Overnight News Digest October 14, 2019
Welcome to the Overnight News Digest with a crew consisting of founder Magnifico, current leader Neon Vincent, regular editors side pocket, maggiejean, Chitown Kev, Interceptor7, Magnifico,...
View ArticleJulián Castro visits Ohio mom who has been in sanctuary for two years after...
For two years now, Columbus Mennonite Church in Ohio has been Edith Espinal’s home. She went into sanctuary in October 2017, when Immigration and Customs Enforcement targeted her for deportation. She’d...
View ArticleOhio's planned voter purge targeted tens of thousands of legitimate, active...
This is what Republican moderation looks like in 2019: releasing a list of 235,000 voters, 40,000 of whom shouldn’t be on the list at all, a month before they were to be purged from the Ohio voting...
View ArticleImpeachment, Syria and Trump's 'Russia First' Policy: 'BradCast' 10/15/2019
Guest: Salon's Heather Digby Parton; Also: 40k false voter purges prevented in Ohio; The return of 'GNR'!...Our long road toward catching up with a month's worth of news continues on today's BradCast,...
View ArticleVoting Rights Roundup: We asked a court to draw these maps instead of the NC...
Leading Off●North Carolina: Last month, Republican legislators passed new state legislative districts after their previous maps were struck down in state court for illegal gerrymandering, but their new...
View ArticleFormer Gov. Kasich Calls for Impeachment. Could He Hurt Trump in Ohio?
www.cnn.com/…Former Republican Governor of Ohio John Kasich told CNN that Donald Trump should be impeached based on his withholding of aid to the Ukraine for political reasons.(CNN)Former Ohio Gov....
View ArticleThird Time's The Charm - OH-12
Today, I was surprised today to learn that a long time friend, Alaina Shearer, is running for Congress in the Ohio 12th Congressional district. The Ohio 12th Congressional district is gerrymandered...
View ArticleCiviqs polling of battleground states shows a tight presidential race, no...
On one hand we had the New York Times/Siena College poll of battleground states suggesting that Joe Biden is running ahead of Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders against Donald Trump in general...
View Article2019 Off-Year Election Voting System Disasters and Electoral Triumphs:...
Guest: VA Delegate Mark Levine on Dems’ new, long-awaited 'trifecta'; Also: Brand new touchscreen voting systems failed in GA and PA, while Dems saw a number of big wins in VA and probably KY...On...
View ArticleReality Check : Biden, Warren, the primary, and the swing states in the...
We have to live with the reality of the Electoral College. While our top tier candidates are leading in national polls, we can ask Hillary Clinton how much that helped her. We know that two polls...
View ArticleMost electable ? Which path to 270 ?
Hillary only 227 electoral college votes despite winning more votes than President Obama did in 2012. Granted that was four years earlier and there should, in theory, be more voters each new cycle, but...
View ArticleTwitter has a field day with Jim Jordan's craven behavior at impeachment hearing
Campaign ActionRepublican Rep. Jim Jordan is a god-awful human being. His positioning on the House Intelligence Committee during the impeachment hearings is a mystery in as much as he’s dumb and has...
View ArticleHelp Buy Jim Jordan a Jacket...or chip in to retire him
Greetings friend — After watching the first day of the public impeachment hearings I am just sickened by No Jacket Jim Jordan.Lucky for us there is a great Democrat running to defeat him in 2020....
View ArticleOhio Republicans pass bill that could let religious views trump scientific...
High school test question: How old is the Utica shale formation that Ohio is drilling for oil and natural gas? Answer: 6,000 years, just like the Bible says.According to critics, HB 164, the Ohio...
View ArticleWTF? College football player only gets a one-game suspension for dirty hit...
Many of you know that on Thursday, Myles Garrett clocked Mason Rudolph in the head with Rudolph’s own helmet—a disgusting move that got him suspended for at least the rest of the 2019 season. But an...
View ArticleLt. Col. Vindman would have protected the children and athletes who 'Gym'...
Convicted child sex abuser Jerry Sandusky recently sought a lighter prison sentence for his 45-count conviction in 2012. The former Penn State assistant football coach still vehemently declares his...
View ArticleBattleground state head to head vs Trump to win Electoral College - All over...
In 2016, Hillary Clinton lost the electoral college by about 80,000 votes correctly distributed in three states despite winning the popular vote by three million votes. Hillary won 227 electoral...
View ArticleUS Life Expectancy Has Declined for Three Years
www.nytimes.com/…jamanetwork.com/...The New York Times reports that life expectancy, especially for Americans between the ages of 25 to 64, is declining despite the highest per capita spending in the...
View ArticleSen. Sherrod Brown sums up how he won Ohio back without compromising his...
One of the biggest questions when it comes to state politics in the age of Donald Trump (and, ideally, in every age) is: How do progressives not only win states but also keep them? How do we win the...
View ArticleOhio Doctors who don't "reimplant ectopic pregnancy" face "abortion murder"...
An abortion ban bill introduced into the Ohio state legislature requires surgeons treating women for potentially fatal pregnancies located outside of the uterus to “reimplant” the pregnancy into the...
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