WASHINGTON —Fresh off its shellacking in the 2018 midterm elections, House Republicans suffered another embarrassment on Tuesday when it was revealed that their flagship campaign group was hacked earlier this year and failed to tell senior party members about the attack. Politico reported that unknown hackers breached the National Republican …
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Democracy has seen better days than November 6th, 2018. Though dozens of diverse new leaders were elected to Congress, several states were plagued by dysfunctional voting systems, effectively disenfranchising countless Americans. This was largely the result of voter suppression measures enabled by a 2013 Supreme Court ruling that ravaged the …
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Stacey Abrams isn’t giving up. The Democratic candidate for governor of Georgia filed a lawsuit Sunday insisting that provisional ballots in heavily Democratic counties around Atlanta be counted before the 2018 election is officially certified. The suit also asks that the deadline to certify the election, set for Tuesday, be …
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WASHINGTON —As Election Day 2018 gets underway, the nation’s top intelligence and law-enforcement chiefs want you to know that interference and disinformation efforts by foreign countries are still a threat to the U.S. — no matter what President Trump says. In a joint statement released Tuesday morning, the heads of …
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Everything is seemingly a game to President Donald Trump. So, why not tweet out a Game of Thrones meme with his image regarding a serious foreign policy topic? On Friday, the White House announced plans to reimpose sanctions on Iran that were halted as a part of the nuclear deal …
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Donald Trump’s apparent willingness to flout campaign finance rules and laws against self-dealing was the subject of a Pulitzer Prize-winning series by Washington Post reporter David Fahrenthold in 2016. More than two years have passed and —as was the case when he casually bragged about assaulting women, or evaded paying …
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If the marketing folks at Dos Equis were casting for The Most Interesting Candidate in the World, they’d have to consider 31-year-old Katie Hill. The former homeless advocate is bisexual,a goat farmer,a gun owner,a survivor,and she won her Democratic primary while being trailed by a film crew for Vice News. …
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Mitch McConnell doesn’t appear to care if there is truth to the allegation that Brett Kavanaugh sexually assaulted Christine Blasey Ford. The Senate majority leader said as much Friday morning while speaking to attendees of theValue Voters Summit in Washington, D.C. “You’ve watched the fight. You’ve watched the tactics. But …
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On Tuesday night in Nashville, Brothers Osborne did what no major-label mainstream country artist has done this midterm season: publicly support a Democratic candidate. In this case, Tennessee gubernatorial hopeful Karl Dean. Playing an acoustic set at Dean’s fundraiser at Center 615 in East Nashville, TJ and John Osborne took …
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At his annual 4th of July Picnic near Austin earlier this summer, Willie Nelson welcomed Texas Senate candidate Beto O’Rourke onstage to join him on guitar for set-closing renditions of “Roll Me Up and Smoke Me When I Die” and “Will the Circle Be Unbroken.” There’s a good chance that …
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