Ken Paxton keeps dodging debates. So I called his cell to invite him to a debate on Fox News. He didn’t pick up.

Whenever Democratic political operatives gather to drink these days, they talk about three things: their chances in the midterms, who will be the nominee in 2028, and if they have read — or are in — “the book.” The book in question is ‘Nothing Left: Confessions of a Democratic Operative,’ by Evan Barker, a onetime fundraiser who has written something between a tell-all and a cri de coeur about her time inside the Democratic Party. But for many Democrats the book has been candy less because of its call for reshaping politics and more because, while peeling back the curtain on the inner workings of political campaigns, it names (some) names. “You want to tell the truth, and you want to tell people what happened, but at the same time my intention was never to just burn people needlessly to be vindictive,” Barker tells David Freedlander. “At the same time, it’s like, yeah, I knew that some of the stories in there might hurt some people’s feelings, but sometimes people need to get their feelings hurt.” Read more about the book that has Washington talking: nymag.visitlink.me/SzXKn-

NEWS: Here comes the crypto industry’s big spending against Democrats. Fairshake is going to spend $30 million against Sherrod Brown in Ohio’s Senate race. It’s payback after Senate Dems torpedoed the CLARITY Act. nytimes.com/2026/09/21/us/po…

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Lots of hot takes on WI Gov, but let’s not oversimplify this as the establishment vs. progressive outsider. Fran ran an inspiring campaign that mobilized people of every age, race and gender all over the state. David Crowley is not the establishment.

It is an extreme example to say that it's childish to overemphasize politicians' individual character over their platform. I largely don't give a shit what's in a politician's heart - we'll never know. They're not auditioning to be our BFFs. This is about what they fight for.

The left is taking a beating for a lack of vetting over Graham Platner, but as several people have noted to me, the campaign manager on the scandal-plagued Cal Cunningham campaign, where Dems lost a winnable race in NC, was immediately elevated to the DSCC and is now running it

🚨 WATCH: Rob Sand gets brutally fact checked by PBS after lying about Zach Lahn living in Kansas: "For Iowans watching who may not know, we're talking about Zach Lahn flying between Iowa and Kansas, where he and his wife have children who are based."