2026 Midterms · The issues
What the cycle is being fought over.
Every settled race carries an issue guide. Grouped by topic, they show where the 2026 midterms are actually being contested — which topics campaigns lead with, and where each party’s nominees have published documented positions.
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- Issue guides
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- Issue mentions
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2026 Midterms · The agenda
All seventeen topics, in full.
Every topic across every settled race’s issue guide — and in how many of those races each party’s nominee has published a documented position. Bar length is documentation, not support: the gray track is every race where the topic appears. Every row opens that topic’s page.
2026 Midterms · Salience
What they shout — and what they shelve.
Campaigns tell you their priorities with volume. Every issue mention carries a salience flag: high means the campaign is pounding the table, low means it’s box-checking. The spread is the strategy. Salience is ordinal — the ramp stays grayscale because urgency isn’t a party fact.