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• Alaska probe into Dan Sullivan, 2026-10-30
  Recaps the Alaska ballot inquiry calls
  News roundup item on the Alaska ballot story: Republican officials, including the governor and a top Republican in Congress, called for inquiries into the Peltola campaign's recruitment of a second Dan Sullivan. It retells what the card already holds, then moves to an unrelated Nvidia item.
• Herrera pardon, 2026-10-30
  Adds the family's $3.5 million super PAC gift
  Walks through the Times report on Habba's $50 million deal with Herrera Velatini's family, adding the family's $3.5 million super PAC donation and its ballroom gift, and notes there is no smoking gun, only a fact pattern.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Walks through the sample ballot labels
  Walks through the sample ballot - Daniel J. Sullivan listed directly above Dan S. Sullivan, differentiated only by a lower-case parenthetical - and notes ranked choice voting could blunt the confusion. Adds Trump's Truth Social post claiming Democrats illegally recruited a Dan Sullivan.
• Alaska result lawsuit, 2026-10-29
  Finds nothing clearly illegal in the suit
  Browning closes the loop on the legal question: his reporting found nothing clearly illegal, ballot stacking is a bipartisan tactic, and experts say the DOJ suit is weak. The Alaska Supreme Court's ruling and the ballot's Dan/Daniel labels are recapped, not added.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Details how the recruitment worked
  Browning walks through how the recruitment worked: Peltola aides and national Democrats planned to pack the ballot, Kurtz pitched candidates under the pseudonym Zane, and he reported back that Dan J. Sullivan of Petersburg was open to running if it helped Peltola. Kurtz was in Petersburg shortly before the announcement.
• Peltola staff abuse report, 2026-10-29
  Traces the story to August firings
  Browning explains how the story began: Peltola fired veteran aides in August, including campaign manager Elisa Rios, and former staffers described abuse, slurs and the chameleon feeding. The campaign denies or disputes the accounts. It adds the firings and Rios as the thread that led to the Dan Sullivan reporting.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Interviews Dan J. Sullivan on the record
  Browning's interview with Dan J. Sullivan puts his own account on the record: a moderate Republican fed up with the senator's policies, who says he found consultant Amber Lee through an online search and that nobody put him up to it, while conceding past donations to and votes for Peltola.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Tours Petersburg with the candidate
  Browning flies to Petersburg and gets the tour from Dan J. Sullivan himself: 46 years in the fishing village, a retired teacher, volunteer firefighter and former arts council member, who says he is running because he is worried about the place.
• Times ties Peltola to Dan Sullivan…, 2026-10-29
  Retells the reporting behind the scoop
  Browning walks through the reporting behind the Times story: months of Republican allegations, Democratic denials, and the finding that the Peltola campaign and national Democrats ran a secretive plan to stack the ballot. It retells the scoop rather than adding to it.
• Acton's mother ad, 2026-10-28
  Retells the ad and the establishment backlash
  Uses the Ramaswamy ad as the clearest sign that pre-Trump Republicans are still willing to fight: DeWine calling it deeply troubling, establishment Republicans pushing back even at the cost of Ramaswamy's campaign. Retells the ad and the backlash, then moves to the lame-duck question.
• Halperin's midterm polling report, 2026-10-28
  Tours the map state by state on distance
  Walks through the distance problem state by state: Hinson's bipartisan ad in Iowa, Salazar's immigration spot in a 70 percent Hispanic Florida district, Marshall's subtle pushback in Kansas, and Paxton's polling deficit in Texas. A reported tour of the map, but it stays inside the polling picture already on the record.
• New Hampshire Senate race, 2026-10-28
  Adds a Times/Siena poll showing Sununu behind
  Profiles Sununu's distance-from-Trump closing ad and puts a new Times/Siena poll on the record: Sununu trailing Pappas by about five points, after an earlier fall poll had him ahead by a couple. Frames it against New Hampshire's Democratic margins since 2010.
• Maine Senate debate, 2026-10-28
  Profiles Collins's brand and anti-Trump record
  Profiles the Maine race through Collins's brand: the pork-barrel Appropriations record, the bipartisan identity built before Trump, and the Times analysis naming her the most anti-Trump member of Congress. Recaps the Democratic primary saga and the Kavanaugh and big beautiful bill votes; no new development.
• Anthropic's IPO filing, 2026-10-27
  Reports Anthropic's filing and revenue jump
  Reports Anthropic's filing to go public: first-half revenue above $16 billion, a 14-fold increase, surging debt, and an IPO expected next month that could value the company at up to $2 trillion.
• Machado returns to Caracas, 2026-10-26
  Recaps Machado's return to Caracas
  A brief news roundup leads with Machado's return to Venezuela on Sunday after nearly a year in exile, framed as pressure on the government to begin a transition. It restates the return already on the record and moves on to Obama, Trump and Alaska.
• Acton's mother ad, 2026-10-26
  Retells the ad and the omitted backstory
  Retells the Acton mother ad and the backstory it omits - the custody loss, the indictment, the stepfather's flight before trial - and the Republican backlash. It stays inside what the campaign documents and earlier coverage already established, adding only the hosts' read that the fallout could drag down the whole Ohio ticket.
• Talarico outraising Paxton, 2026-10-26
  Names the most-aired ad by dollars
  Turns to the Republican side of the ad war and names the single most-aired spot of the cycle by dollars: a Texas attack on Talarico over transgender care, built around a mother of five.
• Rogers Epstein audio, 2026-10-26
  Details the Kansas Epstein attack ad
  Details the first national Democratic ad in Kansas, which ties Roger Marshall to Epstein by saying he voted to keep the files sealed, and explains the turnout-suppression theory behind it.
• Hamilton's Kansas Senate run, 2026-10-26
  Plays the ad that never says Democrat
  Plays the early Hamilton field ad and notes the word Democrat never appears in it, framing the spot as the clearest example of the party's national strategy of selling candidates as atypical Democrats.
• Democrats lead 2026 midterm polls, 2026-10-26
  Walks through the swing-district ad playbook
  Goldmacher walks through the swing-district ad playbook: Democrats pin Republicans to Trump by vote percentage, naming Evans, Collins, Kiggins and Susan Collins. It is strategy framing inside the midterm environment, not a new poll or filing.