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Primarily (Dragging My Ass) Keith Kidwell     My excuse for not being johnny-on-the-spot about what just happened in North Carolina and then Texas yesterday -- I coul...

That NC primary just made me happy and hopeful.
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Holy crap!

Ah, yes! It had to be "liberal elites," like Pam Fucking Bondi that "lost" those files.

Trump and Facebook, Sitting in a Tree I've been reading an insider's book about the peculiar brand of selfishness and narcissism at Facebook -- Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandb...

Insider insights on the Trump-Facebook collaboration in the elections of 2016.
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You know who's violent deaths WON'T be mentioned in Trump's long, rambling SoTU speech?

Keith Porter, Ruben Ray Martinez, Renee Nicole Good and Alex Pretti.

Trump is bragging about working to eliminate fraud. Most of his presidential pardons have been for people convicted of money laundering and fraud to the tune of over $1 billion.

DCCC Involves Itself in a North Carolina Primary Jamie Ager Photo Katie Linsky Shaw On February 23rd (yesterday!) the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) added Jamie Ager and...

National Democrats put their thumb on the scale in NC-11. Hope it works out.
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We Need To Think of Impeachments as Room Fresheners "The first Attorney General to go to prison [John N. Mitchell] did so because he convinced himself that the ends justified the means and t...

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Joey Osborne Goes Foxx-Hunting I've paid little attention to Congresswoman Virginia Foxx's primary opponents. She always has 'em. She always beats 'em. They're like the ma...

One of Virginia Foxx's primary opponents offers an antidote to trumpism.
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The Berger/Page Meet-Up I found the time to watch the Phil Berger vs. Sam Page "town hall ." The event was hosted by the Rockingham Co. Republican Party on Feb. 5...

The clown show at eight.
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Josh Stein Still Fighting for Control of SBOE. Bless Him! Dallas Woodhouse Gov. Josh Stein is suing the GOP-controlled General Assembly over its last-minute seizure of the State Board of Elections...

God Bless Gov. Stein for continuing to fight to reverse a corrupt power grab.
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Hubbard and Creekmore Face Off in an Appstate Town Hall Jack Yordy , guest-posting: On Thursday, I attended an event hosted by the College Democrats of Appalachian State University with special ...

AppState's Jack Yordy reports on the Hubbard/Creekmore town hall.
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Democratic Primary in NC-03 (What's Up, Doc?) Thomas Mills published something today that perked me up: "If 2026 becomes a big Democratic wave year, both NC-01 and NC-03 could be Democr...

Interesting Dems primary contest in NC-03.
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Ouch! That’s gonna hurt.

It's unfortunate that the world has progressed but you haven't.

Kyah Creekmore Wants To Beat Virginia Foxx. I Want To Help Him I stumbled across the candidacy of Kyah Creekmore, the 24-year-old former Target re-stocker who wants to replace Virginia Foxx in the US H...

Pay attention to Kyah Creekmore, who wants to replace Virginia Foxx in Congress.
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Way to go, Bruce!

Students Sue for Restoration of Campus Polling Sites Democracy Docket : A group of North Carolina students sued Republican state officials Tuesday to restore early voting sites on three colle...

NC college students sue for restoration of campus polling sites at NC A&T, UNC-G, and Western Carolina
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Talarico, Shaking Things in Texas I've written about Texan James Talarico, the young Christian progressive running as a Democrat in the primary for US Senate, the John Cor...

Talarico turns John Cornyn warning into a rallying cry.
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It’s important to remember that Trump doesn’t do anything without calculating how he’ll profit personally. Tell me he isn’t wetting his beak through this Bd of Fucking Peace

Yeah, sure. I'm personally pulling down 2 grand a month!

Unprecedented and indefensible.

No, it’s about retribution

The Enemy Is Both Lethal and Stoopid If you say that someone is "in the soup," you mean they are in trouble. --Google A.I. "We're in the soup... We've got to do 1914 over agai...

In the soup, and it ain't funny.
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Pat Harrigan baits the white working class to vote against its self-interest He's a Populist without an economic agenda

Keeping tabs on brand-new Congressman Pat Harrigan from Hickory and his "anti-urban populism." Worth a read.
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The Democratic Primary in Congressional Dist. 5 It both hurts my heart and thrills me a little to see bright young people without a political base nor financial backing file to run for h...

I'm just getting to know Kyah Creekmore, who's in a Dems primary for Virginia Foxx's seat in Congress.
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Nuff said.

That's the attitude exactly!

The anger just builds and builds.
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Carla Cunningham May Be in (More) Trouble House District 106 is majority Black. Carla Cunningham has represented the district in the NC House since the election of 2012. She's ofte...

A Dem primary will settle the matter in NCHouse Dist. 106. Goodbye, Carla Cunningham?
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