Source: The Price of Liberty
by Nathan Barton
“Perhaps, when we get right down to it, the threat that Pyongyang and Kim pose to the West is not provided by his dream of the world’s strongest army. Rather, it is one of the strongest arguments still in the world today of what the true fruits of socialism are.” (11/04/26)
https://thepriceofliberty.org/2026/11/04/the-korea-conundrum/
Source: The Watch
by Radley Balko
“The masked secret police, abductions, murders, and violence against peaceful protesters, weaponization of the DOJ, selling of pardons, terrorizing immigrants, occupations of entire cities, open air bribes, assaults on the free press, weaponization of intelligence, brazen constitutional violations, transparent lying to the courts, white supremacist messaging, white supremacist policy, graft, corrupt diplomacy, and too many other offenses to name — these are unacceptable trespasses on our values. They aren’t mere policy differences between the two major parties. If we don’t make it clear that this administration’s violence, racism, corruption, and crime are aberrant and intolerable, we’ll instead make clear that they’re neither. And we’ll make it easier for the next Trump, the next time around.” (11/04/26)
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/make-bad-things-bad-again
Source: Fox News
by Hugh Hewitt
“The GOP isn’t dead, but it sure does look and feel that way in the harsh light of the day after Tuesday’s walloping. The myth of Rasputin is that a Russian monk who pretended to mysticism was poisoned, stabbed, shot, beaten and thrown in a river. He somehow climbed out of the drink and survived. He didn’t. Miraculous recoveries only happen in the movies, as with ‘Boris the Bullet Dodger’ in Guy Ritchie’s beloved ‘Snatch’, which starred Jason Statham, Brad Pitt, Benicio del Toro and Dennis Farina. If you are a Republican feeling low after Tuesday night’s nationwide wipeout, ‘Snatch’ is a good viewing choice. If you or your boss lost, you need to have a laugh because there is no crying in baseball or politics. Wipeouts happen, and the GOP isn’t going to suddenly pull itself beaten and bruised out of the Potomac.” (11/05/26)
https://www.foxnews.com/opinion/hugh-hewitt-gop-wounded-not-dead-recovery-has-start-now
Source: The Atlantic
by David A Graham
“Across the country, Democratic candidates campaigned and won by railing against Donald Trump’s handling of the economy. When they take control of Congress in January, however, they’ll find themselves with few direct levers to bring down prices. We don’t need to guess what happens to politicians who campaign on affordability and don’t deliver. We saw it last night.” (11/04/26)
Source: Reason
by Gene Healy
“Congress shouldn’t be afraid to remove the secretary of defense for his many war crimes and misdemeanors.” (11/04/26)
https://reason.com/2026/11/04/impeach-pete-hegseth-for-the-disastrous-iran-war/
Source: The Intercept
by Akela Lacy
“Now that Democrats have secured earth-shattering wins in both chambers of Congress, the party’s progressives are sending a message to their more moderate leaders: It’s time to deliver for voters who are demanding meaningful action.” (11/04/26)
https://theintercept.com/2026/11/04/midterms-democrats-agenda-congress-iran-ai/
Source: Desultory Scribblings
by Tyler Harris
“In the summer of 2003, at the age of 18, I found myself sitting in the gallery of the US House of Representatives refusing the advances of a 61-year-old congressman. It’s all come to the front of my mind lately, a place from which I am wont to arduously push it, in the wake of three men, one of them only 17 at the time, coming forward to share their experiences being paid for sex by Lindsey Graham.” (11/04/26)
https://tylerjohnharris.substack.com/p/the-gops-teen-boy-problem-is-bigger
Source: Show-Me Institute
by David Stokes
“The Special School District (SSD) of St. Louis County provides public education for children with special needs throughout St. Louis County and portions of Jefferson County. It is one of two special school districts in Missouri, with the other one being Pemiscot County. (Why Pemiscot County has its own countywide special school district is a topic for another blog post.) Some St. Louis and Jefferson County residents who may not have been that familiar with the district are about to become more familiar, as it just raised its tax rates substantially without a vote of the people.” (11/04/26)
Source: Ludwig von Mises Institute
by Vincent Cook
“Being free to cast just one trifling vote among thousands or millions of votes for deciding how to run the breadline, how to assign living quarters, etc. is not some magical ‘power’ that gives you any meaningful control over your own life. Quite to the contrary, it’s the commissars and their enforcers (secret police, neighborhood watch committees, people’s tribunals, etc.) who would exercise a terrifying arbitrary power of life and death over all voters, rendering their voting rights irrelevant and any dignified life under their rule impossible.” (11/04/26)
https://mises.org/mises-wire/no-mayor-mamdani-voting-everything-doesnt-promote-dignity
Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen
“Congressional Progressive Caucus chair Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX), appearing with four progressives who won in swing seats in the midterms, called for Democrats to pass populist legislation ‘every week’ in the next term focusing on corporate corruption, lower costs, and higher wages. The Progressive Caucus, which expects to welcome at least 25 new members, and will begin the upcoming 120th Congress with more than 100, is putting down an early marker on how Democrats should conduct themselves, with what is likely to be one of the biggest House majorities since the early 1990s. ‘We have won immense amounts of political power, and now is the most important time to deliver to keep that power,’ said Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-FL), a vice chair of the caucus and co-chair of the CPC’s political action committee, which spent millions of dollars in swing seats this year.” (11/04/26)
https://prospect.org/2026/11/04/progressive-caucus-wants-to-deliver-on-democratic-promises/