Trump's Puerto Rico fallout is ‘spreading like wildfire’ in Pennsylvania  —  Evidence of the backlash was immediate on Monday.  —  Donald Trump has a serious Puerto Rico problem — in Pennsylvania.  —  Many Puerto Rican voters in the state are furious about racist and demeaning comments delivered at a Trump rally.

What More Do You People Want from Kamala Harris?  (Part Deux)  —  She's done everything voters could reasonably have asked for.  —  ∙ Paid  —  Tonight we're going to livestream Kamala Harris's big closing argument rally for Bulwark+ members.  The show starts at 7pm.

Steve Bannon Is Getting Out Of Prison — And Heading Right Back To Court  —  The longtime Trump ally went to prison after refusing to comply with the Jan. 6 congressional committee.  Now he's facing conspiracy, fraud and money laundering charges.  —  Former Trump White House strategist Steve Bannon …

The hard truth: Americans don't trust the news media  —  A note from our owner.  —  Jeff Bezos is the owner of The Washington Post.  —  In the annual public surveys about trust and reputation, journalists and the media have regularly fallen near the very bottom, often just above Congress.

George W. Bush's Daughter Barbara Breaks Silence on Election to Campaign for Kamala Harris (Exclusive)  —  Barbara Pierce Bush tells PEOPLE she's “hopeful” that voters will back Harris on Nov. 5 to “move our country forward and protect women's rights”  —  Barbara Pierce Bush …

Trump identifies a scapegoat in case he loses … - Under Whatley — and at Trump's insistence — Republicans say they've amassed 200,000 poll watchers and poll workers across the country.  — It's an unprecedented program that's partly aimed at collecting evidence of voter fraud …

This Trump supporter was labeled a noncitizen and kicked off Texas' voter rolls  —  Mary Howard-Elley is the 10th U.S. citizen identified by ProPublica, The Texas Tribune and Votebeat whose registration was canceled after her citizenship was questioned.  Her saga shows how tough it can be for eligible voters to get reinstated.

Burning Ballots  —  It's not what we normally expect in American elections, but it was all too predictable in this election cycle.  —  This morning in Portland, Oregon, an incendiary device attached to the outside of a ballot drop box started a fire inside of it.

A vote for Donald Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles  —  An endorsement of democracy, solving problems, and Kamala Harris. … Donald Trump is a dangerous maniac who can barely complete a sentence, and it is lunacy to believe he can even recognize the existentially threatening …

The most misogynistic ad in the history of politics  —  Elon Musk created America PAC to help Donald Trump win the presidential election.  Through the end of September, Musk spent $75 million to fund the PAC's activities.  More recently, Musk began giving away $1 million per day to registered voters …

Elon Musk Bought a Texas Compound for His 11 Kids and Their Mothers … On a quiet, leafy street of multimillion-dollar properties, one stands out: a 14,400-square-foot mansion that looks like a villa plucked from the hills of Tuscany and transplanted to Austin, Texas.

Republicans lose back-to-back rulings in swing state lawsuits  —  Federal judges turned aside two Republican-led challenges to voter registration procedures in North Carolina and Pennsylvania on Tuesday, a double-whiff in the party's quest to make last-minute changes to the voter rolls.

On Elon Musk's X, Republicans go viral as Democrats disappear  —  A Washington Post analysis found that Republicans are posting more, getting followed more and going viral more now that the world's richest Trump supporter is running the show.  —  The top political accounts on X have seen …

PhD student finds lost city in Mexico jungle by accident  —  A huge Maya city has been discovered centuries after it disappeared under jungle canopy in Mexico.  —  Archaeologists found pyramids, sports fields, causeways connecting districts and amphitheatres in the southeastern state of Campeche.

JD Vance will sit down with Joe Rogan tomorrow  —  Republican vice presidential nominee JD Vance is traveling to Austin, Texas, on Wednesday to sit down for an interview with podcaster Joe Rogan in his studio.  Donald Trump joined Rogan for a three-hour interview on Friday.

The Game Theory of Democracy … Adam Przeworski, a political scientist, left his native Poland a few months before the 1968 Prague Spring uprising and found he could not return home.  To avoid being arrested as a dissident by the Communist government, he accepted a job abroad at a university in Santiago …