Elon Musk Spends $474 Million on the 2026 Midterm Elections

What the coverage shows

The New York Times is the only outlet here to focus directly on election security, with one piece on CISA’s retreat and another saying local and state officials are prepared, while Axios frames the midterms through early races and what they may signal. Its other previews and polls, along with the Times coverage, mostly converge on control of Congress and the economy as the key midterm storyline. Democracy Now! is the lone outlet offering a special election-night broadcast rather than a security or horse-race angle.

Written by Crossfiled from the 8 headlines and extracts below, not from the articles themselves. It describes how the outlets framed this, not what happened. Open any headline for a summary of that article.