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Sometimes, it is nothing but a projection when one accuses another of ill-doing. It turns out voter fraud has been a Republican thing. Projection anyone? x x YouTube Video Watch Politics Done Right T.V. here. This story, along with many others, just so the lengths Republican politicians and operatives would...

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  • February 22, 2022

Burned out at the end of the Joy-Ann Reid hour on MSNBC, I am ready for mindless tv. By that time, my intellectual palette is dulled by the talk of the continuous meal foisted on me of tasteless conservative ambrosia. A nice, seared steak of the NBA playoffs or a good...

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  • July 9, 2021

Here’s some encouraging news today for U.S. Senator Mark Kelly (D. AZ) courtesy of OH Predictive Insights newest poll: The 2022 Senate election is inching closer and the race for Arizona’s Senate seat is wide open. Kelly is on the ballot again after capturing the final two years of the...

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  • May 13, 2021
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Not surprised by this: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is a rising star in the Republican Party. But many of his former staffers told Politico they felt used and abused by the MAGA politician. A group of former DeSantis staffers have formed a “support group” to regularly discuss their adverse experiences...

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  • May 7, 2021

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Raphael Warnock’s (D. GA) re-election campaign: This is urgent: Republican lawmakers in Georgia just enacted one of the most restrictive voter suppression bills in the country – and with the Senate now back in session, I need your grassroots support to fight back immediately....

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  • April 15, 2021

Here’s some big news out of Florida: 2022 Florida Governor GE: Ron DeSantis (R-inc) 45%Nikki Fried (D) 45%@StPetePolls/@Fla_Pol 3/22-24https://t.co/HgtQTMyV26 #FLgov — Political Polls (@Politics_Polls) March 25, 2021 Should Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried run for Florida Governor, she starts in a statistical tie with Gov. Ron DeSantis. That’s according to a...

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  • March 26, 2021

In the 2020 election, we witnessed Yuge ™ Republican angst over mail-in ballots. They were an invitation to fraud, they said. There’s no way to know if the votes were legal, they said. It gave an unfair advantage to minorities and poor people, they said (as though that were a...

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  • March 5, 2021

GOP AGs have been busy supporting the Trumpian delusion and sedition. The 1/6 Commission will have plenty of narrative content. Not unlike the mania for appointing Trump judges, the GQP AGs are a cabal that for some evangelicals, theocratically leads to a dominionist (fascist) state. Not unlike the QAnons who believe...

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  • February 19, 2021

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Ron Wyden’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: The lies and violence of the last few months have made it clear: If we're going to carry forward as a democracy, we need to protect the integrity of every vote. That starts with secure, reliable election processes....

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  • February 1, 2021

Josh Hawley (R-MO) was the first-mover on the objection to the electoral college result count. Congress has reconvened and Kelly Loeffler has withdrawn her objection . “Josh Hawley is the Jim Jordan of Jared Kushners”, as the fatality from today’s attack on Congress is identified. x Brutal first graf in ⁦@KCStar⁩...

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  • January 7, 2021

It is important to understand why the angst of the Donald Trump supporter. He conned them as he has done so many times. Donald Trump conned his own x x YouTube Video See full episodes here. Here is what the president would prefer one does not analyze. Trump made the...

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  • November 6, 2020

Wisconsin is a critical state for both Democrats and Republicans. Biden can win without it, but it is a bellweather, and as Wisconsin goes, much of the Upper Midwest may also go. Trump almost certainly cannot get to 270 without Wisconsin, a state he won by fewer than 23,000 votes...

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  • October 27, 2020

Governor Steve Bullock (D. MT) has been kicking Trump’s ass lately. First, there was this: A federal judge ruled Friday that the Trump administration's leading steward of public lands has been serving unlawfully and has blocked him from continuing in the position. U.S. District Judge Brian Morris said U.S. Bureau...

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  • October 1, 2020

A new generation of “forward to the past”, anti-modern conflict for which the GOP should pay in November. x “The likely shift in the court’s makeup — from Ginsburg, a liberal icon, to an outspoken conservative — would be the sharpest ideological swing since Clarence Thomas replaced Justice Thurgood Marshall...

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  • September 26, 2020

This is VOTING INFO AND IS  important to tell voters..  FLORIDA IS VERY IMPORTANT   I suggest all Kossacks in all 50 states put this info on Daily Kos and Twitter and your email lists and send your State’s info to the voter… NOW…Don’t wait.  If you have family in Florida and...

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  • September 25, 2020

Trump is all about producing indeterminacy and uncertainty, probably because he doesn’t know very much, that stable genius. Not only about science or politics, Trump is all about chaos and confusion. Today he tried again to misinform voters and got sanctioned by Twitter. Because to Trump it’s always about public...

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  • September 17, 2020

The climate arsonist is now in California, on a hastily scheduled addition to his campaign trip and repeated his nonsense from the last time he was there, touting Finland’s approach to forest floor management. And Trump later claimed that the climate will get cooler. (Probably after the nuclear winter) Trump...

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  • September 14, 2020

Early voting has started, and Democrats are doing well: Politico: Democrats build big edge in early voting The Democratic dominance spreads across an array of battleground states, according to absentee ballot request data compiled by state election authorities and analyzed by Democratic and Republican data experts. In North Carolina and...

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  • September 11, 2020

Brennan Center for Justice Michael Waldman gave the most compelling message for deconstructing how we should message vote-by-mail and voting to all. Vote-By-Mail message to heed x x YouTube Video Watch the full episode here. Donald Trump and his cabal are trying to prepare his folks for his significant loss....

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  • September 6, 2020

After all the stupidity and incompetence, Trump really does sound like he says things with no filter. And even as he says he said no such thing, his excuses are even stranger, and his lies are getting amplified by the Russians, again. A new report details multiple instances of Donald Trump allegedly...

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  • September 4, 2020

In other GOP nonsense, Trump is spending time in battleground states trying to get airport rallies to substitute for Tulsa-like covid-spreader events. But the marginal stories are the ones that a desperate Trump is trying to give air, as if that will compensate for losing pretty much everywhere. Trump congratulating...

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  • August 19, 2020

Some more good news today out of Maine courtesy of PPP’s latest poll on behalf of MoveOn.org: x NEW @PPPPolls show Trump’s handling of @USPS deeply unpopular among Maine voters & majority believe he is intentionally damaging #USPS to secure reelection in Nov. https://t.co/w6QzMaxYqd Attn: @SenatorCollins #mepols #SaveThePostOffice— MoveOn (@MoveOn)...

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  • August 18, 2020

Some good news today out of Iowa courtesy of PPP’s latest poll conducted on behalf of MoveOn.org: x NEW @ppppolls show Trump’s handling of @USPS deeply unpopular among Iowa voters & majority believe he is intentionally damaging #USPS to secure reelection in Nov. https://t.co/EFDV3XqqNJ Attn: @SenJoniErnst #iapols #SaveThePostOffice— MoveOn (@MoveOn)...

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  • August 18, 2020

Some good news today out of Georgia courtesy of PPP’s latest poll conducted on behalf of MoveOn.org: x NEW @ppppolls show Trump’s handling of @USPS deeply unpopular among Georgia voters & majority believe he is intentionally damaging #USPS to secure reelection in Nov. https://t.co/NxOMMF2Q6t Attn: @sendavidperdue #gapols #SaveThePostOffice— MoveOn (@MoveOn)...

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  • August 18, 2020

Here’s some good news today out of North Carolina courtesy of East Carolina University’s latest poll: A little less than three months ahead of the November general election, the latest ECU poll, conducted August 12-13, shows a dead heat in the race for president among registered voters in North Carolina....

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  • August 17, 2020

From Westword: During recent interviews, Gardner has said positive things about the way Colorado has conducted mail-in voting, and he did so again, more or less, during a forum not meant for public consumption: an August 5 telephone fundraiser. But in a transcript from the event obtained by Westword, he also sought to...

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  • August 13, 2020

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Jeff Merkley’s (D. OR) re-election campaign: Here in Oregon, we've been voting by mail for twenty years. And it's pretty common across the country—about a quarter of voters nationwide voted by mail for president in 2016. But that hasn't stopped Donald Trump from...

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  • August 12, 2020

Monmouth University released their Iowa poll today and they confirm that it is going to be a tight race between Donald Trump and Joe Biden. Right now, Trump leads Biden 48-45 with 3% undecided. They polled 401 Iowa voters in on both landline and cell phones between July 30th and...

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  • August 5, 2020

Politico has a very interesting article on how Trump’s campaign to cast doubt on the legitimacy of voting by mail may end up destroying any chance Republicans could win. http://www.politico.com/… New private polling shared first with POLITICO showed that Republicans have become overwhelmingly concerned about mail balloting, which Trump has...

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  • August 3, 2020

As Democrats continue to push for national vote-by-mail, especially while our country is going through a pandemic, Republicans of course find themselves in quite a pickle. Vote-by-mail would make it easier for their constituents to vote, despite Trump’s lies about vote-by-mail leading to mass voter fraud. However, it would make...

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  • July 16, 2020

Greg Palast almost had a confrontation with LA Police until they realized he was a reporter with a cameraman. We talk about voter suppression, protest, & more. Greg Palast continues on his many justice quests x x YouTube Video See the entire episode here. Greg Palast introduces us to an interview...

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  • June 12, 2020

Received this e-mail today from former presidential candidate, U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D. MA), on behalf of the Wisconsin Democratic Party: 2020 is the most important election year of our lifetimes. Everything is on the line – college affordability, health care, reproductive justice, you name it – and we need...

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  • June 11, 2020

Received this e-mail today from U.S. Senator Chris Van Hollen (D. MD) in support of John Hickenlooper’s (D. CO) U.S. Senate campaign: John Hickenlooper (D. CO) I’m reaching out today to ask you to support John Hickenlooper for Senate in his race against Cory Gardner, who Politico called “Republicans' most vulnerable Senate...

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  • May 27, 2020

Received this e-mail from Slate Magazine’s The Surge that emphasizes the top seven battleground states that Joe Biden’s campaign should heavily focus on in order to win over 270 electoral votes. Here they are in their  order: 1. Florida We’ve grown accustomed to a trend in election night coverage of...

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  • May 16, 2020

This poll came out yesterday and wanted to pass it along: Former Vice President Joe Biden has opened up a 9-point lead over President Trump in six states where Republican senators face difficult reelection battles this fall, according to a new poll. The survey from Hart Research Associates finds Biden...

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  • May 10, 2020

California’s Democratic Governor Gavin Newson is having a ballot mailed to every voter in the state for this fall’s election and strongly urging every voter to vote by mail or adhere to strict new rules for voting in person to preserve public health in the pandemic. http://www.latimes.com/… California currently has...

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  • May 8, 2020

Some big news: x I’m deeply honored to receive the endorsement of President @BarackObama. In these trying times, our district and nation need us to show real leadership. We have one week to go for the #CA25 special election. Let’s show the country we are united by hope and ready...

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  • May 6, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Dr. Al Gross’ (I. AK) U.S. Senate campaign: This year's election has the power to be monumental. We saw the proof last week when Larry Sabato's Crystal Ball added Alaska to the battleground Senate map — and when The Forward said that Dr. Al Gross could...

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  • May 5, 2020

Friendly, reminder, we have a big special election on May 12th and voting is already getting started: In-person voting kicked off Saturday, May 2 for the special election in California's 25th District to fill Katie Hill's seat. The district includes parts of northern LA County including Santa Clarita, Palmdale and...

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  • May 4, 2020

Received this e-mail from Theresa Greenfield’s (D. IA) U.S. Senate campaign: How do you vote safely from home? In Iowa, anyone can vote absentee – no excuses necessary! Active registered voters will get a request form in the mail. Fill that out, send it back, and you’ll get your ballot....

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  • May 3, 2020

Damn straight: Presumptive Democratic nominee Joe Biden accused President Trump of “all-out assault on the media” during World Freedom Press Freedom Day on Sunday. The former vice president criticized Trump’s treatment of the press in a campaign statement, saying his rhetoric threatens the freedom of the press as his “repeated efforts to demonize the...

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  • May 3, 2020

Received this e-mail from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Today is exactly one month from the June 2nd Pennsylvania primary, and we're leading a statewide team of Democratic candidates to make it the biggest day for Vote By Mail yet: 25,000 Democratic mail-in ballot requests in one day! REQUEST YOUR BALLOTor click...

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  • May 2, 2020

In case you missed this: x There’s a key special election coming up in California on May 12, and I’m happy to support @ChristyforCA25. Christy has been an effective public servant from the school board to the CA Assembly, and we need her in Congress. Help her protect this seat!...

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  • May 2, 2020

RCP has Trump over Biden 49.9 / 42.0. Even if you don’t wager, at present 538 thinks Trump remains dependent on an Electoral College win. It’s still about GOTV, despite all the impending constraints like vote-by-mail. Cautionary tails are being chased. This data highlights a few things. First, at least...

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  • May 2, 2020

Some big news out of Texas today: x .@ppppolls survey for Democracy Toolbox (Dallas Dem consultancy) has Biden 47, Trump 46 in Texas (MOE: +/-3.1%) https://t.co/1D7Km2Cn2n— Patrick Svitek (@PatrickSvitek) April 29, 2020 x – Approval ratings: Trump 46/49, Abbott 58/30– Corona:— Support for universal vote-by-mail: 53/38— 63% concerned about in-person...

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  • April 29, 2020

Received this e-mail from U.S. Senator Tammy Baldwin (D. WI) in support of John Hickenlooper’s (D. CO) U.S. Senate campaign: John Hickenlooper (D. CO) Earlier this month, Wisconsinites were forced to make an impossible choice between their health and their right to vote in the middle of this pandemic. It...

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  • April 25, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Jaime Harrison’s (D. SC) U.S. Senate campaign: Hey– If there’s one thing we know, it’s that this November’s election is critical for the future of our country. But in the face of COVID-19, we must make sure that everyone has access to the ballot box —...

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  • April 25, 2020

Received this e-mail from the Pennsylvania Democratic Party: Today we launched a campaign with @PADems to text over 400,000 voters and encourage vote-by-mail. This is just a part of our expansion of our digital organizing efforts to talk to voters during these unprecedented times and work to make sure Donald...

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  • April 24, 2020

Three of the largest counties in Florida that are controlled by Democrats are planning to send absentee ballot applications to every voter in their jurisdiction for the November election. http://www.miamiherald.com/… Elections offices in Miami-Dade, Broward and Palm Beach counties — home to more than a quarter of Florida’s 13.2 million voters...

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  • April 22, 2020

Received this e-mail today from Councilwoman Christy Smith’s (D. CA-25) campaign for next month’s special election to fill Katie Hill’s (D. CA-25) seat: The ability to vote is one of our most fundamental rights as Americans — but time and again, there are attempts to make voting even harder for...

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  • April 22, 2020