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In Missouri the AG spends his time figuring out how to torpedo initiative petitions instead of enforcing state laws. (My emphasis in bold) Attorney General Andrew Bailey and Auditor Scott Fitzpatrick are at odds about the amount of power each has over...
by stlgeek
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on Tue Jan 02, 2024 at 12:29 PM PST
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Republicans often crow about how they’re the party of “freedom” and about how their efforts to destroy the American government and worker and environmental protections around the country are actually making each of us more “free”. For instance, on...
by TroyNMiller
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on Mon Nov 06, 2023 at 02:43 PM PST
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Today’s Republican Party is dedicated to destroying what they call the “deep state” and the rest of us call the American government. From Trump followers in MAGA hats at rallies to Republican US Senators, they’ll all tell you this without a moment’s...
by thomhartmann
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on Wed Oct 11, 2023 at 08:55 AM PDT
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A Houston, Texas, political activist sent me an email. He said, “Party matters.” He and a colleague had done a deep dive into publicly available real data to contrast the policies between ...
by Egberto Willies
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on Fri Jun 09, 2023 at 11:17 AM PDT
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Organizing progressives Did: To do: Solidify talking points with Cindy Organizing for Democratic Environmental Caucus of Florida Did: Called all the DECF county presidents to invite them to DECF RTCW Meeting 1 To do: Organize meeting 2 with Tiff, Judy,...
by Rachel Brown
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on Thu May 18, 2023 at 08:29 PM PDT
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Living in Florida has become more of a nightmare with each passing year. Putting aside the inconvenience of living within a state controlled by fascists hellbent on destroying our rights, our ...
by SemDem
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on Mon Sep 11, 2023 at 04:50 PM PDT
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The right has a thesaurus of insults it hurls at the left. They accuse liberals of being “socialist,”, “communist,” “statist,” and “woke.” Their overarching claim is that "nanny state" Democrats are the party of “big government” — while they sell...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Tue Nov 01, 2022 at 03:01 PM PDT
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Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics Statistics are damning little factoids that ruin arguments based on convenience or deception. Columns have been written in the national media and mirrored here in diaries and comments asking what can be done to improve...
by vjr7121
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on Sat Sep 24, 2022 at 07:03 AM PDT
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Well, I came across a couple of stories on Yahoo News from Saturday 8/6/22 that add to the effect of the anti-abortion laws in red states. Physician recruiters are having trouble filling positions, not only ob-gyn, but other specialties as well. One...
by jazzed
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on Sun Aug 07, 2022 at 01:18 PM PDT
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Talk of secession has been all the rage in Texas — and other MAGA-friendly, AK-47-loving, democracy-hating, reproductive-justice-denying flyover states are sure to follow (with talk, if not action). So let’s help them out a little! Every emerging...
by cadebryant
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on Wed Jun 29, 2022 at 09:24 PM PDT
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Scott Quiner, 56, was not vaccinated against COVID. Last October, he caught the disease and was hospitalized for dangerously low oxygen levels. In November, the damage to his lungs was so severe he was transferred to the ICU, where he was intubated and...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Jan 23, 2022 at 03:46 PM PST
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I happened to be browsing through RedState yesterday (I don’t go there much, and that trip did nothing to make me feel I was missing anything) and I came across what seems to me to be an embryonic conservative anti-vaxx talking point. Basically it’s:...
by Daniel Case
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on Fri Dec 10, 2021 at 11:12 PM PST
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Red State Senator Jon Tester shows precisely how one sells progressive policies even in a deep red state like Montana. Red State Senator Jon Tester shows it is easy Watch Politics Done Right TV here. Democratic Senator Jon Tester understands a...
by Egberto Willies
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on Sat Dec 04, 2021 at 07:30 AM PST
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*Forgive me in advance: by the time I was finished I had a headache and skipped the proof read. What a difference a year makes? It hasn’t been quite a full year since I last scribbled my thoughts here in the ‘kos. Having been somewhat apolitical until...
by johnboatner
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on Wed Nov 03, 2021 at 02:50 PM PDT
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So, McConnell thinks he has us over a barrel. Basically, he'll support funding the government, but not increasing the debt ceiling, no doubt regarding that as a "Democrat problem" and telling us that we need to do it via reconciliation. I was concerned...
by jaimehlers
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on Wed Sep 29, 2021 at 09:18 AM PDT
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I don’t write about people I know much, but one of my siblings is a self-professed moderate who views far left and far right as being equally bad and equally dangerous, and said so in a text message to me just yesterday. I don’t argue with him much...
by jaimehlers
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on Fri Sep 24, 2021 at 06:59 AM PDT
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In a recent diary which posted near the top of the Rec List for some time, the big question revolved around regional stereotypes and whether or not Daily Kos community members continue these stereotypes and make them worse. In comments, it was pointed...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Tue Sep 21, 2021 at 09:03 AM PDT
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It is now explicitly obvious that living in a red state is a serious and imminent threat to one's life. Some examples: the recent winter storm in Texas that exposed the faults of their poorly designed electrical grid, the red state governors (in places...
by shivashankar
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on Wed Sep 01, 2021 at 05:41 PM PDT
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Republican politicians are getting their constituents killed by the virus. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo has resigned. COVID exposes systemic racism. Republican Politicians are killing their own and more Politics Done Right Live weekdays @ 3:00 PM...
by Egberto Willies
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 01:00 PM PDT
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Red State Republican Politicians throughout the country are passing laws that harm all, especially those who voted for them. Red State Republican Politicians' Death Wish See full episodes here. Schools are starting to reopen for the fall. Competent...
by Egberto Willies
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on Tue Aug 10, 2021 at 11:05 AM PDT
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