COMING TONIGHT: My first set of ratings for this year's state legislative elections in Montana!
Montana Dems were able to break the Republican supermajority in 2024, can they hold on and keep the Republicans from getting total control in Helena?
"the party told you to deny the evidence of your eyes and ears. it was their final, most essential command." --orwell, 1984
as someone who monitors right wing media, its under discussed right now but i can tell you conservatives are absolutely terrified of the way talarico is using religious messaging against them
Over 900 requests already for Pulido to perform
Old enough to remember that a ~$485B _annual_ deficit run under President Obama in FY2014 had Republicans in a full, the-sky-is-falling lather. Here in the present we're set to borrow that much in 10 weeks?!
Oregon's legislature passed a bill requiring cities to fund affordability mandates for new buildings or scrap them.
Portland's unfunded version had driven builders to cap projects at 19 homes to dodge the mandate.
www.sightline.org/2026/03/05/o...
Connect the dots
Republicans filibustered with a barrage of nearly 60 amendments, while Democratic lawmakers proposed nearly two dozen of their own, further extending the clock on one of the longest debates on a single bill in recent memory.
via @washingtonstatestandard.com
1. Horrifying ruling out of the 4th Circuit.
An all-Republican 4th Circuit panel has just ruled that states can compel trans adults to "appreciate their sex" by enacting care bans.
It even directly says that trans adult care bans are legal in the ruling.
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Après la place Felix Eboué, le jardin de N'Djamena et Anne Sylvestre, nous inaugurions ce matin, la place du Colonel Fabien transformée !
Avec toujours plus de place pour les piétons, les cyclistes et la nature, Paris s'est transformée.
One thing is absolutely clear right now, in the early in-person vote so far, Republicans are ahead. A lot of Western, Republican-dominated localities have more votes so far than they did on the same day equivalent in 2025. There aren't any Spanberger-won localities running ahead
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Something I want to put on everyone’s radar, ESPECIALLY if you live in Virginia.
Data suggests that *Republicans* are out early-voting Democrats in the Virginia redistricting referendum.
When it comes to Virginia, Chaz knows his stuff.
DO NOT SLEEP ON THIS ELECTION, VIRGINIA DEMS!!!
Cities either move forward or fall behind. Transforming empty lots into walkable, mixed-use neighborhoods gives people and businesses exactly what they need to thrive. Build places where people actually want to live.
Sen. Cornyn says his defense of the filibuster was for “relatively normal times compared to where we are now.”
Asked if he’s trying to get President Trump’s endorsement, he responded: “hopefully the president likes what he sees. But this has really been sort of an evolution in my own thinking”
New: The groups Trump made the biggest inroads with in 2024 are the ones most likely to disapprove of how he's doing as POTUS. That includes Black, Latino, working class, and young voters.
So much for the new multi-racial, working-class Republican Party?
www.gelliottmorris.com/p/trump-borr...
Drake’s campaign could use a few more people volunteering on Election Day. The last chance to reach voters
I’ll be out there for two shifts! Sign up: www.mobilize.us/drakefor10/e...
This sounds like a senator who knows he’s doomed in the primary runoff without Trump’s endorsement.
Cornyn was McConnell’s number 2 for years & narrowly lost the race to succeed him as GOP leader. Him actually wanting to give future Dems the power to pass bills with simple majorities seems dubious
Texas Republicma primary (Texas Public Opinion)
Paxton: 49%
Cornyn: 41%
Trump Endorses Paxton:
Paxton: 58%
Cornyn: 32%
Trump Endorses Cornyn:
Paxton: 44%
Cornyn: 43%
2026 Generic ballot (Marist poll)
Democratic 53%
Republican 44%
maristpoll.marist.edu/polls/electi...
Emerson has a GOP primary poll in South Dakota but the most interesting is Trump’s approval is only 55/44
Trump got 63%(Harris got 34%) in 2024. Obviously a lot are still going to vote R but gives a peak inside how deep red states are feeling
emersoncollegepolling.com/south-dakota...
As I said before: Ken Paxton gets what he wants either way:
Either he gets to oversee the most dramatic purge of women's voting rights since quite literally when the Taliban took back Kabul, or he stalls off Trump long enough to win a Senate primary and run on abolishing the filibuster.
icymi last night, Democrats' third legislative flip this year (and second over eight days):
Breaking News: The U.S. was responsible for a missile strike on an Iranian elementary school, an ongoing military investigation found. The inquiry said the strike — which Iranian officials said killed at least 175 people, most of them children — was the result of a targeting mistake.
shoplifting is bad. cheating on your taxes is bad. smoking on the train is bad. not picking up your dog’s poop is bad.
we live in a society, act like it!
“I am so angry that I am going to help Trump minimize the political consequences of his war!”
slopulism will kill the Democratic Party. no tax on tips, Cory booker’s plan to get rid of taxes on half the country. it’s all slopulist nonsense
Jesus. Incredibly cruel.
No Democratic representative has any business voting for any part of this. You will not impress the people you're trying to impress, and you're really going to shit the bed with your base.
Talarico is out there getting earned media from the NRSC
The cost of this war is not going to be felt hardest or most by the bank accounts of Westerners.
the most Hispanic precincts in GA-14 bolted left in the special, goddamn
