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The Road to November
March 22, 2022

https://www.courthousenews.com/sidebar- ... -november/

Introduction:
(Courthouse News) Need a primer for this year’s midterm elections? We’ve got you covered.

We talk to reporters and experts about how former President Donald Trump is still shaping American politics after losing reelection almost two years ago.

The glue that binds Republicans together isn’t just “Stop the Steal” and other theories circulating about voter integrity: it’s a camaraderie built around identity and resistance to changing demographics.

How is the GOP changing its messaging in “purple” districts where voters may be less keen on Trump talk and more interested in their bottom lines?

We also look at the “Great Resignation.” Spoiler alert: it’s not just impacting your friends and family. So far, 53 members of Congress have announced they will not be running for reelection this year.

A quick warning before you jump in: this episode contains adult language.
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One of the links provided in the above news article leads to this:

Arizona State Senators Block a Dozen GOP-sponsored Election Reform Bills
by Michael McDaniel
March 14, 2022

https://www.courthousenews.com/arizona- ... orm-bills/
PHOENIX (Courthouse News) — The Arizona Senate blocked a sweeping slate of GOP-sponsored election reform bills Monday that many state Republicans claimed would have addressed concerns of election integrity, following the state’s audit of the 2020 presidential election.

Twelve election reform bills failed to pass the Republican-controlled Senate due to nay votes from two Republicans. The surprising result came after sponsors and committees spent weeks amending and prepping the bills for their final Senate read.

The dissenters of the bills were state Senators Michelle Ugenti-Rita, R-Scottsdale, and Paul Boyer, R-Glendale. Both have pushed back against claims from many of their colleagues that Joe’s Biden 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, and they have received harsh criticism from the Arizona GOP as a result.

“I do have some major concerns with this bill and I have a major concern about what we’re doing today,” Ugenti-Rita said, explaining her vote against Senate Bill 1570.

The bill would have prevented some voting equipment from being connected to the internet, in a bid to safeguard against hacking.
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Busch Beer Heiress Enters Missouri's U.S. Senate Race
by Diana Barr
March 29, 2022

https://www.bizjournals.com/stlouis/new ... a1e49f5f95

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(Saint Louis Business Journal) Trudy Busch Valentine, an heiress to beer maker Anheuser-Busch's founding family, filed Monday to run for a U.S. Senate seat in Missouri as a Democrat, the Associated Press reports.

Valentine is the daughter of the late Anheuser-Busch Cos. Chairman August “Gussie” Busch Jr., who died in 1989. Her mother was the late Gertrude “Trudy” Busch, Gussie Busch Jr.’s third wife. A philanthropist, Valentine serves on the Board of Trustees of Saint Louis University, to which she's donated nearly $7 million, including a naming gift in 2019 for its School of Nursing, from which she graduated in 1980.

Valentine is expected to formally announce her plans to run for the U.S. Senate seat currently held by Republican Roy Blunt, who's retiring, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch reports.

Scott Sifton, the Democratic former state senator, announced Monday after Valentine filed that he is dropping out of the primary and endorsing her.
The thinning field of Democratic candidates for the Senate seat include Marine veteran Lucas Kunce.
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AOC's Warning for Democrats: 'We're in Trouble'
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Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez thinks President Biden got played by Senator Joe Manchin — and that the president’s nostalgia for a bygone era of backroom dealmaking could prove disastrous for Democrats in the midterms.

Sitting in her campaign office, she says this matter-of-factly, as if bucking the explicit orders of her party’s leaders — up to and including the president of the United States — is not that big of a deal. But it is.

“As a younger member of Congress, the first vote I ever cast was for Barack Obama, who was called a socialist and all of this stuff. All of this rhetoric that we see today has been the political reality my entire life. And so I never felt a nostalgia for something that never existed in my lifetime,” she told me. “I feel like our politics has fundamentally changed — whether it’s for better or for worse is for people’s determination — but I was never under the illusion that we can bring Manchin along.”

Ocasio-Cortez was one one of only six Democrats (including Representative Jamaal Bowman of the Bronx) — to vote against Biden’s $1.2 trillion infrastructure bill last November. She reasoned — correctly, it turned out — that severing the infrastructure spending from Biden’s much larger Build Back Better proposal would allow the bigger bill to be killed, in the closely divided Senate, by the defection of two conservative Democratic senators, Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema.
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St. Louis beer heiress joins race for U.S. Senate
St. Louis Post-Dispatch
JEFFERSON CITY — St. Louis beer heiress Trudy Busch Valentine joined the heated race for Missouri’s U.S. Senate seat Monday.

The move triggered former state Sen. Scott Sifton, who had represented south St. Louis County in the Legislature’s upper chamber until 2020, to exit the Democratic primary race and throw his support to the wealthy Clayton resident.

In a campaign video, Valentine recounted her childhood growing up at the iconic family estate, Grant's Farm, and highlighted her financial contributions to the nursing program at St. Louis University.

“Across Missouri our communities are strong but our politics are broken. We just need to talk to each other again,” she said. “We need something different. We need a new politics."
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A Five Alarm Emergency for Democracy
by Robert P. Alvarez
March 29, 2022

https://otherwords.org/a-five-alarm-eme ... democracy/

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(Other Words) “Voter suppression” is a divisive and highly politicized term. But for the slate of bills Republicans are pushing across the country, it’s the only correct one.

They’re introducing these bills in virtually every state, but three — Arizona, Georgia, and Wisconsin — are especially worrisome. These swing states, along with Pennsylvania and Michigan, helped decide the last presidential election. Each flipped from Trump in 2016 to Biden in 2020.

But now, in these states and elsewhere, Republicans want to make it harder to vote by mail, get rid of same-day voter registration and ballot drop-off boxes, limit early voting, reduce the number of voting booths at polling locations, and much more.

If you’re not paying attention to these election bills, you should be. They might determine the next president of the United States.
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The good news for voters and for supporters of free and fair elections is the vast majority of those bills haven’t made their way out of their state legislatures. There’s still time to stop them.
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Sarah Palin Announces Run for Alaska's Congressional Seat
by Dorian Geiger
April 1, 2022

https://www.axios.com/palin-alaska-us-h ... b001b.html

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(Axios) Sarah Palin announced Friday she would run for Alaska's only congressional seat, following the death of Republican Congressman Don Young and made the campaign official by filing with the Federal Election Commission.

Driving the news: The former Alaska governor and 2008 Republican nominee for vice president floated a possible run for Congress in a Newsmax interview last month and will join a crowded field of 40 candidates running for the vacant seat, the New York Times notes.

What she's saying: "Public service is a calling, and I would be honored to represent the men and women of Alaska in Congress, just as Rep. Young did for 49 years," Palin wrote in a statement on Facebook. "I realize that I have very big shoes to fill, and I plan to honor Rep. Young’s legacy by offering myself up in the name of service to the state he loved and fought for, because I share that passion for Alaska and the United States of America."

"America is at a tipping point. As I’ve watched the far left destroy the country, I knew I had to step up and join the fight," she said.
Of note: Palin has said she will seek a new trial in a case against the New York Times after a federal judge in Manhattan dismissed a landmark defamation suit Palin had brought against the paper.
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There's no hope for the Democrats in 2022, unfortunately

Except along ONE issue that could conceivably score then a supermajority in Congress— student loan forgiveness. That alone would all but ensure Dems sweep 2022 and possibly 2024 and 2026.
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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And remember my friend, future events such as these will affect you in the future
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