Even after eight moderate Senate Democrats cut a deal with Republicans, absent subsidies for the Affordable Care Act, to end the shutdown on Sunday evening, the party’s sweeping victory in the Nov. 4 elections has provided a jolt of energy they hope will carry them through to the 2026 midterms.

But President Donald Trump and his MAGA Republicans are far from surrendering. Their defeat at the polls will motivate them to be bolder and more aggressive in their campaign to weaken American democracy.

Steven Cash knows this firsthand. A former state prosecutor and senior adviser to the undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security’s Office of Intelligence & Analysis, he now serves as executive director of The Steady State, a pro-democracy organization of more than 360 former senior U.S

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