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    Affordability top of mind for voters in final sprint to midterms: ‘I have to pick between medicine or groceries’

    Cost of living has loomed over this election cycle as workers and unions champion candidates fighting for higher wages and tackling rising prices
  • Barack Obama gestures while speaking into a microphone at a rally podium

    ‘He’s a force’: Obama answers call to boost Democrats – and rattle Trump

  • Mayor Karen Bass, wearing glasses and a green blazer, smiles outdoors against a clear blue sky

    An embattled Karen Bass is fighting tooth and nail to keep her mayorship in LA. It might be too late

  • Graphic illustration of Trump looking up at a tidal wave.

    Are the US midterms going to see a blue wave of Democrats winning seats – or a blue flood?

  • Two people

    Haley Stevens advised to stay away from Abdul El-Sayed campaign events to limit ‘distractions’

Opinion

  • Dave Schilling

    A curmudgeon’s guide to the 2026 US elections

    Dave Schilling
  • Norman Solomon

    Top Democrats are fighting a billionaire tax in California. Their voters are on the other side

    Norman Solomon
  • Cuba's foreign minister Bruno Rodríguez Parrilla speaks at a podium in the UN general assembly hall

    The world needs the United Nations more than ever. It needs a new lease on life

    Alex Rondos and Mark Medish
  • US-POLITICS-ELECTIONS-MIDTERMUS Representative Mary Peltola (D-AK) shakes hands with supporters during a campaign event at the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 1547 in Anchorage, Alaska on September 17, 2022. - Peltola is the state's first Indigenous national legislator elected to Congress. Peltola won the special election held to replace Republican congressman Don Young, who died in March after serving in the House for 49 years, but the Democrat will face Republican opponent Sarah Palin again in November in order to retain the congressional seat for a full term. (Photo by Patrick T. FALLON / AFP) (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

    Mary Peltola made a mistake. But her Republican opponent would be a disaster for Alaska

    Kim Heacox

In depth

  • A person fills in a ballot at a voting booth during early voting for midterm elections

    Affordability, AI and Iran: Americans on the key issues guiding their midterm votes

  • A woman raises her hand, eyes closed, praying amid a crowd at Sean Feucht's rally

    This rightwing evangelical was one of Trump’s biggest backers. Why isn’t he talking about the midterms?

  • A black-and-white and red grid of 12 squares, with 9 filled with headshots, overlayed by red circles.

    Days away from a national verdict on Trump 2.0, we check in with nine voters across the political spectrum

  • Graphic illustration of white, green, red, and black, with a hand-drawn image in the center.

    Men detained at Texas’s ‘dog pound’ ICE facility describe their experience – in art, letters and song

Video

  • Donald Trump attacked the appearance of a Reuters reporter and called him 'disgusting' after the reporter asked a question about the president's cancellation of two upcoming campaign events. A day later, Trump rescheduled the canceled rallies in Kansas and Iowa.

    'You look like hell': Trump blows up at reporter when asked about canceled events – video

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  • Jonathan Freedland is joined by Carrie Dann, of the Cook Political Report, to run through some of the races to watch before the final weekend of campaigning

    Final countdown to the make-or-break midterms – podcast

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  • Democrats have failed to win statewide office in Texas for 30 years. Before the midterms, Oliver Laughland and Tom Silverstone travel to San Antonio to follow James Talarico and Ken Paxton on the campaign trail - to find out whether the state's Senate race is really up for grabs, how Elon Musk's millions are affecting the race and whether voters have changed their minds on Trump

    Can Democrats win against Elon Musk's millions in Texas? – video

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  • If there is going to be a blue wave, as polling suggests, Latinos are going to be essential. Carlos Eduardo Espina, a news commentator, and Stephanie Valencia, a pollster, tell Kai Wright there are signs that the economy, the Trump administration’s mass deportation campaign and Republican redistricting efforts are backfiring – and Latinos seem to be swinging back to Democrats this year.

    Who will win the 2026 US midterm elections? Ask Latinos – Stateside with Kai and Carter

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