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Florida Congress candidate Bale Dalton on his campaign, hopes of flipping open seatCBS News
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Midterm elections live updates: Trump heads to Ohio, Obama rallies in GeorgiaABC News
James O’Keefe and Cam Higby face election fraud charges in MinnesotaMS NOW
Dolores Huerta, activist who stood behind farmers and Latinos, dies at 96CBS News
Obama campaigns in Georgia as Trump stumps in Ohio in dueling midterms rallies – liveThe Guardian US
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Pete Hegseth’s purge of trans troops hit a wall: Marines who refuse to lieMS NOW
New report finds Trump Jr.’s Mongolia trip went far beyond huntingMS NOW
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POLITICS & DEMOCRACY
The Trump Administration Gets an Early Start on Interfering in the MidtermsTalking Points Memo
Trump Is Laughing At How Poor You AreTalking Points Memo
Election Fraud Stunt Backfires on Right-Wing Influencers, Results in Identity Theft ChargesTalking Points Memo
The Vivek Trainwreck—How Performative Bad Personness is Roiling OhioTalking Points Memo
Johnson Says Election Transfer Concerns are ‘Absurd’ As He Continues to Insist Republicans Will Win the HouseTalking Points Memo
Trump’s favorite hoaxer gets charged for unlawful votingDaily Kos
Trump team’s alleged election meddling flops in Brazil tooDaily Kos
Fox News ratings are in the dumps thanks to TrumpDaily Kos
Much ado about cheesecake, a blue tsunami, and Kushner’s corruptionDaily Kos
Trump’s ignorant bragging proves how out of touch he isDaily Kos
Hackers unmask thousands of DHS agents Trump officials tried to keep hidden: ReportRaw Story
JD Vance quietly kneecapping Trump's tough talk with peacekeeping venture: WSJRaw Story
WaPo reporter fires back at White House after ‘fake news’ attack: 'We'd welcome it'Raw Story
FBI agents fear Trump will force them to throw Election Day into chaos: reportRaw Story
'He is lying': Nagging detail spotted ahead of Trump's 'packed and loud' Ohio rallyRaw Story
Trump To Hold Rally In Teeny Tiny Ohio Venue For New Crowd Size LowPoliticus USA
Senator Warns That Mike Johnson May Try To Help Trump Steal The Midterm ElectionPoliticus USA
Fox News Ratings Plummet As Midterm Storm Clouds Grow For RepublicansPoliticus USA
INVESTIGATION & ANALYSIS
Meet ProPublica’s 2026 Class of Emerging ReportersProPublica
How Cleta Mitchell Turned Trump’s “Big Lie” Into a MovementProPublica
This Oil Company Is Linked to 1,000 Pollution Incidents and Other Violations. Oklahoma Never Punished It.ProPublica
In a Newly Drawn District, Black Voters May Get a Representative Who Spent Years Undermining Their InterestsProPublica
Cybersecurity CEO Indicted for Allegedly Scamming Millions From Ransomware VictimsProPublica
Trump Vows to Send Election “Monitors” to Maine After Far-Right Conspiracies SpreadThe Intercept
The Incredible Shrinking SuperpowerThe Intercept
Prosecutors Want to Keep a Man in Prison for His Wife’s Murder — Despite Judge Saying Their Evidence is JunkThe Intercept
The Bolsonaro Family Playbook: Lose, Cry Fraud, and Run to Trump’s AmericaThe Intercept
The Elon Musk Funder Trying to Sway the Race for LA’s Top LawyerThe Intercept
Dolores Huerta Made Farmworkers Impossible to IgnoreMother Jones
Trump’s Visa Crackdown Has an Exception: His FriendsMother Jones
Who Has the Most to Lose if Trump Pushes Teachers Back Into the Closet? Your Child.Mother Jones
Slop, Ass, Cringe: MAGA Flops Abroad and Flails at HomeMother Jones
Inside the Conservative Case for Voting RestrictionsMother Jones
Dispatch From Post-Election IsraelThe Nation
This Reality Isn’t VirtualThe Nation
Ukraine: Time to End the WarThe Nation
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Reading people. Body language. Knowing how to connect with people totally unlike you and with different backgrounds and beliefs. Defusing tense situations. Gaining trust. High endurance, pain tolerance, and work ethic. Reaction time. Prioritizing order of execution. Anticipating people’s needs. Tons
🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...
The Acton campaign immediately went to work to monetize Vivek’s blunder through texting and email solicitations. Great to see that it paid off.
It's time to defund Elon. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Brazil should just cut off coffee exports to the US for two weeks.
Then demand Trump send Flavio back.
Two months after Navatek’s CEO, Martin Kao, made a donation to a Susan Collins super PAC through a shell company, he told his fellow execs that he received word Collins would commit to getting his company $32M in naval contracts.
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