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- 4Kelly Armstrong ND61.7%
- 5Mark Gordon WY58.6%
- 6Brad Little ID58.1%
- 7Greg Gianforte MT57.4%
- 8Bill Lee TN56.8%
- 9Jim Pillen NE56.8%
- 10Ron DeSantis FL55.8%
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Ranking the 50 State Economies of 2026
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Fifteen pollsters ranked by documented 2024 general election accuracy, drawing on the AAPOR task force evaluation, Silver Bulletin pollster ratings, the ActiVote Most Valuable Pollster rankings, and Split Ticket's post-election analysis.
Every Current U.S. Senator, Ranked by the Legislative Record (2026)
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The 2026 Senate Races Ranked by Flip Likelihood
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All articles →How a War Powers Resolution Works, and Why the House Version Never Reaches the President's Desk
A war powers resolution can pass a chamber with a simple majority, but stopping a president takes a joint resolution, a signature the president will not give, or a two thirds override that no war powers measure has ever reached. Here is the machinery, by the numbers.
The House Votes to Restrain the Iran War, the Senate Cannot, and the Crossover Count Shows Why
On July 23 the House passed a war powers resolution directing an end to U.S. involvement in the war with Iran, 214 to 208, while the Senate failed to advance a companion measure, 47 to 49. The difference between the two chambers was not the war. It was a Republican crossover coalition that shrank from four senators in June to one in July.
House Passes a Congressional Stock Trading Limit, With a Voter ID Rider That Clouds Its Path
On July 22, 2026, the House passed the Stop Insider Trading Act 232 to 198, barring members of Congress, their spouses, and dependent children from buying individual stocks. Republican leaders attached a federal voter photo identification requirement to the bill, which split the very Democrats who back the trading ban and left the measure facing a hard road in the Senate.
How the STOCK Act Works, and Why Congress Keeps Trying to Replace It
The 2012 law that governs congressional stock trading does not ban the trades. It requires members to disclose them, sets a low late fee, and leaves prosecution to securities law that has never been used against a member. Here is what the STOCK Act actually does, by the numbers.
Four Times in Fifty Years: The Spending Deadline Congress Almost Always Misses
Since the modern budget process began, Congress has passed all twelve of its annual spending bills on time exactly four times. The record is not an accident. It is the baseline.
Congress Enters Its Last Week Before Recess Having Passed Three of Twelve Spending Bills
The House has moved three of its twelve annual appropriations bills across the floor. The Senate has marked up none. The fiscal year ends September 30, and the calendar is the tightest resource in the room.
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All posts →Fifty-Three Years of War Powers Votes, and the One Count That Explains This Week
Congress has reached for the War Powers Resolution again and again since 1973. The record shows a chamber can almost always pass one, and almost never make it bind. This week split that truth cleanly down the middle.
86 Percent of Us Agree on This. Washington Still Could Not Ship It Clean.
Almost nothing in this country draws 86 percent agreement across both parties. Barring members of Congress from trading individual stocks does. On Wednesday the House passed a version of it anyway, then stapled a second, unrelated question to the same vote. I want to separate the rare good news from the ordinary Washington part.
Congress Built Itself a Kill Switch for Federal Rules. The Arithmetic Explains Why It Almost Never Fires.
On July 16 the Senate declined to repeal a Medicare rule using a law written for exactly that purpose. The vote was 46 to 50. The history of that law shows the outcome was set by the calendar, not the merits.
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