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KISS ARMY MEMBER Democrat/Liberal Avid birder Genealogy Hoping to work in a National Park Despises the orange potato Student at Kent State University Likes Rock and Metal Music Likes to go Hiking Has seen a total of 510 bird species so far Star Wars Fan

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Taniel @taniel.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
YouGov also released six other polls. Other Dem or Indy leads: —Pappas leads 51/43 —Talarico leads 50/44 —Brown leads 49/45 —Osborn up 48/47 —El-Sayed up 49/48 That'd be +5 for Dems before getting to NC, ME, and IA. BUT many tight ones. GOP lead in Florida of 49/44 for Moody.
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Pascal Sabino @pascalsabino.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Montana Supreme Court today struck down a $3,700 fee and other restrictions that make it harder to use popular initiatives & referendums to enact reforms. Meanwhile, advocates are hoping to shut those attacks down by creating a fundamental right to direct democracy in Montana:
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To Protect Direct Democracy, Two States Mull a New Approach: Name It As a Right - Bolts
After years of attacks on voters’ power to take matters into their own hands, democracy advocates are going on the offensive in Montana and Missouri. They’ve placed constitutional amendments on... Rea...
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Bolts @boltsmag.org · 8h
The Trump administration has proposed excluding noncitizens from the census and cutting questions about race, ethnicity, and sexual orientation. What are their goals, and what would the political consequences be? Our new explainer has more:
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Trump's Attempts to Control the Census: Your Questions Answered - Bolts
In our new Q&A, an expert explains how census data shapes politics, and how Trump is trying to skew the count.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 07/10/2026
Day 1 In-Person Early Voting Franklin County, OH (Harris +29) 🔵 Democrat – 1,939 ⚪️ Unaffiliated – 805 🔴 Republican – 367 This is very early data, so it should be interpreted cautiously and not overread.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 16h
Michigan Senator 🚗 As of Oct. 7, 2026 Total mail votes: 248,621 (+125,055) 5.6% of projected final turnout. Estimated share of cast votes: 🔵 Abdul El-Sayed: 60.6–69.1% 🔴 Mike Rogers: 28.4–36.9% Mail votes are usually blue. VoteHub currently rates the race as Lean D.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 15h
Cuyahoga County – Person-Linked 10/6 Early Votes 1,780 Ballots Primary Voting History 🔵 Democratic – 1,186 (66.6%) ⚪️ Unclear – 507 (28.5%) 🔴 Republican – 87 (4.9%) Modeled Race 🟢 Black – 827 (46.5%) 🟣 White – 820 (46.1%) This is very early data and should not be overanalyzed.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 12h
NEWS — House GOP leaders are acknowledging their mid-decade redistricting push is unlikely to deliver all 13 seats the party initially targeted, per @axios. Majority Whip Tom Emmer says Republicans are unlikely to win all five redrawn targets in Texas or all four in Florida.
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VoteHub @votehub.com · 7h
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) has endorsed Amanda Janoo (D) against GOP Gov. Phil Scott, potentially signaling he sees a competitive race against a once-safe incumbent. Sanders declined to endorse Scott’s Democratic opponents in 2022 and 2024.
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 16h
#earlyvote morning update 10/7: at least 1.8 million people have voted in the 2026 general election 🥳 election.lab.ufl.edu/early-vote/2...
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UF Election Lab: 2026 General Election Early Vote Statistics
Live national and state-by-state early voting statistics for the 2026 general election.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h
A Maryland ballot measure asks voters to approve a constitutional tweak that will allow Democrats to more easily redraw the state’s congressional map. It’s an effort to counteract a Trump-backed wave of pro-GOP gerrymanders across the U.S. But voters appear skeptical: demdock.com/47qyunH
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h
NEW: DHS officials discussed deporting up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered by the state. The exchange comes after New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill disclosed in July that a software failure incorrectly registered over 6k noncitizens to vote.
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ICE officials strategized how to deport 400 noncitizens who voted in New Jersey as a result of state error
ICE officials discussed how to deport up to 400 noncitizens in New Jersey who voted in elections after being accidentally registered through a state software error, new internal government documents s...
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Michael McDonald @electproject.bsky.social · 15h
Republicans and their billionaire masters are absolutely freaking out that Texas could go blue
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Senate Leads On The Current Model: Nebraska - ⚪️ I +0.1 Iowa - 🔵 D +1 Maine - 🔵 D +3 Texas - 🔵 D +3 Ohio - 🔵 D +4 Michigan - 🔵 D +7 North Carolina - 🔵 D +10 Georgia - 🔵 D +11 Kansas - 🔴 R +2 South Dakota - 🔴 R +4 Mississippi - 🔴 R +5 unitedstatespolling.com/p/democrats-...
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Democrats Surge as Republicans Enter the Final Stretch
Republicans still have time to shift the trajectory, but the latest numbers show Democrats continuing to move forward
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
48 MILLION voting records were obtained by ICE through an election denier. The agency's investigative arm, Homeland Security Investigations, also debated sending undercover agents into voter registration organizations. Subscribe to our free newsletter here: demdock.com/4hIlVIP
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Indivisible ❌👑 @indivisible.org · 9h
KEEP YOUR FU*KING HANDS OFF OUR VOTE! Robert De Niro wants to see you in the streets on October 17 to stop the fascists from sabotaging the midterms: www.nokings.org?SQF_SOURCE=i... #NoKings
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 7h
🚨 ICE has investigated hundreds of U.S. nonprofits that help people register to vote — and even considered using undercover agents to do so. It’s part of the Trump administration’s resource-intensive search for an exceptionally rare issue: illegal voting by noncitizens ➡️ demdock.com/4jfx4n7
The image features a quote discussing potential undercover operations by ICE targeting organizations for illegal alien voter registration. The quote highlights the use of undercover agents. In the background, a person holds a sign reading "Register to Vote Here.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 9h
🚨BREAKING: ICE is already appearing near voting sites as voting rights groups reinforce their lawsuit to keep armed federal agents away from the polls in November.
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ICE is already showing up near voting sites, bolstering lawsuit against armed agents at polls
Among the newest examples is an ICE detention that took place in the same area California voters had to pass through to reach a ballot drop box.
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 10h
JUST IN: A judge has blocked ICE's policy "to stop collecting biometric information" from detainees that they need to pursue lawful status, like visas for human trafficking survivors and other crime victims. ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov/cgi-bin/show...
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 7h
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 8h
🚨BREAKING: Trump was hit with a second lawsuit over taxpayer-funded propaganda ads promoting him ahead of the midterms. The new case says DHS diverted $20 million meant for border-security commemorations to pay for the spots.
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Trump hit with second lawsuit over taxpayer-funded political propaganda ads
The lawsuit came the same day the Democratic National Committee (DNC) filed a separate challenge seeking to stop the administration from using federal funds for the ad campaign.
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 06/10/2026
Today, The Cook Political Report is moving three Senate races, all towards Democrats. • Kansas from Lean R -> Toss Up • North Carolina from Lean D -> Likely D • New Hampshire from Toss Up -> Lean D Read @jessicataylor.bsky.social's full analysis:
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A Senate Majority is Squarely in Democrats’ Sights as Kansas Moves to Toss Up; Two Other Races Shift Left
Four weeks out from Election Day, the Senate map is shifting further in Democrats’ favor — and with it, their odds of winning back the majority.While Republicans continue to have a financial edge in a...
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 07/10/2026
We are revising our estimate of potential Senate pickups to two to six seats for Democrats — squarely within the range of the four seats they need to net for a majority.
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The Cook Political Report @cookpolitical.com · 18h
This week, we shifted three Senate races in the direction of Democrats. Here's where's our current ratings stand.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Good evening from Ukraine 🇺🇦 russia is HELLISHLY BURNING right now🔥🔥
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Democrats @democrats.org · 12h
NEW: We’re suing the Trump administration. Trump personally ordered his administration to use taxpayer dollars to fund political propaganda. This is an illegal and desperate attempt to boost the GOP ahead of the midterms, and we’re fighting back.
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Erica Ifill @wickdchiq.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The mayor of Saint-Denis, Bally Bagayoko, literally used himself as a human shield to protect students from police violence
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: Utah's Republican top election official said the Trump administration doesn't want to hear that noncitizen voting is a nonissue because it goes against its mass fraud narrative. The comment comes after the state found only 27 noncitizens out of over 2 million registered voters on the rolls.
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Utah’s GOP election head purged noncitizens from voter rolls, but the Trump team didn’t want to hear how few she found
Utah has already combed its voter rolls for any noncitizens registered to vote and found it to be a non-issue, but that’s not what the Trump administration and congressional Republicans want to hear, ...
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 15h
"Who do you expect to win the election for Congress in November?" Democrats: 52% Republicans: 36% Cygnal / Oct 2, 2026
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21h
🗳️ TODAY: Early voting in Arizona’s high-stakes 2026 midterms begins. Few states are dealing with more unresolved fights over who should run elections, how ballots should be cast and whether local officials will carry out their duties. Here’s what you need to know: demdock.com/4yCexpR
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h
UPDATE: Republicans want to defend North Carolina's new absentee ballot rules, which could toss ballots over technicalities like an unsealed inner envelope. The GOP-led election board imposed the new policies just last month, and 81k voters have already requested absentee ballots for the midterms.
This image shows a legal document titled "Motion to Intervene as Defendants" in the United States District Court for the Middle District of North Carolina. It involves plaintiffs, including the North Carolina Alliance for Retired Americans, against defendants, the North Carolina State Board of Elections. The motion is filed by the Republican National Committee and North Carolina Republican Party, seeking expedited consideration. The document refers to various parties and case number 1:26-cv-00965-TDS-JGM.
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Angelica Shalagina Official🇺🇦 @angel-shalagina.bsky.social · 17h
Miracle in Ukraine: Friends survived another night. Miracle in Ukraine: The sun still rises. Miracle in Ukraine: Our hope refuses to die. #ukraine #ukraniangirl #ukrainians #war #ukrainerussiawar
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h
NEW: The Trump administration refuses to say whether it'll send ICE to voting sites, but a FOIA lawsuit forced it to disclose 166 pages of documents about its plans. While the records contain talking points and value statements, it leaves the main question unaddressed: will ICE be at the polls?
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ICE at the polls? Even after FOIA lawsuit, agency refuses to give a straight answer
The produced records seem to get tantalizingly close to finally answering whether ICE intends to send agents to voting locations.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 12h
Absolutely amazing piece by Nithya
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 12h
🎥 NEW: ICE never wanted you to see the internal documents it released last week. Why? It went so far as to outline a plan to use undercover agents to target nonprofits for registering voters. Marc Elias explains how deeply ICE has become involved in elections under Trump's second term👇
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ICE Voter Plot EXPOSED in Smoking Gun Documents
YouTube video by Democracy Docket
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
A naked, gold-covered Trump statue has been unveiled inside the European Parliament in Strasbourg. It’s called “Orange Plague,” also known as “King of Injustice,” and shows him sitting on another man’s shoulders holding an enormous golf club. Covered in reportedly 23-karat gold, of course.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 10h
BREAKING: In a win for Georgia voters, a state court dismissed a Republican lawsuit seeking to limit where mail-in ballots can be returned in Gwinnett County. The ruling preserves an additional way for voters in Georgia's second-most populous county to return their ballots before the midterms.
In the document, the heading reads "In the Superior Court of Gwinnett County State of Georgia." It involves the Republican National Committee, Gwinnett County Republican Party, and Tim Fleming as plaintiffs, and David Hancock and others as defendants, along with DSCC and Jon Ossoff for Senate as intervenors. The text is an order denying a motion for an interlocutory injunction and granting motions to dismiss. The document outlines the case concerning absentee ballot applications. The filing includes official stamps and electronic file marks.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 11h
🚨BREAKING: Democrats are suing the Trump administration for using $20 million in taxpayer money on campaign-style TV ads promoting Trump. The ads carry explicit disclaimers saying they were paid for by the U.S. government, which the party argues violate federal law.
Court document with case title: Democratic National Committee vs. Donald J. Trump, The White House Office, Office of Management and Budget, and U.S. Department of Homeland Security, filed in the United States District Court for the District of Columbia. The complaint alleges misuse of taxpayer dollars for political advertising.
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Polling USA @usapolling.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
Governor Polling: Texas: 🔵 Hinojosa: 48% 🔴 Abbott: 47%* Ohio: 🔵 Acton: 48% 🔴 Ramaswamy: 44%* Kansas: 🔴 Masterson: 47% 🔵 Holscher: 44% New Hampshire: 🔴 Ayotte: 49%* 🔵 Warmington: 40% Michigan: 🔵 Benson: 48% 🔴 James: 45% YouGov / Oct 5, 2026
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 16h
218 seats win the House. Republicans are now spending in at least 39 races they’d skipped all cycle, and their own strategist says they’re “playing defense” in strongholds. There are 22 toss-ups. Most of them belong to one party. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trump-has-...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 16h
BREAKING WaPo: Trump wants to transform his West Palm Beach golf club into a presidential retreat modeled after Camp David. 
The plan calls for a parcel of the private club to be designated a permanent, official sanctuary for foreign leaders and future U.S. presidents.
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Trump wants to turn his West Palm Beach golf club into the new Camp David
The plan calls for the federal government to be granted part of the property, with the rest maintained as a private course.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/10/2026
🧵 Early voting for Ohio’s 2026 midterms has officially begun! A GOP ballot measure could make it harder to repeal photo ID laws, and the state recently handed sensitive voter data to the DOJ. Here’s what to know 🗳️👇
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 07/10/2026
A federal judge dismissed a noncitizen voting case, stressing that only states — not the federal government — can decide who is qualified to vote. The decision could impact the future of proof-of-citizenship laws, a pillar of Trump’s crusade to restrict voting: demdock.com/4hydGAl
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 21h
BREAKING: ICE collected millions of voter records and considered undercover investigations against voter registration groups, documents reveal. It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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ICE amassed millions of voter records in sweeping fraud hunt, documents reveal
It's one of the clearest pictures yet of how deeply Trump's immigration enforcement apparatus has become involved in elections.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 15h
UPDATE: The DOJ argued to the 11th Circuit that access to the personal information of 2020 election workers in Fulton County could aid a probe that "has already revealed potential irregularities in the conduct of that election." The claim raises alarm over election administration as midterms loom.
Page from a legal document titled "In the United States Court of Appeals for the Eleventh Circuit." It lists the Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections as Petitioner-Appellee and United States of America as Respondent-Appellant. It references an appeal from the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia. The document is an opening brief for the United States, authored by J. Daniel Bishop, with contact information for the U.S. Attorney's office in North Carolina.
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Ian Miles Schlong @tedcruznipples.com · 14h
Can’t anyone ask this disgusting rodent-faced pedophile to name the 8 wars he supposedly stopped? I mean for fucks sake, he says the same shit over and over and over. Somebody ask some real questions already. This is just pointless.
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Republicans Against Trumpism @rpsagainsttrump.bsky.social · 15h
NEW: An ABC News analysis found that defense companies backed by Donald Trump’s sons have now raked in more than $6 billion in active or promised government contracts since those investments were made. abcnews.com/Politics/tru...
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Kyle Cheney @kyledcheney.bsky.social · 16h
JUST IN: A federal judge has tossed the Trump administration's lawsuit against Michigan over the state's square-footage requirements for egg-laying hens. No standing, she concludes. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: A Florida lawyer who previously pleaded guilty to illegally accessing election websites monitored the primary election in Maricopa County, Arizona for the Department of Justice (DOJ), according to records viewed by Democracy Docket. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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DOJ lawyer convicted of hacking election sites monitored voting in Maricopa County, Arizona
The involvement of the two lawyers in a state where President Donald Trump challenged the 2020 election results adds to concerns that the administration’s monitoring program for the fall — which it ha...
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Josh Gerstein @joshgerstein.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
JUST IN: Judge Joseph Laplante (GWBush/NH) refuses to block NH state law deleting student IDs from approved list to obtain ballot, but partially blocks broader SecState guidance that student IDs can't be used as part of the registration/voting process. Doc: www.documentcloud.org/documents/28...
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