- Hafiz Rashid @ The New Republic: Trump’s Attempt to Punish Cassidy Hutchinson Ends in a Flop
A grand jury failed to indict the former White House aide.
- Jake Lahut @ Intelligencer: The Last Stand of a MAGA Party Girl
Lauren Boebert bucked Trump on Epstein, got ensnared in a sex scandal, and is now fighting for her political life.
- Nina Golgowski @ HuffPost: GOP Candidate, 58, Calls Recent Unsolicited Nude Sexts 'Youthful Indiscretions'
Tennessee state Sen. Brent Taylor said his wife and God have forgiven him, “and I would consider everyone else doing the same.”
- Amy Qin @ The New York Times: One Race in Texas Has Become a Referendum on Bigotry in the G.O.P.
Bo French said the presence of Indian American students at a football game was a “problem.” His campaign for Railroad Commission tests whether these biased views are now mainstream.
- Doug Bock Clark @ ProPublica: How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a Movement
Conservative attorney Cleta Mitchell has shaped virtually every aspect of the Trump administration’s norm-busting agenda on American elections.
- Travis Gettys @ Raw Story: Election stunt backfires as right-wing activist James O'Keefe charged with unlawful voting
Conservative provocateur James O’Keefe has been criminally charged over a polling place stunt meant to expose supposed weaknesses in Minnesota’s election laws.
- Steven Monacelli @ Texas Observer: Ken Paxton’s ‘October Surprises’ Are Pure Disinformation
For Paxton and the influencers around him, shoddy work in the election’s home stretch is getting rapidly exposed—though some mystery still surrounds a deceptive mail campaign.
