I want to be clear up front that this isn’t something I heard about third hand or am making this up. It is now documented with numerous parties and corroborated with Ring footage.

I live in a middle income historic neighborhood in Texas that’s made up predominantly of younger working professional families wanting an old home with character mixed amongst older baby boomer college graduate Latinos that are likely second generation natural born American citizens or more. Their moving into the neighborhood started in the 70’s when you started to see a higher degree of ownership amongst Hispanics following Jim Crow abolishment. (To get even deeper, this neighborhood was created with specific deed verbiage that prohibited selling to brown and black people because the developer in the 1920s was a virulent racist that subsequently had his name struck from many institutions and roads).

That is the long story long to explain that this neighborhood is not comprised of undocumented folks or working class.

Monday morning, I was out for a jog and turned the corner on one of my favorite streets that has beautiful, grand two story brick homes and was met with 4-5 parked unmarked vehicles with flashing lights including an Econoline van and numerous men in fatigues and flak jackets milling around one of the lawns. As soon as I saw their ICE insignia, I kept my head down and jogged past. I couldn’t see anyone apprehended or what could be considered a “successful” raid. I didn’t pull out my phone to record as I’m not interested in an altercation with guys with seven weeks of training and zero understanding of constitutional rights. I was just deeply confused why there would be an operation in my neighborhood in the first place and got the hell out of there.

I got home and opened the news and saw it was the start of early voting. My blood turned cold. This “operation” was directly across the street from the community center where early voting was happening. I immediately called my county commissioner, county Dem chair, and the non partisan hotline. Within minutes, I was fielding phone calls from law firms and advocate groups and met them at the spot so they could document exactly where they were, as they had left by then. They’ve allegedly obtained camera footage of their presence from the neighbors. The commissioner let me know I wasn’t the only one that called it in and he was now adding 100 more poll watchers to the sites to report their presence.

It’s happening. They’re trying to intimidate including in places they likely have no reason to be investigating. Don’t let them gaslight you that it’s our imagination or being fabulists. Report them and let’s take back our democracy with voting.

This Fox News reporter got an answer she didn’t expect

CNN chief data analyst Harry Enten breaks down Democratic nominee James Talarico's persistent slight edge in the Texas Senate race.

Also, CNN's Audie Cornish is joined by former George W. Bush adviser Mark McKinnon to talk about members of the Bush dynasty breaking away from Texas GOP candidate Ken Paxton.

We can know a few things even before the midterm elections: The Senate won't gain enough Democrats to remove Trump from office. Trump can pardon anyone he wants from conviction. Trump's unpopularity is an ongoing strength for Democrats and the left. I think House Democrats should approach Trump and make him a promise that they won't pursue impeachment again so long as he stays out of the way of investigations into Republicans and members of his cabinet and administration. That includes defending them publicly. This doesn't mean that awful things that Trump has done won't be investigated. It just means Dems take impeachment off the table so long as Trump doesn't obstruct. Trump does not GAF about the Republican Party. Democrats can still expose Trump's actions and orders and the Republican brand and Trump will let it happen as long as he feels he has some form of immunity.

Madgi Jacob’s, one of the best independent journalists and someone who called out the lousy Michigan polls in real time.

Elections forecasting agency The Cook Political Report moved 19 House races toward the Democrats in an update this morning that said the chances of a Republican House majority “have all but evaporated.”

The elections forecaster said Democrats are now expected to flip between 12 and 22 seats in the House.

“Several of these ratings changes — particularly in Texas and North Carolina — are tied to Republicans’ underperformance at the top of the ticket and the resulting delta between Republican and Democratic voter enthusiasm statewide,” The Cook Political Report said.

The forecaster moved six races from “toss up” to “lean Democrat” and two races from “lean Republican” to “toss up.”

Elon Musk is threatening to "come for" Democrats calling on him to be investigated. This comes after Musk reportedly ordered the slowdown of Starlink technology critical to Ukraine's defense against Russia. Rep. Suhas Subramanyam (D-VA), member of the House Oversight Committee, joins Peter Alexander to share his thoughts.

South Carolina Senate race: The latest polls

Dr.Annie Andrews is within 1-2 percentage points of Darlene Graham in the red state of SC which would have been an impossibility just a few short years ago!

Let’s donate to her campaign and get the good doctor elected as senator!

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And all the men and women merely players. Proud of the warm welcome from my alma mater.

I'm not linking to the article because the source is a garbage entity not deserving of clicks. The long and short of it is AIPAC is going to stop supporting candidates in obvious ways which can result in the support being used against them 'as a cudgel' to use AIPAC's phrasing.

So, a slimy group is going to resort to even more slimy tactics due to their massive unpopularity.