Source: Washington Monthly
by Joshua A Douglas

“While perhaps bumpy, the election will proceed as expected. Millions of people will cast their ballots—in fact, many already have through early or mail-in voting. Thousands of election workers will uphold democracy by counting ballots fairly and accurately. Election officials will certify the results. Close races may lead to post-election lawsuits. All of that is normal. What is abnormal is the president meddling in election processes. It’s also unconstitutional and unprecedented. Let’s make sure the American people have that vital information in every headline, push notification, social media post, and news story.” (10/26/26)

https://washingtonmonthly.com/2026/10/26/the-press-shouldnt-hype-trumps-bogus-alaska-lawsuit/

Source: The UnPopulist
by Andy Craig

“With a lawless administration still in power, and Trump still wielding the veto pen, it’s far from guaranteed a Democratic Congress will be able to significantly rein him in. But there are still better and worse scenarios for what Democrats can accomplish depending on how strongly the party of Trump is repudiated at the polls. Partly it depends on how much they’re willing to play hardball. But partly it depends on just how many seats they win.” (10/26/26)

https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/a-democratic-toolkit-for-using-a

Source: Independent Institute
by Richard K Vedder

“We Americans are the luckiest bunch of humans to ever live. We are more affluent than ever before, even though most Americans also have much more leisure than earlier generations. Our success is demonstrated by the large numbers of immigrants trying to permanently enter our country, often illegally [sic] at great risk. Compared with a century or even a generation ago, our houses are bigger and nicer (with air conditioning and upscale kitchen appliances), our cars are more luxurious and reliable than those of earlier generations, and we have new pleasures like social media and ocean cruises to entertain and titillate us when we are not watching movies or shows on giant screens unheard of a generation ago or on technologically advanced hand-held devices.” (10/26/26)

https://www.independent.org/article/2026/10/26/americas-best-of-times-worst-of-times-can-adam-smith-save-the-future/

Source: The American Prospect
by David Dayen

“The group was looking around for an available wall. Activists with Indivisible Kansas City were targeting Jon Patterson, the Speaker of the Missouri House of Representatives, who is seeking a seat in the state Senate in a battleground race against Democratic state Rep. Keri Ingle. They had flyers to hand out, but Krista Mann, who organized the action, had also created a slide presentation reminding voters about Patterson’s longtime support for data centers. The slides explained that Patterson personally prevented votes on transparency measures and supported a bill allowing Missouri power companies to charge ratepayers for building electricity infrastructure ‘to provide the power that we need for the data centers’. Mann hooked a portable projector into her computer and displayed the presentation on a brick facade outside a bank. They called it a ‘guerrilla projection’.” (10/27/26)

https://prospect.org/2026/10/27/guerrilla-projections-defending-democracy-in-missouri/