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Hope Hansen

@hopehansen.bsky.social
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Pro: democracy, choice, peace Anti: fascism, racism, hate

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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 15h
Read: www.wsj.com/politics/pol...
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Exclusive | Ken Paxton Partied in Dubai With Fugitives Ahead of High-Stakes Texas Senate Race
Trump backed the scandal-plagued Paxton in one of the riskiest bets of the midterms
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Congresswoman Analilia Mejia @repanalilia.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
This should alarm every American. Trump is shutting out independent election observers while preparing to send his own DOJ monitors to polling places. That's a page out of Putin's playbook. Our elections belong to the people — not Donald Trump.
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Trump administration refuses international election monitors for first time in over 2 decades
The decision not to invite observers from the OSCE puts the U.S. alongside Russia and Belarus, while the Justice Department prepares to deploy its own poll monitors.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 06/10/2026
my friend @juddlegum.bsky.social has put together a cool new tool that allows you to photograph political mail and immediately learn who paid for it. Check it out here:
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Who paid for this?
Find out who really paid for political mailers and TV ads.
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Scott Dworkin @dworkin.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Ken Paxton's joint fundraising committee took $25,000 from one man. That man ran a company ICE pays to fill detention beds in Texas. Republicans fired a sitting senator to get Paxton. He's trailed in eight of nine polls since. www.dworkinsubstack.com/p/trumps-sen...
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Ro Khanna @rokhanna.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Our immigration enforcement system is simply broken. The deportation of children and innocent families is inhumane and unacceptable. No small child should face a judge without an attorney. 
It’s time to abolish ICE.
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
NEW AD: Are you a data center company looking to take over rural Texas? Are you a crime-loving millionaire looking to throw the FBI off your scent? Are you a child predator looking to get out of jail after just 1 day? Call 844-WHOS-KEN to hear what Ken Paxton can do for you!
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
Call the Ken Paxton Corruption Hotline at 844-WHOS-KEN. Learn about his record and leave him a voicemail. (It’s a real number.)
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 30/09/2026
I for one think it’s bad that the president can just say crazy stuff all day every day and 99% of it doesn’t make the news because we’ve normalized having an insane president
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Kate Starbird @katestarbird.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
This is one of those stories that drives home just how horrifying the current administration and its immigration policies / enforcement tactics are. It’s heartbreaking and stomach turning.
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Hope Hansen @hopehansen.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
I am/was one of these people. Moved and updated my address with DPS last fall but during the primary, I was still registered in the old precinct. I had to resubmit my new address and then called to verify it was changed recently. I am in Hays county, south of Austin. Texans are fed up.
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Tens of thousands of Texas voter registration applications likely ensnared in state error
Democrats are calling for investigations into why voter registration applications submitted via a DPS portal weren’t forwarded to counties.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Zelenskyy: "As early as next year, there is already a real possibility that AI, not people, will decide what happens on the battlefield. And we need peace before we reach that point."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 23/09/2026
Ossoff: "What did they spend the most political capital trying to do over the last 18 months? Cover up the Epstein files. They worked harder to cover up the Epstein files than they ever did to lower grocery prices."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Gina Hinojosa: "I have called on Greg Abbott to issue a moratorium and call an emergency special session so that we can pass laws to protect Texans. Right now, we have the wild west of data centers in Texas ... Greg Abbott is all talk ... he's received $20 million from data center interests."
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/09/2026
Gina Hinojosa: "While we've been fighting over culture wars ... 15 billionaires have amassed money, power, and all our data and are about to blow up the world. And if we don't come together fast to save ourselves -- this is it"
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Earthjustice @earthjustice.org · 18/09/2026
Another disturbing development in the Trump administration’s attacks on the Endangered Species Act. This report from the New York Times reveals that an internal memo subverts the law by making it OK to kill endangered species – as long as it wasn't intentional. We'll see them in court.
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Trump Administration Moves to Gut a Core Endangered Species Protection (Gift Article)
An internal memo reinterprets the law so that only the intentional killing of animals, not collateral harm, is illegal.
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Headquarters @headquartersnews.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Ron White to Joe Rogan: Talarico didn't cost this state $6 million in fines and lawsuits, and that happened with Ken Paxton. Guess who paid that $6 million? You and me paid the $6 million for his bribery. His own party impeached him. He's a criminal. He's a piece of shit.
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 16/09/2026
This is why Trump can’t stand Black women. They don’t take his shit. Let’s appreciate Rep. Joyce Beatty for being the fighter we need. Trump: “I think you’re incompetent.” Beatty: “I know you’re incompetent.” Then she reminded him: “You had more bankruptcies than anybody in the room.” 🔥
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Buttigieg: "I was shocked to hear Speaker Johnson just now saying 'we shouldn't be rushing, shouldn't be moving too quickly on this.' You know what is moving quickly? AI. For Congress to sit on its hands is deeply dangerous it to the American people ... what have they been doing this entire time?"
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 13/09/2026
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei: "My view here is it has always been very strange that this technology is being built by a private company ... I think the government and the public needs to have a stake. And that's why we've supported regulation."
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USA TODAY @usatoday.com · 12/09/2026
Kimmel said he chose not to air the interview on ABC amid concerns about FCC rules governing appearances by political candidates.
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Talarico's Jimmy Kimmel interview racks up nearly 6M views on YouTube
Kimmel said he chose not to air the interview on ABC amid concerns about FCC rules governing appearances by political candidates.
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Hope Hansen @hopehansen.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Ted Cruz on CGD.. jeez. Please take off the orange jacket and exit the state! I hope the horns break the Cruz curse off into his ass! Go on and git you rhinestone cowboy!
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 10/09/2026
LOL -- Fox News ticks through all of Ken Paxton's scandals with on air graphics during an interview with Ken Paxton and Bret Baier says, "there's a long list here"
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The USA Singers @theusasingers.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
We need less artificial intelligence, and more real intelligence.
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JRho @jrho.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
The most absolutely massive flex from the state fair exhibit. This quilt is made of 40 years of prize ribbons from various categories at the New Mexico State Fair won by Carol St. Clair Johnson. She also won a prize for this quilt.
Massive quilt made of prize ribbons in blue, red, yellow, and whiteCenter square of quilt made of yellow and red ribbons and yellow rosettesBlock of quilt made of blue, yellow, red, and white ribbons. Ribbons state the year. Some have the prize winning object written on in markerCarol St. Clair Johnson
born 1954; resides Albuquerque, NM

O Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years
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After unexpectedly winning her first blue ribbon for a sewn cape in 1981, Carol St. Clair Johnson developed an enduring love for the New Mexico State Fair. The quilt Fair New Mexico-41 Fair Years incorporates more than six hundred of the ribbons she won at the fair every subsequent year except 2020 (when the fair was canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic). Johnson earned ribbons for needlework, knitting, crochet, pies, cookies, cakes, canning, jewelry, flowers, vegetables, and potted plants. The title of the quilt is a reference to the state song, and the design places the state's Zia sun symbol at the center. The quilt earned Johnson yet another ribbon: Best in Category (miscellaneous quilt) at the 2023 New Mexico State Fair.

Courtesy of Carol St. Clair Johnson
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Comfortably Boo @numb.comfortab.ly · 06/09/2026
So, which is it?
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RADDATZ: You attacked the Maduro regime as a "socialist dictatorship.' Delcy Rodriguez was the VP of that regime. Why do you trust her?

CHRIS WRIGHT: We have a lot of leverage over Venezuela. We control the sale of oil outside of their country. Right now they are forced to work in partnership w/ usAaron Rupar
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Chris Wright on Venezuela: "These senators saying we're stealing their oil at gunpoint nothing could be further from the truth"
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Anna Bower @annabower.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
DOJ election monitors reportedly tried to access voting machines in Wyoming last week. I’ve spent thousands of hours reporting on past efforts by Trump allies to access machines & copy data. Mark my words: State officials need to be ready for this to happen again. www.nytimes.com/2026/08/28/u...
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Wyoming Governor Objects to ‘Very Odd’ D.O.J. Election Monitoring (Gift Article)
Governor Mark Gordon, a Republican, said he was concerned by the behavior of election observers who visited a polling station in Cheyenne.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 12/08/2026
New in PN: Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor "The episode highlights the grossly dysfunctional relationship between POTUS & the media, which puts up with ever-escalating abuses as the price of access, & routinely normalizes Trump’s erratic & even criminal behavior."
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Trump uses reporters as human shield, gets feted as guest of honor
Steepest of learning curves.
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 04/08/2026
"Get away from me right now," King, a retired U.S. Army captain who served in Iraq and earned both a Purple Heart and a Bronze Star, can be heard telling the three male guard members in the video as they approach her on the bench. "You have absolutely no authority to detain me."
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A veteran was detained by the National Guard in her front yard. Now she's suing
Military veteran and D.C. resident Anna King has filed a $3 million lawsuit against the Idaho National Guard, saying three guard members assaulted her while detaining her in front of her home.
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Mike Nellis @mikenellis.bsky.social · 17/07/2026
The ICE agent who killed Joan Sebastian Guerrero called his ex-wife and begged her to lie about abusing her. She refused and went public. What an absolute piece of shit this guy must be.
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Bradley P. Moss @bradmossesq.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
And the people bowed and prayed To the Neon God they made
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Barb McQuade @barbmcquade.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
Focus on whether Blanche has the bare minimum “qualifications” is a head fake. The dealbreaker should be Blanche’s willingness to be Trump’s lawless hatchet man.
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Donald Trump is mentally deranged. He’s a danger to the U.S. He’s a danger to the globe. He does not belong in this position of power—in control of the massive U.S. military—and he should be removed from office. This is not a joke. And his GOP enablers are responsible for abdicating their duty.
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Fifty Shades of Whey @fiftyshadesofwhey.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Cities and counties in the USA are now equipping garbage trucks with AI-powered cameras that scan neighborhoods for property violations and code enforcement issues.
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God @thegodshow.com · 08/07/2026
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Molly Jong-Fast @mollyjongfast.bsky.social · 07/07/2026
Dems have dumped Swalwell and platner Republicans have nominated Ken Paxton
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Scripps News @scrippsnews.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.
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Afghan ally died in ICE custody from allergic reaction to unidentified substance, certificate says
A death certificate shows an Afghan national who fought alongside U.S. forces died from an allergic reaction while in the custody of ICE, one day after he was detained.
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Alt National Park Service @altnps.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 28/06/2026
Sen. Chris Murphy: "Right now the biggest threat to this country are not a handful of House candidates in New York, it is the president of the United States who is trying to destroy American democracy."
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Acyn @acyn.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
Talarico: Every bar has that guy. He’s loud, he’s obnoxious, he makes all the women in the bar feel uncomfortable. He hears you say your name to the bartender and then adds his drink to your tab when you’re not looking. That’s Paxton. And I don’t know about y’all, but I’m done picking up his tab.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 18/06/2026
"Paxton is a legal vanguard for the MAGA movement. Because he’s utterly shameless & willing to breach every legal & ethical rule, he effectively clears the way, normalizing prosecutorial abuses. The legal theories & practices that he road tests wind up in the GOP mainstream." — @lizdye.bsky.social
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Court benchslaps Ken Paxton's effort to take out ActBlue
Try that in a big city.
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Bill Grueskin @bgrueskin.bsky.social · 05/06/2026
The free market at its apogee
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The Washington Post @washingtonpost.com · 05/06/2026
Fourteen of the 27 known corporate donors to President Trump’s White House ballroom project have won new or expanded federal contracts worth more than $50 billion during the past six months, according to a report. Read more here: wapo.st/4o85ZCx
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
“When that false information gets out, it causes significant panic. And rightly so, especially if it’s coming from elected officials and the media”, said Rollins, an unelected official. So I guess it’s okay if she spreads false information.
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First suspected U.S. screwworm case reported in South Texas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced the suspected case of New World screwworm on Wednesday. It would be the first case in the U.S.
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 02/06/2026
Frankel to Rubio: "It is crazy that you want to let people in from South Africa because they can assimilate, while you're throwing out hundreds of thousands of people who have already assimilated and that are important parts of our economy and family life."
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Public Citizen @publiccitizen.bsky.social · 02/06/2026
This is what Citizens United created: 8 of the 12 biggest outside spenders in House primaries this election cycle are AI, crypto, and AIPAC. Not voters. Not constituents. Corporations and billionaires picking your Congress. Reverse Citizens United.
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Joyce White Vance @joycewhitevance.bsky.social · 01/06/2026
It’s important to take a beat & say it out loud. This is the president of the United States. How undignified. How diminishing of our country. You wouldn’t let your kids talk like this, so why are you willing to tolerate it from the leader of your country?
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Stephanie King @stephstephking.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
I love that Talarico could have been like "actually I have a girlfriend" but instead he just kept eating his BBQ and put out a Talafreako t-shirt and let nature take its course
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 29/05/2026
It's beyond lying, beyond vulgar
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Team Talarico @teamtalaricohq.bsky.social · 27/05/2026
Reporter: Ken Paxton has taken to calling you ‘Talafreako’ @JamesTalarico: If Ken Paxton is worried about freaks, he should stop giving Epstein-style sweetheart deals to pedophiles. This is the guy who just released Adam Hoffman from jail, an admitted child rapist.
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Politico @politico.com · 22/05/2026
Judge dismisses criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
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Judge dismisses criminal case against Kilmar Abrego Garcia
The judge called it a vindictive prosecution.
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