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Light Authoritarianism https://t.co/fmNGM1wrPQ

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In its attack on the midterm elections in California, the Trump DOJ has taken an extraordinary new step that exemplifies how far off the rails it has gone under Trump II.https://t.co/E5gbWF20mJ

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The federal government’s ongoing attacks on Ilhan Omar are part of the Trump administration’s attempt to act as sole arbiter of who gets to be an American. https://t.co/JIlD9wZD00

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All Republicans must accept Ramaswamy's ad is awesome, Trump insists. https://t.co/cidjks27yD

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The DOJ is reportedly examining a referral from the Department of Homeland Security IG's office about Lewandowski's behavior while serving as a top adviser to Noem in that same department. https://t.co/OtDp4q3OGD

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New Developments in the Expanding “Wedgewood” Polling Scandal! https://t.co/H27Y1SMZXP

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2027, Checks and Balances and Court Reform https://t.co/zohF3ob5E3

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Dobbs fallout may have dropped out of the headlines, but existential state-level battles that will decide the fate of women nationwide continue to rage. https://t.co/deQXulpLbG

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Trump's “reality-TV presidency” — complete with cliffhangers, confrontations, and eliminations — increasingly resembles a once-popular show in its later seasons, resorting to gimmicks as it scrambles to sustain an audience. https://t.co/GyBaTli0Nt

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The Ramaswamy campaign’s new ad featuring Democrat Amy Acton’s mother, in which she repeatedly denounces her daughter as a liar, is making Republicans squirm even in this era of Trump-inflected gutter politics. https://t.co/SAP86Dv6Yu

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None of this is normal.

None of this is how the Justice Department behaved in the run up to past elections — quite the opposite.

None of this is how to run an election.https://t.co/fHAgV13hIr

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Carr's invocation of the term "news distortion" describes a real violation of rules on which the FCC is empowered to take action, but this is not that. https://t.co/JGPVGLL0tS

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We attempt to pinpoint races that tell the story of where America is at this November, and look ahead to the conversation we'll be having in coming months. https://t.co/ZivfKbbxnG

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Panic in the Final Stretch https://t.co/tgD2IumNZg

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October Un-Surprise https://t.co/WxNf0EghJ2

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There are a few key races that will reveal whether Trump's last ditch data center pivot was effective this cycle. https://t.co/89rKphVJup

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Clearing Up Some Misconceptions About FDR’s Court-Packing Plan https://t.co/QpOVlRVkta

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The top election official in Los Angeles County has done a preliminary review of the Trump DOJ's purported list of alleged noncitizen voters and found it to be ... shoddy. Surprising absolutely no one.https://t.co/jhGNQtgsia

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This dynamic of escalating intra-MAGA feuds and score settling has now come to involve Attorney General Todd Blanche, who has usually managed to hover above it all, studiously going about the work of prosecuting Trump's enemies. https://t.co/x4Sh3sKn7p

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New Entrant Pollster Was Publishing All Fake Polls https://t.co/FPEjy4UFE5