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Once again, Republicans are growing anxious about losing a Senate seat in Texas

The final two weeks of the 2020 election are upon us, and with the political climate continuing to favor Democrats overall, Daily Kos Elections is moving our race ratings in 11 more contests—nine shift to the left, while two move towards the GOP. We also now have a total of 11 GOP-held Senate seats rated as Lean Republican or better for Democrats. You can find all our Senate, gubernatorial, and House ratings at each link.

Bipartisan effort grows to protect U.S. democracy from a sore loser Donald Trump

Donald Trump has made clear that he expects to lose the election but plans to do everything he can to cast doubt on the results, even at the cost of faith in U.S. democracy. That’s an enormous, ongoing piece of bad news that we live with every day. The good news is that Democrats and election integrity organizations and even a few good-faith Republicans aren’t just sitting around waiting for the worst. They’re mobilizing now to be ready with a response.

Supreme Court will soon hear Trump’s push to exclude undocumented immigrants from census

The Supreme Court isn’t finished possibly issuing another devastating ruling in the 2020 census count. Just days after issuing a brief, unsigned order allowing the U.S. Census Bureau to end data collection early, the court last Friday agreed to fast track impeached president Donald Trump’s discriminatory order seeking to erase undocumented immigrants from the count in order to affect apportionment of House seats.

The Atlantic Daily: Three Stories We’re Following

Every weekday evening, our editors guide you through the biggest stories of the day, help you discover new ideas, and surprise you with moments of delight. Subscribe to get this delivered to your inbox.Three Stories We’re FollowingMARK FELIX / AFP / GETTY1. The third coronavirus surge is here. A troubling bellwether: Hospitalizations are up in many states, according to data from our COVID Tracking Project.2. We’ve reached the final weeks of the Trump-Biden race.

How to Defend Against a Lame-Duck Trump

The polls are grim for President Donald Trump. His campaign faces a big and worsening money disadvantage. His closing arguments appeal only to the most hyper-partisan Republicans.Many have worried about the transition after a Trump electoral defeat. Will Trump leave office quietly and peacefully? But there are other, less dramatic dangers to ponder, too—dangers that we would do well to anticipate and guard against.

The COVID-19 Documentary All Americans Need to See

Given the ongoing nature of the pandemic, it may seem senseless to make a two-hour film that looks back on how the coronavirus ran rampant in the U.S. And yet, Totally Under Control—from the Oscar-winning writer-director Alex Gibney and his co-directors, Ophelia Harutyunyan and Suzanne Hillinger—not only documents the chaos of 2020 with clear-eyed precision, but also successfully argues for its own existence.

25 of the Best Horror Films You Can Watch, Ranked by Scariness

Horror means something different to everyone. One of my most traumatic movie memories remains the . Karyn Kusama’s movie was a major comeback for a talented filmmaker who had toiled in so-called director jail for years; with a limited budget, she turned an awkward dinner party in the Hollywood Hills into an unbearably tense satire of modern self-help groups.

The Vaccine News That Really Matters

Before COVID-19 upended our lives, clinical vaccine trials typically made news only when they were done—when scientists could definitively say, Yes, this one works or No, it doesn’t.

Jeremy Scahill on Trump’s “Homicidal” Pandemic Response & What’s at Stake in November Election

As President Trump campaigns in swing states that are also coronavirus hot spots, The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill argues he is directly responsible for the poor U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic, which has killed almost 220,000 people in the country so far and sickened millions. “I don’t know how else to describe what Trump has done except homicidal,” says Scahill, host of a new seven-part audio series that examines the Trump era.

Jeremy Scahill: “Trump Is Not the Root of the Problem, He Is a Product of American Imperial History”

Donald Trump ran for president in 2016 with a mixed message of attacking the legacy of the Iraq War and U.S. military adventurism, while simultaneously pledging to commit war crimes and promote imperialism. As we look back at Trump’s record, Jeremy Scahill, co-founder of The Intercept, says his flouting of international norms and bullying of other countries is in keeping with how U.S. presidents have long behaved. “Donald Trump is not the root of the problem.

Jeremy Scahill: Trump’s Xenophobia Is Horrific, But U.S. Immigration Policy Has Always Been Racist

In Part 2 of our discussion of the Trump era with The Intercept’s Jeremy Scahill about his new seven-part audio documentary “American Mythology,” he examines how Trump’s xenophobic immigration policies have been a “methodical, surgical operation” to make life miserable for both current and prospective immigrants, including asylum seekers fleeing violence.

Jeremy Scahill: Trump Has Incited White Supremacists & Emboldened Police to Act Outside the Law

As the 2020 presidential campaign enters its final two weeks, we look at the past four years of the Trump presidency with investigative journalist Jeremy Scahill of The Intercept. His podcast “Intercepted” has just released the fourth chapter in a seven-part audio documentary titled “American Mythology,” which critically examines the Trump presidency and places it within a larger historical context.