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WataugaWatch
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Citizen journalist with a mean streak for progressive causes. Was the founding editor of the Appalachian Journal in 1972, retired 2000. Began WataugaWatch blog in 2003. Covers NC politics, with microscopic fascination for Watauga County.
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Trump is the funniest show on TV right now.
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There Is No Comedy Funnier Than Trump Right Now
He shows his actual contempt for the suckups in his cabinet by dozing off while they're buttering his bun. And they don't get it. Either t...
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December 9, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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The saga of the allegedly "woke" Republican executive in Texas targeted for elimination by LtGov Dan Patrick. She's fighting back.
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Davy Crockett Also Surrendered at the Alamo
Kate Rogers, The Alamo Trust What happened to the Republican woman appointed to oversee the historic renovation of the Alamo in San Antoni...
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December 5, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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The odor that follows Tim Moore like a cloud.
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There's That Familiar Smell, the Odor of Rank Opportunism
Apparently there's a discharge petition being pushed by Republican loose cannon Anna Paulina Luna of Florida to get a bill banning stock ...
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December 4, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Alex H. Jones, assessing the self-destructive crankiness of GOP leaders.
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'Principled' Crankiness About Universal Health Care
Republican Senate Majority Leader John Thune Alexander H. Jones, at New Branchhead  gives us a good read on the state of North Carolina po...
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December 4, 2025 at 1:47 AM
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Congresswoman Virginia Foxx has drawn a primary -- again! -- not that it ever matters.
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Virginia Foxx Always Draws a Primary
Don't know what it is about Congresswoman Virginia Foxx that so displeases other Republicans, but there are always obscure members of her ...
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December 2, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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This group is boycotting Rep Chuck Edwards' McDonald's over his vote for the Big Beautiful Bill.
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The Boycott of Chuck Edwards' Fast Food
According to reporting by  George Fabe Russell for the Hendersonville Times-News , a coalition of activist groups are so upset with Congre...
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November 28, 2025 at 4:34 PM
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Fake news, fake influencers on X.
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Fake News
In Thomas Mills's piece today , "The Republican Dumpster Fire," he composes an excellent cataloguing on the trumpists best recent dummkopf...
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November 24, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Responding to an article attacking voter registration at AppState.
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Michael Behrent's Burnt Sugar
I recently read on an Art Pope-sponsored website a long essay by AppState history professor Michael Behrent, who also until recently served ...
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November 21, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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The frequently disgruntled Rep. Mark Pless draws an impressive Dem opponent in an R+9 NCHouse dist.
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Impressive Dem Candidate in an Impossible R+9 House District
Mark Pless, disgruntled The prospects for flipping the NC House Dist. 118 look pretty unlikely on paper, though one well qualified and imp...
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November 20, 2025 at 4:04 PM
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How to confront Trump's goon squads in North Carolina.
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How To Confront ICE in North Carolina
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November 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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Next Special Election to pay attention to: Tenn's 7th CD, Aftyn Behn vs. Matt Van Epps.
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The Behn-Van Epps Special Election in Tennessee
A special election for Tennessee's 7th Congressional District will happen on December 2nd, pitting Democrat Aftyn Behn against Trump-endor...
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November 17, 2025 at 3:10 PM
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"Get the hell out of my yard, assholes!" Early account of the action during Operation Charlotte's Web. blog.wataugawatch.net/2025/11/oper...
Operation Charlotte's Web
“Get the hell out of my yard, assholes.” --Charlotte, NC, homeowner Rheba Hamilton, driving off Customs & Border Protection officers who h...
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November 17, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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Trump's found a new way to hurt NC -- bankrupt solar energy!
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Trump Found Another Way to Hurt North Carolina
Renewable energy is a growing industry in North Carolina’s economy. The state has over 7,300 jobs in the solar sector and ranks fifth in t...
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November 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Gov. Josh Stein holds the moral high ground in special session standoff.
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Berger-Hall to Josh Stein: "Pound Sand"
Photo Galen Bacharier, NC Newsline Reportedly , in its last enacted budget Republican state lawmakers shorted the Medicaid program by arou...
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November 14, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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We're pleased that Rep Jason Crow is vetting potential Congressional candidates
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So Much Depends on the Recruiter
He’s a former Catholic who supports abortion rights; he has been a hunter since he was 12 but advocates gun-safety legislation. He’s a dec...
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November 13, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Sometimes primaries against the establishment are the only path forward.
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Indivisible's 2026 Primary Plan
I am not a member of any organized political party. I am a Democrat. -- Will Rogers I've always been a "party man," a partisan Democrat out ...
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November 12, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Fucking Republican puritans in the Senate!
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When They're About To Take Away Your Only Method for Surviving the Trump Years
"Puritanism is the haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.” -- H. L. Mencken Effing Republicans in Congress!  [Credit: The Hi...
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November 12, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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None so blind as those who can't see.
atrupar.com Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 29d
Sen. Angus King: "Standing up to Donald Trump didn't work"
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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"Folding" is the Democratic jam. Obviously.
gtconway.bsky.social George Conway ⚖️🇺🇸 @gtconway.bsky.social · 29d
"If I were in the Senate, I wouldn’t vote for this compromise. Shutdowns are an opportunity to make your arguments, and the country was just starting to pay attention... I worry that Democrats have just taught Trump that they will fold under pressure."

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Opinion | What Were Democrats Thinking?
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November 10, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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Why? To prove to those who voted "Democratic" last Tuesday that they misplaced their trust?
50501movement.bsky.social 50501: The People’s Movement ❌👑 @50501movement.bsky.social · 29d
We had a moment of unity in the elections last week, a momentum that Dems could never have dreamed of, and then they turned their backs on all the voters that came out in support—to protect our democracy, our healthcare, and our neighbors. This is a colossal failure of the Democratic leadership.
November 10, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Then there's this.
yasharali.bsky.social Yashar Ali 🐘 @yasharali.bsky.social · 29d
BREAKING

The Supreme Court has DENIED Kim Davis’s petition to overturn its landmark decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, which legalized same-sex marriage across the United States.
November 10, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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I'm too blind with rage to write anything about Dems in the US Senate. Living up to their billing!
November 10, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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No MAGA left behind
November 10, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Fuck!
joncooper-us.bsky.social Jon Cooper @joncooper-us.bsky.social · 29d
If Chuck Schumer was a stronger leader, he would have been able to convince most of these senators to hold the line.

I’m terribly disappointed in him.
November 10, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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"Never seen it this ugly!" The Berger-Page slugfest in Rockingham Co.
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Just a Few Months Distant -- The Most Important Republican Primary Race
Paul Specht just published on the WRAL site a very long and thorough introduction to everything Berger v. Page, the Republican primary ne...
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November 9, 2025 at 4:24 PM