The Big Picture Newsletter

U.S. President Donald Trump.Photo by Alex Wong/Getty Images. Donald Trump will address the nation about “election fraud” in prime time tonight, and by his own account, the news is “really, really big.” The speech arrives at a precarious moment for a president who has spent five and a half years building up his false election fraud claims.

Donald Trump will take to primetime TV tomorrow night to address the nation on elections, and by his own preview, it’s “really, really big.” The speech comes at a moment when nearly every legal and legislative avenue he’s pursued to challenge how America votes has hit a wall: the Supreme Court just handed his administration a rare defeat on mail-in ballots, and the SAVE Act is dead in the Senate for the third time.

LEFT: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton.Photo by Stewart F. House/Getty Images.CENTER: Rep. Mike Collins, R-Ga.Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images.RIGHT: Former chairman of the Republican National Committee Michael Whatley.Photo by Matt McClain/The Washington Post via Getty Images. Headlines of the 2026 cycle often center around the triumph of Democratic recruitment. And rightfully so. Democrats were not supposed to have a shot at retaking the Senate this year.

LEFT: Tucker Carlson.Credit YouTube/Fox News.CENTER: US President Donald Trump.Photo by SAUL LOEB / AFP via Getty Images.RIGHT: Elon Musk.Photo by Johannes Neudecker/picture alliance via Getty Images. America only accepts white refugees now. That’s not an exaggeration. In 2026, every refugee admitted via the U.S. Refugee Admissions Program was white. And of the 6,668 refugees admitted from October 2025 to today, all but three were white South Africans.

Gabby Birenbaum@birenbomb INBOX: James Talarico announces a 750-mile "Frontera Tour", in which he'll travel by bus from El Paso to the Rio Grande Valley to meet with Texas border communities He'll stop in El Paso, Marfa, Eagle Pass, Del Rio, Laredo and McAllen, beginning tomorrow. 5:44 PM · Jul 10, 2026 · 19.7K Views 36 Replies · 77 Reposts · 371 Likes

Democratic U.S. Senate candidate Graham Platner.Photo by Laura Brett/Getty Images. After days of swirling rumors about the release of yet another damaging story, on Monday Politico reported that Graham Platner’s ex-girlfriend, Jenny Racicot, accused him of sexually assaulting her five years ago. Her account was supported by contemporaneous psychiatrist records and confirmed by others whom Racicot had told about the incident.

Russia’s President Vladimir Putin chairs a meeting with members of the government via videoconference in Moscow.Photo by Gavriil Grigorov / POOL / AFP via Getty Images. On July 6, Ukrainian drones struck Russia’s largest oil refinery, in the Siberian city of Omsk, some 2,500 kilometers from Ukraine. Until that night, the Omsk facility was one of only two of the country’s top ten refineries Ukraine had not yet hit.

Ukraine’s drones reached a place called Omsk this week. That’s 3,000 kilometers from the front line, deep in Siberia. There, they hit the largest oil refinery in Russia. That attack follows several successful strikes on Russian oil depots and refineries. And just days earlier, Ukrainian forces struck nearly two dozen vessels from Russia’s shadow fleet in the Sea of Azov alone, which were carrying critical fuel to occupied Crimea.

LEFT: Michigan Senate candidate Abdul El-Sayed.Photo by Evan Cobb for The Washington Post via Getty Images.RIGHT: U.S. Rep. Haley Stevens (D-MI).Photo by Sarah Rice/Getty Images. Ever since Donald Trump retook the presidency in January 2025, the left has largely been unified in opposition to a common foe.

Four months from Election Day, and Democratic candidates for U.S. Senate are showing major strength in their bid to flip the Senate blue. In North Carolina, former Governor Roy Cooper is surging in the latest NYT/Siena poll, with 50% support. In Iowa, the red state’s newly minted Democratic Senate candidate Josh Turek has surged to a 4-point lead. In Georgia, a new poll shows Democratic Senator Jon Ossoff with an even bigger lead against his MAGA opponent, Mike Collins.