Hi everyone - as you might have guessed, life hit me like a freight train again, and I'm unable to continue the newsletter on my own. However, as I figure out next steps, the team at the Center for Strategic Politics has you covered with an Election Day 2026
Hi all - a reminder that primary previews and PAC Tracker issues are paywalled now. Regular issues and FEC roundups are going to go next, and everything will be paywalled by sometime in October. The final preview of the regular primary season, Delaware, will come out in advance of the First
Wednesday primaries. Absurd. I hate it. Never do this again, Rhode Island. Anyway, the nation's smallest state is packed to the brim with primaries for statewide office and state legislature, so there's a lot for us to walk through—starting with the most endangered governor in
These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, September 6, and report new expenses filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 31. Future editions will update the tallies
As mentioned in the Massachusetts preview, the paywall is going to start going up on previews and PAC Trackers shortly, so subscribe now if you want to keep getting those. Subscribe Massachusetts results Massachusetts was chock-full of close-but-not-quite results for progressive primary challengers, including a particularly
These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 30, and report new independent expenditures filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 23. Future editions will update the
This is Part II of the Massachusetts primary preview, covering the state House. Part I can be found here. In Western Mass legislative primaries, I was aided by local insight from Matt Szafranski, a Springfield-area attorney who runs wmasspi.com, a local political news site with a Western Mass
Hi, everyone—the Massachusetts preview is so long that I have to break it up into two, because many email providers won't be able to do it all as one email. (There's only so much I can do to keep it brief when there are more
MA-Sen: Never let it be said that Seth Moulton didn’t have enough money to beat Sen. Ed Markey. If he loses, it’s because voters just plain dislike him. MA-01: The scale of that spending by Rep. Richard Neal is breathtaking, and the vast majority of it
These tallies will cover all independent expenditures filed with the FEC to date in races I’m watching by the end of the day yesterday, August 23, and report new expenses filed with the FEC since the last PAC Tracker’s cutoff, August 16. Future editions will update the tallies
Before we get into the August recap, as promised, here's the regular issue; the recap is below, after a divider. A PAC Tracker and a Massachusetts pre-primary FEC roundup are also coming today. CA-34 A renewed wave of sexual misconduct allegations reminiscent of 2017’s original