October 13, 2026 at 5:20 AM EDT
Can Nevada Democrats Roll a Trifecta?

Can Nevada Democrats Roll a Trifecta? Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. LAS VEGAS - By all available polling, the race between Nevada's Democratic attorney general, Aaron Ford, and the incumbent Republican governor, Joe Lombardo, whom Ford is seeking to unseat, is close. A better one-word description of the race, however, would be asymmetric.

October 13, 2026 at 5:15 AM EDT
Time to De-Privatize

Time to De-Privatize Read the top story of the day in your inbox. Sign up for the Daily Prospect newsletter here. Last week, I published a piece on a private company called ID.me, which has over a billion dollars in contracts with federal and state agencies to provide secure identification when citizens do digital transactions with government agencies. Because this company is a dot-me rather than a dot-com, several readers wrote me to say that they had just assumed it was part of the government. Over 150 million Americans now have ID.me accounts, which are required to access several government agencies.