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DeSantis Ordered To Hand Over Migrant Flight Docs

Politico reports: A Florida judge on Tuesday found that Gov. Ron DeSantis’ office is not following the state’s public records law and ordered the administration to turn over records connected to the migrants flights from Texas to Martha’s Vineyard within the next 20 days. Circuit Judge J. Lee Marsh rebuffed arguments from the governor’s lawyers that they should be allowed …

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Oz Scrubs Website Of Posts Against Ex-Gay Torture

Jezebel reports: The Dr. Oz Show’s website appears to have scrubbed all of its 2012 segments about gay conversion therapy, including a three-part interview with an anti-LGBTQ “reparative therapy” advocate, subsequent interviews with advocates at GLAAD and GLSEN rebutting the pro-conversion therapy segments, and a blog post from Oz about the “debate” around conversion therapy. It’s unclear to whom, exactly, …

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New Woman Says Walker Took Her To Get Abortion

The Guardian reports: The lawyer Gloria Allred was due on Wednesday to introduce to reporters a woman who alleges Herschel Walker, the Republican candidate for Senate in Georgia, took her to an abortion clinic to have an abortion. Walker has voiced strict anti-abortion policies but has already been accused of paying for an abortion for another woman. Allred said the …

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Oz: Leave Abortion Up To Doctors And Local Politicians

The Insider reports: In an echo of the language used by supporters of abortion rights, Dr. Mehmet Oz on Tuesday said he too believes the question of whether to terminate a pregnancy is best left to a woman and her doctor — but then he continued, adding a third party: state politicians. The celebrity doctor turned Republican candidate for Senate …

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Ryan: Someone “Not Named Trump” Will Win In 2024

“That new swing voter in American politics is the suburban voter, and it’s really clear the suburban voter doesn’t like Trump, but they like Republicans. So I think anybody not named Trump I think is so much more likely to win the White House for us. “It’s sort of like what the Democrats did. They went from Dean and John …

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FL GOP Paid Rubio’s Nazi “Canvasser” $10K+ This Year

The Huffington Post reports: The Florida Republican Party paid thousands of dollars over the summer to a far-right activist who attended the white nationalist “Unite the Right” rally in 2017 and later charged at a crowd of anti-racist demonstrators with a Confederate flag. Christopher Monzon was paid more than $10,000 by the party between June and September, federal campaign finance …

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Oklahoma School Superintendent Candidate Wants All Teachers Reeducated With “Christian Patriotic History”

Oklahoma City’s ABC affiliate reports: A new controversy has arisen surrounding the race for state superintendent. If elected, Republican Ryan Walters would have teachers undergo patriotic education offered by a conservative Christian college in Michigan. Walters has said in the past students are not being taught U.S. history accurately and argued this could be a way to reverse the trend. …

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Kirk: Schools Teach “Venomous Anti-White Racism”

Media Matters has the transcript: So I hate talking about race. I do. I hate it because I don’t think race matters at all. I think it’s — I hate the whole conversation around it. But I have to say this next part that might get me in trouble – there is a deliberate and venomous anti-white campaign in our …

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Kari Lake Ad Stars Pastor Who Claims That 50% Of Gays Have AIDS And That Most Gays Die By Age 40

Mother Jones reports: It’s an ordinary and straightforward negative ad. A local businessman in Phoenix named Justin Erickson, who says he’s a husband and father of five children, earnestly complains that his family and his employees are “overwhelmed” by rising costs, and, as ominous music plays in the background, he declares defiantly that he can’t vote for Katie Hobbs, the …

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AK GOP Censures McConnell For Backing Murkowski

The Hill reports: The Alaska Republican Party on Monday voted to censure Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) for what they called spreading “divisive and misleading statements” about their endorsed candidate in Alaska’s Senate race. The state party added that McConnell’s financial support for incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska) in the Senate race against fellow Republican Kelly Tshibaka was “in …

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Ted Cruz’s “Voter Fraud” Book Contains No Evidence

The Washington Post reports: “This book is the first inside account of what happened on Jan. 6,” Sen. Ted Cruz said in his practiced manner. The book was released on Tuesday. “And so I take the reader through the events of the 2020 election leading up to Jan. 6. I take them through the evidence of election fraud and voter …

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Rubio Claims “Brutal Attack” On His Campaign Worker, The Victim Is Allegedly “Cuban Confederate” Extremist

Miami’s ABC affiliate reports: Police arrested a 22-year-old man accused of attacking a canvasser handing out political flyers on Sunday evening in Hialeah. According to the police report, the victim was distributing flyers at about 6:30 p.m. at East 60th Street and First Avenue when Javier Lopez attacked him. The victim was campaigning for Republican Sen. Marco Rubio, who is …

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Thomas Stays Graham’s Subpoena From GA Grand Jury

Reuters reports: U.S. Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas temporarily blocked a lower court’s order requiring Senator Lindsey Graham to testify to a grand jury in Georgia investigating whether then-President Donald Trump and his allies attempted to overturn 2020 election results in the state. Thomas granted the Republican senator’s request to halt the lower court’s decision pending a further order to …

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Socialist Hurricane Aid For Florida Passes $1 Billion

Florida Politics reports: Twenty-two days since Hurricane Ian hit the Gulf Coast and forged a path of destruction across the state, the amount of federal recovery aid distributed to the state blew past the $1 billion mark. The speed of the aid’s distribution appears to be outpacing — and by some measures overtaking — the federal aid that followed Hurricane …

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BOOK: Cruz Hid In Supply Closet During Capitol Riot

Newsweek reports: Senator Ted Cruz has revealed he was in a “a supply closet with stacked chairs” during part of the January 6 storming of Congress. Cruz, who opposed the certification of election results from Arizona, describes the day’s events in his new book Justice Corrupted: How the Left Weaponized Our Legal System. Cruz said Senators were led to a …

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Trump Attacks DeSantis Over Senate Endorsement

Mediaite reports: “Hello this is Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis. America needs strong leadership and desperately,” said DeSantis in a robocall, according to The Washington Examiner. “That’s why I’m endorsing Joe O’Dea for U.S. Senate. Colorado, please vote for Joe O’Dea.” Trump shared The Washington Examiner piece on his social media site TRUTH Social and wrote, “A BIG MISTAKE!” O’Dea has …

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Florida Creates Anti-LGBTQ Censorship Council

The Daily Beast reports: In the name of “curriculum transparency,” Florida’s Republican-controlled state government has appointed several anti-gay and anti-mask conspiracy theorists to take charge of a new effort at public schools: banning books. This hastily assembled censorship council—tasked with retraining public school librarians to abide by new restrictions—is the latest ploy in Gov. Ron DeSantis’ crusade to upend the …

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Ted Cruz Gets Obscene Serenade At Yankee Stadium

Fansided reports: Yankees fans welcomed Texas senator Ted Cruz to New York with some NSFW gestures during Game 4 of the ALCS against the Astros. Crowds in New York aren’t known for being particularly friendly toward opposing fans. When one of those fans is a controversial political figure rooting for the opposing team, you can bet they’re going to get …

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Alaska Gov Candidate Sued For Sexual Harassment

The Associated Press reports: A Republican gubernatorial candidate in Alaska faces accusations he sexually harassed a former assistant while he was a borough mayor. The lawsuit filed Friday accuses Charlie Pierce of “constant unwanted physical touching, sexual remarks, and sexual advances.” In the lawsuit, she claims Pierce touched her breast, made sexual remarks, falsely imprisoned her in his private office, …

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WaPo: “Election Chaos” Is Already Underway In Nevada

The Washington Post reports: If the midterm elections degenerate into chaos in a couple of weeks — a very real possibility — then Nevada is poised to lead the way. Indeed, the chaos here has already begun. The election supervisors in 10 of the state’s 17 counties have already quit, been forced out or announced their departures. Lower-level election workers …

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