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Georgia Republicans are experts at meddling in elections. In the wake of President Donald Trump’s loss in the 2020 election, the state’s far-right lawmakers passed a bill to reduce mail-in voting among Black Georgians from 29% in 2020 to just 5% in 2024. Georgia’s methods became the blueprint for other red states’ voter suppression efforts. But with early voting among Georgia…

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Four years ago, the Supreme Court ruled in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization that the Constitution does not confer a federal right to abortion, overturning nearly 50 years of settled law in Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. In the wake of the decision, many left-leaning states have moved to protect and expand reproductive rights, while conservative states have…

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Candidates are casting their messaging around Epstein’s associates and the unaccountable elite, betting that voter distrust of powerful institutions can help them shape the midterm debate. By Grace Panetta for The 19th After Graham Platner secured the Democratic nomination for Senate in Maine, his first ad of the general election didn’t mention his opponent, Sen. Susan Collins…

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Chat, is it good when 101 former federal and state judges file a bar complaint against you? Because that’s what just happened to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, right in the middle of his big push to be confirmed by the Senate. The complaint, filed with the New York State Bar, requests an investigation into Blanche’s staggering number of possible ethics violations. Racking up so much…

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A daily roundup of the best stories and cartoons by Daily Kos staff and contributors to keep you in the know. Trump pulls endorsement switcheroo to avoid looking like a loser When in doubt, endorse everyone! Trump set to make another historic celebration all about himself The president knows there’s no better way to bask in the spotlight than to steal it. Trump’s fall guy…

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One party believes in science and doctors and thinks it’s bizarre that some people think horse paste is the solution to everything. The other one? “Public health disparities provide an important lens for understanding social and political change in the USA,” a recent study in the journal Nature concludes. “Using individual-level medical data and death records, this study shows that…

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The Supreme Court’s decision in Landor v. Louisiana is a perfect example of how conservatives strip rights from people by abstracting them away. The court’s conservative majority didn’t really want to talk about Damon Landor and how Louisiana corrections officials openly and flagrantly violated his religious liberty rights. So, they buried that simple story in a sprawling monstrosity of a…

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President Donald Trump is threatening to sue ABC News over its reporting on his administration’s ongoing failure in renovating the Reflecting Pool at the Lincoln Memorial. He is now pushing the outlet to repeat his lies about renovations to the monument during the Obama and Biden administrations. In a social media post, Trump claimed that ABC “failed to report that their close ‘friends,’…

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A cartoon by Tim Campbell. Related | Trump deflects from Reflecting Pool failure by arresting ‘vandals’…

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“CNN was right about the war, and I was wrong,” reads the Hill headline of a column by Becket Adams. “When it comes to President [Donald] Trump’s disastrous attempt this year at playing war chief, a whole lot of conservatives got it wrong, this author included,” Adams writes. Like many conservatives, Adams was furious at media reports that Trump had failed to prepare for the consequences…

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The health-focused news outlet STAT on Tuesday published a bombshell report that suggests President Donald Trump may have used his position of power to obtain a powerful new obesity drug not yet approved by the Food and Drug Administration. According to the report, the FDA in April allowed one 79-year-old man to obtain Eli Lilly’s retatrutide, an experimental weight-loss drug…

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Trillionaire Republican donor Elon Musk is threatening to sue California congressman Ro Khanna, a Democrat, after Khanna mentioned the death toll associated with Musk’s actions at the Department of Government Efficiency. In an appearance on the “I’ve Had It” podcast, Khanna said that DOGE, the project launched by President Donald Trump and overseen for most of its existence by Musk…

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A cartoon by Pedro Molina. Related | Trump wants July 4 to feel more like Jan.

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It was President Donald Trump who took the United States to war with Iran, a catastrophic decision that caused gas and other prices to spike as the Middle Eastern nation blocked one of the world’s major oil passageways. And it was Donald Trump who, in a fit of desperation, agreed to a deal in which Iran gets hundreds of billions in reparations, new revenue from tolling the Strait of Hormuz…

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The Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library is set to open in North Dakota on July 4, but President Donald Trump is getting an early peek because he will “join Freedom 250” for the dedication of the library on July 1. We all know this is going to be terrible, right? Even the announcement of Trump’s visit is weird, coming as it does from Freedom 250 instead of America 250.

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South Carolinians head to the polls on Tuesday for a spate of primary runoffs, most notably to decide on the Republican gubernatorial nominee. And President Donald Trump is desperate to avoid looking like a loser, pulling a desperate, last-minute endorsement switch as his preferred candidate appears on track to get walloped. At the end of May, Trump endorsed Lt. Gov. Pam Evette in the…

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By Claudia Boyd-Barrett for KFF Damian Zermeño, 15, sensed something was wrong the moment he got home from school. His aunt sat at the dining table, sobbing. His father, who’d walked him to the bus stop that morning and promised to take him to dinner when he got back, wasn’t there. Saúl Zermeño, a 45-year-old single dad, had gone to a routine check-in appointment at an…

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A cartoon by David Horsey. Related | Trump says the quiet part out loud about his Iran ‘deal’…

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