Sarah Rosier of Ballotpedia.com can’t remember a more active midterm election than today’s. Her organization, which calls itself the “digital encyclopedia of American politics,” has been compiling election data since 2007 and has never seen more interest. “It’s the most excitement we’ve had,” says Rosier. “In terms of page visitors, …
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Last Thursday, President Trump tweeted a racist campaign ad and pinned it to the top of his Twitter profile. Aimed at drumming up fear over the migrant caravan, the spot features a Mexican man named Luis Bracamontes bragging about how he murdered two police officers, as well as imagery of …
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Next week, 27-year-old Safiya Wazir could become the first former refugee to hold public office in New Hampshire. In September, she defeated four-term State Rep. Dick Patten in the primary in Ward 8, an area in Concord known as the Heights. Although her race was small-scale — she received 329 …
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When President Trump spoke in front of the UN General Assembly late last month, he could barely get through a paragraph before the congregation of world leaders started mocking at him.“In less than two years my administration has accomplished more than almost any administration in the history of our country,” …
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A bipartisan group of lawmakers fear there are top White House officials actively working to undermine President Trump’s own marijuana policy — a cannabis deep state, of sorts.On the campaign trail back in 2016, Trump advocated allowing each state to craft their own pot policies, and he’s reiterated as much …
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On Election Day 2016, Rachel Crooks went to bed without watching the results. A friend texted her in the middle of the night. “It was something ambiguous, maybe just the word ‘sigh,’ ” Crooks says. “I knew what it meant, but I didn’t want to believe it.” Weeks earlier, Crooks had …
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President Trump’s carousel of preoccupations has once again spun back around to the border wall. This time, he’s going global. On Tuesday, Spanish Foreign Minister Josep Borrell claimed that Trump suggested building a wall across the 3,000-mile-long Sahara Desert to prevent African migrants from making their way into Europe.“You need …
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It may no longer be front-page news, but the Trump administration is still locking kids in cages. Nearly 500 of them, according to court papers filed late last week. Twenty-two are younger than five years old. The deadline to return these children to their families passed more than a month …
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WASHINGTON —Don McGahn, the Trump White House’s top lawyer and unassuming architect of the president’s mission to dismantle huge swaths of federal government, is planning to quit this fall. President Trump announced the news Wednesday morning in a tweet, saying McGahn would leave “shortly after the confirmation (hopefully) of Judge …
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If the Trump presidency’s festering pile of scandals, corruption and human rights abuses has even a glimmer of a silver lining,it’s that his surprise victory has inspired a wealth of people outside of the political mainstream to run for office. Nevada brothel owner Dennis Hof and Glenn Jacobs, also known …
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