The Real Reason Texas Isn’t Turning Blue | The New Republic
1 day ago · While Cruz underperformed Trump in counties across the state, Allred also underperformed in almost all of the state’s most populous counties—most of which already swing Democratic—and barely won more than Beto O’Rourke’s 2018 total. He even lost his home district, Collin County, by nearly six points.The loss was so bad that Texas’s longtime Democratic Party chair, Gilberto Hinojosa ...
I Helped Run “War Games” on Trump’s Plans. They Were Not …
1 day ago · In the simulations, Trump announced his agenda and initial actions (we asked players to draw solely from actions Trump himself has indicated he supports), and players took turns responding to one another as the “games” unfolded. “War-gaming” exercises like these can help test assumptions, forcing participants to respond to dynamic ...
Say Nothing’s Ambitious Drama About an IRA Kidnapping Ends …
18 hours ago · Say Nothing tells three stories that occupy three separate timelines in the show. The first of these stories is simultaneously the central organizing event of the narrative and the thing that the show spends the least time on: the disappearance of Jean McConville (Judith Roddy). McConville, a single mother of 10 children, moves to a new apartment in Belfast, develops an antagonistic ...
Schumer Rushes to Put Up Safeguards Against Trump’s Insanity
9 hours ago · There are currently 47 judicial vacancies, including 45 in U.S. District Courts and two in appeals courts.Biden has 31 nominees still in the pipeline to be confirmed, and only 22 days left in session before Republicans are set to take over on January 3.. The Senate voted 51-44 on Tuesday to confirm April M. Perry as a federal district judge …
The Woman Who Defined the Great Depression | The New Republic
1 day ago · The most profound obstacle Babb faced in her strenuous life was a case of bad writerly luck of now-legendary proportions. Just when her carefully composed early short stories and essays began attracting the attention of New York editors, she signed a contract for a novel about the Dust Bowl, based on her youthful experience in Red Rock, Oklahoma; and in order to further research the westward ...
The Most Infuriating Search Term Is Trending in States Trump Won
14 hours ago · The search became so popular that it hit 100, according to Google Trends, which registers searched phrases on a scale of 0 to 100, with 100 indicating the peak popularity for a term. Some of the states that Trump won by the biggest margins, such as Iowa, generated the highest number of state-by-state queries for the term.
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Election Day Is Off to an Explosive Start—Literally
Nov 5, 2024 · Georgia has been hit with a spate of bomb threats on polling stations. The fake bomb threats that shut down two Georgia polling sites on Election Day stemmed from a “foreign state actor,” Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger revealed on Tuesday. “We pretty well dispelled that very quickly,” Raffensperger said at a press conference.
The Democrats’ California Lesson: Make Covid the Issue
Sep 16, 2021 · The Democrats’ California Lesson: Make Covid the Issue Gavin Newsom was in trouble until his team decided to make the race about Covid-19. It worked this year in this deep-blue state.
Trump’s Hail-Mary Plan to Change Nebraska Rules Just Fell Apart
Sep 25, 2024 · Donald Trump and his allies have been pushing Nebraska’s GOP-controlled state legislature to change how the state’s electoral votes are allotted, to prevent Kamala Harris from winning the election with just the blue wall states.