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The GOP nominee in a Virginia state House race this fall has dropped out. He says he lost his government contracting job and has no income, so he's had to take a job out of state & move away. That's... literally what Dems are campaigning on to win VA. www.princewilliamtimes.com/news/gop-nom...

JUST IN: Josh Kraft is dropping out of the mayoral election in Boston. This means that Mayor Michelle Wu, the progressive incumbent, is certain to win a second term. via WCVB: www.wcvb.com/article/josh...

JUST IN: Democrats have won the congressional special election in northern Virginia. AP just called the blue district for James Walkinshaw, who'll replace Democrat Gerry Connolly, who passed away this spring. (Final margin to come, but Walkinshaw up huge so far.)

Remember back in May, when Hungarian results were coming in, we were watching if the opposition to Prime Minister Viktor Orban would manage to win a supermajority? They did, & they just used it to pass a constitutional amendment to also remove the president from office. www.bbc.com/news/article...

Wisconsin's election commission found probable cause that Elon Musk broke state law with his promise of $1 million to voters and referred the case for possible prosecution to the Brown County DA's office. www.cnn.com/2026/07/14/p...

Florida's House District 47, which narrowly voted for Trump over Harris, is going to flip to Democrats in November because the GOP incumbent (and lone GOP candidate) was disqualified from the ballot for not filing all the necessary paperwork. floridapolitics.com/archives/806...

Election deniers, up and down the Arizona ballot. Arizona votes next week, and my preview shows the breathtaking degree to which the GOP primaries feature public officials and candidates who actively tried to overturn the 2020 election — including a fake Trump elector making a comeback.

Arizona’s elections are coming up next week now!

A ballot initiative to reverse Idaho’s strict abortion ban qualified for the ballot today. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026...

A judge just tossed the settlement between Trump and his IRS, saying the parties were not truly adverse to each other: www.reuters.com/world/us-jud...

Politico reporting that the SC governor is leaning toward announcing Graham's sister, Darline Graham Nordone, to replace him, as Trump wants him to as well. www.politico.com/news/2026/07...

All the more important today, given the shooting news out of Maine.

The USPS is unveiling several new policies that are threatening to disrupt the midterms. We hear a lot of anxiety about this from our readers — so we launched a call for questions a few days ago. Let us know what's on your mind about mail voting in the midterms, & our team will answer you! ⬇️⬇️⬇️