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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. Sign...
Daily Kos Elections 11/07/2018
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
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James Lambert 10/26/2018
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James Lambert 10/19/2018
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Yesterday, former West Virginia congressional candidate Richard Ojeda—a Trump-voting, pro-gun Democrat—announced his bizarre candidacy for U.S. president. For some reason, some progressives cheered, as though THIS is what America needs now, as if there...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
Daily Kos Elections 10/24/2018
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There’s just no way to square this circle. “I think you know there are a lot of white folks out there who are not necessarily racist who felt uncomfortable for the first time in their lives about whether or not they wanted to vote for an...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
Daily Kos Elections 11/01/2018
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. Sign...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. Sign...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. Sign...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
Daily Kos Elections 10/19/2018
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Something’s up in right-wing-noise-machineland.  And beyond.  See all the updates. With the addition of Jill Stein and my familiarity with horseshoe strategy, I’m inclined to think now that the Twitter silences are somehow related to Mueller...
KM Wehrstein 11/12/2018
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s also a place to discuss elections, not policy. ...
Daily Kos Elections 11/02/2018
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The votes are almost in, even if the stories aren’t. We’ll gain something like 35 House seats and 7 Governors; we will lose 3 Senate seats (but probably not Montana, despite MT Trump rallies and a target on Jon Tester’s back for offering oversight...
Greg Dworkin 11/07/2018
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Welcome to the Daily Kos Elections Live Digest, your liveblog of all of today's campaign news. Please note: The Live Digest is a 2016 and 2020 Democratic presidential primary-free space. It’s ...
Daily Kos Elections 11/16/2018
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Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist troll with a platform on Fox News. It’s no surprise that he would fabricate elements of a peaceful protest that occurred outside his house, in an effort to ...
subir 11/11/2018
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Was it a wave? It sure was. Dems did better now than in 2006 (that year, 31 House seats and 6 governorships) and the counting isn’t done. As of now, at least 35 House seats (on the way to ~39)  and at least 7 governorships went blue. Popular vote was...
Greg Dworkin 11/10/2018
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James Lambert 11/02/2018
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NBC is reporting that a suspect in the series of bombs mailed to Democratic politicians and critics of Donald Trump has been taken into custody in Florida. The suspect is male, but few other details are currently available. CNN is saying that a...
Mark Sumner 10/26/2018
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In case anyone has forgotten, Nancy Pelosi has been a more effective legislator than the last three GOP House speakers combined. Her crown jewel is having passed a healthcare bill in 2010 that extended insurance coverage to 20-plus million more...
Kerry Eleveld 11/14/2018
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The reports of explosive devices mailed to prominent Democrats and critics of Donald Trump have not stopped as of this writing. And although the sender has not yet been identified, some of the devices have been confirmed as live and functional,...
Dartagnan 10/24/2018
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At 10:45 ET, police in Pittsburgh reported an active shooter near the Tree of Life Congregation Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pa. According to local media reports at least 4 are dead. Several reports are saying 7 or more. The Squirrel Hill area is one of...
Mark Sumner 10/27/2018
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VOTE VOTE VOTE …..  GO HERE AND GET YOUR INFO on getting out the vote:  www.dailykos.com/...  .I have not seen a diary on this but buckle up because as I wrote in a diary last week.. November 7th could be really interesting. ...
Vetwife 10/22/2018
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After months and months and months of bitching and grousing about Attorney General Jeff Sessions, the unindicted coconspirator has forced him out. Mr. Sessions’s resignation, made at the president’s request, was being delivered to John Kelly, Mr....
Joan McCarter 11/07/2018
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Trump held a press conference rant this morning, hoping to blow off some steam, that must have been building up all night. Someone forgot to tell him that the reporters would not be Hannity and Limbaugh. What did he expect? A standing ovation for...
AKALib 11/07/2018
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I know he’s been bad before — unhinged, rambling, ranting, incoherent — but this new interview is… unbelievable. Full Transcript Of Trump’s Oval Office Interview With The Daily Caller And this is The fucking Daily Caller! An outfit that couldn’t...
Bob Johnson 11/15/2018
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Today Donald Trump blew off honoring the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines who gave their lives during World War One, at Belleau Wood because some intermittent rain might have mussed up his hair. All of the other heads of  state did attend the...
Lefty Coaster 11/10/2018
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Donald Trump is at his most dysfunctional right now, which is saying quite a bit. He couldn’t even show up at a WWI memorial ceremony, lying that his helicopter was “grounded” and he was stopped by rain, while other world leaders effortlessly gathered...
ursulafaw 11/11/2018
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The American Civil Liberties Union of Michigan filed a complaint with the Meijer supermarket chain after a woman says a pharmacist refused to fill her prescription to treat and complete a miscarriage. Not only did the pharmacist personally refuse to...
Wagatwe Wanjuki 10/18/2018
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Best. Text. Ever. From my republican mother-in-law in Houston!

run26two 10/29/2018
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So much of what happens Tuesday is Donald Tump’s doing. Republicans, you brought it on yourself. Adam Serwer /Atlantic: The Cruelty Is the Point President Trump and his supporters find ...
Greg Dworkin 11/03/2018
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The Democrats have taken the House of Representatives.

We won because women ran. And won. Internalize that.

And prepare for battle.

Dartagnan 11/06/2018
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The measure of someone’s character is best taken not in the times of success, but in times of adversity. Since Donald Trump's life took a pronounced turn for the worse after the November 6th elections, Americans have been afforded their first real...
Dartagnan 11/14/2018
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This is a news article, not a commentary, but I wanted to pound this topic again so I’m using it anyway. Washington Post : On Trump’s fear that he might melt if he got wet. President Trump ...
Mark Sumner 11/11/2018
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Congregants near the Tree of Life Synagogue in the Squirrel Hill neighborhood of Pittsburgh were ambushed on Saturday morning by a man who opened fire with multiple weapons. According to on-scene reports, the shooter shouted “All Jews must die” as he...
Mark Sumner 10/27/2018
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We begin today’s roundup with Michelle Golberg’s excellent piece in The New York Times debunking the “both sides” argument when it comes to political violence: [T]here is no serious comparison between left-wing and right-wing violence in this...
Georgia Logothetis 10/26/2018
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It’s 10PM on Saturday and the last two hours of this day can’t run out fast enough. This is one of those days that definitely needs to be over. Not that time or distance will improve it. Not ...
Mark Sumner 10/28/2018
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WREG 3 Memphis “On Thursday, Regional One Health in Memphis confirmed the man in the photo was an employee at the hospital and that he had been fired after a thorough investigation. The ...
durrati 11/08/2018
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The mayhem and nightmare continues in the week before the election. In an interview with Axios, Trump announced plans to terminate the right to citizenship for babies born on US soil to non-citizens, using an Executive Order.  After all the mayhem...
AKALib 10/30/2018
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Everything thing I have to say about the below is in the title.
durrati 10/23/2018
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Eugene Robinson /WaPo: Dear Democrats: You can do this It should be no surprise that what once looked like a Democratic landslide now appears, as my friend Dan Rather might say, “as tight as a ...
Greg Dworkin 10/27/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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My top 10 Takeaways from a Trump Rally in Houston as promised: 1. The current POTUS has no tolerance for dissenting opinions, dissenting Americans, or dissenting news media, and makes his open hostility toward any voice of dissent very clear to...
georgelshea 10/30/2018
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I know it’s very early for Thanksgiving, but let me say this — I am thankful for Leonard Pitts. There have been many times on in the dim, wee hours of Sunday morning when I’ve sweated over ...
Mark Sumner 11/04/2018
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The Arizona Secretary of State just posted the updated count for AZ Senate and Sinema took the lead: results.arizona.vote/… It’s a slight lead at about 2000 votes, but it’s a lead.
Erin in Flagstaff 11/08/2018
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This morning featured one of the #FiveWhiteGuys Rep. Seth Mouton (D-MA) talking about diversity in an insurgency supporting Marcia Fudge (D-OH) as House Speaker. Fascinating is the framing of #FiveWhiteGuys as an anti-Freedom Caucus, and more...
annieli 11/15/2018
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House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi is showing the way forward to a more progressive House Democratic leadership, meeting with Congressional Progressive Caucus members and committing to elevate progressives to spots on key House committees. On top of...
Laura Clawson 11/16/2018
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Democrats took the House in a massive repudiation of Donald Trump, throwing Republicans out of district after district. On the other hand, the Senate edged more Republican as Trump proved that 70 percent of the Senate really does represent 30 percent...
Mark Sumner 11/07/2018
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So Fox News is blurring the stickers/images on the bomber’s van. And saying they are ‘political’ without identifying the -type- of politics involved. So here’s a clear shot of the van. And a quote from Voltaire to encapsulate what happens when the...
Seashells 10/26/2018
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I’m gratified they selected this particular Sunday to air this important story.   . AR-15s and AK-47s are rarely used for self defense.  3% of Americans own 1/2 the country's 265 million guns
Lefty Coaster 11/04/2018
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— And Steve Schmidt is calling out the Trump racism for what it is, again today. Schmidt was on Chris Hayes show All-in tonight. And he did not hold back.    Steve Schmidt on All-in    Here is a partial transcription of Schmidt’s...
jamess 10/29/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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Donald Trump has been noticeably, well, aloof the past few days, skipping World War I commemorations and generally Twitter-pouting like a spurned teenage boy. Now, the Los Angeles Times has the inside scoop on Trump’s dour mood as of late. ...
Aldous J Pennyfarthing 11/13/2018
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Now that Donald Trump has concluded that he can add exceptions to the Constitution by executive order, why stop with just ending birthright citizenship? After all, it would be hard for anything to be more clear than the 14th Amendment. Section 1....
Mark Sumner 10/30/2018
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Oh f@ck. That’s not a statement from an big money pundit. That’s the only possible reaction to the news that came at the end of Donald Trump’s Saturday night rally in Nevada. After hours of ...
Mark Sumner 10/21/2018
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The ping-pong match of crazy between Gateway Pundit and Newsmax continues as the schemers who created a fake “security agency” and tried to solicit someone to make claims of sexual assault against Special Counsel Robert Mueller has reached the big...
Mark Sumner 11/01/2018
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Chaboard posted a link to this twitter thread in the comments of the recently published Ocasio-Cortez Protesting Pelosi diary. I thought this deserved to be highlighted in a diary of it’s own. So with a hat tip to Chaboard, Catte Nappe, & Angry...
Arilca Mockingbird 11/14/2018
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Man, I knew that after the midterms things were going to be different, but they must be climbing the rafters and swinging from the chandeliers at the White House. Everybody is eyeing the exits. Now Sarah Hucky Boo Boo Sanders is supposedly leaving the...
ursulafaw 11/13/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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This is a wonderful development. Green Party candidate Angela Green has just pulled out of the race and is asking her supporters to vote for Democrat Kyrsten Sinema. The Kyrsten Sinema/Martha McSally race is one of the most hotly contested in the...
ursulafaw 11/01/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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Been reading a great deal about the issues around who will be the next Speaker of the House.  About Nancy Pelosi and those who oppose her. What is blatantly obvious is that Trump and the GOP do NOT want her back as Speaker.  What has become equally...
Onomastic 11/16/2018
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Two days after the discovery of the first explosive device in the mailbox of investor George Soros, the 11th and 12th bombs were found, this pair aimed at Sen. Cory Booker and former Director of National Intelligence James Clapper. In between those...
Mark Sumner 10/26/2018
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Note: This is a short essay I wrote for my aunt and uncle (and other Fox News regulars) who have been posting a continuous string of frenzied, fear-mongering Facebook entries about the approaching group of Honduran refugees. Note that I studiously...
Bob Johnson 11/05/2018
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A failed Republican candidate for office has sued a newly elected Democratic state legislator, claiming without any evidence that U.S.-born Latina Raquel Terán, who won her seat to the Arizona House of Representatives last week, isn’t a U.S. citizen. ...
Gabe Ortiz 11/12/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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We have come a loooooong way since Jack and Jackie Kennedy took Paris by storm and all of France became enthralled to the Sorbonne-educated First Lady, who acted as translator for her husband and Charles DeGaulle. (By the by, Melania Trump claims to be...
ursulafaw 11/13/2018
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Despite a thousand and one window stickers and a long history on social media, the press has been careful to avoid “speculating” about the motives of pipe-bomber Cesar Sayoc. After all, it’s hard to say why he sent explosives to the people whose...
Mark Sumner 10/27/2018
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Media, especially cable news, needs to stop treating celebrations of violence by Donald Trump at rallies as “smart politics”. That’s not what it should be called. See below:
Greg Dworkin 10/20/2018
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The very day after Americans sent the crystal-clear message that they want Democratic oversight of his presidency, Donald Trump decided the smart move was to take aggressive action that will in fact require House Democrats to use those oversight...
Kerry Eleveld 11/07/2018
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Daily Beast: A photo posted on social media appears to show dozens of high-school students giving the Nazi salute. In the image, a group of about 50 students from Baraboo High School in Baraboo, Wisconsin, are seen smiling and posing while doing...
lishaoyun 11/12/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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I’m going to tell the same story in three different ways. And here’s the surprise — it’s about politics. It may not seem that way, and maybe i’m spoiling the ending. But stick with me, because this is the Most Important Question in History. It has to...
Mark Sumner 11/03/2018
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Democrats are coming off their biggest House victory since Watergate, having been led by Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi. The Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee raised $250 million , ...
kos 11/16/2018
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Daily Kos Elections 11/06/2018
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Donald Trump acted out badly the day after the midterm elections. His firing of Jeff Sessions was not his most brilliant moment. Plus, Trump won’t have his lap dog, Devin Nunes, running interference for him as Chair of the House Intelligence...
ursulafaw 11/08/2018
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As expected, polling for the midterm elections is tightening up in a number of key races. As a result, we’ve seen a lot of hand-wringing among Democratic voters and, as usual, the MSM amplifying our concerns because they love a tight horse race.   ...
DaisiesArePretty 10/21/2018
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The AP/Fox exit polls can be found here . Check out your state, the country, or an interesting race. Elaine Godfrey /Atlantic: House Progressives Celebrate a ‘New Kind of Centrism’
Greg Dworkin 11/14/2018
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We begin today’s roundup with the  The Washington Pos t and its editorial on the need to protect special counsel Robert Mueller: Now more than ever, the president must get the message: Hands ...
Georgia Logothetis 11/16/2018
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Last night Scott Braddock, award-winning reporter, who covers Texas politics tweeted this exciting nugget of information about the Texas Senate race. Someone tweeted back to Braddock about his information and questioned it. Braddock...
First Amendment 11/04/2018
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There was a lot about Tuesday night worth smiling over. A lot. Kris Kobach lost big in Kansas as Democrats took over not just the governor mansion, but a House seat. Scott Walker went down in Wisconsin to a school teacher who ran on a platform of...
Mark Sumner 11/07/2018
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Jay-Newton Small at The New Republic writes— Why the Left Needs Nancy Pelosi :  The minority leader has spent almost her entire political life under threat. Conservatives have vilified her ...
Meteor Blades 10/18/2018
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Just after Brett Kavanaugh was confirmed to the Supreme Court, Trump campaign pollster Tony Fabrizio had good news for Donald Trump—Republicans just might hold on to both the Senate and the House in the upcoming election. That forecast had the...
Kerry Eleveld 10/31/2018
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Donald Trump currently is in France with First Lady Melania Trump, on a visit where he’s behaving in ways sure to offend Europeans and Americans alike. Again. Despite his excitement about celebrating the end of a war, Trump abruptly changed his...
Jessica Sutherland 11/10/2018
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