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  27 September 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News LOSING RSN RIGHT NOW IS A DANGEROUS DIRECTION — Hang in there Marc and friends. For years I've been an irregular regular contributor, pitching in roughly quarterly for my own accounting purposes. I've rarely missed, but don't mind your justified vitriol. You are performing an invaluable service to our country. Wake up folks. Losing RSN right now is a dangerous direction. Bill, RSN / Reader-Supporter Sure, I'll make a donation!   Mark Gray | I Arrived at Route 91 as a Reporter. I Left as a Survivor of a Mass Shooting Mark Gray, Rolling Stone Gray writes: "I was covering Route 91 for Rolling Stone, and Jason Aldean was about to bookend what had otherwise been a fun few days. Then the shots rang out." "I don’t think any of us want our calling card to be Route 91, but it can be inescapable at times," writes Mark Gray, who came under fire while on assignment in Las Vegas in 2017 I was cover...

  View in browser   BY  DAVID SIDERS Presented by Visa Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) talks with supporters during a rally in May. | Drew Angerer/Getty Images INDEPENDENT STREAK  — Ohio has become so heavily Republican in recent years that Joe Biden all but ceded the state to Donald Trump, who carried it by about 8 percentage points in 2020. Yet in this year’s U.S. Senate contest, a series of polls —  including a new Marist Poll  out this week — suggest the race between Democrat Tim Ryan and Republican J.D. Vance could be close. If it ends up that way, it’ll be a departure from the state’s recent voting patterns. Part of it is that Vance is lagging with independents, narrowly trailing Ryan among them, according to Marist. And Ohio is far from alone. With the Supreme Court’s overturning of  Roe v. Wade , falling gas prices and the nomination of a raft of hard-line Republicans in the primaries, independent voters have been  giving Democrats better marks ...