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Morning Digest, sponsored by the Michigan Creator Collaborative: New GOP nominee has 84 days to fend off well-fund…

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  Morning Digest, sponsored by the Michigan Creator Collaborative: New GOP nominee has 84 days to fend off well-funded Democrat North Carolina seat remains a battleground even with its scandal-tarred congressman out of the race David Nir and Jeff Singer Aug 11 North Carolina Democrat Jamie Ager (credit: Jamie Ager Facebook) Leading Off NC-11 Local Republican leaders selected state Rep. Jennifer Balkcom on Monday evening to replace scandal-ridden Rep. Chuck Edwards, who ended his reelection campaign last week, as the party’s nominee for North Carolina’s 11th District. Balkcom will go up against Democrat Jamie Ager, a farmer who has been waging a strong campaign to flip a constituency in the western part of the state that Donald Trump carried 54-45 in 2024 . A message from our sponsor, the Michigan Creator Collaborative: Support the Michigan Creator Collaborative The way people access information has fundamentally changed. Local news is fading, misinformation is rising, and audien...

Today in Politics, Bulletin 437. 8/10/26

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Today in Politics, Bulletin 437. 8/10/26 Ron Filipkowski Aug 10 ∙ … Trump issued an executive order today seeking to mandate one of the conspiracies that he has held for decades which began shortly after Barron was born - that childhood vaccines cause autism. … Axios: “Trump issued an executive order calling for fewer childhood vaccinations, splitting the childhood MMR vaccine into 3 shots and delivering vaccines at separate medical visits.” … The executive order states that “the combined MMR vaccine should be administered in 3 separate single-disease shots once such products are domestically available and that, to the maximum extent feasible, all childhood immunizations should be administered at separate medical visits.” … “ RFK Jr ’ s handpicked vaccine advisers last fall called for splitting up the MMR shot and overhauling a central component of childhood immunizations. But the WH urged Kennedy to back off of such contentious policymaking earlier this year. And yet, Trump has recent...