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BREAKING: Campaign Legal Center files a lawsuit seeking a fair congressional map in Wisconsin. The current map has resulted in unequal electoral power among voters. We're suing to ensure every Wisconsin voter has an equal say at the ballot box.

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Tavern-style Communion Wafers

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Pop Six Squish Uh-uh Hail Mary Lipschitz

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Trump is still keeping him close and there are so many spots at DOJ and elsewhere that don’t require senate confirmation where someone could do an enormous amount of damage, still BUT:

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Gee - who coulda seen that coming?

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BREAKING: Judge Jefferson Griffin concedes to Justice Allison Riggs in the North Carolina Supreme Court race after a months-long battle to discard valid votes. We are proud to have represented military and overseas voters to ensure their voices were heard.

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What are the odds they targeted Ghostburger cause Biden is known to like that place?

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BREAKING: Man who lost election in November admits he lost it apnews.com/article/nort...

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New: In yet another supplemental letter to Senate Judiciary, DC US attorney nominee Ed Martin disclosed roughly 60 more appearances on Russian state media he had omitted previously — as well as a podcast he recorded with defunct right-wing site VDARE in 2021.

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One would have thought that they paused after the crash earlier this year but maybe a cast member from The Real World: Boston isn't the Transportation Secretary to have gotten that done.

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Check in on your friends this week.

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Shocking no one — Nearly half of the N.I.H. grants canceled through early May addressed the health of sexual and gender minority groups. Anyone else remember when Trump, in his first term, had a stated goal of ending the H.I.V. epidemic within a decade?

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President Trump is at once appoints the nation's top financial regulators & profits from one of the world's fastest growing crytpo companies. It's one of the most explict financial conflicts of interest in presidential history. A NYT investigation published today digs into this nyti.ms/44KUVn8

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A proposal is on the table that would give the Chicago Police Department the power to declare a curfew if they believe 20 or more people might gather in a public place. thetriibe.com/2025/04/down...

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hm seems bad www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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Paramount, the owner of CBS, has been accused of meddling in reporting being done by 60 Minutes. Why? It needs approval from Trump's FCC to be acquired by Skydance — a media company founded by the son of billionaire Trump-backer Larry Ellison. Always follow the money.

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this is bad.

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I have confirmed twice that these materials were on a 10 year loan and were scheduled to be returned now. This has nothing to do with Trump. I’m sorry that Rev. Brown perceived it that way. We need to stay on alert, but not prematurely sound the alarm.

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www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol...

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BREAKING: @aclu.org says Trump deported a child (U.S. citizen) with metastatic cancer without medication or consultation with physicians. This is the second child with cancer he's deported. www.rollingstone.com/politics/pol... @rollingstone.com

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Impact journalism!

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This is insane and everyone involved needs to be sued into oblivion and then go directly to jail

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BREAKING: Former Rep. George Santos is sentenced to 87 months in prison for serious violations of federal campaign finance laws. Campaign Legal Center filed the first Federal Election Commission complaint alleging brazen fraud and misconduct by Rep. Santos.

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This should be a huge story

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A charity tied to Gov. Ron DeSantis’s wife, Casey DeSantis, gave $10 million to nonprofit political committees that helped the governor defeat a ballot measure.

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wait what

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Pedro Pascal accuses J.K. Rowling of "heinous loser behavior" for her celebratory post following a U.K. court decision that did not recognize transgender women as women.

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Why I roll my eyes at anyone who insists he’s not running in 2028

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If you were wondering what @campaignlegal.org is up to - it's winning victories in court on behalf of voters. Today's ruling makes clear: the President has no legal authority to change election rules. Grateful to our partners at @sddaction.bsky.social and our clients LULAC, SFI, and ASA.

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impossible to explain this to someone even 5 years younger than me, but from like 2007-2011 basically everybody in my age group would voluntarily go on Facebook and post basically every detail of our personal lives, along with pictures

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A colleague at Stanford’s business school used The Stanford Daily to argue—poorly—against DEI. The piece was riddled with historical errors and left one searching for fact, so I broke my public writing hiatus to respond. I hope you’ll read and share the piece. stanforddaily.com/2025/04/22/w...

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BREAKING: Congressman Andy Ogles faces FEC complaint over numerous discrepancies in campaign reports www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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The Trump administration literally just cut the contract for ongoing audits of the Prison Rape Elimination Act, the extremely bipartisan law (unanimously passed in 2003) that requires jails and prisons to take rape seriously and adopt policies designed to make it less likely to happen.

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Men in plainclothes, one in a balaclava, raided the Charlottesville courthouse today. They abducted a local painter whose case (allegedly fighting with his roommate) was being dismissed, and another who was there paying fines. They took them away in unmarked vans. dailyprogress.com/news/local/c...

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BREAKING: In a win for voters, federal appeals court blocks North Carolina from beginning ballot curing as part of Republican candidate Jefferson Griffin’s effort to overturn the results of the state’s 2024 Supreme Court race. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

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A generation of infants are being born HIV+ today who should have been born HIV-free because one of the principal propagandists of AI bullshit in the world dismantled PEPFAR and USAID.

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“Today, right now—and I mean right this second—you have the most power you’ll ever have in the current fight against authoritarianism in America,” writes @adriennelaf.bsky.social. If you wait to speak out against autocrats, you have already lost:

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Trial begins this week for former Tennessee House Speaker, aide on federal public corruption charges www.newschannel5.com/news/newscha...

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Road to the VRA: 60 years ago today, the Senate starts floor debate on the Voting Rights Act. GOP minority leader Everett Dirksen opens the debate by invoking the Declaration of Independence & asking, “How then can there be government by the people if some of the people cannot speak.”

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