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CHC Roundup: Rep. Jim Costa (CA-21) - All About Agriculture
Rep. Jim Costa is promoting a Holiday Cards for Veterans program this month. It is his way of giving back to the people that sacrificed everything for our country.
bilboteach 12/06/2025 49
Trump administration approves plan to export more water out of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta
The Trump administration yesterday released a draconian plan to divert more Delta water that will go into effect today, posing an extreme threat to already imperiled salmon, steelhead and other fish populations and Delta and tribal communities in...
Dan Bacher 12/05/2025 9
Texas Canvass Wrapup
Our final state wrapup�for the year. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to �Texas in 2021, but skipped a year because of the existing organizing groups in the state.� Turned out�
snowbored 12/05/2025 2
Here's how Virginia Democrats will combat Texas' map-rigging
Virginia Democrats on Thursday night vowed to axe four Republicans from the state's U.S. House delegation, a direct response to the Supreme Court ruling that same evening that Texas' extreme ...
Emily Singer 12/05/2025 47
Supreme Court Grants Stay; Gerrymandered and Racist Texas Maps Are Okay
Super bad redistricting news thanks to our lovely Extreme Court this evening. By a 6-3 decision, the racist Texas maps that will cost us between 2 to 5 seats WILL go into effect for 2026. This is a temporary stay until the Extreme Court rules on the...
bilboteach 12/04/2025 133
LIVE: What Can We Learn From The TN Special Election
Here’s This week’s edition of Thursday Kos with Markos and Rev. Mark, LIVE! Please subscribe to Make It Plain wherever you get your podcasts!
Make It Plain 12/04/2025 4
Ohio Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � in our second year to organize for the Senate race and redistricting.� We ...
snowbored 12/04/2025 3
A 'Flashing Red Light Warning Sign' for the GOP: 'BradCast' 12/3/2025
Also: Degenerate President spews racist invective against U.S. Somali community ahead of planned federal immigration thuggery... Not that I hope to tip off our degenerate authoritarian oligarchy on today's BradCast. But if the Republican Party still...
TheBradBlog 12/03/2025 1
Don't threaten us with a good time, Mike Johnson
Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson faced questions Wednesday over his party’s disastrous underperformance in Tuesday’s special election in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District—one that ...
kos 12/03/2025 118
Florida Canvass Wrapup
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] basically ended the year like it began —�knocking on doors for another special ...
snowbored 12/03/2025 1
Q: What's wrong with Janet Mills to replace Susan Collins?
www.levernews.com/… A: It depends on what’s more important to you. Do you want a Senator that’s good on social issues or one that good on labor and kitchen table issues? Judging from her record as Governor of Maine, you can’t have both with her. In...
Robpos 12/03/2025 64
Given the Tennessee special election result, the GOP is so f'd in 2026
How do you win an election, yet still lose the night? While votes are still being counted, Republicans have held on to their House seat in Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District by a ridiculously slim margin—single digits. This is a district Donald...
kos 12/02/2025 339
VICTORY: Judge orders implementation of UFW contract at NY's Wafler Farms
Wayne County, NY — On December 2, 2025, a judge in Wayne County, New York ruled that Wafler Farms, a major apple producer and nursery in upstate New York, must implement the UFW contract it had been refusing to implement for months on end. The long...
ufw 12/02/2025 8
You Can Make History Today: GOTV for Aftyn Behn! DFTBA
Help get out the vote for awesome candidate Aftyn Behn @aftynbehn.bsky.social Virtual phone bank info: https://www.mobilize.us/aftynforcongress/event/826070/ tinyurl.com/TNVolunteerHub Even if you only have a little time today to make a few phone calls...
SuperSwingdistricts 12/02/2025 2
How to fix the Electoral College
As you probably know, Bush lost the popular vote in 2000 but became President due to the Electoral College. As you probably also know, Trump lost the popular vote in 2016, but became President due to the Electoral College. There is a way to fix the...
tedfuller 12/02/2025 29
TN 7th Congressional District: GOP Meltdown in the Special Election? (Updated with Results Links)
UPDATE #1, 7:15 pm EST — For Analysis and Live Results Analysis — Voting Trend, begins LIVE at 7:15 pm EST — MS Now, Steve Kornacki — begins LIVE at 7:45 pm EST Live Results (Polls close in TN at 7:00 pm CST, or 8:00 pm EST) — Tennessee Secretary of...
JekyllnHyde 12/02/2025 161
California Canvass Wrapup: Resisting Trump's hostile takeover of our Democracy
Continuing on with our state wrapups where we’ve ended canvassing. � Hope Springs from Field PAC � [website ] came to � circumvent� president felon’s hostile takeover of our Democracy.� It’s ...
snowbored 12/02/2025 2
Time for the main event: The Midterms. Donate *directly* to Democrats today!
Note: I plan on reposting my diary daily/near-daily until next November. If you have a problem with that, you could simply, y’know, ignore the diaries. As many of you may know, for the past several election cycles I’ve been running a Democratic...
Brainwrap 12/02/2025 9
Trump rushes to rescue GOP in surprisingly tight special election
President Donald Trump threw his weight behind Republican congressional candidate Matt Van Epps on Monday, calling into a Nashville rally for the special election that has grown uncomfortably tight for the GOP. “The whole world is watching Tennessee...
Alex Samuels 12/01/2025 67
Why Dems Can Ill Afford to Share "Affordability" With Trump's Cult
Affordability. Granted, that 6-syllable juggernaut amounts to a polite way of broaching the human costs of decades of governance of/by/for the have-mores. But still. At least the term resonates with countless GOP-ravaged (and potentially enraged)...
Inspector Clueso 12/01/2025 3
Cartoon: The war on woke
As always, if � you find value in this work I do, please consider helping me keep it sustainable by joining my weekly newsletter, � Sparky’s List! � You can get it in your inbox or read it on ...
Tom Tomorrow 12/01/2025 28