One of my goals this election cycle is to keep my readers from being surprised—that is, to make sure that you hear about all the potentially competitive races, have a gauge on exactly how competitive they are and don’t feel blindsided by a foreseeable event.

To that end, I’ve written up a couple paragraphs about each of the competitive (or potentially competitive) Senate races that you probably haven’t read too much about yet. Note that I’m not talking about Texas or Florida (which have gotten a lot of coverage) or races that you might have recently read a lot about here or elsewhere (e.g. you can read my pieces on Arizona and Tennessee, Andrew Egger’s coverage of Missouri or John McCormack’s latest dispatch from Nevada if you want to learn about those races). The goal here is to help fill some gaps and cover races that have arguably gotten a bit less attention than they deserve.