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  Major Sunday Message from MeidasTouch Founder Ben Meiselas and MeidasTouch Network Feb 8 Hey everyone. It’s great to be with you on this Sunday morning. As always, I’ve got a cup of coffee in my hand, and I’m sitting down with you to take a breath and reflect on the week together. These Sunday mornings with you are my favorite. So pour yourself a cup, take a sip, and let’s get into it. Before we do, I want to ask you directly to please subscribe to this Substack and, if you can, become a paid subscriber. Supporting independent media like the MeidasTouch Network is how we grow, how we expand, and how we keep breaking stories that MAGA and right-wing oligarchs want erased. Because of you, just this past week, we preserved and published key Epstein documents that the Trump regime was trying to delete and hide. Because of you, we continued expanding our international reporting. Because of you, our Washington, D.C., bureau is doing real, on-the-ground accountability journali...

  Breaking: Democrats resoundingly defend red district in Louisiana, denying GOP its first pickup Republicans have yet to flip a single legislative seat since Trump's return David Nir Feb 8 Louisiana Democrat Chasity Martinez (second from left) has scored an upset win in a conservative state House seat (credit: Chasity Martinez Facebook) Democrats successfully defended a conservative seat in rural Louisiana on Saturday night, as Chasity Martinez defeated Republican Brad Daigle  by a dominant 62-38 margin —a massive 37-point overperformance compared to the 2024 presidential result. Republicans had hoped to score their first legislative pickup of any kind during Donald Trump’s second term, and they had good reason to think they might succeed in the 60th House District. Voters in the district, which includes part of Assumption and Iberville parishes (Louisiana’s equivalent of counties), had long backed state and local Democrats but had moved decidedly toward Republicans on the fe...