US Politics Pulse

Recent polling on the Iran strikes illustrates the partisan lens that now dominates how Americans view military action and national purpose.

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The Court blocked Trump's birthright citizenship order in a 6-3 ruling, holding that presidents cannot redefine the 14th Amendment without Congress or...

House Speaker Mike Johnson led the White House-backed Rededicate 250 event on the National Mall, drawing thousands for a prayer to reclaim America as...

A Manhattan Institute poll cuts through online and media noise to reveal where Republicans and Democrats are actually headed ahead of the 2026...

• Marketplace enrollment dropped 13% to 19.2 million, the largest decline since 2014.
• Trump administration credits fraud controls and canceled...

Three developments worth noting today:

• Florida sees four former U.S. House members running for non-consecutive terms this cycle, part of nine since...

A leading conservative think tank with ties to congressional Republicans and the Trump administration is urging deep federal health spending...

The administration is advancing a multi-front immigration strategy after court rulings.

• TPS for Haitians: Supreme Court permitted termination of...

Speaker Mike Johnson met with defense industry executives including Radiance Technologies at a Birmingham GOP fundraiser, discussing midterm...

Congress just approved its largest housing legislation in decades, passing the 21st Century ROAD to Housing Act with a 358-32 House vote to boost...

President Trump signed a proclamation suspending countervailing duties on phosphate fertilizer imports from Morocco to lower costs and strengthen...

House Republican infighting has turned routine procedural votes into leverage points, collapsing floor control and forcing an early July recess.
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The rollback of export controls on Anthropic's Fable model offers relief but leaves U.S. AI policy in disarray.

• An ad hoc licensing regime with...

Republican Darren Bailey’s campaign is leveraging AI-generated images and videos on social media to mock Gov. JB Pritzker, citing massive engagement...

President Trump has started construction of a new helipad on the South Lawn after the VH-92A Patriot helicopters proved unable to land there without scorching the grass. Lockheed Martin is funding the work with a $5 million donation.

Crypto firms have become the dominant corporate political donors in the 2026 midterms, spending $189M—more than a third of all corporate donations—to...

Election integrity faces overlapping pressures from individual violations, foreign operations, and institutional clashes.

• Non-citizen fraud cases...

• Mike Rogers faces AFL-CIO attacks in Michigan over Trump policies, a pivotal Senate race where Democrats see an opening
• Hickenlooper defeats...

The Supreme Court’s Trump v. Slaughter decision fundamentally reshapes the administrative state, with direct implications for the NLRB, EEOC, and other federal agencies.

• The 6-3 decision strikes down 1974 limits on coordinated party-candidate spending, freeing parties to pool and direct funds for ads, polling, and...