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State Protections for Midterm Elections | A Hill to Die On (opens the original)
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On todays episode we sit down in an exclusive interview with Nevada Secretary of State Caesar Aguilar about how States are preparing for Trump MAYBE causing some interference in the midterm elections. He's given us a foreshadow of the trouble ahead this week when Trump and Markwayne Mullin, the Department of Homeland Security secretary, said they'd identified more than 270,000 noncitizens on voter rolls in four states: Nevada, California, New Jersey and Pennsylvania.But DHS kept shifting their f
The Great American Propaganda Tour | Fool Me Once (opens the original)
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Welcome to FOOL ME ONCE! the show where & V breakdown propaganda and psyops from entertainment and politics. Today, we start The Great American Propaganda Tour with the COVID-conscious lesbian bar masking debacle in Massachusetts where black and white thinking has foiled what it means to center the most marginalized, while maintaining autonomy and democracy. But this is far from the most bizarre of topics, today. "America will not become a communist country," Trump declared on his
UNGA Days 3 & 4 Recap! (opens the original)
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HEY OOOOOOO I’m back home and about to unload a weeks worth of hot geopolitical gossip notes on y’all so - settle in! <img alt="" class="sizing-normal" height="769" src="https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!fWeJ!,w_1456,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_p
Russia, Israel, and the U.S. in the Middle. (opens the original)
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UNGA RECAP DAY 1 & 2 (opens the original)
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UNGA 81: Days 1 & 2 High(low?)lightsThe 81st United Nations General Assembly (UNGA 81) just closed out day two, and things between Nations seem to have stayed just as gridlocked as my THREE HOUR ride in from New Jersey to cover the event. Under the Desk News is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.<input class="email-input" name="email" t
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