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The Lever
• Luke Goldstein
Financial disclosures reveal Trump’s CFPB pick advised companies accused of ripping off consumers — and if confirmed, he won’t recuse himself from overseeing them.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Yet another Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee-endorsed candidate is set to lose their primary to a progressive.
The Lever
• Sarah Sax
Big Tech is building AI infrastructure in the world’s most polluting oil field, where Americans face mounting exposure to toxic emissions and regulators struggle to keep watch.
The Lever
• David Sirota
The Democratic Socialists of America are winning big this summer — but can a DSA candidate land the governor’s seat in a swing state like Wisconsin?
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Big Oil is laying off workers while ramping up production — and profits.
The Lever
• Freddy Brewster
The crypto investors donated $20 million in bitcoin to Trump's super PAC weeks after his administration moved to abandon a federal enforcement action against their crypto exchange.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Taylor Farms, the suspected source of the cyclospora outbreak, gave $1 million to the MAGA Inc, PAC just days after the Trump administration delayed food tracing requirements.
The Lever
• The Lever
Midterm machinations, movie monopolies, and more from The Lever this week.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Democrats keep promising to fix the country’s problems. But many refuse to name the corporate interests standing in the way.
The Lever
• David Sirota
With Graham Platner out, the battle for Maine's Senate seat just moved behind closed doors.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Bernie Sanders’ chief campaign strategist says Democrats rigged the 2016 presidential primary — and started a fight the party is still having today.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
The Warner Bros.-Paramount merger championed by the Trump administration has hit some legal roadblocks.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Outside groups have spent more than $20 million backing the corporate Democrat in Michigan’s Senate race.
The Lever
• Luke Goldstein
The law firms that helped Elon Musk gut Delaware’s shareholder protections are now spending big to save the Democratic lawmakers who made it possible.
The Lever
• Laura Krantz
The landmark 1988 Supreme Court case that once checked presidential power.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
A fatal shooting by an Immigration and Customs Enforcement officer has taken center stage in the push to unseat Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine).
The Lever
• Katya Schwenk
A medida que los tribunales de inmigración aceleran los procedimientos de deportación, la administración Trump retiene fondos y, al mismo tiempo, presiona a las organizaciones de asistencia legal para que revelen datos confidenciales sobre niños vulnerables.
The Lever
• Matt Stoller
Democratic powerbrokers are now positioned to use the Maine Senate candidate’s withdrawal to overturn voters’ policy demands.
The Lever
• David Sirota
As Abdul El-Sayed surges, Mallory McMorrow drops out, and Haley Stevens digs in, Michigan is revealing a national realignment inside Democratic politics.
The Lever
• David Sirota
Replacing complacent Democrats with populist Democrats in blue districts can scare every other incumbent into action – or face the threat of being fired.
The Lever
• The Lever
Political outsiders ascendant, the War on Terror comes home, and more from The Lever this week.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
California turns down the volume, Medicaid cuts get sued, Wyoming goes grocery shopping, and New York transit gets a discount.
The Lever
• Lyna Bentahar
This week, LeverMind is testing your knowledge on the 2026 midterms. Have you been keeping up?
The Lever
• Reed Galen
Former Republican insider Reed Galen watched the GOP dismiss its voters until Donald Trump remade the party. He says Democratic leaders are making the same mistake.
The Lever
• Eshaan Vakil
Joint Task Force Vanguard, Trump’s new unit targeting “anti-Americanism,” is being led by prosecutors with deep ties to the post-9/11 War on Terror.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
It’s been a lucrative year for President Donald Trump.
The Lever
• David Sirota
David Sirota visits the Michigan birthplace of “Reagan Democrats” to meet with the Senate candidate who poses a populist threat to both parties.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Denver's fifteen-term congresswoman just lost her U.S. House primary race to a progressive endorsed by the Democratic Socialists of America.
The Lever
• Luke Goldstein
GOP Rep. Tom Kean Jr. took four months off from Congress, fully paid, to treat depression. Time and again, he’s voted against paid sick leave legislation.
The Lever
• Veronica Riccobene
Justices ruled 6-3 in favor of Big Business and the GOP to eliminate longstanding campaign finance limits.
