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Morning Digest: The South Dakota GOP wants to roll back Medicaid expansion—and direct democracy

Another Republican, state Rep. Will Mortenson, argued to South Dakota Searchlight last month that this summary, also known as ...
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House race polling also points to a big blue wave

And in 2018, during the last blue wave, you can’t even see two distinct dots because the results were virtually identical.
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Morning Digest: Why Democrats think this is the year they can beat Kris Kobach—again

Kobach, who held a high-level position in the U.S. Justice Department during the early years of George W. Bush’s presidency, ...
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How voters across the country can block MAGA judges from joining state supreme courts

At a time when Donald Trump and the MAGA movement seek to undermine fair elections, civil rights, and the rule of law—and ...
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The Senate battlefield is exploding

On this week’s episode of The Downballot podcast, co-hosts David Nir and David Beard examine the fallout from the GOP’s ...
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Morning Digest: New spending shows Senate battlefield expanding into the Deep South

An unnamed GOP source described the move as an “insurance policy” to help the new senator, the sister and successor to the ...