Aidan McLaughlin

Republicans have gathered at Trump's urging in Dallas, Texas, for an unprecedented midterm convention. The event is for Trump, about Trump, but no one dares mention the policy that has come to define his second presidency.

On night one, President Trump pledged to distribute $5,000 to every American adult if voters keep his party in power this November.

In a capital flush with cash, there are new emblems of power: certain watches, certain private clubs, even landing your private jet at a certain airport.

On Pebble Beach, the strip of broadcast booths that line the driveway leading up to the West Wing of the White House , you typically find some of

From her house on a military base, Stephen Miller’s wife treats Washington’s most powerful to custom cakes, live donkeys, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs.

From her house on a military base, Katie Miller treats Washington’s most powerful to cakes, farm animals, and sake-squirting hibachi chefs. "I can’t fucking stand her,” says one ally. But "Stephen Miller is the second-most powerful person in the world.”

On a night out at his “clubhouse” in Washington, the Fox News anchor weighs in on Trump's war with the media, his old colleague Pete Hegseth, and how history will judge our increasingly wild national climate.

Plus: What happens when Trump's new press secretary falls into a pit filled with carnivorous reporters?

The president is roaming the country in a frantic and possibly self-defeating quest to save Republicans as his party braces for a wipeout. A new kind of campaigning is on the rise, but there are still some old-fashioned battles raging from Michigan's Upper Peninsula to the stark plains of Texas.

In the age of vertical video, political messaging lands in bite-size clips. No Democrat is thriving in this new world quite like the young senator from Georgia. Maybe 2028 has already started.