This story is part of a series of monthly snapshots from the Washington Examiner, titled Midterm Countdown, gauging the state of the 2026 election cycle. Scroll down to the bottom of the story for the latest prediction market odds of who is going to win. The GOP is in final preparations for the Republican Midterm Convention […]

EXCLUSIVE — The nation’s largest Tea Party group, Tea Party Patriots Action, is emerging as a leader in training thousands of poll watchers and workers across several battleground states before the midterm elections. The next training for the group will occur a day after the Republican National Committee midterm convention ends next week. Tea Party […]

The first round of September Social Security payments for retirees, now capped at $5,181, will be issued in three days. When will payments arrive? Retirees born on or before the 10th of a month will receive this payment on Wednesday, Sept. 9. The second round will go out on Sept. 16 to those born between […]

The percentage of independent voters who “lean more toward the Democratic Party” has ticked upwards ahead of November’s midterm elections, according to the latest quarterly party affiliation data aggregated by Gallup. Of the respondents in the Q2 survey who considered themselves neither a Republican nor a Democrat, 49% said they lean toward the Democratic Party, […]