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FiveStack: Five Days to Go—and the Fight Over the Result Has Begun

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Five days before the American midterms, the Justice Department is already seeking conditions that could delay certification of a Democratic Senate victory in Alaska. Trump is demanding the prosecution of the candidate who could win it. The vote is still ahead. The effort to challenge its consequences is underway.

That is the thread through today’s FiveStack: who gets to exercise power, who gets to challenge it, and what happens when institutions or voters refuse to deliver the answer a leader wants.

The countdown runs from a Pentagon firing to a Russian fuel shipment, from Bolsonaro’s…

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