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A Dem strategist is so confident in the gas-and-groceries attack on Trump that he's running it unchanged, full speed, until November 3rd.
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Former Trump White House staffer Sarah Matthews says Trump's sons landed Pentagon contracts for businesses they had zero involvement in before Trump took office again.
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Wayne County set aside $7M and erased up to $700M in medical debt for 300,000 families — about a penny on the dollar. 100,000 families have already gotten the letters.
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Airline ticket prices are hitting decade highs — and jet fuel costs driven by the war in Iran are the main reason.
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Shaheen says Trump is negotiating around a congressionally enacted sanctions bill to cut a deal with Putin for "a day's worth of diesel" — her words, not a paraphrase.
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43% of builders cut prices in October — the highest share since 2020 — and nearly two-thirds have been offering sales incentives for 19 straight months. Home builder confidence just hit its lowest point since 2012.
Benson asked her rally crowd point-blank if they wanted John James leading Michigan, got a loud "No," then promised to fight anyone who stands in the way of voting rights or privacy.
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Data centers gave Lombardo $2 million. He gave them $240 million in tax breaks. Ford is making that the centerpiece of his argument against the governor.
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Trump just told reporters he's thinking about striking Iran "maybe tomorrow" — then immediately said he wouldn't confirm it if he was actually going to do it.
Flanagan's contrast with Tafoya in one line: Tafoya belongs to a yacht club with a $140,000 initiation fee and owns a Florida mansion. Flanagan: "I have never been more proud to call Minnesota my home."
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Filling a standard heating oil tank in Maine now runs $1,800 — $700 more than last year — and it won't last more than a few weeks. That number is reportedly one of the biggest things on Susan Collins' mind right now.
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JVL's argument that Trump could blame Democrats for rising gas prices after re-escalating with Iran rests on this: 40% of Lay's potato chip buyers didn't know they were made from potatoes. His point is that you can't assume something is too dumb to work.
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Trump on Chicago: "You can violate the governor" — says he could deploy the National Guard without Pritzker's approval and has the power to do it.
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A White House source told Michael Wolff that Trump wants $20 billion by end of term and $100 billion in post-presidency deals — and that "being president was nice, but being an oligarch is forever."
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Memphis Mayor Young just ordered a 90-day study specifically aimed at regulating hyperscale data centers — covering everything from aquifer protection to noise and utility costs.
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Elon Musk has already dumped $200 million into the Texas Senate race to back Ken Paxton — and his opponent James Talarico is calling it an attempt to "buy his own personal US senator."
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Lindsey James wants to reverse ACA, Medicaid, and Medicare cuts and go after insurance and pharmaceutical companies for driving up health care costs.
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Trump's own ambassador to Turkey told reporters there "absolutely" could be a strike on Iran this weekend — and Trump responded by saying he had no idea what he was talking about.
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Trump on Somalia and Ilhan Omar: "She comes from a shithouse country and she's telling us how to run the United States."
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Nebraska lost nearly 40,000 SNAP recipients in just over a year — a 26.6% drop — after new federal and state eligibility requirements took effect. Food banks are feeling it.