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613 items of 1822 · updated Oct 30, 2026, 6:10 AM ET
There are seven days until the final votes will be cast in the 2026 midterms, and tens of millions of voters have already cast ballots for Senate, House, governor and state legislature races.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
The Appeal reports private prison companies are pouring money into GOP coffers ahead of midterms, calling Trump's second term a financial boon to the industry.
Source: The Appeal (theappeal.org)
With a week until the midterm elections, Trump is expected to rally supporters in Corpus Christi to boost Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who faces Democrat James Talarico in a Senate race.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Truthout reports private prison companies are pouring money into GOP coffers ahead of midterms.
Source: Truthout (truthout.org)
Democracy Docket reports Shasta Registrar of Voters Clint Curtis backed the Trump DOJ's California lawsuit and defended the department's unverified sources for identifying alleged noncitizens.
Source: Democracy Docket (news alerts) (democracydocket.com)
The Justice Department called on election officials in Washington state to set aside some 400 ballots it says may belong to noncitizen voters.
Source: ABC News (abcnews.com)
A motion directing Metro to join Los Angeles, Long Beach, and the County in a USGBC California effort to reduce construction greenhouse gas emissions with low carbon concrete passed.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (metro.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
The Operations, Safety, and Customer Experience Committee passed a five-year, single-source contract with Cummins for 680 Near-Zero Natural Gas-Fueled Engines to replace engines on Metro buses.
Source: Legistar: 15 city and county councils (metro.legistar.com) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Iowa bill HF 2164 on provisional ballots cast by persons registering to vote on election day or when casting an in-person absentee ballot was introduced and referred to State Government.
Source: Open States API v3: recently updated state bills (openstates.org) · Status, sponsor and your legislators
Vice President Vance heads to Michigan to rally voters in Howell, where Rep. Tom Barrett faces Democrat Will Lawrence in a House race one week before the midterms.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Record spending from billionaire megadonors, corporations and dark money nonprofits is defining the 2026 election cycle; voters in multiple states could reshape campaign finance laws.
Source: Ms. Magazine (msmagazine.com)
The Justice Department called on Washington election officials to set aside ballots from over 400 people it says illegally registered to vote without U.S. citizenship; it says 1,500 votes were cast.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
The Justice Department plans to send 1,000 election monitors to 50 states ahead of Election Day, expanding a practice that has spurred concern among Democrats and voting rights advocates.
Source: Stateline (stateline.org)
Speaker Mike Johnson (R-La.) told Fox News's Laura Ingraham that he believes polls showing big leads for Democrats are underestimating Republicans with one week to go until the 2026 midterms.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Elie Mystal says in The Nation that an Alaska case is a red flag that Trump has no intention of accepting election results Republicans lose.
Source: The Nation (thenation.com)
Democrats asked a federal judge to halt the Trump administration from interfering in the midterms; the administration demanded California and Washington remove alleged noncitizens from voter rolls.
Source: Democracy Docket (news alerts) (democracydocket.com)
A SCOTUSblog analysis says the Supreme Court may soon see another clash over the Trump administration's attempt to prevent noncitizen voting.
Source: SCOTUSblog (scotusblog.com)
Democrats hold an 8-point lead over Republicans 52-44 one week before the midterm elections, according to a Marist Poll conducted with NPR and PBS News.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Former Sen. Joe Manchin said the atmosphere is right for a 'complete tsunami' in the midterms, where the GOP is projected to lose the majority in the House.
Source: The Hill (thehill.com)
Laura W Brill writes that twenty-two states and Washington DC let voters register on election day, a week away, and asks why politicians are not doing more to reach young people.
Source: The Guardian US (theguardian.com)