Republicans

The Meidas Touch reports: Since the abortion ballot initiative was first announced (Amendment 4), Ron DeSantis has been on a crusade to put the thumb on the scale to defeat it. The problem is that he continues to use the power of the state to do it. Now, DeSantis has taking his fascistic leanings to the next level. The Florida …

“Now, you heard the shots. You saw the blood. We all feared the worst. But you knew everything would be okay when President Trump raised his fists high in the air and shouted, ‘fight, fight!’ Now, I believe, as sure as I’m standing here today, that what happened was a true miracle. “And on that day, America felt the truth …

The New York Times reports: Elon Musk, the billionaire head of Tesla and SpaceX, strode onto the stage to cheers at Donald J. Trump’s rally on Saturday night, lifted his arms above his head and jumped into the air — twice — exposing his navel as his shirt rode up. ” As you can see, I’m not just MAGA, I’m …

The Daily Beast reports: Royce White, the 2024 Republican nominee for Senate in Minnesota, wrote in a social media post two years ago that “the bad guys won in WWII.” White’s controversial opinion on World War II, first noted by Heartland Signal, is still up. A former NBA player who whined last year that “women have become too mouthy,” White …

The New York Times reports: One sweltering morning in Phoenix, four workers from a Latino nonprofit stood with clipboards outside a motor-vehicle office to do the grunt work of democracy: persuading reluctant Americans to register to vote. While most people took a voter application or moved on, Vlad Stepanov, a conservative video blogger, stopped when he saw the canvassers. To …

The Advocate reports: Lauren Boebert is refunding over $67,000 in donations after Italian Olympic boxer Angela Carini rejected her anti-transgender fundraising efforts. The right-wing representative launched the campaign on GiveSendGo following Carini’s loss to Algerian boxer Imane Khelif, who conservatives were falsely claiming is a transgender woman. Boebert aimed to raise $196,000, equal to Italy’s gold medal prize money, to …

CBS News reports: The political class barely shrugged in August when Corey Lewandowski announced he was back at Trump’s side. But when Trashelle Odom learned that Lewandowski had joined Trump’s 2024 presidential campaign as a senior adviser, it was a gut punch. That’s because a little over three years ago, in 2021, Odom, then the wife of a wealthy Republican …

Florida Politics reports: Did striking dock workers get back to work because they knew Ron DeSantis wouldn’t back down from their demands? The Governor isn’t saying no, telling a friendly radio show host that he used his “megaphone” to effectuate desired results when it came to the recent work stoppage from the International Longshoremen’s Association. “I knew we would be …

The Guardian reports: A Marco Rubio-linked thinktank stoking fears about Haitian migrants in Pennsylvania has also produced a sequence of videos in recent months that promote conspiracy theories about LGBTQ+ people, human rights organizations and even the corporate consultancy McKinsey & Company. The editor hired to produce those videos also produces for the media organization founded by Mike Lindell. They …

The New York Times reports: He says he is skeptical that the F.B.I. will “get to the bottom” of the first attempted assassination against Mr. Trump — and even if they do, he declares, “I don’t believe that they would give us the truth.” He has repeatedly raised the possibility that the shooter who tried to assassinate Mr. Trump in …

NC Newsline reports: Trump visited North Carolina on Friday evening, taking questions from supporters in Fayetteville’s Crown Center Arena during his first visit since Hurricane Helene devastated the western part of the state. Trump said he believed the federal response to the storm had been “rotten” and “terrible.” “They are doing — this is Katrina — the worst job on …

Boise Public Radio reports: A bipartisan forum in a small Latah County community took a turn when Republican Senate incumbent Dan Foreman stormed out of the event, following a racist outburst directed at a Native American candidate. When asked if discrimination existed in Idaho, conservative Sen. Dan Foreman said no. In a statement released Wednesday, Democratic candidate for House Seat …

The Daily Mail reports: A Texas baker says she’s gotten death threats after selling a batch of cookies with vice presidential candidate Tim Walz’s face on them. Haley Popp put the limited run treats for sale at her bakery The Hive in Flower Mound, which has been in operation since 2018. She wrote on Instagram: “We only have a few …

CNN reports: Tim Sheehy stumped behind closed doors earlier this week here with a crowd of supporters eager to make him the GOP’s Senate majority maker. But the 38-year-old political novice was also eager not to be seen outside those doors. Sheehy and his campaign have gone to extreme lengths to avoid press scrutiny as he seeks to ride former …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) weighed in on the deadly hurricane which wreaked havoc in her state of Georgia and across the southern United States on Thursday, suggesting that the hurricane had been controlled. After the Hurricane Helene death toll rose to over 200, Greene wrote in a social media post, “Yes they can control the weather. It’s …

From the York Dispatch editorial board: At the risk of stating the obvious, South Western’s elected school board is making some strange decisions. For the last two years, they’ve fixated on which bathrooms LGBTQ+ kids use. After a low-turnout school board election in which several far-right members joined their ranks, they hired a Christian law firm, decided to begin banning …

Austin’s NBC affiliate reports: On Thursday, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced he had filed a lawsuit against the social media company TikTok. The lawsuit claimed the platform was operating “in a manner that puts the online safety and privacy of Texas children at risk and violates the Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment (SCOPE) Act.” Paxton’s lawsuit seeks civil …

Florida Politics reports: Florida’s Governor is launching a potential end-run around a work stoppage by the International Longshoremen’s Association, saying cargo ships bringing imports that aren’t being offloaded can bring their goods to Florida. “There are ships that have nothing to do with these negotiations. They may need a place to be able to come and we just want to …

NBC News reports: Republican Sen. Rick Scott is set to place roughly $10 million in new TV ads in the homestretch of a Florida Senate race that he is widely seen as leading but that Democrats have continued to make noise in. The Scott TV buy, first shared with NBC News, will focus mostly on the Tampa, Orlando and Miami …

The New York Times reports: Over the past 15 years, North Carolina lawmakers have rejected limits on construction on steep slopes, which might have reduced the number of homes lost to landslides; blocked a rule requiring homes to be elevated above the height of an expected flood; weakened protections for wetlands, increasing the risk of dangerous storm water runoff; and …