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Trump’s Terrified White House

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  —→End of Summer Sale:🔓 Unlock the full story. > For a limited time, you can tear down the paywall for just $1.05 per week . Get unfiltered, deep-dive political analysis from the sharpest strategists in the game when you upgrade now. Lock in 30% off forever Trump’s Terrified White House They’re not scared enough ... yet. Rick Wilson Sep 13 ∙ Preview   There are two Republican Parties right now, and only one of them is telling the truth. The first is Mike Johnson’s Republican Party. Johnson is traveling the country insisting that Republicans won’t just keep their hold on the House in November; they will, in fact, increase their majority. He is “absolutely convinced” they will defy history. Sure, Mike. He says this with the confidence of a man insisting he’s fine while the paramedics drag him from the wreck with massive chest trauma and load him into the ambulance. The other Republican Party is in the West Wing. It is lawyering up, and despite its public contempt for the ...
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Massachusetts political parties stand by as their membership rolls evaporate

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  Sponsored by The Boston Foundation The Best of CommonWealth Beacon OPINION Massachusetts political parties stand by as their membership rolls evaporate     September 13, 2026 By Steve Koczela  New party registration figures released by the secretary of state’s office once again show Massachusetts party membership withering. The newly released data show about 62,000 fewer party members compared to 2025 data, continuing the slide that began in 2020. At the same time, the number of unenrolled voters not affiliated with any party grew by over 220,000.   Contrary to what seems to be the gathering consensus , these trends do not reflect voters’ growing contempt for parties or distrust of institutions. Although party leaders and others regularly cite these factors as driving the decline in registration, there’s a much more prosaic explanation: What’s happening instead is new voters are being funneled into the “unenrolled” category due to the design of the state...
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