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Morning Digest: Wild deadline maneuvers cause major upheaval in Alaska's marquee races

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  I’m incredibly pleased to announce a new perk for all paid subscribers to The Downballot: a free three-month subscription to Taegan Goddard’s must-read Political Wire! I’ve been religiously reading Political Wire for more than a quarter century—before I ever even began blogging myself—and there truly is nothing like it. From the start, I immediately grasped that Taegan had a unique combination of talents: He always knows exactly what the most important news stories are each day, and he’s brilliant at distilling them down to their most important takeaways. We’ve tried to emulate that approach here at The Downballot when it comes to elections, but Taegan casts a much wider net, covering every national development every political professional and junkie needs to know about. What’s more, reading Political Wire is just so darn efficient . It’ll keep you on top of everything with a minimum of time and effort. For his paying subscribers (of which I am proudly one), Taegan offers even m...

AOC cooks Trump with "backwards and poor" clapback

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  Wendell Berry, legendary writer, farmer, and environmentalist from Kentucky dies at 92 AOC wallops Trump after he calls critics of data centers "backwards and poor" Yesterday, Donald Trump lost his temper with the tens of millions of Americans who sensibly do not want giant, noisy, polluting data centers built in their backyard and claimed on Truth Social that "the only reason that communities throughout the U.S.A. should not want Data Centers is if they want to end up being backwards and poor!" The billionaire grifter continued raging against the very people who helped put him in power, writing, "If we kill the Golden Goose, you will only have yourselves to blame." Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez responded to this incredibly rude and condescending proclamation with a clever proposal: "I mean, how about we put one in Mar-a-Lago?" AOC asked, speaking with MeidasTouch's Pablo Manríquez. "Let's put a data center up in Mar...