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Most GOP senators have fallen in line with Donald Trump’s 2024 campaign to return to the White House, starting from the top with Minority Leader Mitch McConnell. They’re with him despite ...
by Joan McCarter
 91 comments
on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 03:00 PM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC [website] volunteers start canvassing tomorrow in Pennsylvania and Ohio. “Got to get started sometime,” one of our Ohio volunteers texted. They seem to be coming off a victory high (we saw that in Georgia, too, a few years...
by snowbored
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on Fri Apr 26, 2024 at 09:18 AM PDT
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Circulating petitions to get Reproductive Freedom enshrined into state constitutions has been driving a lot of our volunteer turnout this Spring. Perhaps more so in Arizona than in Florida, but this fact means that our top 2 states in volunteer turnout...
by snowbored
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on Thu Apr 25, 2024 at 09:02 AM PDT
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The Senate has passed $95 billion in war aid to Ukraine, Israel and Taiwan, sending the legislation to President Joe Biden after months of delays and contentious debate over how involved the United States should be in foreign wars. The bill passed the...
by Associated Press
30 comments
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 07:35 AM PDT
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Well, another primary date has come and passed. This time, it was Pennsylvania deciding who to vote for in the primary election. The outcomes were of course foreordained, with Trump and Biden having already wrapped up the nominations for President....
by bilboteach
69 comments
on Wed Apr 24, 2024 at 03:31 AM PDT
with 245 Recommends
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From the Hill tonight, 3 Democratic Senators ended up voting against the aid package since it was linked to funding Israel's Gaza war: Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.) voted against the package. Sen. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) helped advance...
by Irontortoise
176 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 07:12 PM PDT
with 256 Recommends
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The strange story of Republican Tim Sheehy’s bullet wound just keeps getting stranger. Sheehy, a former Navy SEAL who is seeking to unseat Democratic Sen. Jon Tester in Montana, recently claimed to the Washington Post that he lied to a park ranger when...
by David Nir
105 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 10:24 AM PDT
with 358 Recommends
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The Senate is finally set to pass Ukraine aid, with the first procedural vote Tuesday afternoon and final passage expected as soon as Tuesday night. Now that Republicans are forced to do the right ...
by Joan McCarter
105 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 10:55 AM PDT
with 344 Recommends
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It doesn't get nearly enough attention, but Democrats have some key opportunities to go on offense this fall as they fight to retain their narrow majority in the U.S. Senate. It's all about exploiting GOP vulnerabilities. And it so happens that one of...
by David Nir
81 comments
on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 09:10 AM PDT
with 224 Recommends
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Hope Springs from Field PAC finally has a website. After pestering from some very serious, and knowledgeable contributors, and the kind folks at Cooperative Digital (who patiently worked through our limitations), you can find the first iteration at the...
by snowbored
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on Tue Apr 23, 2024 at 09:03 AM PDT
with 28 Recommends
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We all knew it was coming. I mentioned it in my last diary about Arizona. 'This changes everything,' the Arizona Republic declared. And (for once?) the headline writer was right. The number of Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers who showed up to...
by snowbored
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on Fri Apr 19, 2024 at 09:22 AM PDT
with 23 Recommends
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Last year, our canvassing statistics were skewed by the the two Issue 1 ballot referendums in Ohio. In 2022, in the course of canvassing in 3 competitive Congressional Districts (and winning all 3), Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers knocked on...
by snowbored
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 09:05 AM PDT
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Guest: LawDork's Chris Geidner Also: Scam GOP impeachment trial ends in one day AZ Repubs spike repeal of 1864 abortion law (again) Voter turnout doubles in AL's new majority minority U.S. House District... On today's BradCast: If only the corrupted...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 06:53 PM PDT
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The Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, and Stephen Wolf, with additional contributions from the Daily Kos Elections team. Subscribe to The Downballot, our weekly podcast ...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Thu Apr 18, 2024 at 05:00 AM PDT
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House Republicans really wanted an impeachment of … someone. President Joe Biden, preferably, or his son Hunter, or maybe Hunter’s laptop, or perhaps Hunter’s dog walker. They decided on Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, who didn’t commit...
by Kaili Joy Gray
132 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 02:14 PM PDT
with 403 Recommends
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Quarterly fundraising reports for congressional candidates covering the period from Jan. 1 to March 31 were due at the Federal Elections Commission on April 15 by midnight ET. Below is our chart of fundraising numbers for every Senate incumbent whose...
by Daily Kos Elections
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on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 12:17 PM PDT
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Also: Trump's ridiculous 'immunity' rant Seven jurors now seated in his NY criminal trial House Repubs deliver impeachment articles to Senate Smartmatic, OAN settle 2020 defamation suit... Even Joe Biden is now making jokes about the plummeting value...
by TheBradBlog
9 comments
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 07:20 PM PDT
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It seemed for a while that House troll Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene was alone in wanting her motion to vacate (MTV). While Speaker in Name Only Mike Johnson was okay when it was only Marjorie calling ...
by bilboteach
22 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 03:31 AM PDT
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The ill-fated impeachment trial of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas was finally supposed to take center stage for House Republicans this week after Speaker Mike Johnson pulled it last ...
by Joan McCarter
113 comments
on Tue Apr 16, 2024 at 01:05 PM PDT
with 398 Recommends
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Without question, defeating Donald Trump this year is job one—because if we don’t do that, job two will likely involve tossing deep-fried Soylent Green�to�the free-range Trump clones waiting for ...
by Aldous J Pennyfarthing
84 comments
on Wed Apr 17, 2024 at 07:02 AM PDT
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