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Trumped up GOP state voter fraud units come up empty handed in midterms
State-level law enforcement units created by sore-loser Republicans after the 2020 presidential election to investigate supposed voter fraud have found no indication of systemic problems more than two weeks after the midterms — precisely as election experts predicted.

Take Action: Charge the Trump supporters who compromised ballot machines!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump snaps, has full meltdown over Kanye West
Trump’s ham-handed and clumsy efforts to twist his disastrous Mar-a-Lago dinner with Ye and white nationalist Nick Fuentes into some sort of virtuous event was pathetic by even his own abysmal standards.

Elon Musk’s far-right Twitter gamble backfires
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

Trump is “descending deeper into heart of darkness,” former Mike Pence aide warns
For seven years, Trump’s enablers stood by as he poisoned American democracy, but now that he’s proven to be an electoral liability, suddenly, they can no longer abide. What a coincidence! Let none of these people off the hook as they jump from the sinking ship they willfully boarded years ago to great personal benefit.

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Ex-prison warden faces trial over horrific inmate abuse allegations
Ray J. Garcia, the former warden of an abuse-plagued federal women’s prison near Oakland, California, known as the “rape club,” goes on trial today, accused of molesting inmates and forcing them to pose naked in their cells throughout his horrific tenure.

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“Collapse” in home prices is coming, experts say
The residential real estate market has screeched to a halt as mortgage rates have reached 7%, and economists increasingly believe home prices are about to drop significantly.

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Bernie Sanders vows to “stand with rail workers” as Republican says Congress will prevent strike
Rail works are facing intense congressional pressure to accept piss-poor terms at the negotiation table with a cabal of powerful, well-connected rail companies. Sanders responded in defiant defense, stating, “Last year, the rail industry made a record-breaking $20 billion in profits after cutting their workforce by 30% over the last six years. Meanwhile, rail workers have ZERO guaranteed paid sick days. Congress must stand with rail workers.” Uh, yeah. What Bernie said…

Rural Georgia is the key to a Warnock win
OD Action Partner: Expanding our Senate majority is critical to protecting all the values we hold dear. Abortion rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ protections, everything we hold dear is on the line and riding on a Georgia victory. Will you support United Rural Democrats’ efforts to help Senator Warnock fend off a nail-biting challenge from Trump-endorsed, MAGA extremist Herschel Walker?

Ex-prosecutor calls Trump’s latest move a “sign of desperation” as probes intensify
Former federal prosecutor Glenn Kirschner slammed the disgraced ex-president for his “inane accusations” against veteran prosecutor Jack Smith, whom Attorney General Merrick Garland recently appointed to oversee the probes into Trump’s wildly improper handling of classified documents and his ludicrous efforts to illegally overturn the 2020 election.

Protests erupt across China over Xi’s strict zero-COVID rules
Protesters angered by strict anti-virus measures called for China’s powerful leader to resign, an unprecedented rebuke as authorities in at least eight cities struggled to suppress demonstrations Sunday that represent a rare direct challenge to the ruling Communist Party.

House Democratic leaders prepare to pass the torch, avoiding messy leadership fights
Democrats have coalesced around a trio of young leaders to replace House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her team, setting up what looks to be smooth leadership elections Wednesday.

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“F*cking nightmare”: Trump team does damage control after he hosts Holocaust-denying white supremacist Nick Fuentes for dinner
The disgraced ex-president’s campaign claims Trump didn’t know anything about Fuentes, who joined the rapper formerly known as Kanye West for dinner at the serial grifter’s home in Mar-a-Lago. So, fellow sleuths, either Trump knowingly hosted one of the most reviled, xenophobic, mysogynistic white supremacists on the planet for dinner OR has such lax security standards that anyone — and we mean ANYONE — can get inside his vaunted compound where he once stored hundreds upon hundreds of highly classified documents. Trick question, it’s both!

Take Action: Demand the DOJ investigate Trump’s new foreign bribery scandal!

Biden renewing push for ban on “sick” assault weapons following latest spate of mass shootings
“The idea that we still allow semi-automatic weapons to be purchased is sick,” President Biden said. “It has no, no social redeeming value. Zero. None. Not a single solitary rationale for it except profit for the gun manufacturers.”

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Top prosecutor issues BRUTAL news for Trump over special counsel
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom backs President Biden, won’t run in 2024
Despite the rumors, the popular California governor has no interest in challenging the most progressive and effective US president in generations.

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Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump schmooze with Qatari royalty at World Cup
While dad was back in Florida hosting racist, antisemites for dinner, Ivanka and her husband Jared were spotted in a private box at the World Cup match between Brazil and Serbia in Qatar, meeting with various politicians and Middle Eastern businessmen during the course of the contest. The duo’s latest dalliance with the region’s ultrawealthy and powerful comes amidst ongoing speculation that Qatar was secretly involved in a $1.2 billion bailout — while Kushner served in Trump’s White House — of a Fifth Avenue property owned by the Kushner family. Surely nothing to see here, folks. Just sit back, sip on some Bud Zero, and watch the bouncy ball get kicked around the pitch.

Twitter to “manually authenticate” verified accounts under new, multicolored checkmark program, Musk now says
The Apartheid trust fund man child said the revamped program would launch next Friday and take steps apparently intended to prevent the site from burning more of the billions he spent to buy it. A proliferation of hilarious corporate and individual impersonators triggered an exodus of advertisers after Musk first introduced his spectacularly dim-witted Twitter Blue program, which offered lterally any user a checkmark and a veil of legitimacy for just $8 a month.

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Walmart shooter left “death note,” bought gun day of killing
The Walmart supervisor who fatally shot six coworkers at a store in Virginia legally bought a 9mm handgun just hours before the killings and left a rambling note on his phone accusing colleagues of mocking him and comparing him to serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer. One witness who survived the massacre said the perpetrator appeared to be “hunting,” targeting specific coworkers while letting others go.

Let’s make Joe Manchin irrelevant
OD Action Partner: If we can re-elect Sen. Warnock, we can keep Joe Manchin from derailing the President’s ambitious progressive agenda and pass all the legislation we’ve fought so hard for. Will you contribute to United Rural Democrats to get out the vote in Georgia and expand our Senate majority?

Marjorie Taylor Greene signals Trump will pardon Jan. 6 insurrectionists if he wins in 2024
We’re still two years out, but Trump and his allies may have already locked up the “white supremacists who tried to violently overthrow the US government” vote. Word to the hood wearers, cross burners, and goose steppers — your people have you covered!

Club Q killer and mother were involved in racist, verbally abusive tirade on Frontier Airlines flight in July clash captured on video
Cell phone video from a fellow passenger showed the club shooting suspect Anderson Aldrich and Aldrich’s mother, Laura Voepel, in a heated confrontation with fellow passengers on a Frontier Airlines to Denver on July 31. Passengers recalled the disturbing, racially charged altercation, including Aldrich’s prescient muttering, “I wish I can shoot all of you right now” during deboarding.

Elon Musk says he’d back Trump rival Ron DeSantis for president
Bad news for Ron since everything the tech bozo touches seems to turn to twit.

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Suspected Colorado shooter is the grandson of a California MAGA Republican assemblyman
The hate-fueled murderer who carried out the horrific mass shooting at a Colorado LGBTQ nightclub that left five dead and 25 injured is the grandson of Republican California Assemblyman Randy Voepel — a hardcore Trumper.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Fox News finally turns on Trump in humiliating about face
After Trump’s MAGA movement proved to be ballot box poison in the recent midterm elections, the heavy hitters in right-wing newsmongering finally began turning their backs on the disgraced ex-president. We’ll see how long that lasts…

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Top prosecutor issues BRUTAL news for Trump over special counsel
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

Ilhan Omar torches Kevin McCarthy for threatening to remove her from committee assignments, slams the GOP for bigotry
McCarthy, poised to become the next speaker of the House, has already explicitly targeted Rep. Omar over her race, religion, and progressive values, but the congresswoman isn’t backing down and tore into the GOP for working to “divide us along racial and ethnic lines.”

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Herschel Walker delivers unhinged transphobic speech the day after LGBTQ nightclub shooting
Rather than seeing the tragedy as an opportunity to tone down his party’s hateful rhetoric and extend empathy to a chronically marginalized and victimized community, the bumbling, ignorant MAGA candidate chose instead to ramp up the bigotry in an elementary display of cruelty.

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Elon Musk reinstates Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene on Twitter
The tech bozo billionaire is welcoming the very worst people back to his pet platform, increasing fears that it will devolve into a total cesspit and eventually collapse completely. Greene was originally banned earlier this year for repeatedly spreading dangerous COVID-19 misinformation.

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Biden pardons Thanksgiving turkeys, quips spilled cranberry sauce will be the only “red wave” this season
President Biden couldn’t resist taking one more shot at Republicans and their vanquished hopes of a historic “red wave” in the midterm elections. Gobble gobble!

Rural Georgia is the key to a Warnock win
OD Action Partner: Expanding our Senate majority is critical to protecting all the values we hold dear. Abortion rights, voting rights, LGBTQ+ protections, everything we hold dear is on the line and riding on a Georgia victory. Will you support United Rural Democrats’ efforts to help Senator Warnock fend off a nail-biting challenge from Trump-endorsed, MAGA extremist Herschel Walker?

Veteran sprang into action, subdued Colorado mass murderer with help from drag queen in heels
The carnage and unspeakable horror that unfolded at Q Club in Colorado Springs could have been far worse were it not for the decisive actions of decorated Army veteran Richard Fierro, who was attending a drag show with his family. Sadly, Fierro’s daughter lost her longtime boyfriend Raymond Green Vance in the senseless massacre.

Democratic Gov. Phil Murphy announces name change order to benefit and protect transgender residents in New Jersey
Gov. Murphy has ordered that name changes in New Jersey will be kept confidential in the state in an effort to help protect transgender residents. As violent rhetoric towards the trans community escalates across the country thanks to incessant, right-wing hate mongering, it’s imperative that other leaders take immediate steps like this to protect one of our most vulnerable communities.

US railroad workers vote down proposed contract
The colossal and unfeeling railroad monopolies are still refusing to budge on providing sick leave for the workers who keep the nation fed and fueled and hoping that Congress will step in to save them from a strike — which becomes more likely by the day as the unions dig in and fight for the benefits they deserve.

Insurrectionist accused of stealing Nancy Pelosi’s laptop found guilty on six charges
The 25-year-old MAGA rioter not only raided Speaker Pelosi’s office, but she boasted about it online afterwards, posting, “I took Nancy Polesis [sic] hard drives. I don’t care. Kill me.” Trump did not send his best and brightest to overthrow our democracy, folks.

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Maricopa County chairman — a Republican — transferred to undisclosed location after death threats from far-right election deniers
Republican Bill Gates, the chair of the Maricopa County Elections Department in Arizona, has come under increasing fire for pushing back against bogus claims of stolen elections from far-right provocateurs regurgitating Trump’s rampant election denialism, including vanquished gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake.

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Trump’s own cabinet member turns on him on air
The disgraced ex-president’s one-time chief enabler and former firewall at the Justice Department turned on the serial grifter in a jarring interview on Sunday and flatly said it would be a “tragedy” if Trump became the GOP nominee in 2024 — but because Republicans would lose, of course, not because he has any real disagreement with the man whose fetid, greasy water he carried for years.

Take Action: Demand the DOJ investigate Trump’s new foreign bribery scandal!

Top prosecutor issues BRUTAL news for Trump over special counsel
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

Ron DeSantis boasts voters “will walk barefoot over broken glass” for him
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis arrogantly boasted to a group of Republicans that people are willing to “walk barefoot over broken glass” to vote for him because he’s such a superlative leader. It’s not quite “I could shoot a man in the middle of Times Square and no one would care” territory, but it’s getting there…

Hidden audits reveal hundreds of millions in overcharges by Medicare Advantage private insurers
Newly released federal audits reveal widespread overcharges and other errors in payments to Medicare Advantage, a fast-growing alternative to original Medicare which is run primarily by — surprise! — major insurance companies. Officials at the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services have said they plan to recoup an estimated $650 million from nefarious insurers as a result.

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Hospitals are full of kids sick with RSV — and anti-vaxxers think it’s a hoax
Respiratory syncytial virus, more commonly known as RSV, can make breathing difficult for young children and elderly adults and typically kills a few hundred children and as many as 10,000 seniors every year. But children’s hospitals are reporting record numbers of RSV admissions this season, prompting usual suspects with no medical training and rudimentary internet search skills to share their very smart thoughts and strong feelings about the virus and ongoing vaccination efforts to eradicate it.

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Senior Democratic lawmakers demand answers from Chief Justice Roberts on alleged Supreme Court leak
Democrats in Congress are demanding that Chief Justice John Roberts detail what, if anything, the Supreme Court has done to respond to bombshell allegations that Samuel Alito leaked a ruling to help conservative allies coordinate a PR campaign and claims about a concerted effort by religious conservatives to woo the justices through meals and social engagements. Democrats warned Roberts that if the court won’t investigate the alleged ethical breaches, lawmakers are likely to launch their own probe.

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Watch Richard Ojeda roast the top-5 biggest losers of the mid-terms
OD Action Partner: MAGA is a cult of losers. Like all their boneheaded prophecies, their “red wave” ended in epic failure and we can hand them their most embarrassing loss yet…

European teams abandon plan to wear “One Love” armbands at World Cup after FIFA threatens on-field punishment to appease Qatar
The captains of seven European nations will no longer wear armbands supporting an anti-discrimination campaign aimed at host nation Qatar after FIFA said the players would be punished with yellow cards on the field. The decision came three days after beer sales at stadiums were suddenly banned under pressure from the Qatari government and two days after FIFA president Gianni Infantino delivered an extraordinary tirade defending the host nation’s abysmal human rights record.

Rep. Adam Schiff contends Republican House majority will “be chaos” with “very weak leader” Kevin McCarthy
Schiff, the current chair of the House Intelligence Committee, said he expects McCarthy will follow the lead of hardline lawmakers in a bid to maintain his fledgling grip on the speakership, noting, “I suspect [McCarthey] will do whatever Marjorie Taylor Greene wants him to do. He’s a very weak leader of this conference, meaning that he will adhere to the wishes of the lowest common denominator, and if that lowest common denominator wants to remove people from committees, that’s what they’ll do.”

GOP’s lackluster fundraising spurs post-election infighting
As both parties sift through the results of Democrats’ stronger-than-expected showing in the midterm elections, Republicans are engaged in a round of bitter finger-pointing over whom to blame for the party’s deflating collapse. Just a thought, but maybe the abject failure to produce a policy platform that remotely speaks to 21st-century America might be part of the problem?

2024 Republican rivals put Trump on notice
At a GOP gathering in Las Vegas, a parade of 2024 hopefuls made clear they’re forging ahead after a third consecutive poor election with the serial grifter at the helm.

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Rights group calls for Justice Samuel Alito to be investigated after claims of leaked 2014 ruling on contraception
Rob Schenck, an anti-abortion activist minister, claims Alito leaked the high court’s controversial ruling allowing employers to deny access to contraception based on religious rights weeks before it was announced. Schneck reportedly shared that information with Hobby Lobby, the evangelical-run craft store chain that brought the case before the court, and used it to prepare a public relations push. Never strip away fundamental freedoms or go moral crusading without a polished PR campaign, people!

Take Action: Demand Congress impeach Justices Kavanaugh, Gorsuch, and Barrett for perjury!

5 dead, 18 injured in Colorado LGBTQ nightclub shooting
A gunman opened fire at a Colorado Springs gay nightclub late Saturday night, killing at least five people and injuring 18, police said. The suspected shooter was apprehended in the senseless massacre, which took place during a drag show at the popular Club Q. Surely now is not the time to ask questions about demonizing, anti-LGBTQ rhetoric on the right or Republicans’ unconscionable refusal to do a damn thing about gun safety reform. Instead, let us think and pray.

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American families are being crushed by corporate greed
Community Change Action: Billion-dollar corporations are raking in record profits off sky-high prices on everything from food to housing to gas while working families struggle to get by. Will you support Community Change Action’s mission to build the power of low-income people and fight for a fairer economy for all?

Trump claims he won’t return to Twitter after Musk announces reactivation of the serial con man’s account
Following the super accurate results of Musk’s highly scientific Twitter poll asking millions of bots if the disgraced ex-president should be allowed to return to the collapsing platform, Trump said he saw no reason to start tweeting again and would instead stick to lying on Truth Social.

Chris Christie calls on GOP to dump Trump
The former New Jersey governor and one-time Trump enabler rightfully pointed out that the GOP keeps “losing and losing and losing” with the serial grifter leading the party. And listen up, folks, Christie knows a thing or two about losing himself, so…

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Texas GOP Gov. Abbott sending armored carriers to Mexico border
The scaremongering Republican ordered ten massive, armored personnel carriers to the Mexico border to address the immigrant “invasion” in a totally reasonable, not-compensating-for-anything political stunt. The M113 vehicles, which look like tanks, were originally intended to transport foot soldiers across battlefields — and it’s not clear what purpose the Vietnam-era carriers would serve at the border, or whether weapons will be added to them. But it is quite clear this will play very well with the GOP’s xenophobic right flank, and that’s entirely the point.

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Biden administration approves loan relief applicants amid pending program appeal
The transformational student loan forgiveness program offers $10,000 of federal student debt cancellations to millions of potential qualified loan borrowers. But the government stopped accepting applications on Nov. 10 after a Trump-appointed federal judge struck down the plan, predictably deeming it “unconstitutional.” President Biden has asked the Supreme Court to lift the nationwide injunction and let the US government get on with the business of changing millions of American lives for the better.

Lauren Boebert’s opponent issues major news on the race
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Big news.

Herschel Walker refuses mental fitness exam he called on Biden to take
As Walker acknowledges, he has a history of dangerous and reckless behavior. He also spent years slamming his head into other grown men on the football field, raising obvious concerns over CTE-related injuries. While the werewolf-loving GOP Senate candidate claims his past violent behavior was the result of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) — which causes a person to have multiple autonomous personalities — Walker claims everything’s fine now because he’s been cured. Nothing to see here, folks. Please move along.

Aspiring country singer and MAGA minion charged for threats to kill fact-checkers and FBI agent over Trump “slander”
Stephen “Jike” Williams, an insurance salesman and (probably no longer) aspiring country singer with a very stable grasp on reality, was arrested and charged with threatening to murder a federal law enforcement officer AND execute members of the Good Information Foundation, a nonprofit fact-checking organization, for “defamation and slander” of the disgraced ex-president. Might be time to dust off that a capella version of “Folsom County Blues,” Jike!

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Mike Pence FINALLY calls Trump out for endangering his life during 1/6 insurrection
Trump’s former vice president and chief evangelical enabler during his disastrous term in office FINALLY decided it was time to come forward and call out the disgraced ex-president’s “reckless” behavior on Jan. 6. Such bravery! So timely! Surely this has nothing to do with the GOP’s spectacular collapse in the midterms last week and Trump’s suddenly weakened position within the party.

Take Action: Expel the congressmen who tried to get Trump pardons for their role in Jan. 6th!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Rising Democratic star humiliates election-denying sore loser
Pennsylvania Gov.-elect Josh Shapiro laughed off his vanquished opponent’s tired election denialism and lack of decorum and instead is focusing on the decisive mandate voters have handed him — a refreshing idea the mainstream media would be wise to consider covering themselves. EDITOR’S NOTE: Following the release of this video, Mastriano finally conceded to what little fanfare could escape the abyss of loser irrelevancy he will reside in from this day forth.

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Lauren Boebert’s opponent issues major news on the race
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Big news.

Radical, far-right coup enthusiast and staunch ally turns on Trump: “Dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude”
Rep. Mo Brooks of Alabama, a fervent election denier and onetime loyalist to the disgraced ex-president, trashed Trump in a new interview, stating, “[He] has proven himself to be dishonest, disloyal, incompetent, crude and a lot of other things that alienate so many independents and Republicans.” First Pence, now Brooks. These clowns get ZERO points for their newfound clarity, accurate as it may be.

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Ex-chief of staff John Kelly says Trump wanted to “get the IRS on” James Comey, send DOJ after Andrew McCabe, Jeff Bezos, others
After years of hysterical Republican freakouts over accusations that Democrats were using the IRS to bully conservatives (by investigating the networks of dark money fueling the GOP astroturf political machine), it turns out that their own president and party leader, Donald Trump, was using the IRS to exact revenge on those who had wronged him.

Biden meets Xi in Bali amid heightened China-US tensions
President Biden and Chinese President Xi Jinping met Monday in person for the first time since Biden took office, amid escalating tensions over Taiwan, the war in Ukraine, the ability of American companies to sell high-end tech to Chinese businesses, and America’s decision to position nuclear bombers in Australia.

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3 dead, 2 injured in University of Virginia shooting; manhunt underway for student suspect
Ready the right-wing thoughts and prayers machine! Because now is clearly not the time to discuss sensible gun safety reform or confront America’s maniacal obsession with firearms. If there’s one thing Republicans are good at doing in the face of unspeakable gun violence, it’s absolutely nothing.

Republicans are all too happy to let their hypocrisy distract from climate crisis they are feeding and profiting from
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Elizabeth Warren says debt ceiling should be abolished to end GOP threat to “blow up the economy”
Sen. Warren urged newly empowered Democrats to use the upcoming lame-duck session to eliminate the US debt ceiling for good, warning that leaving the borrowing limit intact gives bad-faith Republicans an opening to hold the economy hostage yet again for short-term political gain.

After clinching Senate, Dems eye the unthinkable: Holding the House
Democrats have a legitimate — if narrow — chance of retaining the lower chamber, where 20 races remain too close to call.

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Marie Gluesenkamp Perez in Washington flips red House seat, keeping Democrats’ House hope alive
The district, which has been Republican-held for 12 years, was on nobody’s radar last week as the promised red wave loomed. Now, five days after Republicans’ campaign of ending democracy and ignoring Americans’ struggles backfired, Democrats remain in striking distance of maintaining majorities in both chambers of Congress.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Lindsey Graham breaks down on air, cries during icky live interview
The Republican lap dog of the south tearfully warned that a Herschel Walker loss in next month’s Senate runoff race in Georgia would “deter people of color” from becoming conservative. Uh, right. Definitely not the egregious racism, sexism, homophobia, xenophobia, or intellectual rot poisoning the GOP from the inside out.

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Don’t let them erase our history!
NWHM: It’s no secret that some politicians are actively trying to erase women’s rights and the battles that won them. National Women’s History Museum is fighting back to ensure that the vital lessons of the past are preserved and our equal rights restored for future generations. Please chip in today to support their vital work!

Trump rape accuser files new defamation suit using his latest attacks on Truth Social
The disgraced misogynist and serial predator blew up his own legal team’s “special privilege” defense that somehow worked during his presidency, repeating defamatory claims about his accuser — only this time, as a private citizen, without any bullshit imperial legal protections supposedly granted to a sitting president.

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Democrats sweep GOP election deniers In battleground races for secretary of state
Republican election deniers used the 2022 midterms to target battleground positions for secretary of state that would have allowed far-right radicals to take over key electoral systems and turn Trump’s preposterous “big lie” into official election protocols. They completely failed.

Texas sends busload of migrants to Philadelphia without warning
Stooges doing Gov. Greg Abbott’s inhumane bidding sent another bus full of migrants north — this time to the City of Brotherly Love — without warning. The Philadelphia mayor’s office called the decision not to alert them ahead of time “disappointing and irresponsible.” Still, officials said they welcome the migrants to the city, adding, “our diversity is our strength.”

Take Action: Tell Congress to protect immigrant youths from deportation!

Democrat Katie Hobbs maintains lead over Trump-backed opponent in race for Arizona governor
The release of ballots on Saturday from Arizona’s largest county helped radical right-wing Republican gubernatorial candidate and Trump acolyte Kari Lake slightly narrow the gap, but the former newsreader and current conspiracy theorist is still trailing Hobbs by tens of thousands of votes with approximately 270,000 statewide ballots yet to be counted.

Unexpected early vote news stuns the US
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

Amy Coney Barrett cracks “joke” about abortion rights protesters with Federalist Society
Amy Coney Barrett responded to a room full of screaming Republicans by quipping, “It’s really nice to have a lot of noise made not by protesters outside of my house.” Haha, it’s funny because she wants the people she oppresses to be silent.

Mississippi police chief fantasized about “f*cking up” a racial justice protester in newly leaked audio
Brookhaven Police Chief Kenneth Collins was caught on tape bragging that he crashed a nonviolent protest and thought about assaulting its Black organizer, Marquell Bridges, following accusations by a detective on his own force that Collins — who is also Black — was pushing for false criminal charges to be filed against Bridges.

Illinois poised to pass a huge win for workers
A workers’ rights amendment to the state constitution that — among other things — would ban so-called “right-to-work laws” and make collective bargaining a constitutional right that cannot be legislated or contracted away is poised to pass in Illinois in a huge win for organized labor.

Tortuous ID policies render transgender people sterile
Across the world, scores of countries still require transgender people to submit to inhumane surgeries before their genders are legally recognized, a practice international human rights bodies have condemned as torture. These policies have left untold numbers of transgender people with an agonizing choice between their fertility and their identity.

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Donald Trump mocks Ron ‘DeSanctimonious’ DeSantis in election eve circus act
In a preview of the bruising battle to come, the disgraced ex-president unveiled his new (actually not unfunny) nickname for the pugnacious Florida governor and one-time ally during a campaign stop in — why not — Pennsylvania. “We’re winning big, big, big in the Republican Party for the nomination like nobody has ever seen before,” the serial grifter said. “There it is, Trump at 71%, Ron DeSanctimonious at 10%,” citing fake poll numbers backed up by zero data.

Take Action: Charge the Trump supporters who compromised ballot machines!

VIDEO OF THE DAY: Rising Democratic star surges into spotlight with barn burning election eve speech
Pennsylvania Democratic gubernatorial candidate Josh Shapiro delivered an impassioned speech laying out the stark choice Pennsylvanians face on Tuesday, rightfully calling out radical right-wing Republican challenger Doug Mastriano’s hellish vision for the future of American governance.

Unexpected early vote news stuns the US
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Wow.

“Let them all go now”: Trump calls for release of everyone arrested in Jan. 6 insurrection
The disgraced ex-president is now openly calling for the immediate release of hundreds of rioters arrested during his failed insurrection at the US Capitol, including dozens of felons who have already been convicted of their crimes. The “tough on crime,” “law and order” charlatan called the rioters and cop-beaters “incredible” people who deserved pardons and full apologies from the US government.

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Former GOP chair calls “God Made” Ron DeSantis ad “assbackwards blasphemy”
Michael Steele torched Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis over his incredibly arrogant, allegedly God-endorsed campaign ad as “ass-backwards blasphemy” that will irritate most religious people. (Editor’s note: Also offensive to non-religious folks.)

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Texas Republicans rake in millions from far-right Christian megadonors pushing private school vouchers
Texas Republicans bankrolled by Christian conservative donors are hoping to ride a wave of trumped up, irrational parental anger over the super dangerous teaching of very scary topics like race (eegadz!) and sexuality (for shame!) in schools to achieve what has long been an unattainable goal: the decimation of public education and state funding for private, religious indoctrination under the guise of “schooling.”

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Twitter is already trying to rehire workers Elon Musk fired days ago
The social media giant, which laid off roughly half the company on Friday following Elon Musk’s $44 billion acquisition, is reaching out to dozens of employees it just fired and asking them to return. Some of those who are being asked to return were laid off by mistake, according to two people familiar with the moves. Others were let go before management realized that their work and experience may be necessary to build the new features their fearless new leader envisions.

Republicans are all too happy to let their hypocrisy distract from climate crisis they are feeding and profiting from
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Random GOP senator no one wanted to run for president in 2024 announces he will not run for president in 2024
Arkansas Republican Tom Cotton disappointed tens of followers with his decision to exit the Republican presidential primary contest before it began, depriving fans of schadenfreude of comically awkward debate clashes with and sophomoric barbs from disgraced ex-president Donald Trump.

Congressional investigators hunt for foreign leaders’ fancy gifts to Trump
Where there are plumes of putrid, unending smoke there’s a whole lotta fire, folks.

GOP megadonor bucks Trump, backs DeSantis for president in 2024
Hedge fund CEO, token philanthropist, and billionaire kingmaker Ken Griffin, who’s given nearly $60 million to federal Republican candidates and campaigns this election cycle, has turned his back on the disgraced ex-president “for a litany of reasons” and is publicly backing Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis to advance and defend the GOP status quo in 2024.

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Early vote totals point toward record-breaking Democratic turnout for midterm elections
Eyes on the prize, folks. Nearly 40 million Americans have already voted in the 2022 midterms, and data suggest turnout by Election Day could be higher, younger, more diverse, and even more Democratic than the 2018 midterms — a historic blue wave, for those keeping score.

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Major US corporations claiming to back abortion rights caught donating to GOP anti-abortion zealots
American corporations, including Meta, Amazon, AT&T, Comcast, Eli Lilly, and Citigroup, talk a good game when it comes to protecting women’s reproductive rights, but it’s all performative lip service. The megawealthy behemoths are all too happy to continue funneling millions of dollars into the campaign coffers of virulently anti-abortion Republicans, because tax cuts or something.

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The GOP is just a few seats away from passing a national abortion ban
NextGen: Every woman in the country could have her bodily autonomy ripped away from her by radical zealots if we don’t win this November. The stakes could not be any higher. NEXTGEN is working around the clock to mobilize young voters and make sure we have the turnout we need to protect our majorities in Congress. Can you chip in to help elect pro-choice Democrats up and down the ballot?

Mastodon surges in popularity as Twitter users eye the exits
The previously obscure, ad-free, crowdfunded social network known as Mastodon has acquired hundreds of thousands of new users since Elon Musk took over Twitter last week and immediately began wreaking all kinds of havoc.

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Biden snaps at “idiot” protesters branding him a socialist
To be fair, President Biden is obviously not a socialist and anyone seriously claiming otherwise is, well, an idiot.

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Obama roasts carpetbagging Dr. Oz for selling political “snake oil” to get elected
At a rally for Democratic Senate candidate John Fetterman, the former president took repeated shots at Dr. Oz’s incessant promotion of quick-fix diet supplements and fake medicines and told Pennsylvanians they need a US senator who, you know, is actually from Pennsylvania.

Florida medical board bans gender-affirming care for trans youth
After failing to pass laws banning all gender-affirming care for minors through the state legislature, Gov. Ron DeSantis turned to the state medical board he conveniently stacked with rubber-stamping Republican allies to yet again strip private medical decision-making from parents, families, and individuals who clearly need overzealous, dogmatic nannies to protect them from themselves.

Michigan Democrats on verge of STUNNING development
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

Outgoing Republican Rep. Liz Cheney endorses another House Democrat in close race
Let’s be clear, there’s nothing heroic about Cheney endorsing moderate, incumbent House Democrats in races against Trump-backed Republican challengers, but with the future of democracy on the line it is worth noting just how far off the deep end the GOP has lunged for such an act to be considered newsworthy.

Elon Musk needs you to pay Twitter $8 per month for your blue check mark going forward
The world’s richest man and new owner of Twitter announced plans to give out once-free blue check marks to any Twitter Blue user willing to pay $7.99 per month. The new model is raising alarm about the consequences the system could have on disinformation ahead of the 2022 midterm elections and beyond. Since 2009, blue-checked accounts had been distributed to users through a verification process as a way to separate authentic accounts from impersonators.

House analysis confirms corporations use “cover of inflation to raise prices excessively”
In news that should shock absolutely no one paying an ounce of attention, the US House Committee on Oversight and Reform highlighted how “certain corporations are using the cover of inflation to raise prices excessively, resulting in record profits and profit margins” at the expense of — you guessed it — consumers.

Missouri’s marijuana legalization campaign is splitting the weed world
The debate about whether voters support legalizing weed is essentially over: Roughly two-thirds of adults back legalization nationwide and even staunchly conservative states have passed referendums. That has shifted the debate to be about how weed gets legalized rather than whether to legalize it. A growing rift over a recreational-use referendum on the ballot in Missouri is just the latest sign of would-be allies diverging over the future of legal marijuana in America.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Obama slams GOP Sen. Ron Johnson over far-right policies in impassioned rally speech
The former president’s fiery rebuke of Ron Johnson at a rally in Milwaukee went viral over the weekend, amassing nearly 8 millions views. Obama implored Wisconsin voters to back rising Democratic star Mandela Barnes in his effort to stop the MAGA lackey Johnson from winning a completely unwarranted third term in the US Senate.

Legal abortions fell by 10,000 in two months after fall of Roe, new data shows
By design, Republicans are forcing women to carry unwanted pregnancies to term and make dangerous reproductive healthcare choices with no regard for privacy or the well-being of the impregnated. It will not stop here, folks. Remember in November.

Take Action: Call on Congress to pass a law protecting abortion access, no matter what the Supreme Court says!

Democrats now in striking distance of a surprise Senate flip
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Whoa.

Donald Trump Jr. mocks Pelosi’s husband’s hammer attack with obnoxious meme
There truly is no bottom with this clan.

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Supreme Court revisits affirmative action in college admissions
The conservative-dominated court is revisiting decades of precedent upheld over the years by narrow court majorities that included Republican-appointed justices. This time, however, there is every likelihood that the hyper-right court will overrule some or all of those precedents, because shit-talking judicial activism is so passé and originalist overreach is in, baby!

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Arizona GOP attorney general calls out Kari Lake, election-denying “clowns”
Speaking to 60 Minutes, Arizona Republican Attorney General and soon-to-be GOP public enemy #1 Mark Brnovich slammed election deniers in his own party, including gubernatorial nominee Kari Lake, over their relentlessly absurd election fraud claims. Mark Brnovich, come on down! You’re the next contestant on “On Borrowed Time!”

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Crucial abortion amendment left off at least one mail-in ballot in Louisville, Kentucky
Kentucky Constitutional Amendment 2, if approved, would eliminate ANY right to abortion from the state constitution. A spokesperson for Jefferson County’s longtime Republican Clerk Bobbi Holsclaw cited a “printer setting” error and claimed the problem had been fixed.

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Halloween may be coming, but the only thing you should be scared of is a Republican Senate majority
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Kanye West digs in on antisemitism, compares his experience with Adidas to George Floyd murder
The sneaker and apparel giant’s no-brainer decision to sever business ties with Ye over rampant antisemitism is just like when Minneapolis cops mercilessly killed Floyd by suffocation in broad daylight over a suspected counterfeit $20 bill. It’s basically the same, right? Right?

State, city of New York to pay $36 million to men exonerated in Malcolm X’s murder
Muhammad Aziz, 84, and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009 at age 74, were wrongfully convicted in the fatal shooting of Black Muslims’ most high-profile spokesman, Malcolm X, during the start of a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965. The pair spent decades behind bars for a crime they clearly did not commit. 57 years later, the City of New York Law Department said “some measure of justice” was meted out in the form of the announced cash settlement. Let’s be clear — the woefully belated acknowledgment of heinous wrongdoing is well and good, but this is not justice by any measure.

Lula stages astonishing comeback to beat far-right Bolsonaro in Brazil election
Brazil’s former leftist president, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, has sealed an astonishing political comeback, beating the far-right incumbent Jair Bolsonaro in one of the most significant and bruising elections in the country’s history. The Amazon rainforest weeps in relief.

TikToker uses massive reach to track down racist, homophobic, suspects, tries to keep mob in check
Michael McWhorter, whose full-time job is editing and directing movies and music videos, has gained five million followers by calling out apparent racist, homophobic, violent, or otherwise illegal behavior. Oftentimes the videos he posts are an effort to track down perpetrators caught on film, either to report them to police or as a way to call them out in our modern-day village square.

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