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ALTER VERWALTER.
Wann haben E-Autos eine bessere CO2-Bilanz als Verbrenner? Nach 10 Jahren? Nach 5 Jahren?
IM. ERSTEN. JAHR.
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The United States Constitution puts control over elections in the hands of the states
and grants Congress the ability to pass federal election legislation.
It gives no explicit authority to the executive branch.
But in early February, Trump said he wanted the Republican-led federal government to “nationalize” or “take over” the running of elections.
“A state is an agent for the federal government in elections,” he said.
Trump had already, in March 2025, signed…

The Many Ways Trump Is Trying to Tip the Scales for the Midterms
Here’s how President Trump is using the powers of his office to try to reshape the rules governing the midterms and future elections.

The Trump administration renewed its appeal to the US supreme court on Sunday
to allow restrictions on mail-in voting,
after a federal judge had blocked new limits on such ballots, just ahead of November’s midterm elections.
The latest filing follows a decision by US district court judge Indira Talwani on Friday to extend a court order
preventing the US Postal Service (USPS) from enforcing Donald Trump’s executive order.
The legal fight was continuing as states …

Trump again asks supreme court to restrict mail-in voting as midterms loom
Legal fight continues as states begin sending out ballots for voters to vote by mail in November’s midterm elections

OpenAI and Anthropic-aligned super PACs have spent $55.7M on the US midterms so far; of 95 ads, all avoided reference to data centers and only some mentioned AI (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2026/0

How A.I. Super PACs Are Trying to Influence the Midterms
See how groups aligned with Anthropic and OpenAI have funneled major money into the fight for control of Congress.

A federal judge on Friday again blocked Donald Trump’s executive order
to impose sweeping restrictions on mail-in voting,
the latest in a legal back-and-forth playing out less than two months before election day.
US district court judge Indira Talwani initially placed a temporary order blocking the president’s mandate
and has now extended that prohibition with a stronger preliminary injunction.
The ruling comes hours after North Carolina became the first state …

US judge extends block on Trump order to restrict mail-in voting
Indira Talwani’s ruling presents major setback for president as first states begin to send out mail ballots for midterms

After months of resistance, the Democratic National Committee finally relented this May and published a draft of its "autopsy" of what had gone wrong in the 2024 election,
saying it was releasing the unfinished document “in its entirety” in the interest of transparency.
But, according to Paul Rivera, the man who wrote the autopsy, the draft omitted a chapter titled
“What Happened in 2024,”
which he said he had printed out and placed in a three-ring binder th…

Author of Democrats’ 2024 Autopsy Says Party Left Out Key Chapter
A dispute over the chapter between the author and the Democratic National Committee has added to the party’s turmoil as it tries to look forward, not backward.

When John Sayles, then a student at Williams College taking time off from his summer factory job,
was hitchhiking during the summer of 1970 in West Virginia,
it was often coalminers who picked him off the main interstate highways.
At the time, miners were amid the wake of a contentious union election within the United Mine Workers of America.
Fierce tensions had led to the murder of the union reform candidate Joseph Yablonskiand his wife in December 1969.
Miner…

‘A reminder of why we have unions’: Matewan writer and director on the film’s lessons for the labor movement
John Sayles’s 1987 film, which dramatizes a 1920 labor conflict, shows how class solidarity can overcome prejudice

A federal judge in Boston said on Thursday the US Postal Service had told her nothing about how it would implement a plan to regulate mail ballots for the midterms
as she considers whether to let the plan proceed in the weeks before election day.
US district court judge Indira Talwani is deciding whether to extend her prohibition on the proposed regulation of mail ballots,
an effort undertaken as part of an executive order by Donald Trump.
The hearing in the closely …

Federal judge considers whether to extend ban on USPS mail ballot changes
Judge says US Postal Service has told her nothing about how it plans to regulate mail ballots for midterm elections

The battle for the Senate is being fought across a very small map.
The Cook Political Report, a prominent US election forecaster, currently lists seven seats as tossups:
Alaska, Iowa, Maine, Michigan, New Hampshire, Ohio and Texas.
A further two – North Carolina and Kansas – are leaning Democrat and Republican respectively.
Democrats must win at least four seats that are held by Republicans to gain a majority

The US midterm races that will decide control of Congress – mapped
These graphics explain what the Democrats would need to do to flip the Senate and House of Representatives