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(03/14/2024 Howdy folks, I am starting a new series breaking down all 50 states before the 2024 election, please provide feedback and let me know if this sorta thing tickles your fancy, maybe even shoot me a follow on twitter if that’s your thing...
by ElectoralNation
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on Thu Mar 14, 2024 at 01:30 PM PDT
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It’s been just shy of a week since our Supreme Court decided Trump v. Anderson. In that decision, the Court denied the Colorado Supreme Court the power to take Donald Trump’s name off the ballot in Colorado under Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment....
by dratler
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on Sun Mar 10, 2024 at 10:22 AM PDT
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U.S. Supreme Court rules Congress has the power to bar Trump from being on the ballot or create a process to do so, not state officials Former President Donald Trump achieved a decisive victory at the U.S. Supreme Court earlier this week, as the Court...
by frankfaiola
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on Sat Mar 09, 2024 at 08:38 PM PST
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This is frickin’ scary!! And you can’t change the movie, so we’re all stuck with facing this! A long-time friend/colleague of mine said if our democracy falls, she’s leaving the country. I pointed out that the other so-called safe countries, like...
by WatchfulEye
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on Wed Feb 28, 2024 at 05:09 PM PST
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The federal government’s Summer Electronic Benefit Transfer program, which provides low-income families with $120 in food assistance per eligible child while schools are out of session, will ...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Sun Feb 18, 2024 at 04:00 PM PST
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Find the original article and a short video of this at: blueridgebreakdown.substack.com/... I just wanted to take a quick moment and actually read through the rights included in the 21st-century Economic Bill of Rights that we are fighting for in this...
by TroyNMiller
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on Thu Feb 15, 2024 at 01:45 PM PST
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Guess who is doing clean up on Aisle 9 with regards to states seceding from the union? It really is difficult to keep up with Nikki Haley’s not ready for prime time moments, and she really is not ready for the national stage. But you all may recall...
by Merlin196360
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on Sun Feb 04, 2024 at 09:51 AM PST
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Due to recent Republican delays with authorizing most of the aid to Ukraine I started looking for other legal means by which the US could get significant aid to Ukraine which wasn’t held hostage by the Republicans. My first attempt I wrote up yesterday...
by Peter Olandt
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on Fri Dec 15, 2023 at 01:41 PM PST
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Montana Attorney General Austin Knudsen joined his counterparts from Idaho, South Dakota, North Dakota, Mississippi, Indiana, Alabama, Kentucky, Alaska, Louisiana, Arkansas, Missouri, Tennessee, Georgia, Ohio, Texas, South Carolina, Nebraska and Utah...
by JohnnyPiano
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on Mon Jul 24, 2023 at 04:32 PM PDT
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Good morning, Gnusies! As usual, I’m letting the theme of my�intro be dictated by the news I found, and what came up for me today is the power we gain by working together. Whether it’s the tight-...
by arhpdx
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on Tue Jun 20, 2023 at 04:00 AM PDT
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This article first appeared on Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball at the UVA Center for Politics. KEY POINTS FROM THIS ARTICLE — The percentage of women in state legislatures has increased in recent years. However, there is still a significant gender gap in...
by Carah Ong Whaley
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on Thu Jun 08, 2023 at 03:56 AM PDT
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The following is a rambling set of ideas that I put into a stream of consciousness in order to explore a new concept that might resolve the great political divide in the U.S. today. It is in no way a complete thesis or even a serious suggestion. It is...
by tsm63
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on Tue May 09, 2023 at 10:38 AM PDT
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Being home to Detroit home to m0t0wn America’s Rock City we have many songs to opt from. oddly enough though the two I am going to pick one is from a non-American, David Bowie and other does not concentrate on our biggest city also from a non-American...
by CameronProf
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on Sun Mar 12, 2023 at 02:12 PM PDT
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From CMS email (and this is big, actually: for about two decades, the federal govt failed to comply with original Medicare legislation requiring residency slots to keep pace with the grow of the elder and disabled demographics.) CMS Awards 200 New...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Jan 09, 2023 at 07:32 PM PST
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Midterm elections can be pretty overwhelming. How to figure out where to target your time, attention and volunteer resources when there are important races going on all over the country? One approach I’ve been promoting lately is to focus on state...
by kindler
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on Sun Sep 11, 2022 at 04:30 AM PDT
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State governments are where a lot of bread and butter and freedom issues are settled and limited. We need to focus more on governors, attorneys general and state legislatures, but that is harder than rooting for presidential candidates or even 100...
by sbd
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on Sat Sep 10, 2022 at 09:55 AM PDT
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The Orange Shitgibbon Fuckmuppet the Third will hold the United States hostage. So will his children and any remaining sycophants. "He's gonna use it as a get out of jail free card," Cohen immediately shot back. "It's a way to extort America turn...
by Obiwan711
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on Sun Aug 21, 2022 at 09:17 AM PDT
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The power of the ballot box is guaranteed only to those who can demand and deliver 11,780 votes. The slow motion coup continues. PHOENIX — With Tuesday’s primary victories in Arizona and Michigan added to those in Nevada and Pennsylvania, Republicans...
by annieli
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on Wed Aug 03, 2022 at 01:33 PM PDT
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Good morning! There’s been a lot of good news recently, so today’s roundup is a long one. Pour yourself a cup of your favorite morning beverage, find a comfortable seat, and settle in for a big ...
by arhpdx
142 comments
on Tue Aug 02, 2022 at 04:00 AM PDT
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States’ rights get inappropriately strengthened in another attack by a RW SCOTUS on protections from the arbitrary authority of states and the vestiges of hostile settler colonialism. Giving states more power with such a specious reading of the 10th...
by annieli
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on Fri Jul 22, 2022 at 06:00 PM PDT
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