Politics
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Before he ran for Senate, Sam Brown profited from his role as a middle-man in the pharmaceutical industry
Brown ran a company that served as a pharmacy benefit manager (PBM) and has been a vocal defender of PBMs, which have been shown to raise drug costs for patients. He also opposed Democratic measures to lower prescription drugs costs and to allow Medicare to negotiate for lower drug prices.
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Dozens of ex-Trump administration officials have spoken out against him or oppose his campaign
Dozens of former Trump administration officials — including his former VP Mike Pence, former Chief of Staff John Kelly, and two of his former defense secretaries — have denounced the Republican nominee, with many instead endorsing Kamala Harris for president.
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Opinion: Stop Project 2025 by protecting democracy
With only weeks before federal government funding was set to expire at the end of September, MAGA Republicans threatened to shut down the government unless Congress passed an extreme anti-voting bill that could disenfranchise millions of American citizens. Fortunately, Democrats rejected this approach, and Congress averted a shutdown. However, Republicans remain committed to pushing their…
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NV Supreme Court upholds ruling on mail ballots received post-Election Day
The Nevada Supreme Court noted in its opinion, which was posted by Democracy Docket, that the RNC identified 24 non-postmarked mail ballots that were received by Clark County after this year’s June primary election day, but they provided no evidence regarding the partisan lean of those ballots. The lack of a postmark “occurs as the result…
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All the racist, hateful things said at Trump’s rally at Madison Square Garden
The rally bore glaring similarities to a Nazi rally held at an earlier iteration of Madison Square Garden in 1939. “My reaction is that it was a combination of 1933 Germany, 1939 Madison Square Garden last night,” former Trump adviser Anthony Scaramucci said on Monday.
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Opinion: How Trump exploited a willing media to convince Americans that nothing matters
More than nine years after he launched his first campaign for president, much of the media continues to struggle with how to cover Donald Trump. In a new op-ed, Jordan Zakarin describes the failures to hold Trump to account.
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Trump vows to impose harsh tariffs, stokes fear of immigrants in 80-minute Las Vegas speech
Trump also spent part of his Thursday speech encouraging his supporters to vote early and by mail in a reversal of his stance four years ago, when he baselessly claimed those methods couldn’t be trusted. Amid strong early turnout from registered Republican voters in Nevada, Donald Trump on Thursday night visited Las Vegas, where he…
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The top election official in a politically crucial Nevada county says she was forced out
The former interim registrar of voters in Washoe County told the AP she had refused personnel changes sought by the county manager’s office and had offered to step down and return to her prior position as deputy. She said she was told that was not possible. The top election official in one of the nation’s…
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‘We gotta care enough to show up:’ Bill Clinton urges voters to turn out during Las Vegas visit
With less than two weeks until Election Day, the former president, famed for his charisma, laid out the stark differences between Kamala Harris and Donald Trump. Though it’s been nearly 25 years since former President Bill Clinton last held public office, the two-term Arkansas Democrat still understands the significance of maximizing voter turnout. For Clinton,…
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Trump’s former chief of staff says the former president praised Hitler and would rule like a ‘fascist’
“I need the kind of generals that Hitler had,” Trump reportedly said in a private conversation in the White House. And in an interview with The Atlantic, Trump’s former chief of staff John Kelly recalled that Trump once raised the idea of needing “German generals” to him directly.
