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Yesterday, I told you that my law firm is litigating 66 voting and election cases in 35 states. By the end of today, it is up to 69 cases in 37 states.
The 2026 midterm elections will be a fight to protect democracy. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
The 2026 midterm elections will be a fight to protect democracy. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
December 16, 2025 at 3:36 AM
Yesterday, I told you that my law firm is litigating 66 voting and election cases in 35 states. By the end of today, it is up to 69 cases in 37 states.
The 2026 midterm elections will be a fight to protect democracy. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
The 2026 midterm elections will be a fight to protect democracy. I started Democracy Docket to keep you informed. Sign up now. hubs.ly/Q03M8rql0
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Undecided voter: How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters?
James Talarico: They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter. Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design.
James Talarico: They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter. Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design.
December 14, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Undecided voter: How can someone like you convince me that my vote matters?
James Talarico: They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter. Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design.
James Talarico: They wouldn't be trying so hard to stop you from voting if your vote didn't matter. Texas is one of the hardest places to vote in the entire country. That is by design.
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Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
December 12, 2025 at 1:22 AM
Buttigieg on Indiana: "The big part of how Trumpism works is to make you feel totally disempowered. To make him feel inevitable. And yet the clear takeaway from this is he is not unstoppable and you are not without power."
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Canada is the latest country to roll out the welcome mat to highly skilled workers and scientists as the United States restricts immigration and cuts research funding under President Trump.
Canada eyes H-1B workers, top global talent as U.S. limits immigration
The recruitment drive targets the kind of highly skilled foreign workers facing increased scrutiny under the Trump administration’s immigration restrictions.
wapo.st
December 10, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Canada is the latest country to roll out the welcome mat to highly skilled workers and scientists as the United States restricts immigration and cuts research funding under President Trump.
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“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Federal agents arrest citizen observer watching ICE detain neighbors on her north Minneapolis block
Susan Tincher, a 55-year-old American citizen, appears to be the first observer arrested by federal immigration enforcement officers since the agency launched an immigration surge in the Twin Cities l...
www.mprnews.org
December 9, 2025 at 10:49 PM
“She has marks on her neck and wrist from where agents restrained her. Agents cut off her wedding ring and held her in leg shackles at Whipple Federal Building for about five hours.”
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
Her crime: witnessing ICE, from a distance.
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We always have to remember there's more Democrats than Republicans everywhere, we just have to go out and vote.
December 10, 2025 at 12:44 AM
We always have to remember there's more Democrats than Republicans everywhere, we just have to go out and vote.
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"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
Trump’s DOJ is building a voter purge machine—powered by your private data
The federal agency ordinarily would prevent attacks on voting rights. Now it’s carrying them out.
www.motherjones.com
December 7, 2025 at 6:57 PM
"The danger is once you compile all this information, then hackers only have to go to one place instead of going to all 50-plus jurisdictions that run elections... It’s a hacker’s dream to have all of this private, sensitive information collected somewhere..."
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
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1 in 4 Americans surveyed about skyrocketing premiums are saying that if the ACA tax credits expire, they are "very likely" to go without any health insurance at all.
Republican inaction here isn't acceptable. There's a simple solution: extend the ACA tax credits.
Republican inaction here isn't acceptable. There's a simple solution: extend the ACA tax credits.
1 in 4 Affordable Care Act enrollees would 'very likely' forego health insurance if premiums double: Poll
One in four Americans covered by the Affordable Care Act are considering going without health insurance if their monthly payments double next year, a new KFF poll finds.
abcnews.go.com
December 5, 2025 at 3:56 PM
1 in 4 Americans surveyed about skyrocketing premiums are saying that if the ACA tax credits expire, they are "very likely" to go without any health insurance at all.
Republican inaction here isn't acceptable. There's a simple solution: extend the ACA tax credits.
Republican inaction here isn't acceptable. There's a simple solution: extend the ACA tax credits.
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Health care costs are spiking all across the country.
The solution? Extend the ACA tax credits.
But our Republican colleagues refuse.
The solution? Extend the ACA tax credits.
But our Republican colleagues refuse.
December 4, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Health care costs are spiking all across the country.
The solution? Extend the ACA tax credits.
But our Republican colleagues refuse.
The solution? Extend the ACA tax credits.
But our Republican colleagues refuse.
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The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
November 29, 2025 at 4:47 PM
The president has illegally declared war to stop fentanyl trafficking from a country that does not traffic that drug, claiming its leader is trafficking drugs himself, the day after pardoning a former leader of a country who is a convicted drug trafficker.
Just to level set
Just to level set
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This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
November 28, 2025 at 2:02 PM
This is fundamentally Nazism. The idea that different peoples than the favored races carry degradation in their very genes, that they cannot strive to become better because biology compels them to be worse. It’s not just repugnant, it’s a bald faced lie.
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Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
Trump makes the outrageous claim that “most” immigrants, which include over 25 million U.S. citizens, “are on welfare, from failed nations, or from prisons, mental institutions, gangs, or drug cartels.”
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
As insulting as the “deplorables” comment, and on Thanksgiving day no less.
Trump calls Tim Walz “seriously retarded”
November 28, 2025 at 4:56 AM
Four of Trump's five children have an immigrant mother, and the one who doesn't is married to the son of two immigrants.
I feel like I just can’t enjoy the holidays with knowing my healthcare is going to be $1800 a month next year.
I have been going to all of my specialists and trying to stock up on meds.
Find out about liver tumor next week.
The other plans are more unaffordable to use and don’t have my doctors. :(
I have been going to all of my specialists and trying to stock up on meds.
Find out about liver tumor next week.
The other plans are more unaffordable to use and don’t have my doctors. :(
November 26, 2025 at 3:08 PM
I feel like I just can’t enjoy the holidays with knowing my healthcare is going to be $1800 a month next year.
I have been going to all of my specialists and trying to stock up on meds.
Find out about liver tumor next week.
The other plans are more unaffordable to use and don’t have my doctors. :(
I have been going to all of my specialists and trying to stock up on meds.
Find out about liver tumor next week.
The other plans are more unaffordable to use and don’t have my doctors. :(
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With Insurance premiums set to skyrocket Trump is now trying to extend the Obamacare subsidies, putting Republicans who have railed against it in a box.
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
November 25, 2025 at 1:56 PM
With Insurance premiums set to skyrocket Trump is now trying to extend the Obamacare subsidies, putting Republicans who have railed against it in a box.
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
Reminder: with the shutdown Dems shined a light on this so everyone knows who to blame if they don’t. punchbowl.news/article/whit...
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Our health care system is badly broken, but Republicans’ “concepts of a plan” to crush the Affordable Care Act for the umpteenth time just is not going to work.
November 23, 2025 at 9:08 PM
Our health care system is badly broken, but Republicans’ “concepts of a plan” to crush the Affordable Care Act for the umpteenth time just is not going to work.
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I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
November 20, 2025 at 8:40 PM
I've had a missile blow up next to my airplane, been shot at dozens of times by anti-aircraft fire, and launched into orbit — all for my country. I never thought I'd see a President call for my execution.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
Trump doesn’t understand the Constitution, and we're all less safe for it.
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Interviews and records show the White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
The incident is the latest in a string of matters where the Trump administration has inserted itself to help friends and target foes.
The incident is the latest in a string of matters where the Trump administration has inserted itself to help friends and target foes.
The White House Intervened on Behalf of Accused Sex Trafficker Andrew Tate During a Federal Investigation
Federal authorities were chided for seizing electronic devices from Tate and his brother, and told to return them, records and interviews show. Experts said the intervention was highly inappropriate.
www.propublica.org
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Interviews and records show the White House intervened on behalf of accused sex trafficker Andrew Tate during a federal investigation.
The incident is the latest in a string of matters where the Trump administration has inserted itself to help friends and target foes.
The incident is the latest in a string of matters where the Trump administration has inserted itself to help friends and target foes.
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This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
November 14, 2025 at 4:25 PM
This may be Trump's perfect social media post. A true work of art. He confirms:
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
✅He personally directs criminal investigations.
✅He is targeting opponents.
✅Epstein "records" exist and he knows the contents.
Bonus points for connecting it to investigation of his fondness for Putin.👀
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AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
November 12, 2025 at 10:39 PM
AOC: "It is unconscionable that what we are debating right now is legislation that will give 8 senators over $1 million a piece & we're robbing people of their food assistance & healthcare to pay for it. How can we vote to enrich ourselves by stealing from the American people?"
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The White House confirms Trump officials tried to convince Lauren Boebert today to drop her support for the Epstein files discharge petition.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
November 12, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The White House confirms Trump officials tried to convince Lauren Boebert today to drop her support for the Epstein files discharge petition.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
Once Adelita Grijalva is sworn in this afternoon, majority support will be reached on that discharge petition in the House.
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In a way, it's bringing back pre-existing conditions charges because if you're being treated by specialty doctors and it's working, you can't just leave them to find others within a cheaper insurance plan (and wait months for appointments because you're a new patient).
November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
In a way, it's bringing back pre-existing conditions charges because if you're being treated by specialty doctors and it's working, you can't just leave them to find others within a cheaper insurance plan (and wait months for appointments because you're a new patient).
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This moment demands fighters, not folders.
Official statement from @jamestalarico.bsky.social on shutdown negotiations
November 10, 2025 at 12:48 AM
This moment demands fighters, not folders.
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Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
A “Striking” Trend: After Texas Banned Abortion, More Women Nearly Bled to Death During Miscarriage
A new ProPublica data analysis adds to the mounting evidence that abortion bans have made the common experience of first-trimester miscarriage far more dangerous.
www.propublica.org
November 10, 2025 at 7:49 PM
Another horrifying consequence of Republican abortion bans that block women from getting the basic health care they need.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.
Every Republican should have to answer for this.