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i am inviting anyone from a legacy media organization to explain to me why the house judiciary dems report on trump’s epstein’s ties and multiple allegations of rape isn’t worthy of extensively reporting on. i’m serious. i want to understand.

Just a casual reminder that Germans who “didn’t bother to vote” in 1932 didn’t get a chance again until 1946, after Hitler’s death. — There’s a lesson there.

NEW: My midterms cheat sheet features 670+ races—up and down the ballot, & why they matter. Now it's in PDF, printable form! Save it, print it, give it to your kids to color the Senate map, & use it your worksheet on election night. Find it here: boltsmag.org/whats-on-the...

Marco Rubio, harboring a fugitive

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Reuters: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters.

TikTok investor Jeff Yass avoided paying $1 billion in taxes while largely escaping public scrutiny. He then poured that money into campaigns to cut taxes and support election deniers. (Published 2022)

It’ll be years from now when we will find out all that DJT agreed to in Anchorage.

NYT: Trump is exploring lifting sanctions on the Russia’s flagship government investment fund, one of the Kremlin’s most powerful tools of international influence, as part of an effort to “improve U.S.-Russia relations and help end the war.” My take: If it says considers, it means it’s done.

Over 60% of data center capacity is being built in red states. Excluding Virginia, the number is 92%.

🚨BREAKING: Democrats asked a federal judge Monday night for a restraining order and temporary injunction to halt President Donald Trump and his administration from interfering in the upcoming midterms. www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/...

UPDATE: Trump’s DOJ is fighting to send armed agents back to the homes of naturalized citizens to ask about their voter eligibility. This comes after a lower court blocked the armed visits in 9 states.

It's tempting to see Trump's Alaskan adventure as more electoral skullduggery. But it's a dangerous escalation of his attacks on democracy. He's not trying to suppress votes, he's trying to steal votes that have already been cast. My latest in @thenation.com www.thenation.com/article/poli...

Two former Governors of South Carolina - one from each party - have endorsed Democrat Annie Andrews who is running against Sen. Darline Graham R-SC

“The Department of Justice is putting its formidable thumb on next week’s elections in a way that seems clearly intended to call into question the legitimacy of any result that is especially unfavorable to Republicans—before those results have even come in.” Me on DOJ’s California and Alaska suits:

Last week, New Mexico won a $25 billion judgment against Meta for willfully misleading users about its data sharing policies. Consumers should resist the convenience Muse offers and decline to entrust Meta with even more sensitive data, writes Mariana Olaizola Rosenblat.

In his acceptance speech, Lula says he will work to regulate digital platforms in Brazil. “Digital crimes must be dealt with like real-life crimes.” This comes after Meta directly interfered with the Brazilian elections, favouring Flávio Bolsonaro.

The Writers Guild on Musk blocking releasee of the documentary "Musk": "A small handful of billionaires now own virtually every major media company, news outlet, and social media platform and are demonstrating how this unchecked concentration over our news and media threatens democratic discourse."

North Carolina voters can check their ballot status using the state’s BallotTrax portal to see if a ballot has been rejected and follow up to ensure their vote is counted 👇

In Michigan, Musk paid for calls targeting Muslims that painted Democrats as pro-Israel, and also paid for calls targeting Jews that painted Democrats as pro-Hamas.

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.

The U.S. Postal Service has reduced mail pickup at some local facilities, which could affect when your ballot is postmarked. To find out whether your ZIP code is affected, use our lookup tool: www.propublica.org/article/mail...

Three days after the August primary, election workers in one Washington county went to check for late mail-in ballots. They expected no more than a few dozen. Instead, there were more than 500 — each a vote that wouldn’t count.

Ukraine says satellite access still restricted despite Trump saying otherwise
The president said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk lifted restrictions on Ukraine’s access to Starshield, but Ukrainian soldiers said the service was still disrupted Friday. wapo.st/3UeuOlS Gift article

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Jackson is trying to pretend he isn’t a Trump supporter. Make sure everyone you know understands this is a lie.

Trump just said this about his DOJ's Alaska lawsuit: "I'm the one that said do it."

The allegations are so numerous and so specific, and the denials so broad, that they are startling to read. If even a fraction of the allegations have a significant factual basis, this will be a scandal for the ages.

In 2020, Jared Kushner was senior advisor to the president of the United States, a full-time employee of the United States government, and was subject to numerous disclosure requirements and ethical restrictions under the Ethics in Government Act of 1978.

Wow. This is a fantastic ad.

If you’re worried about the elections, do TODAY: 1. Vote for pro-democracy candidates. 2. Get a friend, family-member, or neighbor to vote for pro-democracy candidates. 3. Sign up for the Election Protection Corps. It’s THE way to get notified where we need you when if there are shenanigans.

NEW: Nearly 200 people granted pardons or other clemency by President Trump for Jan. 6 riot prosecutions are suing so far for millions in US payouts. More than a quarter were convicted of assaulting or interfering with police, court records show. Deep dive: buff.ly/keDq09P

“Departures from these practices should never be countenanced because they risk allowing prosecutors to impact national elections.” -Todd Blanche on DOJ’s 60-day rule, September 2024

Here's another story hang on Rubio when he tries to run for president.

Current and former State Department staff claim that the department is trying to push out its most senior foreign staff officers who stand in the way of Trump's agenda and replace them with those it views as more politically loyal.

SCOOP: While Trump was crisscrossing the USA last week trying to help the GOP stave off a midterm washout, two of his top political advisers were in Republika Srpska advising its pro-Russian government on election issues. James Blair & Chris LaCivita were paid hundreds of thousands of dollars each.

My latest on what European investigators are uncovering about Russia’s attacks across Europe. Meanwhile, the traitor in chief continues to reward war criminal Putin and give Russia a green light to escalate.

The Arlington, Virginia County Board has sued the Trump administration to prohibit it from authorizing armed federal agents to be present at polling places.

Ukraine was winning the war, so Trump kneecapped Ukraine to help Russia. I wish it weren’t that simple, but it is. Our president is in bed with our enemies.

Your all-too-regular reminder that Republicans in Congress think this is just fine.

NEW: Last night, a federal judge upheld North Carolina's new restrictive measures for absentee ballots. However, ten years prior, that same judge upheld a strict voter-ID law that an appeals court later found targeted Black voters "with almost surgical precision." https://demdock.com/4shBITR

“I told you once that I was searching for the nature of evil. I think I’ve come close to defining it: a lack of empathy.... Evil, I think, is the absence of empathy.” — Dr. Gustave Gilbert, U.S. Military Chief Psychologist in the Nuremberg Trials, Nuremberg Diary

"A world in which the White House is allied to the Kremlin was, until now, the stuff of paranoid fiction. Manchurian candidates and red presidents were fantasies, dark tales Americans told themselves like ghost stories... "But this alliance now exists." www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/1...

A violation of federal and state law. Arrest Rogers

We are sensing a pattern

From that liberal rag, the National Review www.nationalreview.com/2026/10/cong...

The big tech companies have been the default software for far too long. Take a few steps and find software you actually like to use. www.eff.org/pages/i-wan...