Domestic and international political coverage — campaigns, legislation, power, and policy.
The 2026 midterms will be decided less by candidates than by systems built long before voting begins. We explain how process power, not persuasion, now shapes outcomes. It’s a forecast—and a field manual—for understanding what’s actually happening.
Ballot Wars 2026: Forecast and Field Manual for the Midterms Read More »
The right dominates online attention but keeps losing procedural ground. That’s because influence without infrastructure doesn’t translate into power. We need to build a transparent digital counter-factory that turns reach into lasting leverage.
The Digital Counter-Factory Read More »
Mitt Romney’s “7% moment” wasn’t just a campaign gaffe — it marked the end of persuasion politics in America. The electorate that could once be moved by argument has been replaced by demographic hardening, institutional distrust, and a dependency-driven political infrastructure.
WHY ROMNEY’S 7% NO LONGER EXISTS Read More »
Most Americans have no idea that 38 states allow never-resided foreign-born citizens to vote in U.S. elections using nothing more than a parent’s old address. It’s a loophole big enough for foreign interests, identity theft networks, and entire diasporas to influence states they’ve never lived in.
VOTING WITHOUT RESIDENCE: THE UNITED STATES’ UNSEEN ELECTORATE Read More »
Election power drifted upward over the last decade, away from voters and toward courts and agencies. State constitutions offer a way to rebalance that power without nationalizing elections further.
The Federalism Fix Read More »
The 7% remark wasn’t just a gaffe — it was a blueprint for why the old Republican model collapsed. We break down how Romney’s worldview failed to understand the era he was running in, and why that miscalculation reshaped the party’s future.
ROMNEY’S 7%: THE MOMENT THE OLD REPUBLICAN STRATEGY DIED Read More »
Union dues aren’t just funding workplace issues anymore — they’re bankrolling entire political ecosystems. Most of it happens through coalitions and nonprofits workers never hear about.
Union Money in Disguise Read More »
Minnesota’s Somali-linked fraud crisis didn’t happen in a vacuum. A 2% political bloc out-organized a disengaged electorate, administrative oversight collapsed, and Ilhan Omar became the symbolic center of a system that stopped supervising itself.
Ilhan Omar: Pirate Queen Read More »
Small-dollar fundraising has become a subscription economy that funds politics year-round. What looks like grassroots passion is often a network of recurring donations powering permanent infrastructure.
Small-Dollar Fronts Read More »
From the very first hour of the new administration, Washington activated a machinery not designed for governance but for containment. This was the Resistance Presidency: an extended four-year episode in which the elected executive became the interloper, and the previous executive’s networks—inside government, media, intelligence, and NGOs—functioned as the de facto continuity administration.
Obstructed: The Resistance Presidency (2017–2020) Read More »
