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                            October 28, 2025MAGA Makes Allies Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        From Argentina to Japan, MAGA is going global.

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                            October 28, 2025Deposit Insurance for Billionaires? By Stephen Moore
        Politicians in Washington have the shortest memories.

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                            October 24, 2025The Trends in New Jersey and Virginia By Michael Barone
        No two states voted more alike and closer to the national average in last year's presidential election than the two states that have gubernatorial elections in this odd-numbered year: New Jersey and Virginia. New Jersey voted 51.8% for Kamala Harris and 45.9% for Donald Trump. Virginia voted 51.8% for Harris and 46.1% for Trump. Aside from the seven target states and Democratic underperformance in New Hampshire and Minnesota, these were the two closest states in the country.

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                            October 23, 2025Did Hospital Protocols Make COVID Outcomes Worse? By Brian C. Joondeph, M.D.
A new Rasmussen Reports survey reveals an unsettling reality: nearly one-third of American adults say someone they know died of COVID-19 while hospitalized, and almost half believe hospital treatment protocols likely contributed to that death.
October 23, 2025Notes on the State of Politics: MN-SEN to Likely Democratic; Watching Voter Dropoff in VA-AG Race By Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Republicans have a couple of open-seat Senate targets in Kamala Harris-won New Hampshire and Minnesota.
— History suggests Democrats should be able to hold both races, but Minnesota has clearly become a less attractive target for Republicans than New Hampshire.
— In Virginia’s closely-watched attorney general race, we are curious to see how many voters skip the AG contest entirely. Typically, the amount of dropoff from the gubernatorial race to the AG race is quite low.

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                            October 22, 2025To Lower Health Costs, Legalize Catastrophic Health Insurance Plans for All By Stephen Moore
        The following column is coauthored by Stephen Moore and David M. Simon.

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                            October 22, 2025Free Speech By John Stossel
       The Constitution's First Amendment protects free speech for good reason.
        If people can't say what they want, we don't have honest debate.
        I was relieved when Donald Trump, campaigning for the presidency, said, "If we don't have free speech, then we just don't have a free country!"

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                            October 21, 2025How To Make the Americas Great Again By Daniel McCarthy
        President Donald Trump is in a fight for the destiny of the Americas.

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                            October 17, 2025Trump Defies Conventional Wisdom ... So Far By Michael Barone
        "What all the wise men promised has not happened, and what all the damned fools said would happen has come to pass." That was the mordant comment of Lord Melbourne, Queen Victoria's first prime minister, on the failure of a liberal reform to achieve the results promised with great assurance by the articulate liberal eminences of the day.
October 16, 2025Maine Senate Primary Tests Whether Democrats Will Keep Deferring to Their Leaders By J. Miles Coleman and Kyle Kondik
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Gov. Janet Mills’s (D-ME) Senate run sets up an intriguing primary that will test Democratic voters’ willingness to go along with the preferences of party leaders.
— Mills’s most prominent rival, oyster farmer Graham Platner (D), is already attacking her, and the primary illustrates several fissures in the party, including insider vs. outsider and older vs. younger.
— There are several instances of sitting governors losing Senate primaries in the postwar era, but these are generally from decades ago.

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                            October 15, 2025Shut Down! Do You Care? By John Stossel
        The government is "shut down."

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                            October 14, 2025Stop the UN Global Climate Tax on American Ships By Stephen Moore
        Later this week the United Nations will hold a vote on a multibillion-dollar climate change tax targeted squarely at American industry. Without quick and decisive action by the White House, this U.N. tax on fossil fuels will become international law.

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                            October 10, 2025Are Democrats the Party of Murder? By Michael Barone
        Why are so many Democrats fond of wishing death on their opponents? That's a question raised by two astonishing developments early this month. On Oct. 3, National Review's Audrey Fahlberg revealed texts Jay Jones had sent, perhaps mistakenly, to Virginia state Del. Carrie Coyner, bemoaning the cordial remarks then-Virginia House Speaker Todd Gilbert, a Republican, was delivering after the death of a Democrat.
October 9, 2025Two New Swing Seats? Unpacking Utah’s (Possible) New Map By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE—In Utah, Republicans passed a new U.S. House map that could potentially be used next year, as the current map was ruled unconstitutional.
—Though the map Republicans passed retains four Trump-won districts, we would likely place two of those districts in competitive rating categories.
—The plaintiffs, who sued to have the original Utah map overturned, have submitted their own plans to a judge; both maps would almost certainly result in 3-1 GOP delegations.
—In Tennessee, the parties picked nominees for a TN-7 special election this week; we rate that contest as Likely Republican.

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                            October 8, 2025Time to Evict the UN: Americans Are Right to Back Trump’s Tough Talk By Brian C. Joondeph
President Trump’s blunt assessment of the United Nations during his September 23 address wasn’t just political theater. It reflected the growing frustration many Americans feel toward a bloated, ineffective, and increasingly hostile international organization.

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                            October 8, 2025Banning Pet Sales By John Stossel
        When Mike Ricci wanted to buy his daughter a puppy, he discovered that in his state, "There were pet stores but none that sell puppies (or kittens)."

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                            October 7, 2025Why Sharpies Are Made in America Again By Daniel McCarthy
   President Donald Trump loves a Sharpie pen, and now he has all the more reason to love the company that makes them.

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                            October 7, 2025Spectrum Sale Enhances Economy and National Security By Stephen Moore
   A great but unheralded feature of the One Big Beautiful Bill passed in July was an authorization for the Federal Communications Commission to raise $88 billion to $100 billion through electronic spectrum auctions.

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                            October 3, 2025Donald Trump: Energy in the Executive By Michael Barone
        Whatever else you want to say about him, President Donald Trump has what Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 70 called "energy in the executive." Announcing a peace plan for Israel and Hamas, ordering the dispatch of federal troops to protect immigration enforcement personnel in "sanctuary" states, authorizing his budget director to use reorganization powers available after Senate Democrats shut down the government, and announcing a pediatric cancer initiative.
October 2, 2025Rating the New Missouri House Map By J. Miles Coleman
KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE— Over the weekend, Gov. Mike Kehoe (R-MO) signed off on a mid-decade gerrymander designed to give Republicans all but one of the 8 House seats in his state.
— Aside from turning a blue district in the Kansas City area red, the map fortified the St. Louis-area MO-2, the most marginal GOP-held seat on the map.
— Though we are assuming the new map will be operative, there are some efforts to stop, or delay, the map’s implementation, including court challenges and a potential ballot measure.
— In Arizona, Rep. David Schweikert (R, AZ-1) got into his state’s gubernatorial race, which leaves open a competitive seat in the Phoenix area.