Top Democrats are laying out the stakes of a national congressional redistricting fight, after Texas obeyed Donald Trump’s order to adopt a new, wildly gerrymandered congressional map in advance of the 2026 midterm elections. On a conference call organized by party chair Ken Martin, Democratic leaders justified their plan to …
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Since Donald Trump’s Republican Party took full control of the U.S. government 153 days ago, tens of thousands of civil servants have lost their jobs. Whole agencies have been hollowed out, years of scientific research have been flushed down the drain. Global confidence in the U.S. dollar has cratered. Masked …
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It’s been a tough quarter for Elon Musk. Not only has Tesla stock dropped 35 percent since President Donald Trump’s inauguration — hacking more than $100 billion off Musk’s personal net worth — today he saw another $20 million go down the drain as the Wisconsin Supreme Court seat he …
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Elon Musk is posting through it. Since polls closed in Wisconsin on Tuesday night, he’s posted about genetically-engineered cat girls, humanoid robots, and Tesla sales, along with multiple AI-generated images of himself and CIA Director John Ratliff. He has not posted at all about the person he spent the last …
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Four candidates have declared their intention to compete for chair of the Democratic National Committee, but as the race heats up, an aggressively polite, exceedingly Midwestern cold war has broken out between factions backing the two state party chairs in the race: Ben Wikler of Wisconsin and Ken Martin of …
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