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Al Green, Christian Menefee appear headed for Democratic runoff Newly drawn political maps put the incumbents into the same congressional district.

Texas Tribune reporting on United States Representative Al Green facing a runoff election against United States Representative Christian Menefee after neither won a majority in the Tuesday 3 March 2026 Texas primary election.

www.texastribune.org/2026/03/04/t...

Talarico does not need a +6 ”WAR” score
- Texas was Trump+12 in 2024
- Maybe Trump+10 with the Latino reversion we are seeing
- That’s R+8 on lean
- It’s a D+7 to D+8 year
- That puts it at R+0 to 1
- Talarico has potential positive residual
-Paxton had documented negative residual

Spanish PM Sánchez responds to Trump:

"Spain is against this disaster... Govts are here to improve people's lives... It is absolutely unacceptable that those leaders who are unable to fulfill that mission use the smoke of war to hide their failure, and in the process, fill the pockets of a few."

Trump Has Been Sued 198 Times for Withholding Funding. It Hasn’t Stopped Him. (Gift Article) Immigration demands for highway dollars, D.E.I. rules for homeless grants: how Trump has tried to wield spending to get his way.

An important piece showing that losses in court haven’t stopped Trump from seizing Congress’s spending power and targeting dissenters and “blue states.”

www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

Trump’s desire to gerrymander Texas and purge his GOP critics may end up giving Dems a functional House majority.

Crockett concedes: “This morning I called James and congratulated him on becoming the Senate nominee. Texas is primed to turn blue and we must remain united because this is bigger than any one person.”

(Statement via NBC’s Priscilla Thompson)

CALL NOW: Tell Your Senators No War With Iran | Indivisible Demand your Senator do everything in their power to stop Trump’s war on Iran.

TODAY: The Senate is expected to vote on a War Powers Resolution for Trump’s illegal war with Iran.

Like the Iraq War vote two decades ago, this decision will define a generation of politicians.

Call your senators and demand that they rein in Trump and prevent further military operations in Iran.

remember the silly pique of renaming French fries as “freedom fries”?

this is the opposite — this is a sign that dependency of American tech is a national security risk

House GOP leadership allegedly worried Reps Hunt and Crenshaw just stop showing up to vote after their loses tonight

Here's the letter that caused Thom Tillis to erupt at Kristi Noem. The DHS inspector general claims DHS leaders "systematically obstructed" his inquiries, including in something related to a "specific pending criminal investigation."

(confirming scoop from WSJ's Tarini Parti and Josh Dawsey)

What Alexis de Tocqueville taught me about recovering from a brain injury When we are ill, we need expertise more than ever, yet our agency feels fragile. The best clinicians recognize this, a patient writes.

“In democracies, people grant legitimacy not only to those with superior knowledge but also to those whose experience mirrors their own. We listen not just vertically, to institutions, but horizontally, to one another. And we often listen better to the horizontal voice.” @jackiantonovich.bsky.social

They cut Meals on Wheels for seniors, doctors for the VA, and food for American children - but send billions of taxpayer dollars to the Middle East for an unnecessary war of choice.

Loose Talk of ‘Fake News’ Is Bad for Democracy The secretary of defense shouldn’t pit the military against the media.

"When American troops deploy, they do so under civilian authority and in the name of the American people. Citizens have both a right and a responsibility to understand what their government and their military are doing."

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"Nicholson ... lives in the prosperous west metro city of Minnetrista." Which is code for his living in a house with $2.7 million assessed value, purchased in 2021 for $2.35 million.

So, Trump is down to 38% approval in a new YouGov poll?
When Nixon hit just 38% approval in a Gallup poll, he was ~13 months from the eve of being impeached by the House.

Macron says France will allow temporary deployment of nuclear-armed jets to European allies French President Emmanuel Macron says France will allow the temporary deployment of its nuclear-armed aircraft to allied countries as part of its new nuclear strategy.

This from yesterday seems significant –
AP: Macron says France will allow temporary deployment of nuclear-armed jets to European allies

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DHS Secretary Kristi Noem testified that detainees receive medical attention within 12 hours.

That’s just plain false.

Listen to the U.S. Citizens who were wrongfully detained and denied critical care.

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BREAKING: Roy Cooper is officially our Senate nominee in North Carolina.

This makes NC our best Senate pickup opportunity in 2026.

Let’s flip it.

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Look, lying is his brand. He can run around lying all he wants - who gives a shit about Jennings. My issue is with CNN - who knows all that and rewards him for it. They incentivize it. The more specularly he lies the more they pay him, as evidenced by his contract extension.

Just realized that with Abolish ICE at +11, it's polling over 30 percentage-points ahead of Trump approval. Guess that means if the media wants to be representative, it should give at least like 40% more airtime to people who support abolishing ICE to Trump supporters

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Could someone please reset the "Hours without an embarrassing DOJ filing" clock to 0?

Minnesota is mourning the loss of Sergeant First Class Nicole M. Amor of White Bear Lake who was killed in Kuwait on Sunday.

She answered the call to serve and gave her life in service to our state and nation. Minnesotans are wrapping our arms around her loved ones.

Very first results of the night: It's the early vote in Tarrant County, home to Fort Worth.

Crockett leads 56% to 43% here, with 121K ballots counted.

Then Bush presented Rubio a golden sword, and solemnly explained its significance. "I'm going to bestow to you the sword of a great conservative warrior." Only . a closer look at the sword and its display stand Rubio kept in his Florida Speaker's suite showed that the inscription read "C-H-I-A-N-G," not, "C-H-A-N-G." Specifically: "Unleash Chiang." "Unleash Chiang," as in the rallying cry of John Birchers in the 1950s, who urged the United States to arm Chiang Kai-shek, the Chinese Nationalist leader of Taiwan, so he could retake Red China from Mao. "Unleash Chiang," which later morphed into sports trash talk in the Bush family, like when George H.W. would warn from the baseline that he was about to "unleash Chiang" with his next serve. Some journalists covering Rubio's ceremony didn't recognize the allusion and wrote it up straight. It's unclear even in a 2012 interview whether Rubio himself understood the story's origins. And so it was that the Sword of Chiang became allegory taken a little too literally-which is to say: not terribly different from the broader, Bush-as-Rubio's-mentor meme itself.

for the Chiang-curious

"Unleash Chiang” was the rallying cry of John Birchers, who wanted the US to arm Chiang Kai-shek so he could retake Red China from Mao. The Bushies took over the phrase as goofy trash talk during family games & sports.

www.politico.com/magazine/sto...

I think there’s actually kind of a broader doomsday scenario where the general ethos of “it’ll all work out” that has pervaded institutions during Trump 2.0 gives way, and everyone looks around and realizes a criminal madman is running the US, like the moment Wil E. Coyote looks down

Winning this race is going to take courage, conviction, and experience, and I’ve got all three.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles.

Parents Tried to Shield Their Children From Vaccines. Instead They Got Measles: rising exemptions are playing a big role in the measles outbreak that is sickening, hospitalizing, and killing children in the U.S.. www.nytimes.com/2026/03/03/u... @nytimes.com

Our nation is again at war, not because we had to but because the president recklessly chose to.

Now we must recognize who pays the price: not the president and his wealthy allies, but service members and ordinary Americans.

For years on my old blog I published the names of servicemembers who died in Iraq & Afghanistan. No other outlets were.

These are the first 4 Americans to die in the Iran War.
Capt. Cody A. Khork, 35
Sgt. 1st Class Noah L. Tietjens, 42
Sgt. 1st Class Nicole M. Amor, 39
Sgt. Declan J. Coady, 20

JUST NOW: At news conference, Rep. Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) about Kristi Noem:

"Let me just say about Kristi Noem. She is a disgraceful, despicable and deplorable human being. Why is she still around??"