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Oct 19, 2026
The Texas attorney general's powers could come under scrutiny in a close Senate contest, though election experts say courts would likely constrain him.
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Oct 19, 2026
With Republicans seen as less likely to hold their majority in the House, the party is focusing more on the battle for the Senate, where it is vastly outspending Democrats on ads.
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Oct 19, 2026
With Republicans seen as less likely to hold their majority in the House, the party is focusing more on the battle for the Senate, where it is vastly outspending Democrats on ads.
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Oct 19, 2026
Early voting in Texas, where the outcome of the Senate race could determine which party controls the chamber, will run through Oct. 30.
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Oct 19, 2026
To boost Senator Jon Husted, who is in a tight race to keep his seat, some Republicans who were making a jobs pitch have pivoted to focus on socialism.
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Oct 19, 2026
The Texas attorney general's powers could come under scrutiny in a close Senate contest, though election experts say courts would likely constrain him.
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Oct 18, 2026
The Democratic candidate invoked a rallying cry from the TV show "Friday Night Lights" as he began his final campaign push before the Nov. 3 election.
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Oct 18, 2026
The president on Sunday justified his reversal of almost five years of sanctions against Russia as part of peace negotiations. He did not name any hostage.
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Oct 18, 2026
Congressional powers may be less than they appear to be, especially lately.
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Oct 17, 2026
As he stumps for midterm candidates, the president has been especially eager to talk about the physical appearance of some men.
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Oct 17, 2026
Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont has made a point of investing in Republican-leaning states. He rallied in Tampa for Ms. Nixon, the underdog Democratic nominee for Florida Senate.
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Oct 17, 2026
Senator Darline Graham, appointed to fill the Senate seat of her late brother, Lindsey, gently disagreed with the president's decision to exempt Russia from the sanctions legislation.
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Oct 17, 2026
Ken Paxton's bus tour of Texas comes as polls have shown the race for Senate is increasingly close. His rival, James Talarico, is scheduled to kick off a similar tour on Sunday.
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Oct 17, 2026
Ms. Collins, a Republican running in a crucial race, said the debate remark by Troy Jackson reflects how he treats women. Mr. Jackson has defended his comment, and his campaign said Ms. Collins had run a campaign based on personal attacks.
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Oct 17, 2026
A criminal investigation into the lawmaker's immigration process advanced after federal investigators reviewed family text messages from a seized phone.
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Oct 17, 2026
Ms. Collins, a Republican running in a crucial race, called the debate remark by her opponent, Troy Jackson, "very telling." Mr. Jackson has defended his comment, and his campaign said Ms. Collins had run a campaign based on personal attacks.
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Oct 17, 2026
A ban on extreme partisan gerrymandering could restore much of the congressional diversity that the Voting Rights Act initially made possible.
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Oct 17, 2026
The sanctions were part of a measure that was named after Senator Lindsey Graham, the South Carolina Republican who died in July.
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Oct 17, 2026
Sex, video games and grandparents on the campaign trail.
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Oct 17, 2026
A ban on extreme partisan gerrymandering could restore much of the congressional diversity that the Voting Rights Act initially made possible.
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Oct 17, 2026
Four battleground congressional districts in the state reveal fault lines that are echoing nationwide.
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Oct 16, 2026
The incidents, the first of which was reported on Thursday, came as election officials have reported a growing number of threats directed at them.
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Oct 16, 2026
Plus, Katie Zacharia's ouster, A.O.C. on the trail, and another tense debate in Maine.
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Oct 16, 2026
Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez campaigned with Dr. Abdul El-Sayed in a swath of Michigan including areas won by President Trump, making a progressive pitch in a key Senate race.
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Oct 16, 2026
The transfer represents an unusually large amount for a House member to give to a Senate race.
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Oct 16, 2026
Iowa is seemingly at the center of the pushback against President Trump as the state grapples with the impact of both tariffs and higher fuel costs.
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Oct 16, 2026
This year's midterm elections are a test of whether a party can be a success and a failure at the same time.
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Oct 16, 2026
Both Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and Troy Jackson, her Democratic challenger, grew up in Aroostook County, a vast, isolated northern wilderness. Those roots have helped define them.
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Oct 16, 2026
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
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Oct 16, 2026
With control of the Senate at stake, Mara Gay traveled to this Texas border region to hear from voters.
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Oct 16, 2026
The Republican incumbent, Dan Sullivan, and his Democratic challenger, Mary Peltola, veered from serious discussion of high prices and economic challenges to blistering personal attacks.
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Oct 16, 2026
Four years ago, Republicans stressed fears of rising crime to flip four House seats in New York. But in this year's midterms, the issue seems less salient.
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Oct 16, 2026
The world's richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton's Senate bid in Texas.
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Oct 16, 2026
The world's richest person, who has become the biggest known midterm donor, gave $158 million to a group that quickly spent that much to help Mr. Paxton's Senate bid in Texas.
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Oct 15, 2026
The race's fourth and final debate centered around whether Senator Susan Collins, the Republican incumbent, was as independent as she claimed to be from President Trump.
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Oct 15, 2026
Republicans joined Democrats in calling on the Pentagon's inspector general to look into whether the Trump administration was responsible for the interruption.
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Oct 15, 2026
The Senate showdown in Texas shows why Donald Trump and the Republican Party are worried about the midterm elections.
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Oct 15, 2026
Federal law enforcement officials said they were investigating a series of letters mailed to members of Congress and secretaries of state in recent days.
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Oct 15, 2026
Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 3rd Congressional District.
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Oct 15, 2026
Track the latest polls in New Mexico's 1st Congressional District.
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Oct 15, 2026
Extreme gerrymandering permitted by the Supreme Court threatens to roll back decades of hard-won civil rights progress. We spoke to six Black lawmakers about what's truly at stake.
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Oct 15, 2026
The amount is the most that a Senate candidate has ever raised during that period, his campaign said, eclipsing his opponent in Texas, Ken Paxton.
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Oct 15, 2026
As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Adam Hamilton speaks of his work leading the state's largest church — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.
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Oct 15, 2026
Despite hopes for a blue wave, Democratic candidates in Minnesota, Maine and Michigan are facing local political headwinds and have struggled to open up clear daylight in the polls.
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Oct 15, 2026
The move will force a vote on the agreement after the midterm elections, though it faces steep odds in the Republican-controlled Congress even amid bipartisan concern about the deal.
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Oct 15, 2026
With an eye on retaking control of Congress, Democrats are introducing a bill that would hold banks accountable for their handling of Jeffrey Epstein's finances.
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Oct 15, 2026
The party's top super PAC for House candidates said it had raised more this summer than ever before in a third quarter, but acknowledged the challenges Republicans are facing.
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Oct 15, 2026
There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
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Oct 15, 2026
The right wing is scrambling for wins in the elections as Democrats lead in the polls.
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Oct 15, 2026
There is a chance that Democratic optimism is over the rainbow.
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Oct 15, 2026
As he seeks to unseat a Republican in Kansas, Mr. Hamilton speaks of his work leading one of the state's largest churches — and making it appealing to nonreligious people.
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Oct 14, 2026
At a rally in Texas, the vice president suggested the Democratic Senate nominee is gay, a comment criticized as homophobic.
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Oct 14, 2026
The newest inflation report gave Democrats a chance to tie pain at the pump to President Trump's decisions.
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Oct 14, 2026
Steve Pajcic, a lawyer and philanthropist in Florida, started a group that is airing ads in Kansas and South Carolina. Florida and Mississippi are next.
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Oct 14, 2026
Senator Jon Ossoff, the Democratic incumbent, and Representative Mike Collins, the Republican challenger, debated inflation, tariffs and the Epstein files during the second and final Georgia senate debate.
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Oct 14, 2026
Track the latest polls in Rhode Island's 1st Congressional District.
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Oct 14, 2026
With control of Congress hanging in the balance, nominees have attacked their rivals' records, stock portfolios and families, with varying degrees of accuracy.
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Oct 14, 2026
The Trump era is ending. It's time for Democrats to decide what happens next.
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Oct 14, 2026
Extreme gerrymandering permitted by the Supreme Court is threatening Black representation in Congress.
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Oct 14, 2026
Former Vice President Kamala Harris will also rally for Democratic candidates in Georgia and Nevada.
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Oct 14, 2026
"I'm running for re-election to the Senate," the Democrat said during a debate on Tuesday. Barack Obama said the same thing 20 years ago.
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Oct 14, 2026
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
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Oct 14, 2026
Senator Susan Collins, a Republican, and her Democratic challenger, Troy Jackson, disagreed over the war in Iran and President Trump in the third of four debates in a key race.
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Oct 14, 2026
The party will need to make the most of whatever majority it has.
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Oct 13, 2026
The president has stepped up his offers of financial rewards to voters with just weeks until the midterms. On Tuesday at a rally in Alaska, he announced pardons.
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Oct 13, 2026
Representative Mike Collins, who lags Senator Jon Ossoff in public polls, hit his opponent harder in a second and final debate on Tuesday.
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Oct 13, 2026
A quarter-billion dollars to help Republicans hold Congress.
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Oct 13, 2026
Track the latest polls in Georgia's 3rd Congressional District.
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Oct 13, 2026
Two major Republican super PACs are said to be withdrawing cash from the races of the incumbent Representatives Thomas H. Kean Jr. of New Jersey and Mariannette Miller-Meeks of Iowa in an effort to triage the midterm map.
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Oct 13, 2026
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed of Michigan is the first Democrat running in a battleground Senate race to publicly call for a pause on artificial intelligence development.
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Oct 13, 2026
Plus, setting a record on Mars.
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Oct 13, 2026
After 20 years, Aidan Connolly will step down as executive director of the center, which is undergoing a top-to-bottom renovation.
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Oct 12, 2026
The president rallied in Youngstown for Senator Jon Husted and Vivek Ramaswamy, who are in competitive contests against Democratic opponents.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
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Oct 12, 2026
The Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas spent nine days off the trail with what he and his campaign said was a bad case of the flu. His opponents fueled rumors, including one that spread widely before it was debunked.
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Oct 12, 2026
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for running the ad in Oregon.
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Oct 12, 2026
An executive with the Republican super PAC that paid for the ad attacking Mr. Jackson, the Democratic Senate candidate in Maine, blamed its vendor for the mistake.
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Oct 12, 2026
It's Oct. 12 — 22 days away from the midterms. Here's the state of play.
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Oct 12, 2026
Party leaders are working to connect Washington profiteering and the influence of billionaires and corporate America to affordability, in what they hope will be a potent closing message.
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Oct 12, 2026
The world's richest person has quietly become by far the biggest known midterm donor, trying to save Republicans' Senate majority with some of the largest donations in American political history.
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Oct 12, 2026
Cait Conley, a Democrat trying to unseat the Republican incumbent Mike Lawler, is hoping that New York voters' distaste for President Trump will carry her to victory.
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Oct 11, 2026
Dr. Annie Andrews, the Democratic challenger, accused Senator Darline Graham of taking her cues from President Trump. Ms. Graham said Dr. Andrews wouldn't say no to socialists.
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Oct 11, 2026
Three months after a jarring summer candidate switch, some Democrats in the state are worried about the enthusiasm for their nominee, Troy Jackson, who is in a close race.
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Oct 11, 2026
A new letter from 74 lawmakers suggests that civilian casualties will become a focus of investigation if Democrats take control of Congress.
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Oct 11, 2026
Senator Roger Marshall, a Kansas Republican in a difficult race, paid an old campaign debt for cookies, muffins and brownies after a baker's story went viral online.
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Oct 11, 2026
It's hard to work up outrage when someone else's adult exploits wind up in the tabloids.
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Oct 11, 2026
It's hard to work up outrage when someone else's adult exploits wind up in the tabloids.
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Oct 11, 2026
A New York Times analysis of Senator Susan Collins's voting record shows that she frequently breaks with Republicans but more seldom changes an outcome.
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Oct 11, 2026
A Times investigation has found that violent threats have become a new normal among public officials, reshaped private lives, cost millions in security and pushed people out of office.
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Oct 10, 2026
A New Hampshire insider-outsider candidate is executing a complex political dance.
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Oct 10, 2026
This week in politics: Which Democrats? And whose A.I. morals?
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Oct 10, 2026
The president's despotism is itself a constitutional offense.
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Oct 10, 2026
The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what's at stake with A.I.
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Oct 10, 2026
This week in politics: Which Democrats? And whose A.I. morals?
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Oct 10, 2026
The actor takes Times Opinion to the United Nations to explore what's at stake with A.I.
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Oct 10, 2026
A New Hampshire insider-outsider candidate is executing a complex political dance.
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Oct 10, 2026
Inflation has hurt Americans at many levels: Farmers, truckers, consumers. It has also expanded the electoral map into what was safely Republican country just a few months ago.
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Oct 10, 2026
We assess three campaign ads in the battleground states that have focused on the cost of living.
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Oct 09, 2026
Adam Hamilton wants to be the first Democrat to win a Senate seat there in nearly 100 years.
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Oct 09, 2026
Mr. Talarico, the Democratic nominee for Senate in Texas, showed up at a music festival, saying he had been at home with "a nasty case of the flu."
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