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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 22h
“The November midterms are three weeks away. Voters can make it clear how they feel about the mounting acts of betrayal by an increasingly desperate and deranged White House occupant who will do anything to save his own skin.” www.americaamerica.news/p/another-be...
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The Deepening Betrayal By Putin’s Servant
In his deal with Vladimir Putin for Russian diesel, Donald Trump assists Russia’s war against Ukraine and our democratic ally’s fight for survival
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emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social · 22h
HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Made False Claims to Frame Democrats emptywheel.net/2026/10/12/h...
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HSI Agents Ricky Patel, Ryan Ribner, Richard Berger, and Timothy Gerber All Lied to Frame Democrats - emptywheel
There are at least 36 affidavits signed by HSI Agents -- like the goons who just searched Ilhan Omar's house -- who have made false claims to frame Democrats or other Trump opponents.
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The Onion @theonion.com · 21h
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately theonion.com/nation-s-indigenous-pe…
Nation’s Indigenous People Confirm They Don’t Need Special Holiday, Just Large Swaths Of Land Returned Immediately
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
BREAKING: the court has paused the Trump admin tree removal at East Potomac Golf Links, where we are contesting the dumping of toxic East Wing debris & creating a Trump golf course We raced to court with partners Democracy Forward & Lowell & Assoc, & filed for an emergency hearing--today at 10am!
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Katie Phang @katiephang.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Soulless ghoul, Stephen Miller, has ordered DHS officials to have “inhumane” & "cruel" detention facilities. ICE is still on our streets terrorizing men, women, & children. I share one of the latest horrors in NJ & explain how ICE may be violating yet another court order: youtu.be/aA8UE8DDmPw?...
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Trump’s ICE SPIRALS After COURT ORDER VIOLATION EXPOSED!?!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
I hope everyone reads this, thinks about it and then shares it. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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A few hundred noncitizen votes are a national scandal. But when states reject hundreds of thousands of ballots from eligible voters, it’s business as usual
One state rejected ballots because some voters failed to include their mother’s maiden name on the back of the return envelope.
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Norm Eisen @normeisen.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
BIG WIN for making the Epstein Files public Judge Kollar-Kotelly grants summary judgment to us at @democracydefendersfund.org Orders DOJ to get busy giving us the docs. We will hold their feet to the fire!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the 2020 presidential race was stolen. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Election denier Kurt Olsen leaves DOJ after failing to find evidence of stolen election
A prominent election denier whom the Trump administration hired to pursue investigations into election-related conspiracy theories has resigned several months after he failed to find evidence that the...
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 28/09/2026
Hundreds of thousands of Texas voters were not properly registered after a major error by the Texas Department of Public Safety. Subscribe to our free Democracy Docket newsletters to stay up to date on the latest voting rights news.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🚨NEW EPISODE: The Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration can once again use a flawed database to help Republicans purge eligible voters from the rolls, just weeks before the midterms. Some are calling it a partial win. I see a warning. youtube.com/watch?v=wvhm...
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There is No Bright Side to Voter Suppression
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United Farm Workers @ufw.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
"Julia" shared this photo with us from the carrots in the Cuyama CA area. "We are paid piece rate and we only are given 4 hours of work a day. This makes it impossible to cover our expenses. The high was 97° when this photo was taken." #WeFeedYou
A carrot field where you see the Bunches of harvested carrots laid out
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Meta and Tik Tok refusing to allow the trailer for Musk to run as a paid ad on their site—just like any other movie trailer—means users should fight tech oligarch solidarity and share it widely youtu.be/FFTf1lzcs28?...
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MUSK | Official Trailer HD
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Mark Follman @markfollman.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
NEWS: My new investigation uncovers the horrific ChatGPT history of the Tumbler Ridge school shooter. OpenAI’s chatbot fueled the shooter's violent fantasies and plans up to the day of the massacre. Chats about guns, timing of attacks, becoming infamous, and more. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
OpenAI issued apologies to the victims of Tumbler Ridge...but we now know that their chatbot allowed the shooter to keep refining her plans. Had they shut down this account, or warned authorities, things could have been different. www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
Altman’s apology letter made no mention of Van Rootselaar’s second account used up to the day of the attack. Notably, her chat on Feb. 10 about the timing of school shootings echoed the final chats of the Florida State mass shooter back in April 2025. That perpetrator had asked ChatGPT when the FSU student union he targeted would be busiest. Van Rootselaar could not have known about ChatGPT’s role in the FSU attack, which was not public until a year after it happened—but OpenAI did.

“After learning of the [FSU] incident in late April 2025,” an OpenAI spokesperson said in a statement this spring, after Florida authorities disclosed the technology’s role, “we identified a ChatGPT account believed to be associated with the suspect, proactively shared this information with law enforcement and cooperated with authorities.”

Four months after the FSU shooting, in August 2025—the same month ChatGPT engaged with Van Rootselaar about a hypothetical shotgun attack—OpenAI published an article acknowledging that ChatGPT’s safeguards “may degrade” in “long interactions” and that sometimes the safety system “underestimates the severity of what it’s seeing.” The company wrote that it was working to solve that kind of “breakdown.” Van Rootselaar’s violent chats continued over the next six months, until she opened fire.
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Clara Jeffery @clarajeffery.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
We just dropped a bombshell investigation into ChatGPT's role in the Tumbler Ridge mass shooting. Incredible reporting from @markfollman.bsky.social that will have far-reaching effects...hopefully: www.motherjones.com/media/2026/0...
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ChatGPT helped the Tumbler Ridge school shooter focus on guns, tactics, and terror, our investigation reveals
OpenAI’s chatbot fed the shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre.
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Wow. This is a major scoop from Mark Follman. Great reporting and a troubling story about AI that everyone should read.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
NEW: Missouri voters asked the 8th Circuit to pause its ruling requiring the state to use a GOP congressional gerrymander for the midterms. The ruling directly conflicts with the Missouri Supreme Court, which said the gerrymander cannot take effect until voters have a chance to weigh in.
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Missouri referendum backers ask 8th Circuit to pause ruling requiring GOP gerrymander for midterms
The emergency request comes after the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that Missouri's plan to use its 2022 congressional map in November would violate the Constitution.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 22/09/2026
ICYMI: Missouri has been ordered by a federal appeals court to reinstate a gerrymandered map that eliminates a Democratic district in Kansas City. The shock decision likely means the Supreme Court will be asked to make a final ruling on Missouri’s redistricting battle: demdock.com/4y2RRi4
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 19/09/2026
In a bitter May runoff, Texas Republicans nominated Bo French, an investor with only the vaguest glimmer of industry experience and a mostly irrelevant and racist political program that calls for deporting 100 million people, purging the nation of Muslims, and emulating a defunct apartheid state.
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Bo French sent a tweet so racist, his own party finally took notice. It's just the tip of the iceberg.
How a regulatory agency you've never heard of became a test case for Republican extremism.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 18/09/2026
The fight of our generation is the fight for democracy, Marc Elias says. “I’m just a street-fighting lawyer who gets up every day and fights with every tool available as hard as I can for free and fair elections.” Your support makes this fight possible: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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💠𝑺𝒄𝒉𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒛𝒊𝒆𝑷𝒊𝒆💠 @schultziepie.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
The Trump Administration is gearing up to repeal the roadless rule and allow the destruction of American forests. @nrdc.org is leading an effort to send public comment ahead of the October 6th deadline! Take a listen!👇🏼 #FDT #Pinks
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 17/09/2026
Trump doesn’t even hide the fact that he wants to cheat in the election. Instead, he says it into a microphone. “Trump’s plan for elections is to make it harder for you to vote and easier for him to cheat,” Marc Elias says. Help us fight back: demdock.com/3T3Owjg
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50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
🚨 Turns out your vote is in fact NOT safe at votesafe.org. Operated & funded by Elon Musk’s America PAC with unlimited spending power, this website collects your personal data including IP address, voter registration status, district & ballot info, party affiliation, political interests, & more. ❌
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
We are here to say: Black History is American History, we are not going back, and HANDS OFF the Smithsonian!!
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Here is what Democracy Docket is tracking today: Total Active Cases: 204 Active Voting Rights Cases: 164 Active Redistricting Cases:  40 Active Anti-Voting Cases: 84 Active Pro-Voting Cases: 79 Active DOJ Lawsuits: 31 www.democracydocket.com
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Democracy Docket is the leading digital news platform dedicated to information, analysis and opinion about voting rights and elections in the courts.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Agents of the Department of Homeland Security have been ordered to unlawfully access state voting records to carry out the department’s escalating elections-related probes, an anonymous federal whistleblower recently disclosed to Sen. Alex Padilla. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Homeland Security officers are illegally accessing state voter data, new whistleblower alleges
The searches likely resulted in "thousands of violations of state laws," Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) said.
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Pete Buttigieg @petebuttigieg.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
The dangers of artificial intelligence have become an enormous issue - yet the White House has been so passive that even the AI companies themselves are asking what it will take to get government to step up and establish safeguards.
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Anne Applebaum @anneapplebaum.wsocial.eu · 14/09/2026
Your regular reminder: If the Russians stop fighting, the war ends. If the Ukrainians stop fighting, their land will be occupied, their leaders will be killed, their history and language will be erased, their children will be kidnapped to serve Russia.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 13/09/2026
🌊 The Trump administration is once again attacking overseas voters, this time by eliminating a key option on a federal form used to request a mail ballot. It’s part of an ongoing effort to make voting more difficult for voters who are thought to support Democrats.
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Trump administration makes it harder for some overseas voters to request a ballot
It’s the latest step in an ongoing effort by the administration and the national GOP to make voting more difficult for — or in some cases, to outright disenfranchise — certain groups of overseas voter...
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
If you follow me and want to help, I only have one request. Spread the word about the threats to democracy and how we can fight back. Tell everyone to subscribe to Democracy Docket and share its content. demdock.com/4w6emld
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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 11/09/2026
Trump: "Please right your right hand. I pledge to the greatest president in the history of the United States. That loves us so much he can't even breath. That I will go out with my family, my friends, I'll do it any way - I don't care if I'm registered or not, I'm going to try to cheat like hell..."
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Gillian Brockell @gillianbrockell.com · 11/09/2026
The people ICE abandoned on Malabo are being disappeared, DHS copy-pastes the same statement they sent me two days ago, meanwhile a new ICE jet flies overhead and expels more third-country nationals a couple hundred miles away in Cameroon. It’s too much, man.
"When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department.""When an individual is no longer in ICE custody then
ICE will no longer be responsible for them. This is common sense.
"For specific questions on the agreement, we refer to the State Department."An FR24 map showing N120LW flying past Malabo and landing in Yaoundé.
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The Contrarian @contrariannews.org · 11/09/2026
Legacy media has failed to report one of the most jarring parts of the Republican National convention: Trump leading a chilling fascist pledge in which he obliged his followers to cheat on his behalf. Jen Rubin writes more: @jenrubin.bsky.social
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The Stakes Could Not Be Higher
Dems are making the point, and the Post Office is safe — for now.
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James Talarico @jamestalarico.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
This is the interview Trump’s FCC doesn’t want you to see. We’re not just going up against the most corrupt politician in Texas. We’re going up against this entire corrupt system.
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MeidasTouch @meidastouch.com · 11/09/2026
While Trump wants everyone to focus on his fake cash giveaways, this is the single most consequential story of the moment. Iran-backed Houthis just took effective control of the Bab al-Mandeb strait, one of the world’s most important shipping chokepoints.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
One of the biggest questions Democracy Docket is asked: What can I do to help? Our answer: A brand-new bulletin board community page with a list of ways you can volunteer, attend rallies, do phone banking, write petitions, and more. newsletters.democracydocket.com/fixed-you-as...
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Fixed: You asked what you can do. We listened.
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hannahwheel.bsky.social @hannahwheel.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
a man who brags about delivering babies but then sues their moms over shit like a $129 postpartum visit fee..... gtfo
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Steven Beschloss @stevenbeschloss.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Did Trump & his henchmen really imagine the more they attacked America and what it means to be a democracy—values & principles like equality & diversity, freedom of speech & self-governance—that most Americans would simply fall in line? They were sorely wrong. www.americaamerica.news/p/our-fate-i...
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Our Fate Is Not Up to Trump
Revisiting nine facts that show what Trump can’t take from us. We are still Americans. We are still human. And we must not allow his deranged, dictatorial regime to decide our collective fate.
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Governor Tim Walz @governorwalz.mn.gov · 07/09/2026
Political violence has no place in our democracy. I’m glad Dr. Amy Acton is safe and grateful for the swift response from law enforcement. We settle our differences at the ballot box, not through violence. These acts must never be tolerated or normalized.
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Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @hcrichardson.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
This is a big deal. @govpritzker.illinois.gov's Republican predecessor put the state's finances in the crapper. Pritzker has invested heavily in the state's people and infrastructure AND restored its fiscal stability. No small feat.
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Rep. Melanie Stansbury (NM-01) @repstansbury.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
HANDS OFF OUR PUBLIC LANDS!   Chaco Canyon, Oak Flat, Yosemite, and 44 million acres of our national forests. Standing strong against this Administration’s land grab—in Congress, in the courts, and in our communities!
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Rep. Stansbury: Hands off our public lands!
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Andrea Devon @andreadevon.sheshed.rocks · 06/09/2026
For the first time in history, Indigenous women and girls have a day of global recognition. September 5 marked the UN’s inaugural International Day of the World’s Indigenous Women and Girls, honoring their leadership, knowledge, cultures and contributions worldwide. #SheShed #VivaHerAlliance
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International Day of Indigenous Women | United Nations
Learn about Indigenous women’s leadership, contributions, challenges and solutions. Explore how Indigenous women advance human rights, protect biodiversity, preserve culture and drive sustainable deve...
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Charlotte Clymer @charlotteclymer.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Dr. Amy Acton, Democratic nominee for Gov. of Ohio, was the target of a failed attack by an armed individual this afternoon. I hope Republicans in Ohio and across the country will condemn this and make it clear political violence is always unacceptable. I know Trump will not.
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 06/09/2026
Voters in Missouri just showed us what it looks like when we fight for our democracy and WIN. After a grueling, nearly year-long battle, Republicans’ new congressional gerrymander has been blocked for this year’s midterms, delivering a blow to Trump: demdock.com/4ykiX4a
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/09/2026
A whistleblower alleges USPS designed a verification process under which a single barcode error could result in thousands of ballots being rejected before they are ever mailed to voters. The Trump administration has yet to say those claims are false: demdock.com/3UXiCps
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 05/09/2026
🚨BREAKING: Trump DOJ tells appeals court states can handle USPS’ last-minute mail voting overhaul with no problem, asks for block to be lifted. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
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Trump DOJ says states can handle last-minute mail voting overhaul, asks appeals court to narrow block
DOJ argued that states facing the earliest deadlines for mailing ballots have not shown compliance is impossible.
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Marc Elias @marcelias.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
It has been a hard few days in the fight for democracy. If you want to support the Democracy Docket team, the best thing you can do is to subscribe now. There are free and paid options. It is not on Substack or ActBlue and it doesn't sell your information. Link: demdock.com/4w6emld
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Democracy Docket @democracydocket.com · 04/09/2026
At a hearing Thursday on USPS's mail voting rule: 🔺 Plaintiffs argued the rule would make mail voting “virtually impossible.” 🔺 The DOJ refused to provide details ahead of the approaching midterms. 🔺 The judge said she would issue a decision soon. Here's a full recap: demdock.com/4cqHmMX
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Ron Filipkowski @ronfilipkowski.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
He might be a corrupt useless slug, but he tried to help me steal the 2020 election so you probably should vote for him.
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Carl Quintanilla @carlquintanilla.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
Page One in Austin:
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