Conscience of a Whig
A newsletter about politics and culture anything else that strikes my fancy.
- Indexed issues, last 90 days
- 30
- Latest publication
- Sep 30, 2026
- Audience
- Checking…
- Earliest in this view
- Sep 4, 2026
Latest issues
The Warning Flag, September 30th, 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
OVERALL WARNING STATUSELEVATED/WARNING-LEVEL COLLECTION POSTURE. NO TIER CHANGE THIS SESSION.The biggest story: the contest over who gets to watch the voting machines on Election Day widened. The Republican National Committee has been training “special monitors” to inspect machines, the Justice Department plans more than 1,000 of its own monitors, and two figures tied to federal election investigations left their posts. We also found no sign yet that the Justice Department has given the court th
The Warning Flag, 29 September, 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
THE ELECTION INTERFERENCE WARNING SETPublic Summary — Update #127 | September 29, 2026OVERALL WARNING STATUSELEVATED/WARNING-LEVEL COLLECTION POSTURE. NO TIER CHANGE THIS SESSIONThe biggest story: a federal judge has struck down the conditions the federal government attached to counterterrorism grants that would have pushed states to change how they run elections. Over the same 48 hours, a court order forced the government to give advance notice before it turns on a citizenship-list system for s
The Warning Flag, September 28th, 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
OVERALL WARNING STATUSELEVATED/WARNING-LEVEL COLLECTION POSTURE.WHAT HAPPENED THIS WEEKThe Supreme Court incurs criticism for ending Missouri’s map disputeOn September 25 the Supreme Court ruled unanimously, in Von Glahn v. Hoskins, that Missouri must use its 2022 congressional map, not the 2025 map, for the November 3 election. Donald Trump criticized the Supreme Court on September 27, a Missouri state senator blamed the state’s Supreme Court, and a former Missouri House Speaker described an “o
The Warning Flag, September 27th, 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
OVERALL WARNING STATUSELEVATED/WARNING-LEVEL COLLECTION POSTUREThe biggest story: the Supreme Court has resolved Missouri’s map fight, and it didn’t go the way our last update expected. We also have an update on Nevada’s noncitizen-voter claims, and confirmation of a court ruling in Ohio.MISSOURI’S MAP FIGHT IS OVER — FOR NOWTwo days ago, we reported that Missouri faced a Monday deadline that could force the state onto a new, more Republican-favorable congressional map. That’s no longer happenin
The Warning Flag, 26 September, 2026 (opens the original)
Read excerpt
OVERALL WARNING STATUSELEVATED/WARNING-LEVEL COLLECTION POSTURE.Today’s sweep has a lot if meaningful content. The Daily Sweep Report also reflects a lot of unchecked items. Most actually were rechecked in a series of repeated passes I directed Claude to complete. However the sweep file that feeds the formatted Daily Sweep Report you receive did not capture that fact. As this project has grown in volume and complexity, there is a commensurate increase in the time, effort, and cost involved in ge
Publishing over time
Last 90 days. Choose a month to open its work.
Recurring subjects
Named in the text we hold. One piece can cover several.
Audience
No verified audience measurement yet.
About this data
Counts cover the work we have indexed. Tone needs enough text and a confident classification. Excerpts and episode notes are not full articles or transcripts.
Identity or attribution wrong? Suggest a correction.