Barbara Bush, the daughter of former President George W. Bush, donated to a political action committee that supports state Rep. James Talarico, the Democratic candidate for the U.S. Senate for Texas
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Today, The Cook Political Report moves eleven more House races towards Democrats. Half of our latest changes are in Ohio, Nebraska and Kansas — three states that, for the same reasons, also have competitive Senate races.
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Musk came to Trump with the plan to throttle Ukraine’s use of SpaceX’s Starshield. They were both in it. But after carnage in Kyiv caused by the slowdown, Musk was alarmed about adverse consumer reaction in Europe and blamed Trump for the slowdown
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Many people will probably recognize this photo.
Meet Vasyl Vasiuta, a 53-year-old man from Ukraine’s Lviv region. He has nine children. Three of his sons went to war. One of them was killed.
Poland is just 10 kilometers from his home. The front line is 1,300 kilometers away. Yet ten years ago, Vasyl volunteered to join the Ukrainian Armed Forces.
All three of his sons eventually fought alongside him.
In February 2022, his 20-year-old son Dmytro was killed near Mykolaiv. It took nearly a month to find his body. He was finally identified by his tattoo.
Of the three brothers who went to war, Dmytro was killed, Ivan was discharged from the military after being wounded, and Marian is still fighting in the Donbas.
When Marian learned that his brother had been killed, he immediately called his father.
Vasyl had just one word in response:
“Understood.”
After losing his son, Vasyl was wounded himself. His arm hadn't healed, he had lost feeling in three fingers, and his knee still hurt. Yet he kept pushing to return to the front.
“That’s what real courage looks like to me. When Dmytro was killed, my father didn't give up. A week later, he was wounded himself, but he kept fighting,” his son says.
For years, Vasyl sent his sons the same message while they were at the front:
“Son, how are you? Just send me a plus sign on Viber.”
When asked what it's like to have three sons at war, he gives a simple answer:
“Hard. Very hard.”
His injuries and declining health eventually forced him to leave the front. He returned home and now works as a forester.
But his thoughts are still there.
Every day, he walks 20 kilometers through the forest, perhaps trying to quiet the pain he carries inside.
In his home village of Cherneve, 90 of the 800 residents serve in the military. Five have been killed. One is missing.
And Vasyl keeps walking through the forest, thinking of his sons.
Living with a loss that can never be undone and a pain that never truly goes away.
Eventually, Putin will tell Trump that handicapping Ukraine and lifting sanctions isn’t enough, and that if he really wants the war to end and get his Nobel, he should sell US intelligence and weapons to Russia. Trump will say yes, and a few GOP will tweet and sign letters.
Democrats are absolutely crushing Republicans in the money race.
Across nine battleground Senate races, Democratic candidates outraised Republicans by at least $9 million in EVERY race in Q3 — including $64M to $18M in Texas and $33M to $3M in Georgia.
Republicans may have super PAC billionaires. But Democrats have something money can’t manufacture: grassroots enthusiasm and momentum.
If money is momentum, Election Day could be a Democratic landslide.
So the president claims not to know who did something that should only be doable, if at all, with the president’s knowledge, if not by the president himself.
Steve Bannon has praised Marc Elias — and complained that Republicans don’t have a lawyer like him.
“To be clear, there’s no amount of money I would ever accept from the Republican Party to stop defeating them in court,” Marc says.
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