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Things are looking so good for Democrats that candidates once thought to be in tough races—like Roy Cooper and Jon Ossoff—can probably put their feet up and sip some boba tea." A few longish-shots to keep an eye on:

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More Democrats Who Can Win Red America

Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 3h

"It is utterly shocking that the American military is facing its most consequential defeat in several generations because it has not adapted to a revolution in military affairs and Pentagon leadership is worried about...testosterone levels in the ranks."

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Trump’s Forever War Is Sucking the Life Out of Him

If it bleeds, we can kill it.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 5h

On Trump's approach to AI regulation: "It’s almost an unprecedented level of irresponsibility at a historic moment from the executive branch of the federal government."

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Eric Schmitts the Bed

Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

"This sort of behavior is entirely in character for the Trump administration—and, as it happens, a vivid example of the very kind of interference that the architects of agencies like NIH were desperate to avoid in the first place."

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This Is a Five-Alarm Fire for Medical Research

Future cures and America’s innovation lead are in jeopardy thanks to Donald Trump and Russ Vought’s latest scheme.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 6h

Right now the administration seems more interested in starting a culture war and in social engineering to promote a particular kind of parent, than it does in getting a genuine bipartisan childcare agreement across the finish line.

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How to Mess Up Childcare. Brought to You by Trump.

A proposal the administration is preparing comes just as left and right were finding some common ground.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "I am incredibly skeptical of Florida, but I still think people should give money to Angie Nixon. It's a really tough race, but she's doing the work…She is an all-out grinder and she's also pretty funny. She's a good, charismatic candidate."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

Almost unanimously, the Senate Republicans ignored or rejected Smith’s distinctions between the president and his party. Consider what that means.

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 7h

The near-term result of voter disillusionment is very likely to be a drubbing for GOP candidates in five weeks. But the longer term damage to our civic culture is impossible to calculate.

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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead

That’s the price of corruption.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

There was finally bipartisan momentum to help parents with childcare costs. Then Trump stepped in. @citizencohn.bsky.social explains how the admin’s proposal could take support from working parents to subsidize stay-at-home parents and reignite a culture war. lnk.thebulwark.com/3VZpkvC?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

Scandal-plagued Republican Rep. Max Miller has a new ad attacking his Democratic challenger Brian Poindexter. There's just one big problem — it's BS. @sarahmatthews1.bsky.social on the new ad riddled with lies and pure projection.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

@sarahlongwell25.bsky.social: "What's funny about the Paxton comments about Trump is that Paxton is already trying to lay the groundwork to blame Trump for him losing…These are guys who think they're going to lose and they're already starting to place blame."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 8h

"You can’t help but marvel at the work being done by Cruise in this picture. He’ll probably get a Best Actor nomination—and he deserves it, even if Digger winds up being a legendary flop. Which, honestly, the film might deserve too."

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‘Digger’ Review

No one can be told what ‘Digger’ is. You have to experience it for yourself.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

Libertarians could be the spoiler Republicans didn’t see coming. @lauren-egan.bsky.social reports on third-party candidates threatening to siphon off just enough disaffected GOP voters to scramble key midterm races. lnk.thebulwark.com/3U1jqJV?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

@timmiller.bsky.social, @willsommer.bsky.social, and @samsteindc.bsky.social dig into the leak alleging Candace Owens had lesbian dating profiles and whether her years of calling everyone else gay were just projection.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

Voters have begun to wake to the fact that America has a genuine maniac at the helm, and one who has bogged down the economy to boot. Spotlighting his criminal and authoritarian behavior today intensifies these concerns. This time really might be the time:

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Impeach Him Again

There’s never been a better time.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 9h

Schmitt appeared on the popular Turning Point USA podcast still called the Charlie Kirk Show. The exchanges on the subject are surreal: The interviewers themselves don’t acknowledge that Schmitt’s original gotcha was factually wrong.

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Eric Schmitts the Bed

Plus: Trump’s dangerous, reckless embrace of AI.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

Ben Parker slams Pete Hegseth: "You’re not a Fox News host anymore. Your job should be trying to win over America’s enemies, not alienating your fellow Americans."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"Refugees, many of whom have fled the very dictatorships the right holds up as symbols of Communist or Islamist evil—Iran, Cuba, Vietnam—face confinement in hotels repurposed as prisons; beatings and threats by guards; lack of adequate food." In America.

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The White Nationalist Buzzword on a State Department Door

“Remigration” traveled from European far-right circles into the machinery of Trump’s deportation policy.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 10h

"There’s definitely some substantive overlap between El-Sayed and the MAGA right. And there’s some stylistic overlap, too." @sarahlongwell25.bsky.social looks into that in her latest edition of The Focus Group:

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Why Abdul El-Sayed Is Overperforming With Trump Voters

He might have a lucky (political) horseshoe.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

@jvl.bsky.social and @eggerdc.bsky.social on Ken Paxton blaming Trump for dragging down his campaign: “This is biting the hand that feeds you on a scale that we just haven’t seen from other MAGA Republicans this cycle. The vibes must be really bad right now.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"It was bitterly ironic to see Darline Graham demand that Smith, of all people, should feel ashamed....in today’s GOP, there is no shame."

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 11h

"Trump’s second term has been a protracted demolition of his image as a populist every bit as thorough as the destruction of the East Wing."

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Trump’s Populist Image Is Dead

That’s the price of corruption.

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Catherine Rampell @crampell.bsky.social · 15h

when your country's new accord on “super intelligence” misspells the country's name

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

"co-led by three of our nation's best minds"

Newt Gingrich, Palmer Luckey, and Elon Musk, as depicted by Grimace, the Hamburglar, and Captain Crook

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Adam Keiper @adamkeiper.com · 13h

NEW: Some Republicans, worried about their re-election bids, are "suddenly beginning to see ICE’s aggressive enforcement and lawlessness as politically toxic, something Americans have been signaling to pollsters since last summer." www.thebulwark.com/p/skittish-r...

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Skittish Republicans Discover That ICE Is Bad—for Their Campaigns

Some endangered incumbents are trying to outrun the electoral consequences of Trump’s immigration agenda.

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Bill Kuchman @billkuchman.bsky.social · 20h

“Instead, the senators chose to identify with Trump,” @saletan.bsky.social writes. “Almost unanimously, they ignored or rejected Smith’s distinctions between the president and his party.”

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Did Bridgegate blow open the GOP field and create the opening Donald Trump rode all the way to the White House? @timmiller.bsky.social and Maria Comella revisit the scandal that kneecapped Chris Christie before 2016:

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Trump: “California’s a very crooked election system…I would’ve won California if that were an honest system. I would’ve won.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Q: “DHS is spending millions of dollars on new ads about you…Why should U.S. taxpayers pay for that?” Trump: “I’m not running for office and I don’t talk about anybody…That’s an ad for the spirit of our country. If somebody said that that’s wrong, I’ll gladly pay the money.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Trump: “We have the best economy…The only thing we don’t have is good public relations. We don’t seem to be able to get the word across that we have more people working than ever before.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

Q: “There was a report that Ken Paxton was complaining about your midterm convention and he felt like it hurt him.” Trump: “It’s possible that could be true."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 12h

"The Pray Vote Stand Summit felt more like a social gathering than a serious political event. But that’s just how the pro-life movement works under Trump 2.0. Having caught the car, it is still slowly realizing that no one was ever going to let it drive."

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An Evangelical Kingmaker Is Lost in the Age of Trump

Four years after Dobbs, evangelical leaders are confronting a Republican party increasingly uninterested in abortion.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Hegseth: “Our colleges and universities have become anti-American DEI-worshipping, woke factories…We need students of Western civilization and the pillars of our republic…who understand the faith of Jerusalem, the philosophy of Athens, the power of Rome, and the freedom of Philadelphia circa 1776.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"Suffice to say that the movie is both as over-the-top and bonkers as the advertisements and trailers have made it seem, yet all done with purpose and thoughtfulness to drive home a point that is, in and of itself, over-the-top and bonkers." ICYMI @sonnybunch.bsky.social:

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‘Digger’ Review

No one can be told what ‘Digger’ is. You have to experience it for yourself.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Hegseth: “We’re calling every governor in the country…step up to the plate, and bring us their best sales pitch. If your state wants the honor of hosting 15-25,000 of America’s great troops, show us why and how you’re gonna do it.”

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

Republicans were all-in on Trump’s immigration crackdown. Now that ICE is wreaking havoc back home and their own races are getting tighter, some endangered incumbents are scrambling to distance themselves from the agenda they helped enable. lnk.thebulwark.com/4rFnxYt?utm_...

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 13h

"For the most part, these are stretch races that have either flown under the national radar or gotten attention so late that national Democrats with big checkbooks have not sent the resources that could make a difference." Maybe you can.

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More Democrats Who Can Win Red America

Tim Miller has more candidates to watch and support.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Ambassador David Perdue says Trump offered to sell American weapons to China. Trump claims he “never heard" about it. Lt. Gen. @markhertling.bsky.social on why neither answer is acceptable.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Hegseth: "The ideological clowns are out. The patriotic cowboys are in, with testosterone testing on top."

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

If this is how they define the GOP—if any disagreement with Trump means you’re against the party—then perhaps you should take them at their word. And on November 3, you can tell every nominee of the Trump party what you think of them.

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Jack Smith and the Republican Smear Squad

If holding Trump accountable makes you an enemy of the GOP, the party has told you everything you need to know.

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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14h

Hegseth: "We are no longer the woke department or the weak department. Simple translation of that: no fatties, no trannies, no beardos, no weirdos, no wimps, no radicals — just warriors."

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