As recent polling has shown a tighter race for Texas Governor than many pundits predicted, Texas’s incumbent Governor, Greg Abbott, has made a hard left at the border: he’s pushing a “policy” that’s more publicity stunt than substantive political action. Yes, that’s right. In an obvious appeal to the most ignorant among Fox News’ loyal …
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The Biden Administration on Monday (4/11/22) released its “Rural Playbook” for delivering infrastructure investment and opportunity in rural America—a multi page whitehouse.gov site (also available here as a 17 page PDF) describing how the administration plans to make good on its promise to bring high speed internet, safe roads and bridges, modern wastewater treatment and …
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As Right-Wing Twitter went into its usual self-righteous convulsions Friday after a court decision acquitted two defendants of plotting to kidnap Michigan Governor Gretchen Whitmer, Whitmer herself was making national headlines for asking her state’s Supreme Court to permanently protect Michiganders right to safe and legal abortion. As described in this piece by the Washington …
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Less than a month before voters head to the polls in Ohio’s primary elections, a pair of frontrunners in a crowded GOP field seem to be in a battle to see who can dog whistle at Ohio’s racists most overtly. For his part, former Ohio Treasurer Josh Mandel released a campaign ad Tuesday (4/5/22) in …
Ohio’s GOP Senate Primary: the race to find out who can dog whistle the loudest Read More »
It’s official. OAN has gone off the air on DirecTV. Yes, even as sitting US Senators Mike Lee of Utah and Ted Cruz of Texas bloviate about their “grave concern for the future of journalism and political discourse in America,” DirecTV followed through with its promise to boot the fringe conservative network from its lineup. …
Nearly two months since its launch, Donald Trump’s Truth Social is an abject failure. Downloads on Apple’s app store have plummeted, and the site remains unavailable on android phones or web browsers. On Apple, it’s currently the 35th most downloaded among social media platforms, far, far behind other Right-Wing geared social apps like Gettr and …
While the Republican Primary for Georgia’s governorship—featuring incumbent Brian Kemp vs the Trump-endorsed former-US Senator David Perdue—is off to a cutthroat start, Stacey Abrams, the de facto Democratic nominee, has quietly begun a marathon of classic, boots-on-the-ground retail politics across the state. Abrams, whose celebrity has skyrocketed since her narrow defeat in 2018’s Georgia governor’s …
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“You let him attack me. … That is wrong,” Television personality and current GOP candidate for Pennsylvania’s open Senate seat Dr. Oz complained to the moderator of the state’s first GOP Primary debate on Wednesday. Oz had been put on the defensive over his former position on fracking–the controversial oil extraction technique that stole the …
Infighting and Whining: Pennsylvania’s GOP Senate Primary Heats Up Read More »
Just over 100 million dollars to Alabama. Upwards of 175 million for Florida. One of the little-publicized areas of government funding that’s being bolstered by the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law signed by President Biden in early November is the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, (LIHEAP), which is critical to helping low income households meet their …
It would seem that five years spent fawning over Trump, turning a blind eye to his overtures to fascism, and groveling at the feet of his extremist base, have put a few (slightly) more moderate Republican lawmakers in a bind as the Party edges ever closer to authoritarianism. It’s an ongoing story in a Republican …
