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| Democrats have the House. They should use it to show how they'll fight back in the war on workers Winning the House doesn’t just let Democrats block some of the worst things Donald Trump wants from Congress. It also offers a chance to show what Democrats would do if they had the chance. For ... |
Laura Clawson | 11/10/2018 | 5 | 14 | - | - |
| This week in Space: videos, news, and launch schedule The spiffiest thing about YouTube from the very beginning has been that anyone can put a video there. And the worst thing about YouTube from the very beginning has been that anyone can put a video there. And the comments. The comments are the worst.
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Mark Sumner | 11/10/2018 | 10 | 34 | - | - |
| Spotlight on green news & views: Fire obliterates California city; judge says no to Keystone XL This is the 579th edition of the Spotlight on Green News & Views (previously known as the Green Diary Rescue). Here is the November 3 edition . Inclusion of a story in the Spotlight does not ... |
Meteor Blades | 11/10/2018 | 1 | 34 | - | - |
| Picks of the Week: Our favorite stories from the Daily Kos Community Hellooooo, Community! My KosMail tells me at least two of you noticed that we took a couple weeks off from this here Saturday series. But now that the election is over, we, your beloved Daily Kos staffers, are back and ready to salute and showcase the... |
Jessica Sutherland | 11/10/2018 | 4 | 17 | - | - |
| Andrew Gillum withdraws his concession as the Florida recount is officially on for three key races Andrew Gillum, the mayor of Tallahassee and Democratic nominee for Florida governor, has withdrawn his Election Day concession to opponent and hero to racists, Ron DeSantis. That’s right: Gillum is back in the race.
"I am replacing my words of... |
Marissa Higgins | 11/10/2018 | 71 | 112 | - | - |
| U.S. President, who doesn't know how umbrellas work, skips WWI event because it's raining 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 | 260 | 174 | - | - |
| This week at progressive state blogs: With Dem Tony Evers elected, GOP wants to ax governor's power
This week at progressive state blogs is designed specifically to focus attention on the writing and analysis of people focused on their home turf. Here is the November 3 edition. |
Meteor Blades | 11/10/2018 | 9 | 35 | - | - |
| Jeff Sessions' parting blow ensures DOJ can't curtail local and state civil rights violations Beginning in 2015, following the horrific death of Freddie Gray in police custody, the Department of Justice launched an investigation into police patterns and practices in Baltimore. Among other things, DOJ discovered that the police routinely... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/10/2018 | 32 | 82 | - | - |
| Saturday midday open thread: Pelosi wants to revive climate committee; U.S.-Korea talks stalled What’s coming up on Sunday Kos:
How the Brett Kavanaugh fight strengthens the case for the Democratic House to impeach, by David Adkajian
Rising Arctic temperatures triggering alarms about climate change, by Sher Watts Spooner
We must... |
Meteor Blades | 11/10/2018 | 10 | 46 | - | - |
| View from the Left: Democrats' 2018 win lays out strategy for 2020 Democrats won Tuesday and they won bigly. Their House pickups represented their best performance in any single election since Watergate, when in 1974 voters elevated 49 new Democrats to office. At the time of this writing, 34 new Democrats had been... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/10/2018 | 84 | 74 | - | - |
| What's up with voter recounts in Arizona, Georgia, and Florida? Here's what you need to know The midterm elections happened on Tuesday, but votes are still being counted in three important states: Georgia, Arizona, and Florida. These states, while all facing slightly different circumstances, have one thing in common: their vote counts have... |
Marissa Higgins | 11/10/2018 | 66 | 115 | - | - |
| Remember all the pre-election talk about how youth would vote in higher numbers this year? They did. Democratic activists, many of them young people themselves, worked diligently the past few months to spur a big showing for the 2018 elections by youthful voters. And there was much discussion by pundits and others about how this time, unlike in past... |
Meteor Blades | 11/10/2018 | 158 | 270 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Science Round-up: Even older art, eye needles, elephants evolve away their tusks The election is complete, the political world is now completely calm, and Donald Trump is certainly not launching a string of attacks on every American institution from the Justice Department to the sanctity of voting. Okay, none of that is true. But... |
Mark Sumner | 11/10/2018 | 25 | 56 | - | - |
| Marsy's Law boosts crime victims' rights at a high cost to government, defendants, and justice Marsy Nicholas was shot in the head by her ex-boyfriend in 1983, dying hours later. Just a week after her murder, her mother and brother ran into her killer in public. He was out on bail, but no one had told them. They argued that the pain of the... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/10/2018 | 67 | 40 | - | - |
| As Dems struggle to connect with Black voters, ‘This is Us’ and Stacey Abrams offer a better path Every election cycle, I hear (and voice) complaints about Democratic leadership's utter failure to connect with Black voters. They often don't spend the time building relationship with us before they need our votes. It feels like they parachute into... |
Irna L Landrum | 11/10/2018 | 49 | 114 | - | - |
| Long lines at polling places is a voting rights violation: It's time we treated it as such Every election, the same photos surface: voters standing in hours-long lines to cast a vote that they have the constitutional right to cast. It's usually the same counties, from one year to the next. |
Hunter | 11/10/2018 | 141 | 250 | - | - |
| As fires ravage California, Donald Trump threatens to cut off funds At least nine people are known dead and over a quarter million have been evacuated as the combination of gale-force winds and microscopic humidity drive walls of flames across both ends of California. Whole communities have been burned down, residents... |
Mark Sumner | 11/10/2018 | 231 | 224 | - | - |
| Voting Rights Roundup: N. Carolina's 2018 elections pave the way for striking down GOP gerrymanders Leading Off
● North Carolina: In a critical victory for fair elections and the rule of law, North Carolina voters have elected civil rights crusader Anita Earls as the next Democratic justice of the state Supreme Court. Just as importantly, voters... |
Stephen Wolf | 11/10/2018 | 11 | 38 | - | - |
| Abbreviated Pundit Round-up: Days later, Tuesday looks more and more like a wave 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 | 654 | 214 | - | - |
| Open thread for night owls. Daley: Polarized Americans agree on one thing—gerrymandering is wrong
David Daley at the Los Angeles Times writes— As polarized as Americans are, they agree on this: ... |
Meteor Blades | 11/09/2018 | 71 | 106 | - | - |
| How an Oklahoma Democrat pulled off a historic upset her opponent didn't see coming Probably the biggest shock on election night anywhere was Democrat Kendra Horn unseating GOP Rep. Steve Russell 51-49 in Oklahoma's 5th Congressional District, an Oklahoma City seat that had backed Donald Trump 53-40 two years ago. There were signs,... |
Jeff Singer | 11/09/2018 | 36 | 135 | - | - |
| Republican Congressman leads disturbing rally outside Florida Board of Elections to harass officials There is an absolutely bonkers protest happening outside of the Broward County Board of Elections in Southern Florida. Congressman Matt Gaetz, who regularly pushes extremist ideologies and far-flung right-wing conspiracies and who lives at the opposite... |
Jen Hayden | 11/09/2018 | 345 | 322 | - | - |
| Here's how millions of Americans will be better off in the wake of this election In the wake of 2016, we went through the bright spots that happened despite a devastating election outcome. This year, the good news is there are way too many bright spots to mention here!
The ... |
David Beard | 11/09/2018 | 26 | 79 | - | - |
| Obamacare's first week of open enrollment sluggish, but likely to pick up. You can help with that About 370,000 people signed up for plans on Healthcare.gov in the first week of open enrollment which started on November 1. That’s down substantially from the 601,462 that enrolled in the first week in 2017. So far, 89,000 new consumers signed up this... |
Joan McCarter | 11/09/2018 | 11 | 39 | - | - |
| Trump replacing Sessions with Whitaker isn't just disastrous, it's unconstitutional Not only is former Department of Justice chief of staff Matt Whitaker’s appointment to succeed former Attorney General Jeff Sessions as acting head of the agency disastrous, it’s seriously unconstitutional.
Let’s start with some basics: The... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/09/2018 | 158 | 198 | - | - |
| On Election Day, 19 black women made history in Texas by winning their races for judicial seats As Democrats are taking stock of their wins and losses in the midterms, it’s important not to overlook the incredibly amazing thing that happened in Texas on Election Day. Of course, what’s dominating the news is the story of Beto O’Rourke’s... |
Kelly Macias | 11/09/2018 | 32 | 126 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Rum and House-Flipping FRIDAY! From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
Late Night Snark: Midterm Madness Edition
"Democrats spanked that ass like they were Stormy Daniels!"
---Roy Wood, Jr. on The Daily Show
"Apparently voters responded to the Democrats' call to expand health... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 11/09/2018 | 166 | 100 | - | - |
| Coalition of anti-immigrant hate groups fail to overturn Oregon's decades-old sanctuary law An expensive effort by anti-immigrant hate groups and activists to overturn Oregon’s decades-old sanctuary law went down in flames by a massive margin this week, the Southern Poverty Law Center reported. “With 1.75 million votes tallied, those opposing... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/09/2018 | 14 | 84 | - | - |
| Acting AG Whitaker wrecked the career of Iowa's first openly gay senator with false charges Matthew Whitaker’s unconstitutional gig as acting attorney general isn’t his first go-round at Republican “justice.” After Whitaker’s first failed political campaign, George W. Bush gifted him with Republican welfare in the form of an appointment to... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 261 | 346 | - | - |
| Cartoon: House oversight tip line There’s a real tip line for the incoming Democratic House Oversight Committee, which will soon be able to issue subpoenas and other forms of checks on fabulously corrupt government.
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BrianMcFadden | 11/09/2018 | 6 | 46 | - | - |
| Retired generals speak up for democracy: Count every vote Campaign Action
As Republicans push to stop votes in Florida from being counted because they might shift the Senate race toward Democratic Sen. Bill Nelson, VoteVets released a statement from three retired generals calling for a full and fair count.... |
Laura Clawson | 11/09/2018 | 68 | 178 | - | - |
| Advocates set to sue over Trump administration's latest attack on vulnerable asylum seekers Some vulnerable asylum seekers will now be barred by the Trump administration from applying for life-saving protection, under a series of anti-immigrant actions that groups have already pledged to challenge in court. “Starting at midnight tonight, and... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/09/2018 | 9 | 64 | - | - |
| Democrats were epically NOT IN DISARRAY this election cycle The first jolt to the DC punditry has been trying to absorb that, actually, Tuesday was a wave election and Democrats totally kicked butt (perhaps even in the Senate given the electoral map). But here's the second mind-blowing realization for... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/09/2018 | 126 | 182 | - | - |
| The House will act on gun violence next year, Democrats promise House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi promises action on gun violence, in the midst of a particularly horrifying few weeks of mass shootings. "The American people deserve real action to end the daily epidemic of gun violence that is stealing the lives of... |
Joan McCarter | 11/09/2018 | 46 | 78 | - | - |
| No, counting votes IS NOT stealing votes, and Florida's votes still haven't been counted Campaign Action
Republicans are quickly whipping up their Florida base into a virulent froth, with GOP protesters descending on Broward County to accuse Democrats of committing “voter fraud.” In particular, they are targeting Broward County... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/09/2018 | 139 | 168 | - | - |
| Judge blocks construction of Keystone XL pipeline, accuses Trump of ignoring climate information The US District Court in Montana has ruled that construction of the Keystone XL pipeline cannot proceed, because the information provided by the government ignored evidence of the impact on climate and on cultural resources of Native Americans. At his... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 19 | 103 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Election could mean big energy policy changes; voter turnout best in 50 years Today’s comic by Mark Fiore is The victory presser :
What’s coming up ... |
Meteor Blades | 11/09/2018 | 24 | 54 | - | - |
| Donald Trump 'played a central role' in payoffs to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal The Wall Street Journal is reporting that Donald Trump was directly involved in payments to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal that violated campaign regulations.
The Wall Street Journal found that Mr. Trump was involved in or briefed on nearly... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 107 | 156 | - | - |
| Senator Nelson files an emergency lawsuit that may determine the outcome of the Florida elections Former Congressman Patrick Murphy of Florida revealed that he was one of tens of thousands of Floridians whose absentee ballots were rejected because of an “invalid signature.”
In fact, these “invalid signature” ballot rejections are happening all... |
Jen Hayden | 11/09/2018 | 290 | 321 | - | - |
| Democrats need to use their mandate to protect the Mueller investigation, starting now Democrats won the House by a huge margin and cast at least 12 million more votes for Senate Democrats than Republicans. They won this massive popular vote in repudiation of Donald Trump and in an effort to save the country. It's that simple.
That's... |
Joan McCarter | 11/09/2018 | 108 | 124 | - | - |
| Democrats fight on in Georgia to make sure all votes are counted. Here's how you can help Though Republican Brian Kemp has already decided that Georgia’s gubernatorial race is over and has declared himself the winner, Democrats refuse to give up. This is because there are still thousands of provisional and absentee ballots which have... |
Kelly Macias | 11/09/2018 | 8 | 99 | - | - |
| Trump claims 'I don't know Whitaker,' which is a lie—but he may wish it were true Sliding Matthew Whitaker into the role of acting attorney general must have looked like the perfect move to Donald Trump. After all, the whole way that Whitaker moved from Iowa-bound has-been to America’s chief law enforcement officer was by writing... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 147 | 172 | - | - |
| 106 days past federal judge's deadline, migrant kids are still separated from parents Campaign Action
Friday, November 9, marks 106 days since a federal judge’s reunification deadline, yet migrant children kidnapped from the arms of parents at the southern border continue to remain separated from their families, according to the most... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/09/2018 | 16 | 77 | - | - |
| Donald Trump sees connection between Florida vote counting and pee tape dossier Donald Trump went off again about the “horrible history” of voting in Broward County, suggesting fraud in a very specific way. It’s not just that “All of the sudden, they are finding votes out of nowhere, and Rick Scott who won—it was close, but he won... |
Laura Clawson | 11/09/2018 | 115 | 108 | - | - |
| House Democrats mull intervening in Obamacare challenge A decision in the legal challenge to the Affordable Care Act brought by 20 states and the Trump administration is going to be handed down any minute now. Since Republicans shopped for the district and the judge most likely to rule in their favor,... |
Joan McCarter | 11/09/2018 | 20 | 57 | - | - |
| Acting Attorney General Matthew Whitaker isn't just a nut, he's a dangerous nut When Jefferson Sessions stepped down, the next in line at the Department of Justice should have been Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. But putting Rosenstein in charge would have meant having someone who demonstrably had followed the rule of law... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 238 | 260 | - | - |
| Trump denies doctored video was doctored as White House keeps up its war on the press Video experts keep coming forward to explain how conspiracy theorists doctored the video of CNN’s Jim Acosta at Donald Trump’s Monday press conference, a video the White House then pushed out to claim it was justified in yanking Acosta’s press pass.... |
Laura Clawson | 11/09/2018 | 129 | 103 | - | - |
| Another vetting failure—White House officials caught off-guard by Acting AG's disqualifying history It appears once again Donald Trump has not hired “the best people” as he repeatedly promised he would do if he took office. Trump administration hires have included serial domestic abusers, avowed racists, and now, Matthew Whitacker, a former hot tub... |
Jen Hayden | 11/09/2018 | 323 | 232 | - | - |
| Kyrsten Sinema takes the lead in Arizona with 500,000 ballots left to be counted Democrat Kyrsten Sinema took a narrow lead in Arizona’s critical Senate race on Thursday evening, with half a million votes left to count. Going into Thursday’s ballot drop, Republican Martha McSally had led by 17,703 votes, but the latest 160,000... |
Laura Clawson | 11/09/2018 | 103 | 113 | - | - |
| California burning—wild fires in north and south explode thanks to high winds and dry conditions Rapidly expanding wildfires in both Northern and Southern California have destroyed homes and forced thousands to evacuate as dry conditions and high winds create a dangerous combination across the states. In the northern part of the state, CNN reports... |
Mark Sumner | 11/09/2018 | 52 | 85 | - | - |
| Florida races head to recount; Republicans furious that 'unethical liberals' are counting every vote The two Florida counties that haven’t finished counting their votes yet continue counting—too slowly, for sure—are bringing Democrats Andrew Gillum and Sen. Bill Nelson closer and closer to their Republican opponents, and Republicans are really not... |
Laura Clawson | 11/09/2018 | 199 | 162 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: With new ballot drop, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema takes the lead in Arizona Senate race Leading Off
● AZ-Sen : On Thursday, Democrat Kyrsten Sinema took a 9,610-vote lead over Republican Martha McSally; on Wednesday, McSally held a 17,000-vote lead. Another 130,000 votes were ... |
Daily Kos Elections | 11/09/2018 | 65 | 82 | - | - |
| Cartoon: The victory presser
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Mark Fiore | 11/09/2018 | 13 | 55 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! It’s Friday at last! Although I feel like I keep saying this, and it never makes any difference.
Still, it’s a nice tradition, don’t you think? It’s often a chance for us to veer off the ... |
David Waldman | 11/09/2018 | 7 | 10 | - | - |
| Stephen Colbert says goodbye to Jeff Sessions by eating him on live TV The Late Show with Stephen Colbert took on the news that Donald Trump had fired Attorney General Jeff Sessions on Wednesday. After covering that Sessions’ resignation letter implied that he was fired, Colbert reminded the audience that this was not a... |
Walter Einenkel | 11/08/2018 | 69 | 157 | - | - |
| Arkansas man faces multiple felony 'terroristic threatening' charges for threats to CNN An Arkansas man has been arrested and charged with 18 different counts of making threats aimed at CNN’s Don Lemon, Rep. Maxine Waters, Planned Parenthood, Sen. Chuck Schumer, Michael Avenatti and more. The Baxter County Sheriff’s office picked up... |
Jen Hayden | 11/08/2018 | 212 | 313 | - | - |
| What did Susan Collins get back home for her Kavanaugh betrayal? A 9-point approval drop Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) traded her reputation and principles away for the Brett Kavanaugh Supreme Court fight for an overall loss of 9 points in her approval rating. Morning Consult polled Maine and found that " the political ground has shifted... |
Joan McCarter | 11/08/2018 | 211 | 312 | - | - |
| Motel 6 agrees to settle for millions after turning over Latino guest information to ICE Remember back when Motel 6 decided to leave a light on for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and turn over guests “with Latino-sounding names” for deportation? The motel chain’s decision to moonlight as mass deportation agents is set to cost... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/08/2018 | 42 | 94 | - | - |
| Wisconsin Republicans plot to weaken governor's powers now that it will be a Democrat Republicans in the Wisconsin state legislature have been only too happy to give the governor power, while it was Scott Walker. Now that Tony Evers, a Democrat, will be the state’s governor, Republicans are talking about following in the footsteps of... |
Laura Clawson | 11/08/2018 | 114 | 164 | - | - |
| Trump's making migrant minors appear in court via video, and it's hurting their cases Trump’s Executive Office of Immigration Review (EOIR) wants to livestream migrant children’s testimony into courtrooms rather than allow them to appear in court. The administration’s claim is that it will speed up proceedings. Whether that’s true or... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/08/2018 | 11 | 53 | - | - |
| Texas state Republican who called ICE on pro-immigrant demonstrators gets the boot Texas Republican state Rep. Matt Rinaldi, the noted pendejo who responded to pro-immigrant demonstrators outraged about the state’s discriminatory “show me your papers” law by siccing Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) on them, was given the... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/08/2018 | 16 | 122 | - | - |
| Affordable Care Act enrollments sluggish in first week, let's help pick up the pace Enrollments in the Affordable Care Act are lagging substantially behind last year’s sign-up period.
By the numbers: A little over 370,000 people selected plans through HealthCare.gov in the first 3 days of open enrollment, according to figures the... |
Joan McCarter | 11/08/2018 | 30 | 65 | - | - |
| This Week in Statehouse Action: November Reign edition It was a good night.
Tuesday, mean.
I mean, it was long (note to self: don’t get in front of a camera at 1 AM after being up for 20 hours without at least checking my hair), and it was by no means perfect.
But it was tasty as heck, especially... |
Carolyn Fiddler | 11/08/2018 | 35 | 64 | - | - |
| Voters oust Republican sheriffs who collaborated with ICE to deport immigrants A number of Republican sheriffs who for years worked hand-in-hand with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) were ousted from office by Democrats this week. “The victories were emblematic of a greater shift among the electorate,” Think Progress... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/08/2018 | 31 | 133 | - | - |
| Criminal justice reform just swept America November 6, 2018, brought major criminal justice reform victories across the country, from what’s criminalized to what sentences can be applied. Perhaps the two biggest wins were in Louisiana and Florida: Tuesday marked the demise of Louisiana’s... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/08/2018 | 10 | 90 | - | - |
| Paul Ryan deserves as much credit for the GOP's midterm trouncing as Trump One of the more enjoyable reads in the election post-mortem was the New York Times's "How the House fell." The article lays out the striking contrast between how the GOP's divided caucus helped seal their own defeat while a hyper-disciplined Democratic... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/08/2018 | 142 | 133 | - | - |
| Women and people of color won this election for Democrats Women voted Democratic in 2018 by the biggest margin in decades: 59 percent of women voted for Democrats to just 40 percent voting Republican. Young women did even better, with two thirds voting Democratic.
This year’s swing was, in large part,... |
Laura Clawson | 11/08/2018 | 79 | 93 | - | - |
| In Georgia, Kemp declares victory while ignoring thousands of ballots that have not been counted On Wednesday, Republican Brian Kemp officially declared himself the winner in Georgia’s gubernatorial race—despite the fact that there are tens of thousands of provisional and absentee ballots all across the state which have yet to be counted. Kemp is... |
Kelly Macias | 11/08/2018 | 83 | 128 | - | - |
| How enormous was 2018? Democrats have picked up the most House seats since Watergate So far, Democrats have flipped 34 Republican-held House seats in the 2018 midterms. Because the GOP only won two Democratic seats, that means Democrats have netted, at the moment, 32 seats in total. Here’s how huge that number is:
It’s the largest... |
David Nir | 11/08/2018 | 132 | 178 | - | - |
| From Texas to New York, Latinas made electoral history all across the U.S. Texas candidates Veronica Escobar and Sylvia Garcia were among the 33 of the 41 Latinx Democratic candidates who won their bids for Congress this week, making history as the first Latinas to, finally, represent the state in the United States House of... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/08/2018 | 21 | 90 | - | - |
| Midday open thread: Invasion called off, Pravda on the Potomac, and a sore loser
Today’s comic by Ruben Bolling is Super fun pack comix, feat. The year Christmas was cancelled and more: |
Barbara Morrill | 11/08/2018 | 36 | 44 | - | - |
| Sorry, Trump, it was absolutely a blue wave The Upshot's Nate Cohn writes that House Democrats are projected to win the popular vote nationwide by 7 to 8 points once all the votes are counted. That's slightly better than the GOP's margin in 2010 or even 1994 and roughly the same as the... |
Kerry Eleveld | 11/08/2018 | 153 | 134 | - | - |
| Florida alert: Provisional votes have to be verified by 5 o'clock Eastern today With both key Florida races still undecided and headed to a recount, it is imperative that every vote cast for Andrew Gillum for governor and Sen. Bill Nelson are counted. If you voted by provisional ballot, you have until 5 PM ET TODAY to make sure... |
Joan McCarter | 11/08/2018 | 142 | 122 | - | - |
| Mueller working on final report, Trump hasn't turned in his homework, Whitaker won't recuse After months of declaring he was “eager” to talk to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, and notably doing everything but talking to Special Counsel Robert Mueller, Donald Trump agreed in September to answer questions from Mueller’s team in writing. Though... |
Mark Sumner | 11/08/2018 | 278 | 215 | - | - |
| When is a duck most dangerous? When it's defeated and lame Congress comes back to work next week to clean up loose ends, push through a few more horrendous judges, pass a farm bill, and take care of that little matter of avoiding a government shutdown in the middle of December. The whomping House Republicans... |
Joan McCarter | 11/08/2018 | 55 | 93 | - | - |
| Timely: Protests called for today, 5 PM local time. Find one near you! Wednesday, Donald Trump forced Attorney General Jeff Sessions to resign in a blatant attempt to impede Robert Mueller's Trump-Russia investigation.
Sessions was replaced by Trump crony and Mueller critic Matt Whitaker—who will now become Mueller's... |
TealBomb | 11/08/2018 | 50 | 105 | - | - |
| 105 days past federal judge's deadline, migrant kids are still separated from parents Campaign Action
Thursday, November 8, marks 105 days since a federal judge’s reunification deadline, yet dozens of migrant children kidnapped from the arms of parents at the southern border continue to remain separated from their families, according... |
Gabe Ortiz | 11/08/2018 | 23 | 91 | - | - |
| Matthew Whitaker's work as a scam artist and threatening bully makes him the perfect Trump AG On Wednesday, Donald Trump did a dance in front of the press while behind the scenes the chairs were being shuffled at the Department of Justice. Matthew Whitaker—who was appointed to the DOJ a year ago entirely based on an editorial he wrote... |
Mark Sumner | 11/08/2018 | 144 | 169 | - | - |
| Key Florida races headed to recount; in Georgia, Abrams pushes for every vote to be counted Two days after the elections, some of the most-watched races in the country are still being watched, because they’re still up in the air. Florida’s Senate and governor’s races and Georgia’s governor’s race are all led by Republicans, but within the... |
Laura Clawson | 11/08/2018 | 76 | 146 | - | - |
| Arizona Republicans sue to keep some votes from being counted Arizona Republicans are going to court to make sure fewer ballots get counted in their state’s very close Senate race. At issue are mail-in ballots with signatures that county recorders are having trouble verifying:
The suit filed Wednesday by... |
Laura Clawson | 11/08/2018 | 129 | 155 | - | - |
| With big wins at the state level, Democrats lay the groundwork for long-term power Flipping the U.S. House was a major prize for Democrats on Nov. 6, but in terms of long-term impact on party health, progressive policy, and more, Team Blue’s success at the state level cannot be overlooked. By flipping key state legislatures and... |
Carolyn Fiddler | 11/08/2018 | 127 | 217 | - | - |
| Supreme Court Justice Ginsburg admitted to D.C. hospital after breaking three ribs in a fall Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was admitted to George Washington University Hospital on Thursday morning after a fall in her office Wednesday night that resulted in three fractured ribs. Fortunately, the only thing on the Supreme Court... |
Jen Hayden | 11/08/2018 | 332 | 166 | - | - |
| White House tweets doctored Infowars video to justify banning CNN reporter The White House is continuing to insist it was justified in suspending CNN reporter Jim Acosta's press credentials after he dared question Donald Trump assertively. They’re not saying “he asked Trump questions he couldn’t handle,” of course. Instead,... |
Laura Clawson | 11/08/2018 | 179 | 151 | - | - |
| Morning Digest: Democrats flip New Mexico House seat—that had been called for Republicans Campaign Action
Leading Off
● NM-02: Whoa mama joe! CNN called this open-seat race for Republican Yvette Harrell early Wednesday afternoon, but late in the evening, a new batch of absentee ballots were counted that gave Democrat Xochitl Torres... |
Daily Kos Elections | 11/08/2018 | 142 | 160 | - | - |
| Mass shooting at California bar leaves 12 dead It never ends:
At least 11 bar patrons and a sheriff’s deputy were killed late Wednesday in a shooting at a country and western dance hall in Thousand Oaks, Calif., that was holding an event for college students, officials said.
The gunman is... |
Barbara Morrill | 11/08/2018 | 149 | 120 | - | - |
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RubenBolling | 11/08/2018 | 13 | 47 | - | - |
| Cheers and Jeers: Thursday From the GREAT STATE OF MAINE…
You have no idea how happy I am that I can emphasize the word GREAT at the top of my lungs again.
It has been a long time coming. The era of gangster governor Paul LePlague is speeding toward a merciful end after... |
Bill in Portland Maine | 11/08/2018 | 162 | 109 | - | - |
| Abbreviated pundit roundup: Mueller probe at risk; midterms give Dems hope; climate mostly ignored Even in the most victorious of nationwide elections, there are defeats. Veteran activists learn not to focus mostly on the wins or mostly on the losses if they really want to get a nuanced perspective on how to move forward.
Over the next few weeks,... |
Meteor Blades | 11/08/2018 | 345 | 144 | - | - |
| Daily Kos Radio is LIVE at 9 AM ET! I guess we’re just supposed to pretend nothing happened, and go on with the show, as if the new Acting Attorney General-designate Matthew Whitaker didn’t get caught on tape murdering that White House press office intern during Trump’s press... |
David Waldman | 11/08/2018 | - | 5 | - | - |
| Open thread for night owls. Adam Serwer: 'Trump will only get more dangerous' Adam Serwer at The Atlantic writes—Trump Will Only Get More Dangerous. The dismissal of Jeff Sessions makes this much clear: The Republicans’ midterm defeat has made the president more desperate to undermine the rule of law:
Jeff Sessions was... |
Meteor Blades | 11/07/2018 | 141 | 121 | - | - |
| Democrats make major inroads against GOP gerrymandering, but the GOP still holds a big edge for 2020 On Tuesday, Democrats gained at seven governor's offices and six legislative chambers, striking a blow against the GOP's power to egregiously gerrymander congressional districts nationally after 2020 like they did this decade. However, as shown on the... |
Stephen Wolf | 11/07/2018 | 42 | 67 | - | - |
| Daily Kos celebrates Democratic winners in key attorney general races Today, Daily Kos congratulated four newly-elected attorneys general. Daily Kos was pleased to endorse these candidates in August, and the Daily Kos community contributed more than $240,000 to Democrats running for these key posts.
The victors... |
Carolyn Fiddler | 11/07/2018 | 21 | 63 | - | - |
| N. Carolina elections are a huge win for democracy, paving the way to strike down GOP gerrymandering In a critical victory for fair elections and the rule of law, North Carolina voters have elected civil rights crusader Anita Earls as the next Democratic justice of the state Supreme Court. Just ... |
Stephen Wolf | 11/07/2018 | 148 | 313 | - | - |
| Democrats flip secretary of state races in key swing states in a boon to voting rights Republicans have run election administration in most states for most of this decade, but Democrats made critical gains in a handful of key swing states on Tuesday. Democrats flipped the secretary of state races in Michigan and Colorado, winning the... |
Stephen Wolf | 11/07/2018 | 38 | 90 | - | - |
| I’m undocumented and can’t vote—but my sister did This post was written and reported by freelance contributor Jose Alonso Muñoz through our Daily Kos freelance program.
As a recipient of protection under the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, I’m not eligible to vote in the... |
Daily Kos Correspondent | 11/07/2018 | 20 | 72 | - | - |
| Thank you for everything you did to get out the vote. Now let's get out the Obamacare enrollments! There were a great many gains for Democrats and progressives Tuesday. From the massive number of women and people of color who will make the 116th Congress look a lot more like America to the hundreds of thousands of people who will now be able to get... |
Joan McCarter | 11/07/2018 | 11 | 50 | - | - |
| Trump White House suspends CNN White House reporter's credentials, bars him from grounds In another spasm of post-midterms pique, the Trump White House has reportedly suspended the White House press credentials of CNN White House correspondent Jim Acosta and barred him from the White House grounds.
The move follows a heated... |
Hunter | 11/07/2018 | 351 | 221 | - | - |
| Daily Kos congratulates Democratic winners in key gubernatorial races Daily Kos congratulated new governors-elect Gretchen Whitmer in Michigan and Tony Evers in Wisconsin. Daily Kos was pleased to endorse these candidates in August, and the Daily Kos ... |
Carolyn Fiddler | 11/07/2018 | 19 | 68 | - | - |
| Missouri and Arkansas voters pass big minimum wage increases Election Day 2018 was another good day for minimum wage increases. There were two statewide ballot initiatives to raise the minimum wage, and both won. These were not blue states, either: 62 percent of Missouri voters said yes to a minimum wage of $12... |
Laura Clawson | 11/07/2018 | 26 | 62 | - | - |
| The best kind of news: a major victory for voting rights in Florida We’ve got to take joy where we can, and Election Day’s given us one very remarkable cause for joy in Florida: Amendment 4 has restored voting rights to 1.5 million people by ending a policy that permanently deprived people convicted of felonies of... |
Rebecca Pilar Buckwalter Poza | 11/07/2018 | 36 | 77 | - | - |
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