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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Carolyn Fiddler, and Matt Booker, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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● North Carolina: On Friday, North Carolina Republicans escalated their assault on democracy to yet another level when state party executive director Dallas Woodhouse issued a barely veiled threat to impeach the state Supreme Court if...
by Stephen Wolf
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There’s a lot of insane things happening in America right now. Attacks on abortion rights. Voting rights at risk. Trade wars. Nazi sympathizers in office. And Iowa, the quiet heartland right smack in the middle of the country, is dealing with all of...
by Blue Tuesday
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There are mountains of evidence that Russian hackers targeted our decentralized, borderline disastrous electoral system in 2016. It wasn’t a fair fight — imagine a KGB agent taking aim at senior citizens whose email passwords are just the names of...
by Blue Tuesday
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● Pennsylvania: On Monday, Pennsylvania’s state Supreme Court dealt Republican gerrymandering a crippling blow when it struck down the GOP’s congressional map for illegally discriminating against Democratic voters. The court has ordered...
by Stephen Wolf
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on Fri Jan 26, 2018 at 12:16 PM PST
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The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, Daniel Donner, James ...
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The race for Iowa secretary of state remains wide open. According ...
by Laura Clawson
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by David Nir
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Ohio's Republican Secretary of State Jon Husted made it as hard as possible for Democrats to vote in 2012. Now Democrats can beat him.
You often don't know how important a secretary of state ...
by Jeff Singer
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There are hundreds of good candidates, organizations and campaigns that need our help. Of course my number one suggestion is to volunteer some of your time to a local candidate. That means from ...
by mole333
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