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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...
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump's tacky Oval Office decor is oozing outside Live, laugh, lose, indeed. 'Religious freedom' is just another Trump con job The Trump...
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It was a good election night . Abigail Spanberger was elected Governor in Virginia , with Ghazala ...
by Tara the Antisocial Social Worker
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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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According to a new interpretation of the law Texas judges and justices of the peace, who are legally allowed to perform wedding ceremonies, will not face punishment if they refuse to perform a ceremony on the basis of a “sincerely held religious...
by The Boss Gomez
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on Fri Oct 31, 2025 at 10:52 AM PDT
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Hope Springs from Field PAC’s [website] volunteers are completely focused on the elections in California and Pennsylvania as well as redistricting efforts in North Carolinas, Ohio and Texas. We are no longer canvassing in New Jersey or Virginia, the...
by snowbored
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Trump now underwater in 12 states he won just last year Also: A few under-the-radar issues and contests in Tuesday's off-year elections... On today's BradCast: For a guy who believes he's a strongman, or wants to be one -- in a nation where too many...
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Just minutes after the polls closed in California, multiple outlets declared that California voters had passed Proposition 50, a ballot measure that suspends the state’s independent redistricting commission and allows the Democratic-controlled...
by Emily Singer
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is taking on the biggest threat to his constituents: Tylenol .
On Tuesday, the Republican filed a lawsuit against ...
by Alex Samuels
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Edwin Sanchez had the seniority he needed to bid into a higher-paying position in the control room at the oil refinery in Texas City, Texas, where he’d worked for more than 15 years. But Sanchez, lighthearted and sociable, seemed to prefer the company...
by David McCall
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Hope Springs from Field PAC ’s � [dated � website ]� volunteers are largely focused on the elections in California and Pennsylvania as well as redistricting efforts in North Carolinas, Ohio�and ...
by snowbored
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Jon Paul Sheptock is a singer and Christian and is in a lot of trouble in Texas. He has been charged with Promotion of Child Pornography, a third-degree felony. Here he is performing for a crowd in 2022: According to court records seen by ABC13,...
by Kevo2007
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on Thu Oct 23, 2025 at 06:51 AM PDT
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To say that the Kingwood, Texas #NoKings protest was an overperformance does not tell the whole story. The number of people who participated and the message they articulated do. Kingwood, Texas #NoKings protest Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here....
by Egberto Willies
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on Sat Oct 18, 2025 at 11:05 PM PDT
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Texas’ Planned Parenthood has lost half its clinics, but they continue to see thousands of patients a year.
By Lindsey Byman , The Texas Tribune
On Sept. 30, Planned Parenthood’s Gulf Coast ...
by Texas Tribune
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This morning as I was painting my sign for tomorrow’s protest the news broke that Greg Abbott will be sending the national guard to the capitol as a show of force and to “protect” the citizenry, apparently spurred by rumours of vicious organized frogs...
by Mike Rofone
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Weather prevented canvassing in one state, and part of two other states.� It happens, especially this time of year. �California, of course, remains the most important component of our work this ...
by snowbored
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Ho-Hum. It’s Friday, the day we celebrate the volunteers from the state with the highest turnout. Texas, again. But we still appreciate the volunteer canvassers! Ever since the Quorum Break, Hope Springs from Field PAC [dated website] volunteer turnout...
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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Young Republicans' leaked chats reflect Trump's racist influence Bigot see, bigot do. Trump's minions waste millions of tax dollars on ads...
by Daily Kos Staff
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A follow up by the writers at the Electronic Freedom Foundation (EFF) show that Texas Sheriffs lied about their interstate search “being searched for as a missing person,” and that “it was about her safety.” But they were actually investigating an...
by hiredman
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Texas state Rep. Gina Hinojosa, a Democrat from South Texas, is jumping into the race for governor. She announced her campaign on Wednesday, setting up what could become a marquee matchup against Republican Gov. Greg Abbott in 2026. “Our fight right...
by Alex Samuels
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