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Looks like, barring provisional or absentee votes changing anything, the Republicans have won the special Congressional election in Ohio. Of course it is a very Republican district, it has had all Republicans (bar about 2 years in the early '80s) since the '30s, and a very narrow win is not much, but I feel like the "close but no cigar" narrative (with help from the Greens, naturally) is likely telling us what Democrats will do in November. Always close but never enough, unless you want to play the "clap louder," game, which I don't feel like doing.

 

In better news, Missouri voters have rejected the "right to work" law passed by their legislature.

 

https://fox2now.com/2018/08/07/right-to-work-overturned-as-prop-a-fails/

 

I'm also hoping some lunatics will lose in Kansas. At least one has so far:

 

https://www.kansas.com/latest-news/article216264760.html

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I read about that yesterday. So glad you posted it. The work being done to unseat these DAs has been so unheralded the last few years. 

 

The SC company now seems to be saying "oh we hope we can get out of the tariffs and not lose any workers." I hope so too, but it's hard to believe. 

 

I do feel for the workers. Not so much the man in charge.

 

https://thenerve.org/governor-commerce-silent-on-ponzi-scheme-lawsuits/

 

 

 

And I think he was another who was calling for the Mueller investigation to end.

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Yes, I remember we discussed it too in this thread.  So far I'm seeing very little acknowledgement of that in the articles that are popping up.

Only this, so far-

 

 

At least there has been some acknowledgment by Ocasio-Cortez that Davids won the primary and deserves the support going forward.  Bernie should've immediately done the same when he lost his primary.

 

 

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I like Ocasio-Cortez but either she's let her victory goto her head or she's extremely naïve. I don't understand why she's running around all over the country with Sanders. I have no idea why they weren't backing Sharice Davids to begin with or why Ocasio even got involved. Sanders didn't even endorse Ocasio in her own primary.

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A huge ICE raid happened in Nebraska.  133 people were taken and several people were arrested for a range of crimes involving exploiting immigrants.  At the very least, we need a guest worker program so that employers can't take advantage of people.

https://www.omaha.com/news/courts/raids-rattle-o-neill-workers-detained-as-feds-target-alleged/article_df881c1a-e399-523e-86b2-36bf614b3351.html

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