New in PN: Strong and right
"For decades, a core article of faith among party apparatchiks was that if Democrats simply published detailed policy platforms and then ran on those policies — or clever bywords like 'affordability' or 'abundance' — voters would swoon.
Wrong. And Democrats are finally figuring that out." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democratic-campaigns-2026
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New in PN: Trump bulldozes a golf course and the rule of law
"This is about whether the judiciary can constrain this president for the next two years, or whether he will be permitted to simply bulldoze the rule of law en route to bulldozing a public park and turning it into a walled garden for his own amusement." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-east-potomac-golf-course
New in PN: The weird rise and spectacular fall of Katie Zacharia
"Zacharia is not a victim. She is a lying conspiracy theorist who desperately maneuvered herself to attract the attention of an image-obsessed fascist in hopes that she could gain money and fame by lying on his behalf." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/katie-zacharia-rise-and-fall
New in PN: Steve Levitsky on the slide into “competitive authoritarianism”
"Perhaps the biggest reason the upcoming midterm elections are so critical is because they represent a last chance for voters to stop the American system of government from sliding into full-blown authoritarianism." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/steve-levitsky-interview-competitive-authoritarianism
New in PN: Dumb and dummymander
"In the aftermath of their mid-decade gerrymanders, the conventional wisdom was that the GOP had successfully buffered itself against potential House losses this year. That conventional wisdom steadily eroded as Trump’s approval numbers collapsed over the past 15 months." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/dummymander
New in PN: The GOP’s parade of horribles
"This is not a problem from which the GOP will free itself once Trump leaves office in 2029. Even if he withdraws quietly to Mar-a-Lago and stops promoting candidates loyal to him (which is highly unlikely), he has given birth to a generation of Republican politicians who want to be like him, or worse. And he has trained Republican voters to expect just that from their candidates." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/bad-gop-candidates-2026
New in PN: Trump wants a race war. Minnesotans won’t take the bait.
"They genuinely don’t understand how white citizens could care for immigrant communities in their midst, and they’re going to keep trying to drive a wedge between us. But Minnesotans will do what they did the first time around: take to the streets and protect our neighbors." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-minnesota-somalis-race-war
New in PN: Roger Marshall is running an all time terrible campaign
"After decades of crawling further and further into the orifice of the right-wing media bubble, GOP candidates no longer know how to distinguish truth from propaganda, much less how to persuade skeptical voters." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/roger-marshall-hamilton
New in PN: Schmitt happens all over effort to perjury trap Jack Smith
"Schmitt did not explain how attending a basketball game in Atlanta would be evidence of Smith cahootsing with DA Willis. But the GOP playbook relies on an absolute lack of shame, so Schmitt dutifully bellied up to the microphone to celebrate his flawless victory with the chuds keeping the grift alive in Charlie Kirk’s old studio." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/eric-schmitt-jack-smith
New in PN — The view from Canada: Make America Think Again
"Canadians marvel that Americans were foolish enough to put Trump in office a second time. There is zero trust they will choose to do the right thing in 2028, or risk themselves to fix their mistakes and rein in a madman." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-canada-us
New in PN: The trickle of Republicans opposing Trump will become a flood
"Republican candidates — even some who not long ago donned red MAGA hats — have decided their survival calculation has been flipped upside-down, and now the riskiest move isn’t to break from Trump; it's to stick with him unequivocally." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/republicans-oppose-trump
New in PN: The blackmail part out loud
"Trump immediately insisted he was 'only kidding.' But that too is a lie — he's already refused to pay promised funds for North Carolina’s relief, FEMA funds to blue states in the wake of disasters, and attempted to use blackmail to swing election results." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-north-carolina-blackmail
New in PN: Retire in peace
"McConnell would never be allowed to drive a car, babysit young children, or file his own taxes. Why, then, should a cognitively incapacitated 82-year-old retain one of the most important positions of power within the national government?" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/retire-in-peace
New in PN: Alito and Thomas keep pedal to the metal
"The only place where election fraud is real is in the right-wing media ecosystem where they marinate. And because they are so steeped in online misinformation and conservative grievance, they're willing to sacrifice every principle of law they ever espoused." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/supreme-court-mail-voting-ruling
New in PN: JD Vance will never escape the albatross of the Iran War
"Have you ever seen one of those videos of a car that got booted, and the driver decides to just give it a shot to drive away anyway? Inevitably, the boot tears up their car as they lumber slowly down the road. That’s what the Iran war is going to do to JD Vance’s campaign in 2028." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/jd-vance-iran-war
New in PN: Nina Jankowicz on the golden age of disinformation
“I’m not optimistic about us clawing back from this unless there’s serious rethinking of our systems, and frankly, regulation of these social media platforms that are making us such passive and uncurious consumers of information." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/nina-jankowicz-interview-trump
New in PN: Democrats in array
"The fact is Dems are ready to crawl across broken glass and over fields swarming with velociraptors to defeat the bloated fascist oligarch & his corrupt minions. And Democratic politicians are responding to these incentives by focusing their ire on the crime boss president. The result is a party that, yes, includes a broad range of ideologies, but which is nonetheless remarkably unified — & which looks poised for a historic midterm win." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/democrats-in-array
New in PN: Desperate to appear strong, Trump shows pathetic weakness
"How many voters watch him changing the name of one of the Great Lakes, then posting a deranged AI slop video in which geese with Trumpian blonde bouffants carrying assault rifles march to take control of Lake Ontario, and say to themselves, 'Wow, he’s so strong, I’m definitely voting Republican in the midterms'?" https://www.publicnotice.co/p/trump-lake-ontario
New in PN: Are voters finally realizing that GOP presidents are disasters?
"The last three Republican presidents have handed their Democratic successors an economic catastrophe, and the last three Democrats have had to do their best to clean it up. Why don’t Democrats ever say that? I think it would make a difference." https://www.publicnotice.co/p/disaster-republican-presidents