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They are more than a year away – a lifetime in today’s fast and furious political cycle. But one man is already paying attention, pulling the levers of power and trying to tip the scales of the 2026 midterm elections. Donald Trump has made clear that he is willing to bring the full weight of the White House to bear …

Obama supports California redistricting, says GOP can’t ‘rig the game’  The Washington Post Obama Endorses Newsom’s Redistricting Proposal as a ‘Responsible Approach’  The New York Times Newsom-style redistricting efforts critiqued by California Democrats as recently as July, statements show  Fox News Over the long term, we shouldn’t have political gerrymandering in America, just a fair fight between Republicans and Democrats based on who’s …

Sign up for the Slatest to get the most insightful analysis, criticism, and advice out there, delivered to your inbox daily. The summer battle over partisan gerrymandered new maps has reached a fever pitch this week, with Texas Democrats ending their blockade of a session to redraw the state’s maps in favor of Republicans, Democratic California Gov. Gavin Newsom promising …

Los Angeles County deputies were in pursuit of an armed carjacking suspect who stole multiple vehicles, including a big rig, on Sunday night. It’s unclear where the chase began, but deputies said that they started to follow the suspect after learning of shots fired during a carjacking.  With SkyCal overhead, the driver, behind the wheel of a large pickup truck, …

A pair of armed carjackers stole at least three vehicles, including a semi-truck, from a driver in the middle of a car chase from the San Fernando Valley to downtown LA on Sunday. The chase began in Lancaster after law enforcement received a call of a carjacking at gunpoint. Two people took off from the scene in a stolen truck …

President Trump’s advisers are defending his decision to fire the Bureau of Labor Statistics Commissioner Erika McEntarfer after Friday’s jobs report showed the economy gaining just 73,000 jobs in July. In a social media post on Friday, Trump baselessly claimed the numbers “were RIGGED in order to make the Republicans, and ME, look bad.” On Sunday, National Economic Council Director …

In a brazen move, Republicans in Texas have set out to redraw the state’s congressional map — an effort to boost President Trump and the GOP in the 2026 midterm elections. Gov. Gavin Newsom has threatened to respond in kind, gerrymandering blue California to give Democrats a lift and offset the Lone Star lunge for power. That would mean scrapping …