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"The rejection rate is at about 3% statewide, and two or three times as high as in some larger counties. “Potentially thousands of votes could be spoiled by this new guidance... This is a huge deal for North Carolina.” www.nytimes.com/2026/10/21/u...

Trump claimed he heard Obama's event in Michigan today was empty. Meanwhile, the venue was packed, lines stretched outside, and Obama even addressed an overflow room because everyone couldn't fit inside. Mercado Media

U.S. citizen Ricardo Gonzalez was brutally detained by ICE in Long Beach while he yelled for help and said his arm was broken. This is a pattern of abuse and violence from ICE. No one is safe and our communities are being terrorized. We need ICE out.

OBAMA: When I was president, all these Republicans are all deficits, deficits, debt, debt. You got to do something about it. And now—$40 trillion—Crickets. Somehow deficits only matter when a Democratic president is in office

Americans have now spent $142 billion more on gasoline and diesel since March 1, enough to buy 361,000 homes at the September median price, enough to house over 900,000 people, due to the US war on Iran and other factors like limited output from Russia

Today is the first day of early voting in New Jersey. That’s why I’m taking action to ensure our elections remain free from federal interference. 

In a democracy, voters choose their leaders, not the other way around.

We are making the oil oligarchs rich. We are making Trump and his cronies rich. It is literally at our expense every day. There’s no trickling down happening. And Trump is bragging about it knowing nobody in the Republican Party will stand up to him and say enough.

OBAMA: The big trade war he's starting now is with that well-known evil empire: Canada. These are the people who gave us maple syrup and Martin Short.

Thread 🧵: the fraudulent transgender mailers have a connection back to Dallas, Texas, where a local Republican megadonor used a similar playbook years ago when he funded a fake BLM group to send letters to wealthy white parents that were designed to discredit the BLM movement.

I don’t think the young people (ie if you’re under 25 you don’t really remember Obama) realize just how electric a speaker he is

Had so much fun meeting Iowans and celebrating America's 250th at America's Harvest Festival in Des Moines!

I just hope Natalie Harp shows Trump that Obama speech. His Truth Social account will tell us if he saw it soon enough.

Trump must be punished for his consistent pattern of lying about elections. The impunity has to end. www.nytimes.com/2026/10/24/u...

Do yourself a favor and watch a bunch of these Obama clips from his rally today in Ohio. He is on fire, just the energy we need.

It was good to be back in Michigan to support @jocelynbenson.bsky.social as your next Governor and @abdulelsayed.bsky.social as your next U.S. Senator! They are working to change the lives of Michiganders for the better. Make sure to vote early or on Election Day at MichiganDems.com/Vote.

Freshly back from Ukraine, historian @timothysnyder.bsky.social joins Bill Kristol and Tom Joscelyn to explain why Russia is losing on the battlefield, and why that makes Donald Trump Vladimir Putin’s best hope. Watch the conversation on the latest episode of It's Happening Here!

The dumbest takes are MAGA trying to claim Obama’s line about Trump making the WH look like a Cheesecake Factory is somehow elitist because CF fans will be offended that someone doesn’t want the WH to look like a chain restaurant. Even their culture war BS is lame this cycle.

What President Trump has seen as an American–Iranian war is becoming connected with the Yemeni civil war, the Horn of Africa, the Nile dispute, and the security of the Red Sea. Wars grow. ICYMI @markhertling.bsky.social:

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Melania taking credit for something the Pope did? I’m shocked.

The party continues for the Ag Secretary while farmers go bankrupt.

Vivek just released a new ad with Acton’s estranged mother that cut out the part where she claimed Acton lied about living in a tent after proof came out that she did live in a tent, so basically the bitter old hag is now just saying Acton lied at 12 about being sexually abused.

El-Sayed spoke with Jonathan Cohn about his past criticism of Obama and what he learned from the former president. Check out the full interview:

@citizencohn.bsky.social reacts to Obama rallying with El-Sayed despite his past criticism: "This was Obama saying, 'Look, we may have some disagreements sometimes over the means to the end, but…we share the same values, and at the end of the day, we are trying to get to the same place.'"

California, Alaska, and more. Here’s what you need to know to understand Trump’s last-ditch efforts to avoid losing. joycevance.substack.com/p/trumps-las...

🚨One county can’t overturn an election, but it can help Trump allies try to rig the midterms. And rogue counties are just one of five threats. Democracy Docket’s free Deep Dive series breaks down each one in your inbox. Know what’s coming: https://demdock.com/4yFOygp

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Thank goodness, Google search hasn’t gone totally to shit. I found the image and the story. Mama didn’t think so highly of you. Damn did she nail it. 💯

Can you feel the huge #BlueWaveIn10Days coming to wash away the filthy corruption and usher in affordability for struggling American families? If we all vote, we win! Info about early voting is in the reply below. Pls click, share, and make your voting plan!

🚨BREAKING: Motions panel for the CA Ninth Circuit appeal Bennett (Trump), Bumatay (Trump), Sanchez (Biden) has scheduled oral argument tomorrow at 1 pm PT. Follow Democracy Docket for breaking news. www.democracydocket.com

Thus far, I've donated and written postcards. Today I'm making a list for my final round of donations, & encourage everyone to do the same. Any amount is better than nothing!

NEW: Blanche claims DOJ's Alaska lawsuit doesn't seek to block certification of the state's election results. The actual complaint says it does. His attempt to reframe the lawsuit is a bid to push back against how it's been correctly interpreted: a dangerous effort to subvert the midterms.

Elon Musk has now issued his fourth explanation for his actions in throttling StarLink and StarShield. Note that each of his explanations is inconsistent with its predecessor. And this one focuses on Ukraine supposedly violating its terms of service. If it did, that's an easily ascertainable fact.

Trump’s other targets were at least battle-seasoned veterans. Hutchinson was a young woman who showed enormous bravery. Besides which—the case will fail. trib.al/tCetV22

“He’s got the White House looking like Saddam Hussein opened up a Cheesecake Factory” — Obama

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Early voting is how stop Trump’s election sabotage, so we need to continue pushing for bigger and bigger numbers. Use this No Kings tool to make a plan to vote early and share it widely to encourage your friends and family to do the same: www.nokings.org/vote-plan?SQ...

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Marc Elias has spent the past decade fighting Trump and MAGA — and he’s not stopping any time soon. “We need to show that we are going to have free and fair elections, that there will be consequences for people who are trying to deny the right to vote.” Follow us to stay in the fight.

I refuse to engage in any waffle vs pancake discourse that implicitly or explicitly marginalizes crêpes.

Billy. 💙

OZON in Omsk, Russia. That warehouse can be written off. #Russia

“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” ~Frederick Douglass, 1857. Image: Library of Congress.

What if Trump's plan is to wait until after the midterms to bomb Iran again, send gas prices soaring, and blame Democrats for the mess he created? @jvl.bsky.social lays out his theory for @crampell.bsky.social.

Mississippi, we are 🔟 days away from Election Day! Make your plan to vote on November 3rd at ScottColom.com/vote today. #MississippiMatters

Trump and Todd Blanche are far more sympathetic to Epstein and Maxwell than to the survivors of their abuse. And now Vivek — followed byTrump and Vance — embraces the enabler of abuse and attacks the survivor. MAGA: Making Abuse Great Again.

Scoop: White House lawyers are weighing preemptive mass pardons for junior staff, sources says Under discussion: Pardoning everyone involved in deportation, war, or trade policy www.washingtonsun.com/whitehouse/w...

Illinois is truly in the #MiddleOfEverything. And we want visitors from around the globe to come from near and far to see our state. With record tourism growth year after year under my administration, we won't let up now.