Welcome to Tuesday’s edition of Washington Secrets. Today we have a dive into the fundraising numbers that show that Democrats’ target list of midterm districts is aspirational, to put it politely, or a “political hallucination,” if you are less polite, plus how Donald Trump is uniting British politicians… Democrats keep expanding their battleground map of […]

Washington Examiner chief political correspondent Byron York said that Democratic lawmakers eyeing the White House will need to “reckon” with the last administration’s handling of immigration and border security. Authorities identified Mohamed Bailor Jalloh, a naturalized U.S. citizen from Sierra Leone who spent six years in the Virginia National Guard, as the gunman in the […]

Israel’s assassination of most of the paramilitary Basij’s leadership signals a new phase in the war, in which the political repression apparatus in Iran is becoming the primary target. On the night of Monday into Tuesday, Israel launched its largest and most effective wave of assassinations since the opening hours of the war with Iran, […]

Joe Kent, the director of President Donald Trump‘s National Counterterrorism Center, announced his resignation Tuesday. Kent served 11 combat tours before joining the Central Intelligence Agency in 2018 and taking over the administration’s counterterrorism center last summer. He is the first high-ranking Trump administration official to leave his post based on the president’s war in […]