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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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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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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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In 2024, Democrats reversed generations of elections as the party of the working class and ceded the title to Donald Trump. Inexplicably, shockingly, distressingly, Trump won voters making less than $50,000, while Democrat Kamala Harris carried those...
by kos
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on Fri Nov 07, 2025 at 10:30 AM PST
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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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on Sat Nov 08, 2025 at 05:00 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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Inside the Democratic wave: youth, workers, and truth-tellers upended GOP propaganda and racist narratives. A must-hear breakdown of America’s new political awakening. Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. Podcasts (Video — Audio) Politics Done Right...
by Egberto Willies
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A blue wave crashed down on Tuesday’s elections. Democrats swept key races across the country, delivering a stinging rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second term and a burst of momentum ...
by Alex Samuels
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on Wed Nov 05, 2025 at 11:00 AM PST
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The American Maroons of Virginia � and � North Carolina By dopper0189, Black Kos Managing Editor The � Great Dismal Swamp Maroons � were African-...
by Black Kos
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on Fri Nov 07, 2025 at 02:00 PM PST
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Republicans just got routed. In Tuesday’s elections, Democrats didn’t merely hold on—they demolished the GOP across the map, from Virginia and New Jersey to California, where voters approved a ballot measure expected to hand Democrats as many as five...
by kos
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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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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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Democrat Abigail Spanberger won the Virginia governor’s race Tuesday, defeating Republican Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears to give Democrats a key victory heading into the 2026 midterm elections and ...
by Associated Press
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on Tue Nov 04, 2025 at 05:06 PM PST
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Yay to Virginia. Please, please voters everywhere. Keep up the good work. Welcome to Gov. Abigail Spanberger! and.. Democrat Ghazala Hashni has FLIPPED the Virginia Lt. Governor’s office from red-to-blue! She is the first Indian American and first...
by akmk
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Not that I would have missed today regardless, but nevertheless I feel a need to sing a paean to the industrious writers who made sure not one...not two...not four or even seven...EIGHT individual, hand-written, issues- based postcards showed up in my...
by userexists
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23% reporting: VA Governor Abigail Spanberger (D) 57.2% Winsome Earle-Sears (R) 42.8% VA Lt Governor Ghazala Hashmi 55.5% John Reid (R) 45.5% VA Attorney General Jay Jones (D) 52.7% Jason Miyares (R) 47.3%
by cbastian
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(nb: all results will be preliminary pending local rules on receipt of mail ballots and official certification procedures) Virginia (7 PM Eastern) enr.elections.virginia.gov/… Georgia (7 PM Eastern) www.wjcl.com/... New Jersey (8 PM Eastern)...
by cbastian
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They say that “As Virginia goes, so goes the nation”. And by “they” I mean google it, tons of different sources say that. Thanks to all our hero candidates and, Bethesda 1971, Brainwrap,and all of you here at Daily Kos! A special thanks to 90for90.
by ZenTrainer
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