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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
Texas GOP voter: The Republican Party has been hijacked. They're not the Republican Party that I was a member of for all of my life. Reporter: Is this a vote for Talarico or against Ken Paxton? Texas GOP voter: It's a vote for Talarico. He doesn't just talk the talk, he walks the walk.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 14/10/2026
Troy Jackson: "Sen. Collins says that she voted against it 9 times, but she didn't have the votes. Well, that sounds like then we probably ought to have Democrats in charge of the Senate so we have the votes to stop this war and hold Donald Trump in check. It sounds like Republicans won't do that."
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Scott Colom @scolom.bsky.social · 14/10/2026
She done lost her damn mind.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 13/10/2026
Well, would you look at that. www.pressherald.com/2026/10/13/s...
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Susan Collins still working with operatives tied to straw donation scheme
Fundraising consultant MacKenzie Dolan's firm, The Morning Group, is providing services to Collins and her super PAC.
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Rachel Maddow @maddow.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
"There is no excuse for this and you know why I’m furious right now,” the judge said. “I was hearing from plaintiff’s side that this was going to happen and I said ‘no’ repeatedly, ‘I trust the government.’ I trusted you all repeatedly to not do what you have done...” www.ms.now/news/you-did...
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‘You did your absolute worst’: Judge blasts government after she says it defied her on D.C. golf course case
A livid U.S. District Judge Ana Reyes called an emergency hearing after the government flouted warnings to notify the court before cutting down more than 10 trees at East Potomac Golf Course; it cut d...
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The Wall Street Journal @wsj.com · 13/10/2026
More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife on.wsj.com/4yKLe4d
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More damaging revelations about Ken Paxton: A previously unreported New Year’s Eve 2024 celebration where Paxton partied in Dubai with two fugitives from U.S. justice and a woman who wasn’t his wife
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 13/10/2026
I love that this might be the thing that tanks Paxton, and not the biblical divorce or letting a child rapist out early.
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12/10/2026
Annie Andrews: "I do not support the war in Iran…My opponent is the only one on this stage who had the opportunity to vote to end the war, but three times in a row she voted to continue it…Why would we hand Darline Graham a full term in the U.S. Senate? She is unserious and she is unqualified."
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Adam Hamilton @hamilton4kansas.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Six of Kansas’ eight living governors are backing Adam Hamilton over Roger Marshall. Two are lifelong Republicans.
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Troy Jackson @troyjackson207.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Susan Collins votes with Trump 96% of the time and Mainers are hurting because of it. We know that Maine can't afford 6 more years of Trump's rubber stamp in the Senate. I will stand up for Mainers every day of the week and I'll never bend a knee to Donald Trump or his billionaire buddies.
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Abdul El-Sayed @abdulelsayed.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Today, I'm releasing my Farmers Over Billionaires platform to champion Michigan farmers. Our broken politics has always favored corporations, monopolies, and billionaires over Michigan rural communities and family farms. That ends when I get to the United States Senate.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Opinion | Republicans Are Worried About Gina Hinojosa. In Texas, I Saw Why.
The Texas Democrat who says the culture wars are over.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
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Private Medicare Plans Are Raising Costs And Forcing Millions To Find New Insurance
As enrollment for Medicare Advantage begins this month, older Americans are confronting fewer options because insurers are discontinuing coverage in many areas.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 08/10/2026
BREAKING: Former President Barack Obama endorses Troy Jackson for U.S. Senate in Maine: "Troy Jackson is running to be your next senator and I'm proud to be on board" Obama cites Jackson’s record on wages, drug prices, school meals, and abortion rights as Democrats target Susan Collins' seat.
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Scott MacFarlane @macfarlanenews.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
NEW: Home heating oil price crisis is metastasizing into a political crisis for GOP incumbents
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Xavier Becerra @xavierbecerra.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
I was proud to join Latino Leaders United Against Prop 39 to make it clear: our community will not stand by while MAGA Republicans try to make it harder to vote. Vote NO on Prop 39.
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ProPublica @propublica.org · 08/10/2026
The government doesn’t track how often immigration agents detain U.S. citizens. So ProPublica did. We’ve tallied more than 500 Americans held against their will in warrantless arrests and detentions during President Trump’s second term.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Today we got access to a smoking gun document from ICE that shows how it is weaponized against progressive groups registering voters while building a voter suppression database.
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Peggy Flanagan @peggyflanagan.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This weekend, I visited farmers in Browns Valley who told me that they're being squeezed in every direction by the Trump administration:
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Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨 NEW SUFFOLK IOWA POLL — and Democrats have real momentum. U.S. Senate: 🔵 Josh Turek 48% (+7) 🔴 Ashley Hinson 44% (-1) Governor: 🔵 Rob Sand 55% (+7) 🔴 Zach Lahn 43% (-1) Both Democrats have surged 7 points since August. Iowa is absolutely in play. 🌊🌽
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Julie Cohen ❌👑 @filmmakerjulie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
For months Gabriela Soto has relentlessly advocated for her husband Martin, unlawfully detained by ICE while buying diapers for their baby. Martin played a key role in the Delaney Hall hunger strike this summer. Last night we was RELEASED from ICE custody. ALWAYS FIGHT BACK.
Beautiful young family outside a detention center.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: ICE collected tens of millions of voter records, explored undercover investigations against voter registration groups and considered feeding election data into a system used to locate people for deportation as part of an effort to find voter fraud. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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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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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
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, the state’s Republican elections chief said. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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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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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 06/10/2026
NEW: On September 23rd, Cook Political Report shifted the Kansas senate race from "likely republican" to "lean republican." Today, they changed it to "toss up." www.cookpolitical.com/analysis/sen...
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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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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
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Trump Directed Use of Taxpayer Money for Ads Praising His Presidency
The government-funded ads show just how much President Trump has been able to use federal money for his own aims.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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Senate Races in Republican States Tilt Toward Democrats, Polls Find
Democrats are performing strongly in five reliably Republican states where they are trying to flip Senate seats to win control of the chamber, new New York Times/Siena polls found.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
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U.S.-Russia Talks on Ukraine Now Involve an Oil Deal Tied to Trump Allies
President Vladimir V. Putin brought up a sale of Russian energy assets with President Trump’s envoys, Jared Kushner and Steve Witkoff, pushing a deal that raises new questions about conflicts of inter...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
🚨BREAKING: Tarrant County voters filed an emergency lawsuit Friday accusing Republican county officials of intentionally making it harder for Black and Hispanic residents to vote by eliminating dozens of Election Day polling places. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Tarrant County voters sue to block GOP polling site cuts targeting minority voters
The lawsuit comes a month after the GOP-controlled Tarrant County Commissioners Court approved the cuts in a 3-2 vote despite intense opposition from residents and the court’s two Democratic commissio...
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/10/2026
"It could chill rights of contractors to make political contributions" -- unearthed footage shows Susan Collins in 2012 fighting to protect contractors from having to disclose political contributions (we recently learned she was under investigation for a pay-to-play scheme involving a contractor)
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Each election year, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) takes extra steps to ensure ballots sent through the mail arrive at election offices on time. This year, it’s delaying those efforts. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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USPS pushes back measures that ensure mail ballots arrive on time
“The shorter timeframe is noteworthy and I don’t know why they’re doing this,” Steve Hutkins, who writes for Save the Post Office, told Democracy Docket.
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Los Angeles Times @latimes.com · 01/10/2026
'Blowout': Here's who won the Hilton-Becerra debate for California governor
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'Blowout': Here's who won the Hilton-Becerra debate for California governor
Three Times columnists weigh in on the only scheduled face-to-face debate in the race for California governor.
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Gabe Ortíz @tusk81.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
“When food prices go up because farm workers go missing, that’s the ICE Tax. When construction grinds to a halt because no one is left to build homes, that’s the ICE Tax. When our elders can’t get the care they deserve because their caretakers and nurses are gone, that’s the ICE Tax.” #EndtheICETax
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CHC Chair: ‘ICE Is Not Just Busting The Budget, It’s Wrecking Our Economy’
Congressional Hispanic Caucus members joined America’s Voice to call for an end to the ICE Tax that’s making the lives of all working families more expensive.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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Opinion | Trump Has Become Just Another Disappointing Politician
His winning brand — outsider businessman — has withered.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
We must “recognize the evil that is being carried out in our name and fight it…We must recognize that in abandoning the words of Deuteronomy and the Statue of Liberty, we are losing our soul as a nation.” — Cardinal Robert McElroy, archbishop of Washington open.substack.com/pub/lettersf...
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On Pope Leo’s World Day of Migrants, Cardinal McElroy Indicts Trump’s War on Immigrants
Preaching on the Good Samaritan for World Day of Migrants, Washington’s archbishop named Minneapolis, a five-year-old used as bait, and a nation that “passed on by.” He told Catholics to fight every d...
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Kyle Griffin @kylegriffin1.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
From 16,000 to 185 to Zero. The Trump admin claimed as many as 16,000 noncitizens had been registered to vote in Nevada. Then DHS came back and said the number was actually 185. This week, Nevada told the admin every single person on the list was a lawful citizen.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 25/09/2026
The former lead prosecutor in a high-profile Trump administration case that targeted anti-ICE protesters resigned this week, accusing Chicago’s U.S. attorney of pushing unwarranted felony charges.
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Prosecutor Resigns, Saying U.S. Attorney Mishandled Chicago Protest Case
The prosecutor said that U.S. Attorney Andrew S. Boutros had intervened and overruled her in the case against a group of protesters known as the “Broadview Six.”
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 25/09/2026
NEW: Nevada said that 185 voters in the state identified by DHS as noncitizens were, in fact, citizens — and the agency appeared unwilling to substantiate its claims. The revelation deepens concerns about the reliability of the Trump administration's ongoing effort to identify alleged noncitizens.
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DHS noncitizen voter claims unravel in Nevada as state confirms flagged voters are citizens
Nevada election officials said Thursday that 185 voters in the state who the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) identified as noncitizens were all, in fact, citizens.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Kansas residents are reeling amid sweeping ICE enforcement action at meat processing plants
The arrests of plant workers and others around southwest Kansas began Tuesday, causing alarm and confusion across the region, where immigrants make up a large portion of the agriculture workforce.
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Peggy Stuart @peggystuart.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Mary Peltola stood in Valdez with prices every Alaskan understands: $5.25 for gas, $6.75 for diesel. Dan Sullivan voted 12 times to continue the Iran war. Each vote drove fuel costs higher across Alaska. He chose the war. Alaskan families, fishermen, and truckers got the bill.
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Jack Jenkins @jackjenkins.me · 23/09/2026
NEW: Last month, I flew to Kansas to speak with Rev. Adam Hamilton, the megachurch pastor running for Senate — as a Democrat. He talked to me about "progressive evangelicalism," and I talked to his congregants. And here's the thing: he has a real chance of winning. religionnews.com/2026/09/23/h...
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How megapastor Adam Hamilton could break the GOP's hold on Kansas
LEAWOOD, Kansas (RNS) — While Democrats have long been considered a longshot for statewide races in Kansas, the Rev. Adam Hamilton's candidacy has proven unexpectedly competitive.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
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Hispanic Voters, Abandoning Trump, Are Transforming the Midterm Map
Texas and even Florida are the places to watch in November if a polling pattern holds.
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voteinthemidterms.bsky.social @voteinthemidterms.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
TEXANS for TALARICO
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Susan Collins was at the center of a major bribery probe for steering millions in contracts to a company whose CEO illegally funneled thousands to her campaign. Then Trump took office and gutted the FBI and DOJ units investigating her. Is this what "being moderate" looks like?
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The FBI Anti-Corruption Squad Was Circling Susan Collins — Until Trump Got in the Way
After the FBI caught a defense contractor’s CEO making illegal campaign contributions, it sought to launch a sweeping po
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Robert Reich @rbreich.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Five corporations control 90% of the US media. Airlines have merged from 12 major carriers in 1980 to 4 today. A handful of companies control the pharmaceutical industry. Four giants control 80% of meat processing. The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.
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Fr. Robert Ballecer, SJ @padresj.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
It's strange how Democratic Socialists - who are being denounced by both parties - turned major deficits into balanced budgets in both New York and Seattle.
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epunumstill.bsky.social @epunumstill.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
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Opinion | Watching Bigots Erupt
This is what I see when I look at the picture Bo French hates.
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
How can anybody vote for her? I mean, seriously. What a liar and a fraud. This is brutal.
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Bill Kristol @billkristolbulwark.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
White House correspondents, D.C. bureau chiefs, and media execs: The German government expelled Dorothy Thompson from the country in August 1934. She's remembered and respected today for her important coverage and analysis over the next decade of the German regime. Be like Dorothy Thompson.
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Hoodlum 🇺🇸 @nothoodlum.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Obama: “Imagine if I had pulled Fox News’ credentials from the White House press corps. You’re laughing, but this is what’s happening. It’s unimaginable that the same parties that are silent right now would have tolerated behavior like that from me.” Clip courtesy @meidastouch.com
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Allison Gill @muellershewrote.com · 19/09/2026
Former special counsel Robert Mueller was asked if Russia is still interfering in our elections. He responded “They’re doing it as we sit here” during his 2019 congressional testimony.
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