From The Huffington Post: x YouTube Video NextGen America, which focuses on turning out voters under age 35, is expanding its target list to include Senate races in Alaska and South Carolina, and House elections for Nebraska’s 2nd Congressional District and Kansas’ 2nd and 3rd Congressional districts. The group, funded almost exclusively by former Democratic…
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Trump endorsed the Proud Boys white supremacy group last night, because whataboutism on both sides
Trump’s gaslight went greenlight as Trump gave the Proud Boys domestic terror group a shoutout. x Within minutes of President Trump's mention of them during Tuesday's debate, members of the Proud Boys, a far-right group that has endorsed violence, were celebrating online, calling his comments “historic.” Some claimed to see a spike in “new recruits.”…
Ex-Trump official Miles Taylor launches anti-Trump group with former and *current* DHS employees
The suddenly very dreamy Miles Taylor — the former Trump DHS chief of staff who’s called his former boss, in a word, fuckingnuts — is back, and he’s bringing some of his friends with him. Taylor, who exhorted us all to vote for Joe Biden unless we want human decency itself to be flung heedlessly into space,…
Mike Bloomberg's Gun Safety Group To Spend $1 Million To Flip The Pennsylvania Legislature Blue
I like Mike Bloomberg again: The political arm of an anti-gun-violence group cofounded by the billionaire former New York Mayor Mike Bloomberg says it will spend at least $1 million to help Democrats try to gain control of the Pennsylvania legislature in the November elections. Everytown for Gun Safety Victory Fund said Wednesday it would…
Group aligned with Don Jr. reportedly buying stake in OAN: 'Trump is really aiming to take down Fox'
The redoubtable Gabriel Sherman has another dispatch from the Phantasmagorical Land of Cray-Cray. It seems Fox News is not nearly obsequious enough for Donald John Trump, so he’s itching to cut them off at the very knees they’ve been shamelessly bending for the past five years. Vanity Fair: Trump’s view that Fox is insufficiently loyal…
The Koch machine is taking over college campuses, but one group is determined to stop them
For the few who don’t know the Koch brothers, they are Charles and his brother, David. (The latter passed away in 2019.) The boys inherited multiple billions of dollars from their oil baron father and were raised to believe in their own superiority. For their entire lives, they justified their selfishness through their fanatical devotion to Ayn…
Pro-Trump group handing out cash to black voters
Why would anyone need to do this when Donald Trump has already promised he’d get 95 percent of the black vote the second time around? Are they trying to ratchet that number up to 99 percent? Politico: Allies of Donald Trump have begun holding events in black communities where organizers lavish praise on the president…
You A Member Of A Local Group That Supports Impeachment/Removal Of Trump?
Archives In solidarity with justice, Mike Fox for Alan, Mike H., Dan, Janis, Deb, Dr. Bill, Donna, Kimberly, and Bryan—your PDA national team. Need Orgs To Participate In Press Conferences Nation Wide Jan. 2-6th The Senate will be starting the process to vote on whether or not to remove the impeached Donald Trump on January…
Hallmark Channel removes gay-friendly ads after conservative group complains
One day we’ll be well past this kind of thing, but for now … The Hallmark Channel has pulled four gay-friendly ads featuring lesbian women getting married and kissing at an altar. The ads, for Zola.com, were apparently deemed too “controversial” for the family- evangelical Christian-friendly network. AP: “The debate surrounding these commercials on all sides…
WaPo finds that untapped voting group: cynics
Philip Bump at WaPo decided to look at voters who disliked Trump and Clinton in 2016 and compared that group with those disliking Trump and Biden in 2020. Correlation remains not identical to causation yet again. The thing is, voters who don’t vote and those who seek other candidates is not identical at not only…
EV Tuesday: Dieselgate Continues – New Suspect VW-Group Defeat Device Leads To Search Warrant
As discussed previously, the lawsuits against VW working their way through the German court system have uncovered what appears to be a new emissions defeat device introduced at the time that they were supposedly fixing their previous cheating engine, the EA 189. The new engine introduced in 2012, the EA 288, was supposedly defeat-device free….
Some Focus Group Data From South Carolina Black Democrats On Pete Buttigieg.
According to this article from the SC newspaper The State, Pete Buttigieg has his work cut out for him when it comes to black Democratic voters in SC. Buttigieg focus groups found being gay ‘a barrier’ for some black South Carolina voters Internal focus groups conducted by Pete Buttigieg’s presidential campaign this summer reveal a…
Confirmed: Trump lies to reporters more often than he lies to any other group
Press advocates scored an important legal victory this week when a U.S. District Court judge ordered the White House to reinstate media credentials to reporter Brian Karem, whose access had been stripped away by Donald Trump's team after a dust-up during a Rose Garden ceremony in July. There, former Trump aide Sebastian Gorka called Karem a…
Illinois TV meteorologist RAILS AGAINST Sinclair Broadcast Group's weather hype ON AIR
You may be familiar with Sinclair Broadcast Group as that company that owns a lot of TV stations and forces its stations to run right-wing, pro-Trump propaganda segments like the controversial Boris Epshteyn segments. However, Sinclair is getting attention for a different reason altogether. Joe Crain, a meteorologist who is (or was) the weekday morning…
