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Repeated assassination attempts reflect an obsession with vigilante violence and delusional beliefs that killing a president would solve political problems.
You literally are taking Memphis, that is a city with Black voters, and you split it in three, stretching three thousand miles, Allison said. Whose the current Democrat congressman, or is it a Black congressman? Jennings asked. Allison who worked in the Obama-Biden Administration and later served as the National Coalitions Director for the Biden-Harris campaign in 2020 responded, just because Black people are allowed to like people that don't look like them.
Trump decided shortly after taking office last year that he wanted to play an active role in primaries, says a person familiar with his thinking. He particularly wanted to endorse vulnerable incumbents early on, figuring the longer he waited, the more it would expose them to damaging primary challenges. But there was a risk: By endorsing candidates just months into his term, Trump gave up a key source of leverage over members whose support he needed to pass critical legislation.
The über-rich have enjoyed a remarkable degree of sway in Donald Trump's Washington-but they may now be facing a backlash. The Washington Roundtable traces the signs of invigorated "pitchfork politics," such as Zohran Mamdani's pied-à-terre tax in New York, a wealth tax on the ballot in California, and recent protests against the Amazon founder Jeff Bezos's involvement in the Met Gala -and what these efforts reveal about the cultural and political limits of oligarchy.
"It has been baked in that the states are largely in charge of the election process, and that the federal government can set or override rules for that process if they wish, but it's very specific that that has to be done through Congress and not through lone executive action," said Justin Levitt, a constitutional and law of democracy scholar at Loyola Law School who was a non-partisan policy adviser for Democracy and Voting Rights during the Biden White House.
When you have top podcasters saying Jewish Americans are disloyal, saying Trump is controlled by Jews, saying Jews need to self deport to Israel, Gen Z glorifying Hitler and doing Seig Hiels all over Tik Tok, @TuckerCarlson infiltrating movements to say the people who killed Jesus killed Charlie Kirk at Charlie's memorial, and acceptance of videos portraying Jews as cockroaches,
It was a blue wave across America on Election Day. The Late Show, Late Night, The Daily Show, and The Tonight Show celebrated democratic socialist Zohran Mamdani's triumph over the Trump-endorsed Andrew Cuomo in the New York City mayoral race in addition to Virginia governor-elect Abigail Spanberger and New Jersey governor-elect Mikie Sherrill. On the back of President Donald Trump declaring war on late night, Jordan Klepper, Stephen Colbert, Seth Meyers, Jimmy Kimmel, and even Jimmy Fallon took the opportunity to call Trump a loser, celebrate Mamdani's new policies, and, for the first time in a while, feel "good."
But first, let's look at the Senate vote today on bipartisan legislation to stop an unauthorized war against Venezuela. The proposals from Democrats Tim Kaine and Adam Schiff along with independently minded Republican senator Rand Paul would block the use of the US armed forces to engage in hostilities within or against Venezuela, unless that action has been authorized by Congress.
It's not so much that Democrats have been winning; it's by how much they have been winning. For example, in a special election for a Virginia Congressional seat, the winner, James Walkinshaw, won by a 50-point margin. By comparison, Kamala Harris carried the same district by 34 points. Similarly, last April in two special Congressional elections in Florida, the Democratic candidates overperformed Harris by 16 and 23 points (but not enough to win the open seats).
Microsoft has observed two named Chinese nation-state actors, Linen Typhoon and Violet Typhoon, exploiting vulnerabilities targeting internet-facing SharePoint servers. Additionally, the actor Storm-2603 has also been exploiting these vulnerabilities.