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Stunner Trump leads GOP off a cliff, claims no responsibility Dan Rather and Team Steady Nov 4   Texas Senator-elect James Talarico. Credit: Getty Images Call it a tsunami, or a blue-nami, an earthquake, a generational defeat, a massacre, or, as Florida Governor Ron DeSantis suggested, “close to an extinction level event for Republicans.” However you want to characterize Republicans’ 2026 midterm defeat, it was a holistic drubbing of the Party and a rebuke of the man who leads it. And that man, not surprisingly, has somehow absolved himself of any responsibility for the rout, a repudiation that could cripple his party long after he’s gone. In the meantime, let’s remind ourselves that Trump is still president and will be for another two years. He remains dangerous, wielding many of the immense powers of a president. But he will no longer have at his back a pliant Congress. Democrats have wrested control of both houses of Congress from Republicans. As of this writing, Democrats hav...

The Hound | Nov. 4

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  Hi there, It’s Wednesday. Voters just handed Democrats control of the House and Senate, flipping seven Senate seats Trump carried before. Republicans know why: one senior Senate GOP official told Politico, “Trump did this.” Trump called Fox News to dispute the polls and claimed he’d had the “greatest two years in the history of the presidency.” 🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to report it honestly, as a national repudiation of Trump, and to say plainly when he denies it. This was a rebuke of an administration defined by a costly Iran war, high prices, and corruption. The public deserves coverage that reflects what voters actually said, not the story Trump wants told. SUBSCRIBE TO CIVIC SHOUT AND JOIN WITH OTHERS TO SPEAK OUT! LINK BELOW!  In addition, Democrats elect more than 100 women to the House along with other firsts. And Speaker Mike Johnson announced earlier today he’d step aside as the top Republican next Congress. Read about these, and more, in today’s s...

Voters subject governor and Legislature to public records law, but there’s no guarantee lawmakers will comply

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                JUST AN OBSERVATION: HOW COME ALL OF THE "VOTE NO ON 9" SIGNS                DISAPPEARED?                HOW COME ALL OF THE MIKE MONOGUE AND JOHN DEATON SIGNS               DISAPPEARED?                WEALTHY TRUMPER MIKE MINOGUE WAS AN EMPTY SUIT WHO DIDN'T                EVEN COMPREHEND HOW GOVERNMENT WORKS!                DID YOU EVEN SCRUTINIZE HIS RHETORIC?                WEALTHY TRUMPER MIKE MINOGUE WAS GONNA SOLVE "AFFFORDABILITY"                AND NEVER ADDRESSED THE REPUBLICANS'   BIG BEAUTIFUL DISASTER            ...