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DARK SECRETS: 4 | Vintage Vibes

Welcome to At the Races! Each week we bring you news and analysis from the CQ Roll Call campaign team. Know someone who’d like to get this newsletter? They can subscribe here. It was less than a week ago that Democratic Rep. Eric Swalwell was a front-runner to be the next governor…

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Democratic candidates start 2026 with a fundraising bang

Money continued to flow as the midterm election year kicked off. Fundraising reports covering the first three months of the year show that it was a fruitful first quarter for many congressional candidates, with a handful of Senate hopefuls reporting eight-figure hauls and some House candidates surpassing the $2 million…

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Lawsuit Alleges Trump Administration Disproportionately Fired Black Officials From Federal Agencies

Alvin Brown's legal team contends that roughly three-quarters of Black officials serving in roles at independent agencies were dismissed, a pattern they say "cannot be explained by politics alone"

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Trump to address Turning Point crowd as GOP hopefuls battle in Arizona

President Donald Trump is slated to headline a Turning Point USA event Friday in Phoenix as several Arizona Republicans seek the state’s governorship and two competitive House seats in the upcoming midterm election. Trump’s remarks to a “Build the Red Wall” event at Dream City Church will connect him with…

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‘Welfare Queens’: Donald Trump just handed America’s billionaires a $1.96 trillion payday

America’s billionaires just got a lot richer, and it’s not because they suddenly invented the next big thing. Since the 2025 Trump-GOP tax cuts kicked in, the collective wealth of the country’s 974 billionaires has ballooned by $1.96 trillion, a 31% jump in just 16 months. That’s the headline according…

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Congress is facing its own #MeToo moment. It might not be enough to clean out the ‘cesspool’

ANALYSIS: Even with the resignations of Eric Swalwell and Tony Gonzales, Marjorie Taylor Greene says Congress is ‘still a cesspool.’ History tells us she is probably right, writes Rhian Lubin

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‘Could this backfire on the GOP?’ – your questions about Trump’s restrictive voting act answered

Guardian democracy reporters George Chidi and Sam Levine answered your questions about the dramatic implications of the Save America Act for US voters

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Iran war powers resolution blocked for fourth time in Senate

Senate Republicans again fended off a Democratic attempt to force President Donald Trump to end the war in Iran, but there are signs GOP anxiety could bubble up as the conflict nears the 60-day mark. The Senate on Wednesday voted 47-52 against a motion to discharge from the Foreign Relations…

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House Readies Spy Powers Vote

Plus: New York wants to tax second homes, water in the Dupont Circle fountain, Polish robots chase wild boars, and more...

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Trump and DeSantis move closer to full political reconciliation as Florida: There Is Now a Highway with the President's Name

The long, messy political breakup between Donald Trump and Ron DeSantis is looking more and more like a reconciliation, and the clearest evidence is now coming from Florida itself, inside and outside of Mar-a-Lago.

Latin Times

Push for surveillance authority reauthorization hits snag in House

House GOP leadership faced a setback Wednesday in their push to reauthorize a key surveillance authority with no changes, amid signs they did not have enough support from privacy-minded conservatives to clear a procedural vote on the floor. Key House Republicans had outlined a floor strategy to pass a measure…

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Scoop: Vance heading to Iowa for midterm events

It's his first visit to an early primary state ahead of a widely expected bid for president in 2028.

Axios

Justice Department Fires 4 Prosecutors Over Alleged Bias in Anti-Abortion Cases

The U.S. Department of Justice has fired four federal prosecutors who worked on cases involving anti-abortion activists, escalating a growing political and legal battle over how abortion-related laws were enforced during the previous administration.

Latin Times

If Trump’s AI Jesus depiction isn’t a red line for his Christian supporters, is anything?

IN FOCUS: Trump pushes an already-fragile alliance of conservative Catholics and evangelicals to the breaking point, Alex Woodward reports

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Indian-origin immigration judge fired by Trump administration after blocking deportation of Palestinian student: 'I tried to resist'

Indian-origin immigration judge Roopal Patel was axed by the Trump administration after blocking a high-profile deportation case involving a pro-Palestinian student.

Roll Call

Vance hits rough patch as Iran talks falter, Orbán goes down in Hungary

President Donald Trump might have declared Vice President JD Vance did a “good job” in weekend talks that did not produce a peace pact with Iran, but there are scant signs his recent high-profile international setbacks improved his political prospects to be the next commander-in-chief. The lack of a deal…

Latin Times

GOP Rep. Salazar Says Immigration Crisis 'Has Already Reached Our Churches', Claims 1 in 12 Christians Face Deportation

She also stated that "immigration is a matter of conscience" and invoked scripture to argue that "if one part suffers, every part suffers with it"

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Trump’s Vatican clash and AI Jesus ‘blasphemy’ is fueling a GOP holy war: ‘He should not be treating the Pope as a rival’

ANALYSIS: Trump’s latest attack on the Holy Father and depicting himself as Christ has plenty of Republicans squirming in their seats, Eric Garcia writes

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Both parties raise the stakes ahead of Virginia redistricting referendum

When author and journalist Beth Macy launched a bid last fall for Virginia’s 6th District, the Democrat expected to face an uphill climb in the deep-red seat. But if Virginia voters approve a new congressional map in a referendum next week, Democrats would be favored to win the district this…

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Iowa Democrats pursue ‘once in a generation opportunity’ amid farmer woes

Every day, Seth Watkins wakes with the sun. The 58-year-old farmer raises livestock on a southwest Iowa farm that’s been in his family since the 1840s. Like most farmers, Watkins is up and working before much of the rest of the country’s alarm clocks go off, feeding his cows and…

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Can Senate Republicans buck midterm history again?

ANALYSIS — Eight years ago, President Donald Trump’s mediocre job approval rating created a difficult national political environment for Republicans, who lost more than 40 seats in the House. But GOP senators bucked the midterm backlash and gained two seats. Could they do it again? The April 20, 2018, edition…

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Two More Representatives Could Be Next in Expanding Ethics Crackdown After Swalwell and Gonzales' Exit

As Rep. Eric Swalwell prepares to leave Congress and Rep. Tony Gonzales says he will step down, attention in the House is shifting to whether two more embattled lawmakers could soon face their own reckoning.

Latin Times

FIU President Faces Backlash Over 'Leniency' in Bigoted Chats Tied to Florida GOP Students: 'Directly Enabling Racism'

The n-word appeared hundreds of times in the group chat created by a local GOP official for conservative students, alongside comments referencing extremist rhetoric

International Business Times UK

DHS Forces Staff to Return to Work Without Pay As Shutdown Continues

The Department of Homeland Security has ordered thousands of furloughed staff back to duty despite an ongoing funding lapse. A leaked memo reveals that FEMA and CISA employees must report in person or face disciplinary action.

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Preserve, alter or end? Each proposed for family planning funds

The Trump administration’s mixed messaging on federal family planning funds has anti-abortion groups simultaneously outraged and optimistic, after the administration rolled out widely divergent goals over a matter of days during the spring Congressional recess. The conflicting policies related to Title X family planning funds included eliminating such funds entirely,…

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