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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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The powerful early vote
Early voting could be a path toward reaching the illusive 100 tribal percent turnout
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
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Judging what matters at the polls
What is the public life standard? And is it the same for men, women? Democrats, Republicans?
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
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‘They never write a good story’
Fake news in the 19th century promoted American Indian removal policies
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
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When the going gets tough, the House goes home
A 21st-century record for fewest votes cast
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
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Bots, AI-created ads, and fake polls
Here is the counter: Polls don’t vote. And this is a referendum on the (un)popularity of Donald J. Trump
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
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Go ahead and mail that ballot (trust but verify)
Supreme Court says administration’s push to implement voting restrictions this year is likely to lose in court
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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A different kind of Democrat (or Republican)
Candidates bring their values, personal brands into a campaign
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Post-Labor Day sprints
How deep will the shade of blue be after November?
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
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Supreme nonsense and sensibility
‘Emergency’ appeal to consider letting Post Office referee voter lists
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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Trump says build data centers or be ‘backwards and poor’
Nah. Digital companies should play by the damn rules instead of forcing secret deals on communities
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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A bad week for sovereigns
From Canada to tribal nations the Trump agenda rolls over objections
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Ballots will be in the mail
A federal court granted a Temporary Restraining Order preventing the U.S. Post Office from implementing its oversight of mail-in ballots
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 27/08/2026
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Injecting danger into Indian health
Vaccine hesitency has been an issue since Ben Franklin’s time
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
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Alaska’s friends, neighbors, and trade warriors
Fresh produce, dairy products and other perishable goods are shipped to Alaska via Canada
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 24/08/2026
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Trump’s losing fight with Canada
‘You can’t make a good deal with a bad person, because who’s to say it’s not going to be undone?’
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
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The Medicare for All moment
The failure of our health care system is American Exceptionalism. We spend the most money and get less of a return than every other industrial nation
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
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Who's the most 'radical' on the Senate map?
Beyond labels: A short history of U.S. socialism, progressivism and Indian Country
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 13/08/2026
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Saving lives and dollars with Medicare for All
The United States spends more on health care than any other nation, nearly one fifth of GDP
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 11/08/2026
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Election day and the other 'filibuster'
Primary votes in Wisconsin, Minnesota, Vermont, Connecticut and Alabama and GOP primary for the Senate in South Carolina
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magpieheaven.bsky.social @magpieheaven.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
Pubic has until August 14 to comment
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Wilderness in Idaho, the West is subject to review by Trump administration, Wilderness Society says  • Idaho Capital Sun
Wilderness Society says existing policies provide valuable protection for some of the last wild places in Idaho and the U.S.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
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The great lie: Social Security's Trust Fund
Social Security is mostly a 'pay as you go' program funded by payroll taxes collected from today’s workers
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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It takes willful ignorance to ignore climate change
Indigenous communities are overrepresented in wildfire areas, reports a Canadian study today
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
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Salmon and buffalo on the menu
Shoshone-Bannock Festival this week in Fort Hall, Idaho
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
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There's gold in them, thar data centers
Trump administration's push to 'repurpose' federal facilities without community involvement
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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Fauci's 'unparalleled' public service
Missing the key point: Donald Trump was president when COVID-19 surfaced and did nothing until the pressure from the public was too great to ignore
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 29/07/2026
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Nuclear waste in Idaho? Idea could upend state's politics
Nuclear 'innovation center' are words that would make George Orwell proud, along with supporting the 'entire nuclear fuel cycle'
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 27/07/2026
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Measuring the rural vote
Trump and Republican policies are driving up the cost of health care, energy and affordability
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Feeling good; support from across Alaska
One for the record books: Mary Peltola raised more than four times as much as her opponent, an incumbent US Senator
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
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Arizona as The Truth Teller
November election is a referendum on the future of MAGA and Trump
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
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Bleak polls for Trump & the Republicans
Majority say going to war in Iran was the wrong decision, while only 27 percent are on board
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 20/07/2026
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Paying for war, the rule of law, and primaries in Arizona and on the Navajo Nation
Includes a Treasury Department 'classified request' for $36 million
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
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Wait for it ... 'really, really big news'
'Important to keep in mind is that it will all be lies.'
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 15/07/2026
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Two tracks leading to the midterm elections
Voters are tired of this mess. Donald Trump is breaking record after record as the most unpopular president ever. And he is taking the Republican Party with him
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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Executive order drying up solutions
Still true: Whiskey is for drinking, water is for fighting.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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The politics of death
Death of Sen. Lindsey Graham is a blow to the Trump agenda.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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The really dark money fighting to keep Peggy Flanagan out of the U.S. Senate
Politics in 2026: Deep fakes, dark money or the one historic moment
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Out of the (data) box thinking
Wait and see? That works if the other side of the coin is boom and bust
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 06/07/2026
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Living on stolen lands
What is the future of the "United" states in 250 years or beyond?
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
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Bribe and destroy; 900 pages documenting corruption
What's in a label? The missing conscience of a conservative
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
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'Winning from coast to coast'
What is the best case for progressive policies for Indian Country?
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 30/06/2026
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Debating a Democratic future
Colorado's generational contest
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Treaty foundations for a Republic
Tribes spend governmental resources on protecting (and restoring) the natural world
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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Big night at the polls; a Salmon River without salmon
Utah voters show politicians how much it cost for their push for data centers
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 23/06/2026
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Perfect is the enemy of good, even in politics
Challenges "supporting" the government of Israel in this election; Or not.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Political maps: Real and imagined
Summer is supposed to be the quiet before the political storms (Labor Day, historically, is when the mood shifts into higher gears.) Not so this year.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 19/06/2026
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An election under attack? Yes, and keep the faith, baby
The Brennan Center says the goal of the FBI probe of voter organizations is designed to raise fear
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 18/06/2026
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Jay Trump's treaty
The idea of 'no king, no treaty'
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 16/06/2026
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Explaining election reform with chili beans
Oklahoma, Alabama, Georgia, Washington, D.C., and a special election in California’s 14th congressional district.
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marktrahant.bsky.social @marktrahant.bsky.social · 15/06/2026
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The Poets who sent Nixon to Congress
Richard Nixon's early interest in Native people
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