Elections

On September 3, the Missouri Supreme Court ruled unanimously that the congressional map Republicans drew in 2025 and used in Missouri’s August primary “is not the law and has never been the law.” The map, House Bill 1, was suspended before it ever took effect because a referendum petition against it was filed in time. The November election will run on the 2022 districts instead, and the referendum sits on the ballot as Proposition A.1 ...

Three times in the last sixteen months, the country has answered a single question in the streets.1 In June 2025, millions turned out on the same day the president staged a military parade for his own birthday. In October 2025, they returned for a second day of action across more than 2,600 locations. On March 28, 2026, they came back a third time, in what organizers described to the press as the largest single-day demonstration in American history, with events in all fifty states and every congressional district.12 I have written about each of these days on this site, because the question they answer matters more than the crowds: does the United States have a king? ...

Sixty-one days from now, on November 3, Americans will vote in a midterm election: all 435 seats of the House of Representatives, 35 seats of the Senate, and thousands of state and local offices. Most of us will vote without ever asking a question the Constitution answers in surprising and incomplete ways: what does the document actually say about federal elections? The answer is less than most people assume, and more. The original Constitution never mentions a right to vote for president, and barely mentions elections at all. What it does contain is a carefully engineered division of power over election machinery, a method for choosing a president that has been amended four times, and a counting procedure whose ambiguities were tested on January 6, 2021 and rewritten by statute a year later. This article walks through the text, clause by clause, because sixty-one days before a midterm is a good time to know exactly what is written down and what is not. ...

The 2026 midterms come Tuesday, November 3, with both chambers of Congress in play and an outcome that has become genuinely uncertain as the campaign enters its final stretch.1 Republicans control the Senate 53 to 47 and the House 219 to 212, with four seats vacant.2 Democrats enter the fall with the national wind at their back, roughly six points ahead on the generic ballot, and a plausible arithmetic for taking both chambers.3 The question is whether they survive contact with the map. ...

The 2026 Senate Map: A Race-by-Race Guide The setup: Republicans currently hold the Senate 53–47. Thirty-five seats are on the November 2026 ballot — 33 regular contests plus two special elections to fill vacancies. Democrats need a net gain of four seats to take the majority; Republicans can afford to lose only two and still hold it outright (a loss of three produces a 50–50 tie, broken by the vice president). ...