Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked If you filled up your tank in Wisconsin this week, you felt it. Parts of the state have seen prices touching $6 per gallon. The national average surged to $4.457 on Monday, with an eye-watering 35-cent jump in just one week. Drivers in California are now paying over $6.11 per gallon. The frustration is real, the pain … Continue reading How High Can Gas Prices Go and How Fast?
04/18/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked documented a remarkable global trend: the anti‑authoritarian surge. Hungarian voters delivered a democratic earthquake, ending Viktor Orbán’s sixteen‑year strongman rule and handing Péter Magyar a constitutional supermajority. Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney secured a majority government, stabilizing a minority parliament and reaffirming democratic legitimacy. The message from Budapest and Ottawa was … Continue reading How the United States is More Isolated Than Ever Before
04/15/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked Two headlines landed in the span of twenty-four hours. They belong to different continents, different political systems, different historical trajectories. But together, they tell the same story. Hungary. Canada. One is the end of an era, sixteen years of democratic backsliding, of “illiberal democracy,” of a man who proudly declared himself the template for a global … Continue reading Democratic Earthquake: The Anti-Authoritarian Surge
04/11/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Two stories unfolded in America this week. One made headlines. The other should have. And as we noted in Halfway Clocked, the quiet Democratic wave across Wisconsin, Georgia, Missouri, and Oklahoma was the story the national media missed while fixating on a president tearing apart his own movement. The headline story was Donald Trump, 482 words … Continue reading Trump Devours His Own Ecosystem of Old Supporters
04/08/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — Halfway Clocked Last night, while the national news cycle was fixated on Iran, something happened in America that should terrify the Republican Party. Democrats won. Not just won, but overperformed big time. Flipped. Realigned. In places where the GOP has taken victory for granted for decades, the ground shifted. The cracks are spreading and Democrats send a warning … Continue reading The Cracks Are Spreading: Democrats Send a Warning
04/04/2026 Clocking It: The Political Rundown — The Verdict Earlier this week, Halfway Clocked laid out the historical record in clinical detail. The Ku Klux Klan was founded by Confederate veterans in Pulaski, Tennessee, in 1865, men who were, at the time, overwhelmingly Democrats. The Republican Party freed the slaves. And then, over the course of roughly four decades, the parties realigned. Black voters moved … Continue reading ‘Democrats are the party of the KKK’ is a Falsehood
