December 7, 2025 at 7:00 PM EST
What Tennessee's special election tells us about 2026

Survey Says is a weekly series rounding up the most important polling trends or data points you need to know about, plus a vibe check on a trend that's driving politics or culture. Republican Matt Van Epps won a Tennessee House special election on Tuesday to fill the seat vacated by Rep. Mark Green, who resigned in July. At first glance, it's a win for the GOP""but the margins reveal a more complicated story than a simple Republican hold.

December 7, 2025 at 6:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Too tired for a third term

A cartoon by Jack Ohman. Related | Why can't Trump remember why he had an MRI?

December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that "sanctuary" states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, for ProPublica

December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that "sanctuary" states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, for ProPublica

December 7, 2025 at 5:00 PM EST
Oregon struggles to land federal counterterrorism money as Trump orders troops to stop 'terrorists'

A quiet battle has played out in court over money that "sanctuary" states say is needed to fight true extremist threats from both ends of the political spectrum. by Tony Schick, Oregon Public Broadcasting, for ProPublica

December 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Tick, tick, tick ...

A cartoon by Clay Bennett. Related | 'Time is out': Democrat rips GOP's health care shenanigans

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM EST
Even apparent war crimes won't stop the GOP from defending Hegseth

Congressional Cowards is a weekly series highlighting the worst Donald Trump defenders on Capitol Hill, who refuse to criticize him""no matter how disgraceful or lawless his actions. Republicans are once again circling the wagons around Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth as he faces backlash for ordering the military to kill survivors of a missile strike in the Caribbean Sea.

December 7, 2025 at 2:55 PM EST
Cartoon: Pete's boats

A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Hegseth blames scapegoat for apparent war crimes he bragged about

December 7, 2025 at 1:00 PM EST
Her baby was in the NICU. She was in ICE detention.

Nayra Guzma'n was arrested 15 days after her daughter's difficult birth. Before Trump took office, postpartum immigrants were rarely detained by ICE. By Mel Leonor Barclay and Shefali Luthra for The 19th

December 7, 2025 at 11:00 AM EST
Sean Duffy once defended Congress's power of the purse. Now he defies it.

As a congressman, Duffy made an impassioned legal case against executive overreach. A decade later, judges have used those same arguments to rebuke him for withholding billions in transportation funding. By Jake Pearson for ProPublica Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy has been one of the most vociferous defenders of President Donald Trump's expansive use of executive authority, withholding billions of dollars in federal funding to states and dismissing protests of the White House's boundary-pushing behavior as the gripings of "disenfranchised Democrats."