Weird CapHill story developing here.  Rep. Mike Thompson (D-CA) is up against Democratic challenger Eric Jones in November. California’s election system promotes the top two vote getters to the general election.  TJ Adams-Falconer is former communications director for Thompson. He has cut an ad for Jones, saying Thompson has been in office too long and asserting that the Congressman wants to “die” in office.  A group of former Thompson aides say Adams-Falconer only worked for their former boss for a few months, question the assertion that Thompson wants to die in office and ask they remove a photo of those aides which appears in the commercial.

Jeffries: Donald Trump has consistently trafficked in vile and xenophobic rhetoric against the Somali American community, targeting Congresswoman Ilhan Omar with unhinged personal attacks and baseless accusations. After lawlessly sending his violent DHS machine to Congresswoman Omar’s home earlier this month, the President is once again peddling sick propaganda against her at a moment when political violence is surging. We aggressively oppose the weaponization of the federal government against Congresswoman Omar, who continues to work hard on behalf of her constituents in Minnesota with strength and dignity. Accountability is coming for the Trump Cartel and all of their lawless sycophants.

Can progressives actually enact their agenda if they get control of Congress? Doubtful if voters elected moderate Democrats in battleground districts and states. radio.foxnews.com/2026/10/24…

Potential leadership musical chairs on Capitol Hill. foxnews.com/politics/reporte…

How progressives could overpromise and under deliver legislatively - even if Democrats seize control of Congress. foxnews.com/politics/reporte…

The Hitchhiker’s Guide To Progressive Promises Versus Legislative Realities   “I am a supporter of Medicare for all,” declared Minnesota’s Democratic nominee for Senate, Lt. Gov. Peggy Flanagan (D). “I'm going to get there with my friend Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT). And we are going to power map the sh*t out of the U.S. Senate and figure out how to build power for the things that we know that we deserve and the things that we need.”   Hard left, progressive candidates like Flanagan are pitching Medicare for all. The abolition of ICE. The Green New Deal. An arms embargo for Israel. And a $25 an hour minimum wage.   Flanagan is in a race with Republican Senate nominee Michelle Tafoya to succeed retiring Sen. Tina Smith (D-MN). The race favors Flanagan. So it’s not a done deal that she wins. But Democratic Socialist candidates for the House like Donavan McKinney in Michigan, Chris Rabb in Pennsylvania, Melat Kiros in Colorado, along with Claire Valdez and Darializa Avila Chevalier in New York probably will. They will prospectively represent Democratic strongholds where those progressive ideas are popular.   But if Democrats win either the House or Senate, it won’t be because voters pulled the lever for Kiros in Denver or Avila Chevalier in Harlem. They’ll win because Democrat Cait Conley defeated Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) in Dutchess County, north of New York City. Maybe because voters cast their ballots for Democrat Brian Poindexter in Wooster, OH rather than Rep. Max Miller (R-OH). Democrats could flip the House if Democratic nominee Christina Bohannan appeals more to voters in Davenport, IA than Rep. Mariannette Miller-Meeks (R-IA).   This brings us back to the progressive agenda.   Democrats might win the House and or the Senate. But Valdez and Kiros aren’t the “majority makers.” Candidates like Poindexter and Conley are. And if they’re elected to the House, it’s doubtful that moderate Democrats from those districts can support progressive ideas like the Green New Deal or Medicare for All. It’s about the math. And it’s more than likely that Democrats will need the voters of those moderate “majority makers” from battleground districts to enact those policies.   that’s to say nothing about needing 60 yeas in the Senate to crack a filibuster – even if Democrats do marshal a slim majority there. And, if something extreme did get through both bodies of a potentially Democratically-controlled Congress, he would like veto it.   It is said that you campaign in poetry but you govern in prose.   The left has pushed a lot of progressive poetry with their agenda items of late. They’ll tout the opportunity to enact some of those policies if Democrats win the majority.   However, the reality of advancing any of that into legislative reality is slim. The progressive ideas may energize the base. But the Democratic base is sure to feel let down if Democrats can’t make good on some of their campaign promises.

The Senate, data centers and what it all has to do with a competitive Senate race in Ohio. foxnews.com/politics/reporte…

15 days to the midterms. And donors plus interest groups have spent a record-breaking $15 billion on this midterm. My breakdown. foxnews.com/video/6407084142…

Republicans warn voters about what could happen if Democrats seize control of Congress in the midterms. My report: foxnews.com/video/6407080284…

Interest groups and candidates are spending a record amount of money on this year's midterm elections. And Elon Musk sent in a stash of money on his own. My report: foxnews.com/video/6407077008…

How redistricting on both sides of the aisle could impact the midterms. Who won. Who lost. radio.foxnews.com/2026/10/18…

What’s ahead for the midterms. radio.foxnews.com/2026/10/11…

The accidental Speakership of late Speaker Dennis Hastert. And his sordid past before he arrived in Washington. foxnews.com/politics/dennis-…

Highest Ranking U.S. Official To Ever Serve Jail Time, Former House Speaker Dennis Hastert Dead at 84   The Purcell County, Illinois Coroner’s office says former House Speaker Dennis Hastert (R-IL) “passed away at his home due to natural causes.”   The brief statement was posted on the coroner’s website early this morning.   Hastert was 84 and one of the most ignominious figures to serve in American politics.   Hastert was the longest-serving Republican Speaker in history, wielding the gavel from 1999-2007. But Hastert’s career featured one of the most disgraceful falls from grace, becoming the highest-ranking U.S. official to ever do jail time.   The scandal involving Hastert emerged years after he left Congress – but dates back to the 1960s and and 1970s when he served as high school history teacher and wrestling coach in Illinois. Hastert admitted in 2015 that he sexually abused teenage students and athletes as young as 14 – long before he entered Congress in the mid-1980s.   Hastert was an accidental Speaker.   He served as Chief Deputy Whip in the Republican hierarchy in late 1998 when House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA) decided to step aside. Gingrich was controversial. Some GOP Members had knives out for him and believed Gingrich overplayed his hand pushing for impeachment of President Clinton. This – coupled with Republicans nearly losing control of the House in the 1998 midterms set the table for Gingrich to step aside.   Republicans then tapped then Rep. Bob Livingston (R-LA), Chairman of the Appropriations Committee, to become Speaker in 1999. But in late 1998 as the House voted to impeach Clinton, it came to light that Livingston had an inappropriate relationship with a lobbyist. Hours before the House voted to approve two articles of impeachment for Clinton linked to his relationship with Monica Lewinsky, Livingston announced stepped aside and said he would not stand for Speaker in the new year.   By nightfall, Republicans picked Hastert, a backbencher, to serve as Speaker in 1999.   Hastert was criticized in late 2006 for not moving more aggressively to protect teenage House pages after it was discovered that then-Rep. Mark Foley (R-FL) sent inappropriate text messages to the pages. The scandal led to end of the House page program, which dates back to the beginning of the republic.   Hastert lost the Speakership when Democrats seized control of the House in the 2006 midterms. Hastert did not serve in the GOP leadership in early 2007 and resigned from office later that year.   Hastert was often quiet and shunned interviews and the press. Known as “Coach” to fellow lawmakers because of his wrestling background, Hastert often proclaimed that he was more of a “listener” than a “speaker.”   But Hastert’s career took a dark turn in 2015.   Federal banking regulators flagged Hastert’s curious withdrawals of staggering amounts of cash at peculiar intervals. Banking regulators suspected the transactions signaled that someone may be blackmailing the former Speaker. But that’s how it came to light that Hastert was actually paying millions of dollars in hush money to the family of a student he abused in the 1970s.   Hastert admitted to sexually abusing students decades before at his trial for illegal bank transactions, saying he “mistreated athletes” and “took advantage of him.” The judge in the case called the former Speaker “a serial child molester.”   Hastert served 13 of 15 months his federal sentence for banking crimes at a facility in Rochester, MN. However, Hastert was never faced legal ramifications for sexual conduct.   Hastert is also known for the “Hastert Rule.” When Hastert served as Speaker, he would not bring a bill to the floor unless it had the support of a majority of House Republicans. House GOPers continued to use that standard to bills for many years after Hastert left office. But that terminology fell out of favor after Hastert was convicted and information about his past became public

Trump on time change bill which passed the House but is stalled in the Senate: We want to get away from this ridiculous way and custom of twice a year, turning your clocks back, turning clocks forward, being late for dinner, being late for very important meetings. It's ridiculous. And if you look at the public, they agree that's a 100% issue, 65%. I'll give you an example. Right now we're sitting out here. It's light. It's nice if you come down here in in another three weeks, it'll be dark. It'll be who wants it. We want our sunlight in the afternoon..So the House voted it more than 80%. It's been sitting up there. And hopefully we can get Tom Corron to move. Tom Cotton is holding it. He shouldn't be holding it. It's an issue that people want…We have the vote in the House. Mike Johnson did a great job. Now we'd like to have the vote in the Senate. Tom Cotton is holding it up, you know. What's it? The farmers want it. You know, wants it. Sports want it. Professional sports. And amateurs that would like to play tennis at night, would like to play golf a little bit without having to run home after 14 holes. It's ridiculous. It's very expensive to do. It's not a good thing. People don't want to have to change their clocks twice a year..It's a lot of work for a lot of people that running around for two days, changing all the clocks in their house. So it's an easy win. And I'm not even talking about for the Republican Senate, but the Senate, because it's a very bipartisan issue. And Senator Tom Cotton of Arkansas, a state that I won by 35 or 40 points

What the Senate accomplished - and didn’t accomplish - during its last week in session before the midterms. radio.foxnews.com/2026/10/03…

A month out from the midterms. A deep dive into what the Republican redistricting efforts got the party in House races. foxnews.com/video/6406141234…

Friday night, recess maintenance in Statuary Hall of the Capitol

Rand Paul’s cmte sent a criminal referal to DoJ for Fauci nearly 2 months ago. But why nothing has happened since then. My report. foxbusiness.com/video/640608…

Two months after Fauci invoked the 5th 111 times and the GOP has gotten nowhere convincing the DoJ to prosecute him. My report. foxnews.com/video/6406074980…