What I have heard from professionals explaining why we have so many competitive races in red states boils down to R voters thinking of the president’s antics, “it’s not funny anymore.” They’re hurting financially due to seemingly capricious actions in the WH while he focuses on memes, arches, and revenge. That the bleeding is in red states means it’s troubling but also solvable. The voters have an inclination to support Rs. Candidates: Fight them to a draw on gas prices. Yes they’re high and that really sucks. But Republicans hate high gas prices! Republicans support energy dominance and maximum fossil-fuel development. These prices are the result of foreign activity; the Iranians and the Russians are causing these gas prices and we’re fighting them both. We’re opening up the oil fields of Venezuela. Democrats want high gas prices. They want you driving electric cars or paying a carbon tax that goes into a remediation fund that pays their activists to teach your kids about how whales are gay or something. Attack them on this! Talk about the Green New Deal. Ask them if they agree with climate lawfare. If gas prices are high, it’s the right time to talk about “climate change.” They want to talk about Iran; make them talk about global warming. If you’re a Senate incumbent vote on all available California-waiver CRAs next week. It is a tangible action you can take that will *actually lower gas prices*. The president can even sign the vessels-at-berth CRA before the elections! Thereby ending a multibillion dollar green import-export tax on all goods coming through CA ports. The President: Stop fighting about ballrooms and arches and whose name is where for a little while. Tell your trade people to figure out which tariffs are raising prices the most in red states and remove them. Declare victory in those trade wars. Do a televised address (scripted, no weaving) on the Iran conflict. Explain why you launched it and how you have achieved all your goals and are now ending it in victory. Most importantly, stick to this course until the elections. Don’t let the fake news goad you into reversing any of it. Make fun of *them* by serving tacos in the WH. You’ll have more than two years in which to settle scores starting on 11/5.

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Liam put it best four years ago, when Rs were still spending in NC & OH

Asked Sen. Gallego about the NYT Peltola story on staff mistreatment, who tells reporters: “when I was 25, I had a really bad boss. He made me run across an open fucking field of raking machine gun fire to breach a door. So, yeah, life's tough sometimes”

Not official yet. Based on what Senator Whitehouse said, the Senate should move forward with freedom-to-build ASAP (they have time on the calendar), pass it in the Senate, and then call on the House (which also has time on the calendar) to return and do their job.

This is bait but it doubles as a useful and revealing thought experiment.

Alignment ultimately more important than timing, but this is suboptimal at best.

NYT/Siena poll | 9/15-9/22 LV US Senate Maine 2026 🟥Susan Collins 49% (incumbent) 🟦Troy Jackson 46% Link to poll: nytimes.com/interactive/2026…

Knew the campaign was a mess, but I was not adequately prepared for a Based Peltola news cycle.

Get in loser, we're engaging in revolutionary praxis

seems like both

This take from @mattyglesias is correct. The big question is whether either party, and most relevantly today Democrats, is capable of accepting that thermostatic reaction is not a mandate. Any possibility of building a sustained governing majority, counterintuitively to partisans and ideologues, requires pursuing key policy and ideological objectives less maximally. open.substack.com/pub/matthe…

Rick Jackson pouring $100M bucks into his Gov campaign to deny Ossoff a presidential run lol.

NEW: Permitting goes past the 11th hour. Senators are hopeful that Trump’s signal that he would ease his blockade on wind projects will help unlock a deal. ENR ranking member Martin Heinrich told me last night talks are “on the five-yard line, but those five yards are hard”