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Powerful. Via press release: This evening the Democratic Coalition Against Trump, the nation’s largest grassroots anti-Trump organization, released a powerful ad attacking Donald Trump for refusing to say he’d accept the results of the election. The organization, well known for its rapid-response operation, began making the ad just minutes after Trump said he wouldn’t commit to concede if he loses. …

Via press release: Today, the Human Rights Campaign (HRC), the nation’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer (LGBTQ) civil rights organization, released a new ad highlighting presidential candidate Donald Trump’s alarming promise to appoint judges in the mold of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, whose tenure on the high court was defined by denying LGBTQ Americans their …

The Huffington Post recaps: The mother of Matthew Shepard ― a gay student who was brutally attacked and left to die in a 1998 hate crime in Laramie, Wyoming ― is warning voters about Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump’s bullying. In an ad released by the pro-Hillary Clinton super PAC Priorities USA, Judy Shepard speaks about Trump’s violent rhetoric on …

The Hill reports: A new Hillary Clinton ad compares Donald Trump to bullies from movies like “Mean Girls,” “A Christmas Story,” and “Back to the Future.” In “Bully,” some of Trump’s controversial comments are juxtaposed with lines from some of Hollywood’s most memorable antagonists. The ad then shifts to Clinton talking with a young girl about the importance of standing …

You’ll like this. Daily Kos recaps: Barack Obama makes the case that Hillary Clinton equals continuing progress in a powerful new video featuring some of the most memorable images of the Obama presidency, set to his speech at the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation dinner last month. This is the Barack Obama so much of the country fell in love with …

CBS News reports: The song “You’re So Vain” wasn’t written about Republican nominee Donald Trump, but singer Carly Simon thinks it applies to him anyway. Simon’s well-known song appears in a new anti-Trump video from a Democratic super PAC—the first time she has given permission for its use in a political video. The 2.5 minute-long video, from the group Patriotic …

Hillary Clinton’s campaign team, which is never caught sleeping, has already rushed out a response clip to the still-unspooling #pussygate scandal. The clip, perhaps understandably, omits the “grab them in the pussy” part but it does include a bleeped version of the line in which Trump confesses to trying to “fuck” a married woman. Watch below. Women have the power …

Variety reports: Eva Longoria appears in a video from the Democratic National Committee that posted on Friday in which she takes issue with Mike Pence’s “Mexican thing” comment from the vice presidential debate. “Governor Pence — we are not a thing,” she says in the video. “We are proud American citizens. We are mothers and fathers working for a better …

Buzzfeed reports: Great America PAC’s ad campaign — first shared with BuzzFeed News — will air in certain media markets in Pennsylvania, Ohio, North Carolina, Florida, Michigan, Wisconsin, New Hampshire, Illinois and Minnesota for a week starting tomorrow. The group pointed to its inclusion of Minnesota, where the Real Clear Politics polling average shows Hillary Clinton up by 4, as …

The Los Angeles Times reports: A white nationalist who funded robocalls for Donald Trump during the primary season will be out with a new radio ad this weekend urging votes for the Republican nominee. Trump has repeatedly disavowed support from white supremacists, after initially failing to do so, but the organizations and their members are more energized to vote for …

Via Politico: If Planned Parenthood’s super PAC has its way, Donald Trump’s own words about abortion will sink him with swing women in three key battleground states next month. Starting Monday, Planned Parenthood Votes and Priorities USA Action, the main super PAC supporting Hillary Clinton, are teaming up to air a new 30-second digital spot geared at just those voters …

The Humane Society has endorsed Hillary and launched an attack ad against Trump. They write: In our view, Trump represents the greatest threat ever to federal policy-making and implementation of animal protection laws, and we are taking the unusual step of wading actively into a presidential campaign. HSLF has members who are Democrats, Republicans, and Independents, and supports lawmakers and …

At today’s rally in Nevada: Donald Trump on Wednesday threatened to sue over a “nasty commercial” he said depicted him as unsupportive of military veterans. “I saw today — I left the room and I saw a commercial where it was really a nasty commercial, totally made up about me with vets. There is nobody that loves the vets more …

The Hill reports: Hillary Clinton’s campaign is going after Mike Pence’s performance at the vice presidential debate in a new video, contrasting clips of controversial Donald Trump’s statements with the Republican VP nominee’s denials that Trump said them. The video shows Democratic VP nominee Tim Kaine at Tuesday’s debate pointing to comments made by Pence or Trump — and Pence …

Via Politico: The National Rifle Association is out with its biggest ad buy to date, pushing a sympathetic, young voice for gun rights and Donald Trump’s candidacy. Starting Wednesday, the NRA is spending $6.5 million on a spot featuring a 26-year-old lawyer named Kristi McMains, who said the pistol in her purse saved her life when a man attacked her …

Via AdWeek: “The idea of asking where did the American dream go was not to show that it went away,” explained Leslie Stone, director of strategic services for Ogilvy, the shop behind the creative work, “but that people are living it every day in diverse ways.” Literal diversity also figures big. One of the print ads shows two gay men …

BOOM: A new video released by Hillary Clinton’s campaign alleges that “Donald Trump is a business failure who has gotten rich at your expense.” “That’s what three pages of his tax returns show,” the video wraps by saying. “Imagine what he’s hiding in the rest.” The video, posted Monday morning to Clinton’s Twitter account, follows the bombshell report from the …

Back in May, we had quite a conversation about an Infiniti car commercial that satirized (or paid tribute to, depending on your perspective) a young man coming out to his father. JMG reader Bill today tips us to a new ad which is on the same theme, but is for a website that is somewhat more on point. Watch below.

ABC News reports: With 39 days left until voters head to the polls, Donald Trump’s eldest daughter, Ivanka, is now headlining a television ad on behalf of her father’s campaign. According to the campaign, the ad will begin airing in the coming days nationwide on cable and in key battleground states targeting women voters. “The most important job any women …

NBC News reports: Phoenix officials, infuriated over an ad for Donald Trump’s presidential campaign that includes city cops, fired off a letter Thursday demanding that the ad be taken down immediately. The ad, titled “Movement,” portrays Trump meeting with a variety of people — including, for about one second, uniformed police officers at what appears to be an airport, with …