections Project, told The Daily Wire. “While there is still much work to be done in 2026 and beyond, this was a banner year for election integrity.”

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President Donald Trump said Saturday that he will sign an executive order mandating voter I.D. for “Every Single Vote.”
Trump posted to Truth Social on Saturday evening that his executive order on voter I.D. would have “NO EXCEPTIONS!” He added that he would also take action to stop most voting by mail.
“Voter I.D. Must Be Part of Every Single Vote. NO EXCEPTIONS! I Will Be Doing An Executive Order To That End!!! Also, No Mail-In Voting, Except For Those That Are Very Ill, And The Far Away Military. USE PAPER BALLOTS ONLY!!!” the president <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115120863399877029">posted</a>.
Thirty-six states currently <a href="https://ballotpedia.org/Voter_identification_laws_by_state">require</a> some form of identification to be presented when voting, although the specific requirements vary by state. Of those 36, 25 require a photo ID, while the other 11 do not specifically require photo identification. The remaining 14 states – which include deep-blue states such as California, Illinois, and New York – do not require identification to vote on Election Day.
Trump earlier this month <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115049485680941254">agitated</a> against mail-in voting, promising to “lead a movement” to ban it. He also railed against “Highly ‘Inaccurate,’ Very Expensive, and Seriously Controversial VOTING MACHINES” in an August 18 post on his social media site, Truth.
“We are now the only Country in the World that uses Mail-In Voting. All others gave it up because of the MASSIVE VOTER FRAUD ENCOUNTERED,” he wrote at the time. “WE WILL BEGIN THIS EFFORT, WHICH WILL BE STRONGLY OPPOSED BY THE DEMOCRATS BECAUSE THEY CHEAT AT LEVELS NEVER SEEN BEFORE, by signing an EXECUTIVE ORDER to help bring HONESTY to the 2026 Midterm Elections.”
The president said that Democrats are “virtually Unelectable” without mail-in voting.
“ELECTIONS CAN NEVER BE HONEST WITH MAIL IN BALLOTS/VOTING, and everybody, IN PARTICULAR THE DEMOCRATS, KNOWS THIS,” he wrote.
In the 2024 election, roughly 30% of votes were cast by mail, according to the U.S. Election Assistance Commission. Most votes were cast in person, either during early voting or on the day of the election.
“The majority of voters in the 2024 general election cast their ballots in person, with 35.2% voting in person before Election Day and 37.4% voting in person on Election Day,” the commission wrote in a <a href="https://www.eac.gov/sites/default/files/2025-07/2024_EAVS_Report_508.pdf">report</a> on the 2024 election. “Mail voting comprised 30.3% of the turnout for the 2024 election, which is down from the high water mark for mail voting seen in 2020 (43%) but still larger than the percentage of the electorate that voted by mail in pre-pandemic elections.”

Donald Trump Promises To Sign Order Mandating Voter I.D.: ‘NO EXCEPTIONS!’

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(Reuters) -Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Friday signed into law a bill to redraw the state&#8217;s congressional maps at the behest of President Donald Trump in an effort to flip five U.S. House seats held by Democrats to Republicans.
The ratification came after the state&#8217;s legislature passed the measure last week amid a nationwide redistricting battle.
&#8220;Texas is now more red in the United States Congress,&#8221; Abbott said in a video post on social media, after signing the bill with a marker.
Republicans have acknowledged they believe winning more congressional seats in Texas will help the party maintain its slim majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in next year&#8217;s midterm elections. More states controlled by Republicans are considering similar action.
California and other states where Democrats hold power vow to counter such moves. The California legislature approved a redistricting plan last week aimed at giving Democrats five more congressional seats.
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The California plan must be approved by voters in November. The Texas plan does not need voter approval, but it has been challenged in court.
The Texas bill was delayed for two weeks after more than 50 Democratic state House members staged a walkout that denied Republicans the legislative quorum needed.
Democrats argued that the new Texas map violates federal law by diluting Hispanic and Black voting power and discriminating on the basis of race.
Texas Republicans who sponsored the bill said they redrew maps based on voting history, not race.
Most Americans believe redrawing congressional lines for the sake of maximizing political gain, known as gerrymandering, is bad for democracy, a Reuters/Ipsos poll found this week.
(Reporting By Andrew Hay; editing by Diane Craft)

U.S. HHS Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. holds a press conference with Texas Governor Abbott, in Austin

Texas Governor Greg Abbott Signs Law To Secure New Congressional Maps

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Former three-time All-Star first-baseman Mark Teixeira, one of the most powerful switch-hitters in MLB history who played 14 years in Major League Baseball with the Texas Rangers, Atlanta Braves, Los Angeles Angels, and the New York Yankees while amassing a whopping 409 home runs, announced he would run for the GOP seat vacated in Texas’ 21st Congressional District by Rep. Chip Roy.
Roy announced on August 21 he would run for attorney general of Texas.
“Big news: I’m ready to go!” Teixeira wrote on X. “As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great. It takes teamwork to win – I’m ready to help defend President Trump’s America First agenda, Texas families, and individual liberty.”
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Big news: I’m ready to go! 
As a lifelong conservative who loves this country, I’m running for Congress to fight for the principles that make Texas and America great. 
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Teixeira was twice a finalist for the Roberto Clemente Award, presented annually by Major League Baseball to a player who best embodies the game of baseball through extraordinary character, community involvement, and philanthropy on and off the field. He has served on the board of directors of DREAM, which uses sports and academic programs to help inner-city youth recognize their potential.
Teixeira has worked with the Texas Public Policy Foundation, a conservative-leaning think tank that has pushed for school vouchers, property tax caps, restrictions on state contracts with ESG-compliant businesses, and prison reforms. The organization has been <a href="https://www.expressnews.com/politics/article/texas-public-policy-foundation-20054168.php?utm_source=chatgpt.com">described</a> as the “most influential conservative think tank in the state.”
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“I am a Christian conservative, God-loving man who understood where the Northeast was going and didn’t want to raise teenagers there,” Teixeira, who moved from Grenich, Connecticut, back to Texas, said in an interview. “I loved our community in Grenich, Connecticut, great place for young kids; I wouldn’t want my kids to be teenagers, to be in high school and be in college in that area. The values that we teach at home were not being taught there, so coming back here, and having the no state income tax as a bonus. But it really was more about raising my family in a place where you can go to church and be proud of it. You can vote Republican and be proud of it. You can have conservative values and be proud of hanging a flag in your front yard or supporting police officers, supporting the military.”
“And that’s what we’ve got here, and it’s great to be back in Texas,” he concluded.
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Texas Rangers v New York Yankees

Former Yankee And 3-Time MLB All-Star Running For Chip Roy’s Texas Seat

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President Donald Trump on Thursday called for the Republican Party to hold a national convention before the 2026 midterms, breaking with the traditional practice of waiting until the presidential election year.
Writing on <a href="https://truthsocial.com/@realDonaldTrump/posts/115106822268468130">Truth Social</a>, Trump stated:
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The Republican Party is doing really well. Millions of people have joined us in our quest to MAKE AMERICA, GREAT AGAIN. We won every aspect of the Presidential Election and, based on the great success we are having, are poised to WIN BIG IN THE MIDTERMS. We have raised far more money than the Democrats, and are having a great time fixing all of the Country Destroying mistakes made by the Biden Administration, and watching the USA heal and prosper. The results are incredible, a record pace!!! In that light, I am thinking of recommending a National Convention to the Republican Party, just prior to the Midterms. It has never been done before. STAY TUNED!!! DONALD J. TRUMP, PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
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Interestingly, the first national political convention in the United States was held in 1831 by the Anti-Masonic Party in Baltimore, Maryland. One year later, the Democratic Party held its first national convention, also in Baltimore, nominating Andrew Jackson for re-election. In 1839, the Whig Party, the predecessor to the Republican Party, which was founded in response to Jackson in the early 1830s, held its first national convention in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. The Republican Party held its first national convention in 1856, at which it nominated the famed explorer and U.S. Senator John Fremont.
Neither the Republican Party nor the Democratic Party has ever skipped a convention every four years since they started the practice. Smaller parties, such as the Free Soil Party, the Know-Nothings, and the Progressives, held their conventions irregularly.
Some possible advantages of holding a national political convention every two years include increasing fundraising opportunities and providing the party with more frequent opportunities to address its platform in response to current events or shifting public opinion.

Donald Trump at Republican National Convention in Milwaukee

‘Never Been Done Before’: Trump Pushes For GOP National Convention Before Midterms

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Republicans are poised to lose their supermajority in the Iowa Senate after a leftist activist defeated a Republican businessman on Tuesday in a special election to fill a vacant seat. 
Democrat Catelyn Drey defeated Republican Christopher Prosch by about 800 votes to win Iowa’s 1st Senate district, <a href="https://wcmelepub.wcicc.com/">according</a> to preliminary election results. Drey, the founder of the leftwing group Moms for Iowa, earned 55% of the vote. 
&#8220;I’m just really incredibly honored that the folks in Senate District 1 believed in this campaign as much as the team did and I am looking forward to representing them well,&#8221; Drey <a href="https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/politics/2025/08/26/democrat-catelin-drey-wins-iowa-senate-special-election-defeats-republican-christopher-prosch/85819325007/">told</a> The Des Moines Register. 
Drey’s victory shifts the balance of the state Senate, leaving Republicans one seat short of a supermajority. Republicans still hold 33 of the state’s 50 Senate seats. Two-thirds of the Senate is needed to confirm state appointees, so Democrats could block anyone nominated by GOP Governor Kim Reynolds if they all vote in solidarity. 
The special election was called after Republican Senator Rocky De Witt died from pancreatic cancer earlier this summer. De Witt won the seat back in 2022 with 55% of the vote.  The district is located in Woodbury County, an area that backed President Donald Trump in the 2024 election with 61% of the vote. 
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Drey’s Moms for Iowa group backs action to support abortion and gun control. She was <a href="https://www.plannedparenthoodaction.org/planned-parenthood-advocates-iowa/sd-1" target="_blank" rel="noopener">endorsed </a>by Planned Parenthood, which called her a “Reproductive Freedom Champion.” 
Democrats celebrated the victory, claiming that it was an indictment of Trump. 
“Iowans are seeing Republicans for who they are: self-serving liars who will throw their constituents under the bus to rubber-stamp Donald Trump’s disastrous agenda — and they’re ready for change,” Democrat National Committee Chair Ken Martin said. “They are putting Republicans on notice and making it crystal clear: any Republican pushing Trump’s unpopular, extreme agenda has no place governing on behalf of Iowa families.”
Iowa GOP Chair Jeff Kaufmann said the result was a flood of out-of-state money and volunteers activated by the Democrats. 
“National Democrats were so desperate for a win that they activated 30,000 volunteers and a flood of national money to win a state senate special election by a few hundred votes,” he <a href="https://x.com/kaufmannGOP/status/1960526514040266793">posted</a> on X. “If [the DNC] thinks things are suddenly so great again for them in Iowa, they will bring back the caucuses.”

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Republican Supermajority Broken As Leftist Activist Wins In Trump-Leaning Iowa Senate District

Leftist Activist Wins Upset Victory In Iowa Senate Race, Ends GOP Supermajority

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