#2026-elections

#2026-elections

In our hour, 2026 now looms as the critical moment, the time in which we will continue to have free and fair elections or not, will continue to have courts that uphold the rule of law or not, will continue to enjoy constitutional rights of citizenship and free speech and free press or not. For all Americans, very much including for journalists, the question for the year ahead is whether we will rise to the occasion.

I've got some tough questions for ya, Lahren warned Auchincloss in the program's first segment. Do you think Sen. Schumer has been an effective leader and do you agree with some of those colleagues we just heard from that it's time for that change? She was referring to the 17 Democrats in the House of Representatives that have called for Schumer to step down, in the wake of the deal to reopen the government earlier this week.

"We sent a message to every corner of the commonwealth, a message to our neighbors and our fellow Americans across the country," Spanberger told supporters Tuesday night in Richmond. "We sent a message to the whole word that in 2025, Virginia chose pragmatism over partisanship. We chose our commonwealth over chaos."

President Donald Trump has spent the first nine months of his term bulldozing limits on his power, abetted by a supine Congress. What might be left of checks and balances after four years of unified Republican control in Washington is unclear. Trump sees winning a majority in the midterms as crucial to his agenda, and he is also worried about them, as demonstrated by his cajoling and badgering of GOP-led states to gerrymander House districts to aid Republican candidates.

North Carolina is set for an epic senatorial race with Democrats having a real chance to flip retiring senator Thom Tillis's seat with Roy Cooper running.

"When it comes to bankrupting our country with waste & graft, we live in a one-party system, not a democracy," Musk said Saturday on X, the social media company he owns. "Today, the America Party is formed to give you back your freedom."

"Tillis understood he was going to lose either way. If he rejected Trump’s bill, he was doomed in the primary. If he supported it, he’d likely lose the general election."

It's a much more difficult role,