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People need to say her name: Beatrice Keul. Don't forget her when you vote this year. #VoteBlue #VoteBlueToSaveAmerica #BlueWave #BlueWave2026 #BlueTsunami #uspol #uspoli

🚨🚨🚨New RAPE Accusation Against Donald Trump Former beauty pageant contestant Beatrice Keul previously said Trump tried to force himself on her but she rebuffed him. https://www.huffpost.com/entry/beatrice-keul-donald-trump-rape-allegation_n_6adb428ce4b04787f03a7bdc

Latest endorsements for Annie Andrews in the South Carolina Senate race: former GOP governor David Beasley and former Democratic governor Jim Hodges⬇️

This is what putting South Carolina first looks like. I’m honored to have the support of two former governors — Republican David Beasley and Democrat Jim Hodges. We may not agree on everything, but we share a belief that matters most: S.C. deserves leaders who will always put its people first.

So @nytimes.com why isn't this front page news? "Five Women Accuse Trump of Rape or Sexual Assault in Epstein’s Company or Presence; Others Describe Apparent Attempts by Epstein or Maxwell to Traffic Them to Trump" @nytpitchbot.bsky.social mocks your headlines but your omissions are worse. #uspoli

🚨BREAKING: Judiciary Democrats’ report details mounting evidence linking Trump to Epstein’s criminal activities and DOJ’s cover-up; specific accounts involving 11 women provide more evidence of potential sex crimes. democrats-judiciary.house.gov/media-center...

NEW: "Donald Trump was an active participant in Jeffrey Epstein’s sexual abuse of young women during the mid-to-late 1990s," per new House Judiciary Dem report. Report has new allegation that Trump raped a 24-year-old and then promised the victim a visa & NYU admission, demanding she stay quiet.

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Obrigado, povo brasileiro! 📸 Ricardo Stuckert

We've pulled new FEC reports (covering the first two weeks of October) for all House & Senate candidates. Dems continue to crush: Raised: D: $123 million R: $39 million Spent: D: $193 million R: $130 million Cash: D: $466 million R: $300 million See both tabs of the linked spreadsheet.

Who paid for Vivek Ramaswamy's pro-pedophile ad campaign? Here they are

i am on a plane sitting next to a lady who looks 40ish and has informed me that this is her first time flying she is visibly excited. she asked the flight attendant how much a soda costs and was happy to learn that drinks are free on airplanes. she's taking lots of pictures. i love this for her

"It’s time to elect Keisha Lance Bottoms our next governor," Sen. Jon Ossoff declares in a new ad for her campaign to lead Georgia. Polls show a tight race between Bottoms and Republican Rick Jackson, a billionaire who has outspent her 4 to 1 on the air.

With this update, a majority of House seats (220 total) are rated Lean D or better by the Cook Political Report. @cookpolitical.com is admitting that Dems winning the House is a near certainty. Hard to see a path for Trump to maintain full control of DC after these midterms. #VoteBlue #BlueWave2026

It's notable that, for all the talk of how the Minnesota Senate race is "tightening," there's been no serious outside spending from either party there even as both sides converge on *Mississippi*.

Look who’s cashing in. Abbott collected $9 MILL from donors tied to the data center industry since July 2025. That’s 13% of his campaign contributions. While publicly calling for tougher regulations on the industry bankrolling his campaign. Give me a freakin break. #RepublicansLoveDataCenters

Me, two weeks from now, waking up the day after a massive Blue Wave hits American politics... #VoteBlue #BlueTsunami #BlueWave2026

The attack ad against Acton is another in a long list of right-wing gotchas that have blown up in their face -- Eric Schmitt's attack on Jack Smith, the conspiracy that Talarico was in rehab, Tommy's heckling of El-Sayed, etc etc. Their echo chambers keep convincing them to do incredibly dumb shit

The Democrats' top Senate super PAC is spending in *Mississippi*: The AP reports Senate Majority PAC is spending $1.2 million to help Scott Colom against GOP incumbent Cindy Hyde-Smith. Colom would be the state's first Black senator since Reconstruction.

NEW AD: “Ken Paxton says I don't have his experience — and he's right. I’ve never been indicted for fraud. I’ve never been reported to the FBI for bribery. I’ve never been impeached by my own party. And I’ve never given a sweetheart deal to a pedophile.”

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Russia is funding Iran Trump is paying Russia for diesel Trump is therefore helping to fund Iran's war against America

Hearing from my sources that this "over the top" tweet from Jan Crawford is being discussed internally at CBS. At the same time, as those same sources noted, "Jan is protected by Bari" and has been a very vocal acolyte of Weiss. "She just can't help herself," one network insider said.

Vote! Vote! Vote! #GoVote #VoteBlue End this fascist disaster as soon as possible. Get your country back! Get your dignity as a country back!

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This is Tommy. Tommy had a question about my allegiances. Listen to the end to hear about his.

🚨🚨🚨 Meta just took down the No Kings instagram page with 3000 events happening around the country today

"When all Americans are treated as equal, no matter who they are or whom they love, we are all more free." - Barack Obama If LGBTQ+ rights matter to you, register to vote. 🗳 There's so much more to do. 🌈💙 #Pride #Voterizer #EqualityWinsOverHate social.fieldteam6.org/s/CVfaFDQL

This was very likely the only plausible option available to Democrats: absorb the massive spending, pray you survive, then whale on them with whatever you have left at the end. Seeing as the polls haven't gotten worse for Ds (if anything, they keep getting better), it seems like this is working.

Q: Can you name a time when you voted against Trump and it changed the outcome? SUSAN COLLINS: At one point, I had organized people to vote against Sec. Hegseth. At the very last minute one of our Republicans changed his mind. Otherwise he would've been defeated. Q: So it didn't change the outcome

I showed up to the Governor’s Mansion this morning, ready to debate. Greg Abbott was a no-show. If Greg Abbott isn’t man enough to face me and defend his record, he doesn’t deserve to be governor of Texas.

HAYES: “Trump calling Abdul a jihadist, Vance calling Talarico gay...” @ossoff.bsky.social : “Obviously it’s bigoted & offensive, but also politically weak. 40% of 🇺🇸 go without food/health care to afford gas, and they're throwing around schoolyard insults…” (From @acyn.bsky.social )

This was such a great answer from Abdul El-Sayed about his previous criticisms of President Obama.

As some have pointed out, Johan Sebastián Guerrero's full name was Johan Sebastián Durán Guerrero, so Collins wasn't wrong here. However, she did badly flub his name during her first debate with Jackson.

SUSAN COLLINS: My heart goes out to the family of the man who was shot in Biddeford. My Duran Guerrero TROY JACKSON: Well the man's name was Johan Sebastián Guerrero. That was his name.

She done lost her damn mind.

The @housemajoritypac.bsky.social just announced almost three dozen new ads, and it's going up in four districts for the first time: #AZ02, #KY06, #MT01 & #OH01. All but the last are GOP-held districts, and all three went for Trump by double digits.