Pull up to a gas station this week and the math stops making sense. Four dollars and eighteen cents per gallon, the highest pump price in four years, and we are supposedly the largest oil producer on the planet. How exactly does that work?

It works because oil is a global market, and a single waterway off the coast of Iran moves roughly twenty percent of the world’s seaborne crude. When the Strait of Hormuz closes, the price of everything we burn, eat, ship, and build climbs alongside it. February’s military strikes on Iran kicked off a chain reaction that has not stopped, and the Council on Foreign Relations is now warning that what looked like a strong economy in 2025 is on genuinely shaky ground heading into November.

The numbers tell the story. Inflation jumped from 2.4 percent in February to 3.3 percent in March, driven mostly by a 21 percent surge in gas prices. The OECD says we could see inflation hit 4.2 percent this year. The University of Michigan’s consumer sentiment index just collapsed to 47.6, a record low, lower than anything recorded during the pandemic, lower than during the 2008 crash. People are not imagining the squeeze. They are living it.

And the squeeze is just getting started. Fertilizer ships through Hormuz too, which means the farmers who feed us are about to pay more for the inputs that grow our food. The World Bank is projecting a 24 percent surge in energy prices and a 16 percent jump in commodity costs across 2026. Mortgage rates have already climbed back above 6.25 percent, killing the modest housing rebound that was finally giving first time buyers a sliver of hope. The Fed cannot rescue us either, because cutting rates to fight unemployment would pour gasoline on the inflation fire, and raising rates to kill inflation would crush jobs. Welcome to stagflation, the word every economist hoped we would never hear again.

Then there are the slow burns nobody is talking about loudly enough. Amazon and Meta have laid off thousands. College graduates cannot find entry level work. Private credit, the shadow lending world that has ballooned outside the regulated banking system, is starting to draw comparisons to the subprime mess that blew up 2008. The Supreme Court struck down the administration’s tariffs, and businesses now have no idea what trade policy will look like in six months, which is precisely the kind of uncertainty that freezes hiring and investment.

Politically, this is a wrecking ball. Only 30 percent of voters approve of how the White House is handling the economy. Sixty percent disapprove. The president recently called affordability a “Democratic hoax,” which is a strange thing to say to a country where nearly half of adults name prices as the single biggest problem facing the nation. Thirty eight House Republicans have already announced they will not seek reelection. They can read the room.

Here is the harder truth. Even if Hormuz reopens tomorrow, the damage is done. Qatari LNG capacity could take three to five years to repair. Fertilizer shortages cannot be fixed during planting season. Inflation expectations, once they entrench, take years to break. We started this war, and we are going to live with its bill long after the cameras leave.

The question is not whether we feel the pain. We already do. The question is whether the people we elect in November understand that a foreign policy decision made in February became a kitchen table reality by April. If they do not, we will keep paying for it long after the next administration takes the oath. Go beyond the headlines…

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A quarter century covers a lot of ground. Two recessions. A pandemic that snapped supply chains in half. A financial crisis that gutted retirement accounts and swallowed homes whole. And yet, according to Gallup, right now feels worse than any of it. Fifty five percent of us say our financial situation is getting worse. That number is higher than it has been since 2001, beating out every dark moment in between.

For five straight years, more of us have said our finances are sliding backward than climbing forward. Five years. A whole presidential term and then some. Inflation may have cooled on paper, but the math at the kitchen table tells a different story. Eggs cost what they cost. Rent costs what it costs. And when 31 percent of us name the cost of living as our biggest financial problem, that’s not a polling artifact. That’s a country tightening its belt one notch at a time and running out of holes.

Now layer the Iran war on top. Gas was sitting around $2.98 a gallon before the U.S. and Israel struck Iran in late February. By the end of March, the national average blew past $4. Diesel jumped nearly 50 percent, which means the trucks hauling our groceries, our medicine, and our online orders are paying through the nose to keep moving. The U.S. Postal Service slapped on the first 8 percent fuel surcharge in its history this week. Airlines piled on baggage fees. Wholesale prices surged 4 percent last month alone. The Strait of Hormuz, that narrow stretch of water most of us couldn’t find on a map a year ago, has become the chokepoint deciding what we pay for breakfast.

The White House calls it a temporary disruption. Six weeks of $4 gas, two months of war, and 55 percent of us telling Gallup we’re falling behind doesn’t feel temporary. It feels like the new floor.

The political bill is coming due. Trump’s approval on the economy dropped to 30 percent in April, down from 38 in March. Three quarters of us now describe the economy as poor. Democrats have flipped the script on who voters trust to handle the wallet, leading Republicans 40 to 35, with independents giving them an 11 point edge. Just sixteen months ago, that advantage belonged to Trump. The voters who put him back in office on a promise to bring prices down are watching gas, groceries, and shipping costs climb in unison and noticing that the same officials who promised Day One relief are now asking for patience.

Here’s the deeper problem. Job growth has slowed to a crawl. Only 369,000 jobs added in the entire 14 months of this administration, compared to over 1.5 million in the final stretch of the last one. The federal workforce alone has been cut by nearly 12 percent. Tariffs continue to rattle small businesses that don’t have the margin to absorb them. AI is quietly chewing through office jobs at Meta and Microsoft. We are being squeezed from every direction at once, and the official answer is that the squeezing is good for us in the long run.

Maybe it will be. Maybe oil dips back under $80 by fall and inflation eases and the labor market finds its footing. But policy choices have consequences, and consequences have voters. The 2026 midterms won’t be won on slogans about a golden age. They’ll be won, or lost, on whether we can afford to fill the tank before payday.

That’s the test. And right now, we’re failing it. Go beyond the headlines…

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Pennsylvania matters. Michigan matters. Wisconsin matters. If you live anywhere else, your presidential vote is mostly decoration.

That sounds harsh until you look at the numbers. In the eight months leading up to the 2024 election, candidates made more than 200 campaign stops, and three out of every four happened in just seven states. The other 43 got the leftovers. If your zip code wasn’t on a battleground map, you weren’t being courted. You were being assumed.

Virginia just decided it had enough of being assumed. Earlier this month, Governor Abigail Spanberger signed legislation making Virginia the 18th state to join the National Popular Vote Compact, an agreement among states to assign their electoral votes to whichever candidate wins the most votes nationwide. The compact only kicks in once enough states sign on to control 270 electoral votes, the magic number to win the White House. Right now the pact sits 48 votes short. Backers say 2028 is realistic.

Without amending the Constitution, without a single vote in Congress, we could be two years away from a presidential system where the person with the most votes actually wins. Five times in our history, the loser of the popular vote has taken the Oval Office anyway. Two of those times happened in our lifetime.

The case for the compact is not complicated. When candidates only need to win seven states, they only listen to seven states. Tariffs, manufacturing policy, immigration, Medicare, energy, all of it gets filtered through what plays in Erie or Maricopa or Macomb County. If you are a teacher in Mississippi or running a shop in Idaho or working as a nurse in upstate New York, your concerns are background noise. Researchers at CIRCLE found that turnout among voters under 30 ran 17 points higher in battleground states than everywhere else. That is not apathy. That is math. Young voters know when a system is built to ignore them.

Critics raise a fair point. They argue the compact does not eliminate disenfranchisement so much as relocate it. Voters in states that don’t join would feel even more sidelined if their state’s electoral votes ended up in a candidate’s column they did not pick. Rural advocates worry that whoever wants 70 million votes will spend their time in Houston, Phoenix, Atlanta, and Miami, leaving small towns talking to empty podiums.

Both criticisms deserve weight. But they describe a different problem, not a worse one. Right now we have manufactured swing states and ignored everywhere else. A national popular vote would push candidates to chase votes wherever votes live, which includes suburban Texas, rural Pennsylvania, exurban Georgia, and yes, the cities. The pool of relevant voters expands from roughly 30 million people in seven states to all of us.

The deeper question is what kind of democracy we want our kids to inherit. One where presidential candidates work a handful of counties and then govern the country, or one where every vote pulls the same weight no matter the line on the map. Polling has shown majority support for direct election of the president in survey after survey going back decades. The resistance has never been about what voters want. It has been about what the current system protects.

The compact still faces hurdles. Legal challenges are nearly certain the moment it crosses 270. Congress may try to weigh in. State legislatures can repeal what they passed. None of that is settled.

What is settled is that something has to change. We are tired of being treated like spectators in our own elections. Eighteen states are betting that we are ready for a new arrangement. Forty eight electoral votes will tell us if they are right. Go beyond the headlines…

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$1.9 billion in cruise missiles launched in just sixteen days. That’s what we spent firing 535 Tomahawks into Iran during the opening weeks of Operation Epic Fury. And that was only the beginning.

Now the ceasefire is holding, for the moment, and the accounting has begun. A new analysis from the Center for Strategic and International Studies finds we burned through more than half of our prewar stockpile of at least four key munitions. Gone in weeks.

Here’s the catch. Replacing what we spent will take anywhere from one to four years, depending on the weapon. Some estimates run closer to four or five. The admiral who oversees the Pacific theater told senators this week that scaling up production of our most advanced missiles would take one to two years. Then he added a line that should stop us cold. “It won’t be soon enough.” 

That matters because China has been watching. So has North Korea. So has every adversary with a notebook and a budget. Munitions built for a potential Pacific conflict, the one Pentagon planners have spent years preparing for, were drained into the Middle East. A carrier strike group, an amphibious ready group, missile defense capabilities, all shuffled across theaters to keep pressure on Tehran.

And we’re footing the bill. The Pentagon is asking Congress for more than $70 billion just to procure missiles next year, nearly triple last year’s request. The total defense ask hit $1.5 trillion, the biggest year over year jump in military spending since the end of World War II. A single Tomahawk costs around $3.5 million. A single THAAD interceptor, roughly $12.7 million. That’s real money, and it’s our money. It won’t be spent on roads, classrooms, hospitals, or the medical research that could save a family member’s life.

The deeper trouble is that our defense industrial base can’t simply flip a switch. These weapons rely on tangled supply chains, long qualification cycles, and critical minerals that China largely controls. Sit with that for a second. We need rare materials from the exact rival we’re trying to deter, in order to rebuild the arsenal we just spent deterring someone else.

Our allies are noticing too. Japan was promised 400 Tomahawks. Delivery may now be delayed because of the Iran war.  Imagine you’re sitting in Tokyo or Seoul, staring down a nuclear neighbor, and the weapons you paid for are quietly rerouted to somebody else’s fight. That’s how trust in American commitments corrodes, quietly, in memos and missed timelines.

None of this is about whether we can finish the current war. We can. The CSIS report is clear that our inventories, for now, are deep enough. The risk lies in future wars. The risk is the next crisis, in the next region, against an adversary who can actually match us shot for shot. The risk is that we discovered the limits of American firepower in a conflict that was supposed to showcase it.

We often talk about national security as if it exists in a separate ledger from schools and infrastructure and healthcare. It doesn’t. Every missile launched in Iran is a choice not made somewhere else. Every production contract signed today is money our grandchildren will still be paying back. Every empty magazine is a signal flashing to Beijing and Pyongyang.

The ceasefire bought us a pause. It didn’t buy us a strategy. Before Congress rubber stamps a $1.5 trillion check, before we celebrate new framework agreements with defense contractors, we should ask the question nobody in Washington wants to answer out loud. What are we actually trying to accomplish, and what are we willing to give up to accomplish it? We deserve a real debate. We haven’t had one yet. Go beyond the headlines…

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Something shifted this month, and you can see it in the polling, the pundits, and the portfolios.

A new Strength In Numbers/Verasight poll released this week shows 55 percent of American adults now want the House to impeach President Trump. That is roughly where Richard Nixon sat days before his resignation in August 1974. It matches where opinion landed after January 6 and tops every other modern impeachment measure. And most startling of all, 21 percent of the people who voted for Trump in 2024 are ready to impeach the man they put back in the Oval Office just sixteen months ago.

That is one in every five of his own voters.

The timing tracks with the unraveling around us. Trump’s Truth Social posts about Iran, including his promise that Iran’s “whole civilization will die tonight,” pushed some of his loudest media allies over the edge. Tucker Carlson called threats against civilian infrastructure a war crime and says he now regrets helping elect Trump. Megyn Kelly, Alex Jones, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Theo Von, and Tim Dillon have all raised alarms. In Congress, Representative John Larson has introduced 13 articles of impeachment, and more than 85 House members publicly back either impeachment or the 25th Amendment.

And the political disillusionment isn’t the only kind setting in.

Consider the small army of retail crypto traders who bought the $TRUMP memecoin believing they were betting on the president and his promise to make America “the crypto capital of the planet.” More than 813,000 wallets, most belonging to everyday people, lost roughly $2 billion in the weeks after the token launched. The Trump family and its partners collected about $100 million in trading fees along the way. The coin is now down roughly 96 percent from its January 2025 peak of $74, hovering near $2.80. For every dollar the creators of the coin earned, ordinary buyers lost twenty.

Meanwhile, the top 297 token holders are being invited to a “Crypto and Business Conference” gala at the president’s Florida estate, where a seat can cost anywhere from $70,000 to $7.4 million. Senators from both parties have already sent letters demanding to know whether the president himself is directly profiting. It is the purest expression of the trade that sits at the heart of this presidency: the people at the top cash out, and the people who believed in it cash in their savings.

You cannot miss the pattern. The polling collapse, the impeachment support, and the financial wreckage of the memecoin all tell the same story. The base is getting wise. When Tucker Carlson says he regrets his vote, when one in five Trump voters wants him impeached, when retail traders who cheered his inauguration are now holding tokens worth pennies on the dollar, something fundamental is shifting. Loyalty is starting to cost more than it pays back.

None of this guarantees accountability. A Republican House is not going to impeach a Republican president. The White House already called Larson’s resolution “pathetic.” But the 120th Congress is another story. Democrats need only a modest net gain to flip the House, and the political environment favors the kind of wave we haven’t seen since 2018. If that happens, the next Congress walks in with a public mandate for impeachment already secured by polling.

The real question for the rest of us is simpler. When a presidency enriches the few while bankrupting the faithful, when it flirts with war crimes abroad and conflicts of interest at home, at what point do we stop arguing about whether to hold the line and start drawing a new one?

November is seven months away. The answer belongs to us. Go beyond the headlines…

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Count the empty chairs in Trump’s Cabinet this week. There are three now, and if you line up the nameplates, a curious pattern emerges. Kristi Noem out in March. Pam Bondi shown the door in early April. On Monday, Labor Secretary Lori Chavez-DeRemer joined them. Three secretaries gone in seven weeks. All three of them women.

The White House has reasons for each departure, and they are not cosmetic. Noem got tangled up in a $220 million ad campaign that seemed to star her more than the agency she ran, and her tenure at Homeland Security cratered after two American citizens were killed by federal immigration officers in Minnesota. Bondi crossed the president over the Epstein files, a saga Trump wanted buried. Chavez-DeRemer faced an inspector general probe over allegations of an affair with a subordinate, personal use of agency resources, and drinking on the job. Nobody is arguing these were unblemished records.

But here is where it gets interesting. FBI Director Kash Patel has weathered calls to resign. Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has too. Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth reportedly blocked promotions for more than a dozen senior Black and female military officers. Every one of those men is still at his desk. Debbie Walsh, who runs the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers, put it plainly to Axios. The question is not whether these three deserved to leave. It is why only these three, and not others who have given the president plenty of reasons.

Some will say it is coincidence. In Trump’s first term, the big firings mostly hit men. Rex Tillerson. Jeff Sessions. John Kelly. The argument goes that presidents fire underperformers, and the gender of the underperformer is incidental. Fair enough. But context matters, and the context this time is a White House that has made dismantling diversity initiatives a signature policy. Women who broke ceilings in the military have been quietly shown the exit. DEI offices across the federal government have been shuttered. When the administration’s approach to gender representation is this aggressive, patterns in who stays and who goes stop looking coincidental and start looking like culture.

Why does any of this matter to us, the ones outside the Beltway churn? Because cabinet secretaries run the agencies that touch our lives every single day. Labor sets wage rules and workplace safety standards. Homeland Security decides how immigration enforcement plays out on our streets. Justice decides which laws get prosecuted and which get ignored. When three of those seats turn over this fast, we get policy whiplash. Acting secretaries do not set bold agendas. Deputies running departments on a provisional basis cannot push through the kind of long planning horizons that actually protect workers, communities, and constitutional rights.

There is also the question of what signal this sends to the next generation of women eyeing public service. If the message is that women get the top jobs first and the boot fastest, fewer will raise their hands. That is a loss we will be paying for long after the 2026 midterms are over. It also narrows the talent pool for both parties, because the women watching this unfold are not just Republicans. They are every daughter deciding whether a life in government is worth the price of admission.

So here is the question: When the revolving door at the highest levels of government spins predictably in one direction, who benefits, and who pays? We do not need to agree on the motive to agree on the result. The only people who can demand better are us. Pay attention. Ask the uncomfortable questions. Hold both parties accountable for who they elevate and who they push out. Democracy happens in the details. Go beyond the headlines…

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Red tulips on a marble floor. That is what it took to stop traffic in the halls of Congress yesterday. Sixty two veterans and military families walked into the Cannon House Office Building rotunda, stood in a quiet circle, and refused to leave. The flowers were for the Iranians we have killed. The folded flag was for the American troops we have buried. And the zip ties were what Capitol Police used when they hauled these people out, one by one, for the crime of saying out loud what a growing number of us are thinking at home.

This war is not working. The people who know war best are the ones saying so loudest.

That should land differently than it has been landing. These were not college activists or cable news regulars. Many of them fought in Iraq. Some are disabled. All of them swore the same oath the troops now stationed across the Persian Gulf swore. When men like Mike Prysner, a veteran of the 2003 invasion, stand in the Capitol and tell active duty service members that conscientious objection is their legal right, we are no longer in the realm of ordinary protest. We are watching the moral scaffolding of a war crack in real time.

The war itself is already cracking. A ceasefire was set to expire today. Tehran has now said it will not negotiate under what it calls the shadow of threats, and the White House has answered by keeping a naval blockade clamped across the Strait of Hormuz. Fifteen American service members have already died since the first drone strike on a Kuwaiti logistics port in March. Thousands more troops are being forward deployed. And over the weekend the president promised that if Iran does not agree to his terms, and here I am quoting him, the whole country is going to get blown up.

Think about what that sentence means for us, sitting here in April of 2026. It means the commander in chief is openly threatening to target civilian infrastructure, which is the textbook definition of a war crime. It means articles of impeachment against the secretary of defense are being drafted in the House even as fresh units ship out. It means that when oil tankers cannot move through Hormuz, the price at our pumps moves instead. Inflation is ticking back up. Recruiters are struggling. Allies are hedging. And the people being asked to carry all of this on their backs are us — the same working families — who have carried every war of the last quarter century.

Here is the part nobody in Washington wants to say out loud. We have been here before. We were told Iraq would be quick. We were told Afghanistan would end. We were told the costs would be worth it. And every time, a generation of veterans came home to pick up the pieces of promises that were never ours to begin with. Yesterday those same veterans walked willingly into handcuffs to warn us, as clearly as they know how, that the next generation is about to repeat the cycle.

The question is whether we listen this time.

Call your representative today. Ask where they stand on a new Authorization for Use of Military Force. Ask whether they would vote to impeach a defense secretary prosecuting an undeclared war. Ask whether they have visited a single VA hospital to see what the last twenty years actually cost us. And if the answers come back vague or polished or full of talking points, remember that in November you hold the loudest vote in the room. Use it. The veterans in zip ties yesterday were not asking you to agree with them. They were asking you to stay awake. Go beyond the headlines…

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Imagine this. The president of the United States, the man who holds the nuclear codes, is pacing the West Wing screaming at his staff for hours on end. Two of our airmen are stranded in enemy territory in Iran. The mission to get them home is delicate, dangerous, and running on pure adrenaline. So what do his own military advisers do? They lock him out of the room.

Unfortunately, we don’t have to imagine. According to a Wall Street Journal report published over the weekend, that is exactly what happened earlier this month when a US fighter jet went down over Iran. Senior aides told the Journal that Trump’s tirade became so disruptive they briefed him “at meaningful moments” instead of having him in the Situation Room. Vice President JD Vance and Chief of Staff Susie Wiles took the calls. The commander in chief, reportedly, did not.

Congressman Dan Goldman of New York put it plainly Sunday night. “The commander in chief was excluded from commanding a military operation because he was acting so crazy. Think about that.” Then he went further. “Trump is not well. We need the 25th amendment before something really bad happens on US soil.”

Think about what that sentence actually means. A sitting member of Congress is asking the Cabinet to declare the president unfit, and he is not alone. Last week, Representative Jamie Raskin introduced a bill with 50 Democratic cosponsors to create a Commission on Presidential Capacity, the independent body the 25th Amendment has waited 59 years to receive. Raskin called this moment “a dangerous precipice.” Given the week we just watched, it is hard to call him wrong.

Here is why this matters to us, whether we voted for this president or not. The story is not really about Trump’s temper. It is about the chain of command. If the people paid to execute a military operation genuinely believe the person at the top will get Americans killed by staying in the room, we have already crossed a line no one in 250 years of this republic was supposed to cross. This rescue succeeded. The next one might not.

And we are not done with Iran. This morning, Trump is accusing Tehran of a “total violation” of the ceasefire he announced, threatening again to knock out every power plant in the country. Thirteen American service members are already confirmed dead in a war he started. Hundreds more are wounded. Gas prices jump every time he posts. Allies across Europe and the Gulf are quietly asking each other who actually makes decisions in Washington now, and whether anyone picks up the red phone when the moment comes.

A new NBC News poll released Sunday says 63 percent of us disapprove of how this presidency is going. Fully half strongly disapprove. Only one in three thinks Trump is handling Iran well. Those are not partisan numbers. Those are the numbers of a country trying to wave down the driver.

So the question is no longer whether something is wrong. The question is whether our institutions still work well enough to do anything about it. The Cabinet can act under the 25th Amendment today. The House can move on Raskin’s commission or on impeachment tomorrow. Our senators answer the phone when we call.

We are the only ones who can make them pick up. Find your representatives. Tell them what you saw this weekend. Tell them you are watching. Because if the people closest to this president will not let him near the war room, the rest of us cannot keep pretending everything is fine. Go beyond the headlines…

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Back in January, standing before global leaders at Davos, Trump declared victory. Inflation, he said, was finished. Grocery prices, gas, mortgages, rent, car payments, all of it supposedly tumbling fast. Three months later, we are staring at a very different scoreboard.

The OECD now projects that we will finish 2026 with the worst inflation in the G7, at 4.2 percent. That puts us ahead of the UK, Germany, Canada, Italy, Japan, and France. We are the outlier, and not in a flattering way. For a country that spent the better part of two years clawing its way back from a 9.1 percent peak, this is a brutal backslide.

So what happened in ninety days? A war happened.

Since joint US and Israeli strikes on Iran kicked off on February 28, the Strait of Hormuz has been choked, oil infrastructure has been battered, and Brent crude has whipsawed between 92 and well over 100 dollars a barrel. On April 13, after peace talks collapsed, prices lurched past 100 again. The last time oil behaved this wildly, Nixon was in the White House. The International Energy Agency is calling it the largest supply disruption in the history of the global oil market.

We felt it at the pump almost instantly. March gas prices jumped 21.2 percent in a single month, the biggest monthly spike since 1967. That one number dragged headline inflation up to 3.3 percent year over year, breaking six straight months of calm readings. The Cleveland Fed now estimates April could land at 3.5 percent, the hottest since 2024.

Next comes the slower, quieter wave. Diesel surged alongside gasoline, and diesel is what moves groceries. Shipping companies will pass those costs to supermarkets, supermarkets will pass them to us, and the USDA already expects food prices to climb 3.6 percent this year, faster than the average for the past two decades. Fertilizer is another ticking clock. Its key components travel through the same Strait that is currently closed for business. Farmers in Iowa and Kansas are watching the nightly news with the same worry as families in Cairo and Karachi.

Now layer on the tariffs. Yale’s Budget Lab pegs the effective US tariff rate at 10.6 percent, the highest since World War II outside of last year’s rescinded batch. When Trump took office in January 2025, it sat at 2.3 percent. That difference shows up in cars, electronics, clothing, and roughly everything we buy that crosses a border.

The Federal Reserve is now boxed in. Rising prices argue for higher interest rates. A softening job market argues for cuts. Cleveland Fed President Beth Hammack has floated the possibility of another hike, something most of us thought was behind us. Consumer inflation expectations just jumped to 3.4 percent, the highest in years. That mindset matters, because once we start expecting higher prices, we start behaving in ways that make higher prices stick.

The global picture is grimmer still. Europe is bracing for stagflation, with Germany and Italy eyeing possible recession. Asia, which buys most of the oil flowing through Hormuz, is taking the hardest hit. Shell has warned of fuel shortages. Several developing economies are already rationing.

A third of our middle class was already struggling to afford food, housing, and child care before any of this started, according to Brookings. That was the baseline. Now pile on pricier gas, pricier groceries, pricier credit, and a Fed that cannot rescue us without feeding the fire.

Inflation was not defeated. It was waiting. And we are the ones paying the bill. Go beyond the headlines…

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If you want to understand where the 2026 midterms are heading, stop watching cable news for a minute and pay attention to Latino voters. A sweeping new poll from Somos Votantes tells a story that should make every Republican strategist reach for a Tums and every Democrat resist the urge to pop champagne.

The survey, conducted across eight battleground states including Arizona, Nevada, Texas, and Wisconsin, shows Latino-likely-voters breaking hard toward Democrats ahead of November. Democrats hold a 15-point partisan advantage in surveyed states and lead the generic congressional ballot by 20 points. Those are not small numbers. For a community that delivered historic Republican gains just 18 months ago, that kind of swing represents something far more significant than a polling blip. It represents buyer’s remorse on a massive scale.

What is driving it? Three words: costs, costs, costs.

Roughly two thirds of Latino-likely-voters say the cost of living has gone up “a lot” over the past year, with the sharpest concerns centered on grocery prices and rising healthcare and prescription drug costs. This is not abstract economic theory. This is the moment at the checkout line when someone puts something back. This is rationing medication. This is the kind of daily financial stress that fundamentally changes how people vote.

And who gets the blame? By a 2-to-1 margin, Latino voters blame Republican economic policies, specifically tariffs, overseas military spending, and cuts to health and food programs, for rising costs. Washington did not just fail to help. Washington made things worse. That distinction matters enormously.

Then there is the Iran war, which is not a background issue for this electorate. It is the top concern. The five most alarming statements tested all involved Republican actions tied to Trump, led by concerns that the war with Iran is pushing inflation higher, that it has driven gas prices up, and that it is costing taxpayers around a billion dollars a day in military spending. When families are already stretched thin, a war that raises gas prices and drains the federal treasury reads less like foreign policy and more like a direct attack on household budgets.

A broader national NBC News poll found that 55% of voters say Trump’s tariffs have hurt the economy, and just over one in four say their own financial situation is getting better. The economic anxiety transcends any single demographic. But Latino voters, concentrated in competitive districts across the Sun Belt and Midwest, carry outsized electoral weight in what promises to be a razor-thin battle for congressional control.

Here is the part Democrats need to hear loudly and clearly though: none of this is a gift. Republicans in Congress are deeply underwater in favorability, but Democrats in Congress receive mixed reviews, slightly negative in key states and only narrowly positive in key districts. Trust is being withheld, not transferred. Growing discontent with Republicans has not directly translated into support for Democrats, with rising cynicism toward both parties, especially among key swing voters.

The vulnerabilities are real and specific. Democrats trail Republicans on crime and safety, and roughly half of Latino voters express concern that Democrats prioritize issues disconnected from families’ economic reality. A party seen as expanding government without cleaning it up is not a party that earns a mandate.

What do voters actually want? The answer is surprisingly unified. Overwhelming majorities say they are more likely to support candidates who cut waste, fraud, and abuse in government spending while protecting Social Security, Medicare, and Medicaid, and who create good paying jobs. That is not an ideological wish list. That is a practical one.

We are 18 months removed from an election cycle that saw Latino voters take a genuine chance on Republican promises of economic relief. The receipts are in. The response at the ballot box is being drafted right now, one grocery trip at a time. Go beyond the headlines…

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