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    09 October 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News 1 DONATION @ $5 FOR THE DAY SO FAR — Yes the struggle for basic funding is real, very real. The readership is strong, very strong. We are good at what we do and we have strong positive impact but we are not a wealthy organization. Funding matters. Funding, we have to have it. Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   FOCUS: 'We Are F**KED': New Book Reveals How GOP Senators Bailed Out Trump During 1st Impeachment Trial Igor Bobic, Huff Post Bobic writes: "Trump and his defense team maintained he did nothing wrong throughout the January 2020 trial and that no 'quid pro quo' had taken place, even though he was caught on tape telling Zelenskyy to “do us a favor” by launching a probe of Biden ahead of the 2020 presidential election." R epublican senators were more deeply involved in orchestrating President Donald Trump’s defense in his first impeachment trial than p...

 

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Opinion/Letters: Mass. printed voter guide missing information on Question 4 Cape Cod Times Published Oct 8, 2022  I would like to inform the voting public the recently mailed "Massachusetts Information for Voters, 2022 Ballot Questions" guide is incomplete. There are  four  important questions for voters to decide on, however, only three are listed. Interestingly, the request for mail-in ballots have already been mailed out as well. Secretary William Galvin was well aware of the huge grassroots effort that took place to get the fourth question, regarding eligibility for a driver's license, on the ballot, as his office decided the timeline to submit the required 40,000 signatures. Myself and hundreds of others not only acquired the required 40,000 signatures, we more than doubled that to over 80,000 within the timeline! Why did Secretary Galvin allow both the incomplete voter's guide and request for mail-in ballots to go out wh...

  A Campaign Ad Captures a Movement Can an appeal to unity win? Dan Rather  and  Elliot Kirschner Oct 9   Are our politics hopelessly divided?  Is there a way for a politician with a message of unity to break through?  What is the right balance between compromise and convictions?  Do most people just automatically, inevitably rally around the R or the D next to the name on the ballot? Or not? All these questions are top of mind as we enter the stretch run of a political season in which the future of American democracy is at stake and there are more storylines and potential surprises than in a season of  Days of our Lives.  Considering what’s at risk, it’s easy to lapse into cynicism, especially when you see what is happening in Georgia. There, the Republican Senate candidate — former football star Herschel Walker —  is being swamped by a tidal wave of hypocrisy around abortion rights. A series of reports from  The Daily Beast  ...