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Our 80-year-old president is once again struggling to stay awake on camera.

Just two days after calling a protester demanding the release of the Epstein files an “illegal immigrant,” Vice President JD Vance claimed that the man who interrupted his rally for Ohio House candidate Eric Conroy on Wednesday hadn’t “showered in three m…

Attorney General Todd Blanche’s understanding of the Justice Department is a stark departure from the law enforcement agency’s historic position within the federal government.

The chairman of the Federal Communications Commission is openly attacking media outlets for what he describes as “entirely Fake Polls and Suppression Polls.”

The Trump administration’s crackdown on supposed noncitizen voting led to 11 people being arrested in California, one of whom was a 72-year-old man who says he has never voted in a U.S. election.

Armed federal agents are spending the days leading up to midterms going door to door asking people their immigration and voter registration status.

Even in the deep red state of Florida, Americans are feeling a bit more liberal.

President Donald Trump warned he’d send “no money” to poisoned veterans if Republicans did not win the House and Senate in November, marking a new low for his shoddy midterms campaign.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 21 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

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The Department of Justice’s purported list of noncitizen voters contains quite a few people who say they were born in the United States.

With less than two weeks until Election Day, the Michigan Senate race is more or less on a knife’s edge.

Donald Trump flew to North Carolina in an attempt to rescue Republican Senate candidate Michael Whatley, but apparently even the president has given up on the liberal-favored race.

Minnesota GOP House candidate Eric Pratt accidentally left an artificial intelligence prompt up on his website that showed him asking the AI tool to avoid talking about President Trump due to his dismal approval ratings.

Vivek Ramaswamy’s disgusting campaign advertisement featuring his opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother is already backfiring.

Trump administration envoy Steve Witkoff thinks Russian President Vladimir Putin is a “humanitarian.”

Democratic nominee for Congress and former New York City Comptroller Brad Lander was detained by the Israeli military in the occupied West Bank Wednesday morning.

It’s been a big year for the supremacy clause.

Public approval for organized labor stands at a remarkable 71 percent, according to Gallup—its highest level since 1957.

The candidates favored by billionaires and industry backers almost certainly won’t do as well in the midterms as they did two years ago, when the favorites of Elon Musk and other superrich individuals won numerous races, including the presidency.

Paweł Pawlikowski’s Fatherland is a postwar period piece mapping a Germany whose broken halves reflect distorted mirror images: Prosperity and austerity signify twin existential crises.

Texas’s five biggest counties smashed voter turnout records on the state’s first day of early voting in the midterm elections.

President Trump bizarrely spoke about being in his third term as president at a White House event on Tuesday.

America’s 80-year-old president is going to get tough on crime, as soon as he finishes his nap.

President Trump verbally rebuked multiple reporters during his anti-fraud website announcement in the Oval Office on Tuesday afternoon.

Vivek Ramaswamy won’t take credit for a vile campaign advertisement featuring his opponent Amy Acton’s estranged mother—but he’s more than happy to defend it.

Donald Trump seems to be under the impression that Minnesota’s Somali population has affected the state’s lake count.

Suspicious mailers from a nonexistent trans rights group are showing up in voters’ mailboxes in Texas ahead of the midterms.

President Trump is offering up to $30,000 to anyone who calls in a tip pertaining to government fraud—all while turning a blind eye to the fraud being committed by his administration.

So here’s how the game works.

Donald Trump has made supposed voting integrity a fundamental component of his brand since the 2020 presidential election.

While the Trump administration is gearing up to interfere in November’s midterm elections, federal officials are secretly speaking with state governments and members of Congress on what to do.

A 56-year-old father of three who died in Immigration and Customs Enforcement detention over the weekend was a lawful permanent resident, The Texas Tribune reported Monday.

CNN is threatening to file another lawsuit against the Trump administration for continuing to deny them access to the Air Force One press pool.

Secretary of State Marco Rubio doesn’t see anything wrong with how Donald Trump is interacting with America’s foreign adversaries.

Why was President Donald Trump waving at empty space?

Harris County, Texas—Texas’s most populous county, which Kamala Harris won in 2024 with 52 percent of the vote—broke its early voting record on Monday, eclipsing the previous mark by a whopping 41,000 votes.

President Trump is claiming that the U.S. will burn like France if Democrats triumph in November’s midterm elections.

Vice President JD Vance isn’t so sure that the president will have his back in the 2028 election.

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President Donald Trump went on a late-night posting spree about debris and damage in his latest temper tantrum about East Potomac Park.

The FBI was investigating South Carolina Republican Senator Lindsey Graham and Democratic Representative Jim Clyburn for a massive pay-to-play bribery scandal involving a Hawaiian naval defense firm.

President Trump tried to defend Republican Senator Roger Marshall on Monday night at a rally in Park City, Kansas, but ended up using an antisemitic slur in the process.

The following is a lightly edited transcript of the October 20 episode of the Daily Blast podcast.

In an unexpectedly wrenching scene in You Can See Everything, Elizabeth Holmes is posing under bright lights, a series of dots penned on her face.

Pete Hegseth and his “High-T Department of War” are having a rough go of it lately.

According to many political theorists, Brazil did everything right after the corrupt and unpopular Jair Bolsonaro was voted out of office in October 2022.

Donald Trump’s approval just sank to an abysmal 33-66 in the new Washington Post poll, a record low in Post polling.

Eleven people with lawful permanent resident status were arrested in California Monday for alleged voter fraud.