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It is hard to believe the depths to which the Republican Party headed by Donald Trump would go to. Now the GOP is intimidating their supporters. They are acting like mafia bosses to coerce their donors to give monthly. GOP acting like mafia bosses See full episodes here. The New...

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  • April 7, 2021

Sometimes the New York Times gets it right: How Trump Steered Supporters Into Unwitting Donations During the 2020 campaign, Trump kept running short of cash. (Anything less than “all of it” is short of cash in his eyes.) So he died what unscrupulous advertisers often do: He rigged his donation...

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  • April 3, 2021

From Dean M. Harris at NC Policy Watch: In 2015, U.S. Senator Thom Tillis of North Carolina argued that we don’t need government rules for public health in the food service industry, because the free market would protect public health and safety. As an example, he said that the government...

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  • July 22, 2020

Kudos to the North Carolina Democratic Party for reminding voters about this: The  pandemic is giving new life to some old comments from North Carolina Republican Senator Thom Tillis. The North Carolina Democratic Party is spotlighting Tillis’ 2015 call to lift public health regulations requiring restaurant workers to wash their hands after...

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  • April 13, 2020

PPP has some bad news for U.S. Senators Richard Burr (R. NC),  Thom Tillis (R. NC), and Donald Trump and some very good news for Governor Roy Cooper (D. NC): 50% of voters in the state think Burr should resign to 24% who think he should remain in office. Democrats...

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  • March 24, 2020

The Peach State is the eighth largest in population with nearly 11 million people, having grown 10% since 2010. It is dominated by the six million residents of the Atlanta Metropolitian region which has grown about 15% over the last 10 years. There are several reasons Georgia will be of interest...

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  • February 27, 2020

http://www.11alive.com/… The state of Georgia has registered 310,000 additional voters in 2019 through its new law allowing people who receive drivers licenses to be automatically registered to vote if they qualify and don’t opt out. If the trend continues, there could be three-quarters of a million new voters in Georgia for...

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  • October 28, 2019

A friendly reminder that we have a special election May 21st to fill retiring Rep. Tom Marino’s (R. PA-12) seat. The special election pits State Rep. Fred Keller (R. PA-12) against Penn State faculty member, Marc Friedenberg (D. PA-12). The 12th district is a pretty red district but it’s also...

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  • May 9, 2019

http://www.npr.org/… Voting registration has been increasing sharply in the 11 states that have adopted Automatic Voting Registration (AVR), according to an NPR story. Oregon in 2016 was the first state to have automatic registration of voters whenever they interact with a state agency, such as renewing an auto registration. The...

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  • April 12, 2019

Originally Published on Up North Progressive (( NOTICE: Bob Braun's blog had to be shut down after it was attacked. He also published an article about Pearson Education spying on school children's social media after school if they mentioned anything about PARCC.)) In the Hell on Earth that has come...

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  • March 14, 2015