Recall Woody Allen’s remark that 80% of success is showing up. In South Carolina, Democratic candidate Annie Andrews has shown up. So far, Darline Graham hasn’t, writes Barton Swaim
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Governor Abbott, I'll meet you at the Governor's Mansion next Thursday at 10 AM.
If you're not man enough to debate me, you don't deserve to be the governor of Texas.
Trump was always mob. His daddy was in with the mob. When he could no longer get what he needed, he got involved with the Russian oligarchs _ and here we now are. Sammy “The Bull” Gravano on Trump 👇🏼
Willie Nelson has endorsed James Talarico for U.S. Senate:
"He's a good man who will be a good senator for the state of Texas. Please vote, and vote for James Talarico."
Contractor who turned a warehouse into an illegal ICE detention facility:
"Stephen Miller did not want the facilities that were comfortable. He did not want facilities that were humane. We were told point-blank that that was not what the administration wanted ... He wanted it to be cruel."
New footage of Iranian strikes on a U.S. base in Kuwait:
"They hit us bad ... [The base] got demolished. They need to do an investigation. How come no one came to reinforce us?"
BREAKING: 170 billionaire families have now spent a record-breaking $1.7 BILLION on the midterms.
That's not counting $600 MILLION in dark money.
Billionaire political spending is up 53x since the Citizens United ruling.
This is how billionaires buy power and huge tax breaks.
BREAKING: Even more leaked audio of a secret Ken Paxton meeting just revealed him advocating for cutting Social Security and Medicare — while laughing with lobbyists about cutting their taxes. This guy is genuinely evil.
For the first time, South Carolinians will be able hear directly from me and Mrs. Graham Nordone directly — my vision for a South Carolina we can afford and Darline's DC consultants' vision for whatever they want her to say.
I hope you'll join me in Columbia before I take the stage Sunday evening.
Under Kash Patel, the FBI has lost more than 1,500 special agents, and counterintelligence squads in many offices are running at 50–60% staff, per NPR. Agents tracking Iran were fired just before the war started. One insider's description: "It's terrifying, honestly."
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Corporate profits and tax revenues grew together until the Trump tax cuts.
Now corporate profits are at an all-time high while tax receipts are at their lowest since 2021.
In 1985, I went to the first Farm-Aid concert in Champaign, Il.
In between acts, they played videos of farmers talking about how Republican policies under Reagan were fucking them over.
40 years later, these Farmers are still voting Republican.
It's idiocy.