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California Gov. Gavin Newsom and his wife will be touring red states over the weekend and into next week aimed at boosting the profile of Democratic candidates in GOP-controlled areas. "We're going on the road to take the fight to the states where freedom is most under attack," Newsom said in a video announcing the PAC on Thursday. "Where Republican leaders ban books, criminalize doctors, fire teachers, intimidate librarians, kidnap migrants, target trans kids, stoke racism, condone antisemitism, force the victims of rape and incest to carry their attackers' baby, where they ignore the will of the people." Newsom jump-started...

Georgia Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene called state Sen. Scott Wiener a "communist groomer" on Tuesday after the Bay Area lawmaker condemned the use of anti-LGTBQ hate speech in the wake of a mass shooting at a gay nightclub over the weekend, which left five people dead

On Friday, Breitbart, the far-right news site, was neck-and-neck with the Wall Street Journal on a huge scoop when they released details about the search warrant that was issued for Mar-a-Lago — former President Donald Trump's Florida estate — earlier this week. But Breitbart completely butchered their scoop. Rather than focusing on the specific details of the warrant, or the itemized list of property that federal agents seized from Trump's home on suspicion of potentially serious crimes (the outlet obtained both documents and only later published them in full), author Matthew Boyle initially chose to write about when the warrant...

Voters in Seattle’s third city council district are turning out early to cast their ballots in this month’s special election, which will determine whether Kshama Sawant, one of Seattle’s most polarizing elected officials, will remain in office. With just five days left before polls close on Tuesday, roughly 33% of voters have returned their ballot, according to King County election data. On Oct. 29 - five days before last month’s general election - roughly 20% of District 3 voters had returned their ballots. That means about 10,000 more people have voted now than at this time during the last election....