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Guest: Alex Burness of the indispensable Bolts Magazine Plus: Callers!... If it weren't for a handful of Democrats caving Sunday night in the U.S. Senate, we'd have spent the full hour on today's BradCast discussing last week's remarkable election...
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Nov 10, 2025 at 06:19 PM PST
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I’m a young Latino voter. Neither party has figures us out On Tuesday, I voted for the first time. Not for a president, not in a midterm, but in the California special election to counter Texas Republicans’ gerrymandering efforts. What makes this...
by cbastian
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on Tue Nov 11, 2025 at 05:18 AM PST
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h/t SMURF - November ...
by mettle fatigue
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on Mon Nov 10, 2025 at 02:30 PM PST
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MAGA reacts to abject failure with lies MAGA is on the ropes and bleeding. On Tuesday, they lost elections in New York, New Jersey, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and Georgia. They lost to men and women. They lost to whites and minorities. They lost to...
by TheCriticalMind
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on Sun Nov 09, 2025 at 11:03 AM PST
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i return from California with a plethora of voters’ observations, starting with this one. Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers collect a lot of data, mostly designed to help Democrats in elections. That doesn’t mean we don’t get asked by...
by snowbored
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on Sun Nov 09, 2025 at 09:32 AM PST
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Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers were completely focused on the elections in California and Pennsylvania last week. Seems like we did good! Florida, Georgia, North Carolina and Texas remain a part of our special Voter Registration...
by snowbored
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on Sat Nov 08, 2025 at 09:30 AM PST
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As many of you know, on Fridays i like to recognize the Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers from the state with the highest turnout on the prior Saturday. No one is surprised, given the election, that the most volunteers who came out were in...
by snowbored
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on Fri Nov 07, 2025 at 09:03 AM PST
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Guests: Heather Digby Parton of Salon, 'Driftglass' of 'Pro Left Podcast'... Today on The BradCast: Analysis (and giddiness) continues amid the fallout from Election 2025, during which the bottom appeared to drop out for Team Trump -- at least for now...
by TheBradBlog
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 06:14 PM PST
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Dear Representative Pelosi, I just wanted to say thank you for all of your hard work and service to our nation over the last 4 decades. You were always a steadying force and a voice for the common people, as well as for marginalized communities. You...
by BLAYMAN
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 11:32 AM PST
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I love to camp in the Northern Sierra about an hour north of Lake Tahoe. Glacier-carved lakes. Endless forests. Fewer bears than you’d think. Gold Country is run through with rivers that have been scraped down to bedrock in search of riches. Hillsides...
by soitnly
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on Wed Nov 05, 2025 at 11:36 PM PST
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Guest: John Nichols of 'The Nation' on Election 2025, Mamdani, Trump, Newsom and what it all portends moving forward into 2026... We've covered a lot of Election Nights on The BradCast over the years. But it's difficult, if not impossible, to remember...
by TheBradBlog
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on Wed Nov 05, 2025 at 06:14 PM PST
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It’s one of the biggest tragedies of the 2024 presidential election: Donald Trump did exceedingly well with Latino voters. The very communities he mocked and demonized as “criminal” turned out for him in large numbers, driven by economic despair and...
by kos
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 10:30 AM PST
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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related |� The Trump brand is poison—and that should terrify the ...
by David Horsey
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on Thu Nov 06, 2025 at 03:59 PM PST
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It is the eve of the one-year anniversary of what I call "Black Wednesday", that dreaded day in history when 77 million Americans had the gall to grant an insurrectionist and 34-time convicted felon a second term in the White House. And what a night it...
by Miles Estrelle
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on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 08:56 PM PST
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Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, eeff, Magnifico, annetteboardman, Besame, jck, and �...
by Chitown Kev
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on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 08:59 PM PST
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Dick Cheney dies Polling places threatened in NJ Trump fires another watchdog Bondi tries to save James, Comey indictments MD considers redistricting Judge permanently bars Trump election order... Today was Election Day for major contests in New York...
by TheBradBlog
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on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 06:47 PM PST
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Hope Springs from Field PAC volunteers in Northern California and Pennsylvania were busy last night! Every door was tagged, every flag was planted, and — working until 1:12 AM (Pacific time) this morning — every “front” door was found. Yeah, it’s only...
by snowbored
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on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 09:08 AM PST
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Also: News headlines, and latest dispatches from the Gerrymandering Wars in VA and OH as we keep our eyes on ALL the electoral prizes... As the Federal Government shutdown enters its second month -- now almost certain to become the longest in U.S....
by TheBradBlog
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on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 06:34 PM PST
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Sacramento, CA. — New lobbying disclosures reveal the fossil fuel industry spent $7.1 million in the third quarter of 2025, from July 1 through September 30 – putting the industry on track to reach its second-highest influence spending year, just...
by Dan Bacher
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on Mon Nov 03, 2025 at 03:45 PM PST
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California Gov. Gavin Newsom took aim at President Donald Trump during a rally for Proposition 50 Monday, marking a key moment in Democrats’ pushback ...
by Walter Einenkel
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