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How Secretaries of State are prepping for election shenanigans (opens the original)
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I join Under the Desk News every Wednesday at 10 EST for our livestream “A Hill To Die On,” where we chat all things headlines, historical context, and have cool friends drop in like Nevada Secretary of State, Cisco Aguilar. Here’s today’s recording if you missed it!If you’d like to support my work, you can upgrade to a paid subscription here:Subscribe now
How Obama’s Chief of Staff helped us lose the South (opens the original)
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Over the weekend, Robert Reich published a warning letter about the dangers of Rahm Emanuel’s obvious run for President; I am here to join that chorus of voices. I doubt Emanuel has a snowball’s chance in hell of getting through Super Tuesday, and it’s entirely possible he’s using a potential run simply as a way to pull the party to the center in the actual primary. All that in mind, he is a terrible strategist, and I blame him more than a little for the state of the Democratic party in the Sout
Donald Trump’s Ls of the week so far (opens the original)
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LinksAs always, if you hit a paywall, run it through archive.phConsumer sentiment hits a 4-month lowSCOTUS blocks Missouri’s gerrymander for a final timeOver half of Rep
A...bipartisan...anti-gerrymandering bill package? (opens the original)
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Rep. Tom Suozzi is the Democratic co-chair of the Problem Solvers Caucus, a body of equal numbers of Republicans and Democrats who work together to draft bipartisan legislation. The caucus has released a block of four anti-gerrymandering bills that would provide needed federal guardrails on the runaway train of gerrymandering. We covered:what the bills doworking with Republicanswhy gerrymandering is antidemocratichow voters can support the bills
In case you missed it: this week’s videos (opens the original)
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We did it, Joe! We made it through another week. This one full of weird UN speeches, JD Vance inexplicably saying “fart left,” and massive Virginia early voting turnout. Here’s what you may have missed:For paid subscribersYoung people don’t vote and other lies we tell ourselves (well, sort of)Why Trump’s UNGA speech on Iran reminded me of KissingerYou can supp
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