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As President Joe Biden travels to Georgia this week to push for federal voting rights legislation, it appears he will be bringing with him the new tone he adopted during his forceful speech commemorating the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol. “We are doubling down, kicking it into another gear, we are going right to the belly of the…

The Daily Kos Elections Morning Digest is compiled by David Nir, Jeff Singer, Stephen Wolf, Daniel Donner, and Carolyn Fiddler, with additional contributions from David Jarman, Steve Singiser, James Lambert, David Beard, and Arjun Jaikumar. Leading Off ● CA-05, CA-22 (special): While GOP Rep. Tom McClintock still hasn’t said anything publicly about his midterm plans,…

The New York Times has embarrassed itself once again in the exact same way it embarrassed itself just last week: by using a right-wing activist as an example of the man or woman on the street who just happens to have a right-wing position inspired by liberal overreach. What are the freakin’ odds that the same thing would…

You may be seeing the phrase, “Let’s go, Brandon” all over social media. But who is Brandon, and why are people cheering him on? Well, there’s some bad news. The phrase isn’t a cheer for someone named Brandon. It’s actually a vulgar term essentially telling Biden to fuck himself. It’s popular among conservatives and members of…

While 2021 is an off-year for much of the country, we still have plenty of exciting races to watch on Tuesday. The biggest action will be in Virginia, where Democrats are hoping to keep their hard-won gains in this onetime swing state by holding the governorship, House of Delegates, and other statewide posts. We also…

A new bundle of reporting is out on what’s being branded as the “Facebook Papers,” a mountain of leaked internal company documents and communications currently being combed over by a variety of news outlets. There are several new revelations this time around, although we may be stretching the definition of “revelations” for anyone who has…

The COVID-19 pandemic exacerbated an already prevalent issue in our country, racism against Asian Americans. Reports indicating the surge in hate crimes against the Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) community continue as people report more often, allowing data to be more accurate. But while each report indicates alarming rates, newly republished data by the FBI…

President Joe Biden has picked roughly one-third of the nominees for positions in his administration that require Senate confirmation; 405 identified out of about 1,200 total slots. There are another 2,500+ positions that are political appointments not needing confirmation, many of which have burrowed Trumpers still hanging around. He’s been chipping away at it, and some of…

In the indictment, filed on Thursday, Riley was on active duty in the K-9 unit, and while he was not in the Capitol building on Jan. 6, he did respond to reports of an explosive device near the Capitol grounds. The obstruction comes after a new Facebook friendship Riley had begun with someone—identified as “Person 1”—posted “’selfie’-style photographs, videos, and other commentary on Facebook admitting his presence and conduct inside the U.S. Capitol on…

“This is very big, big deal. This is a signal like we’ve never had before in the United States about where we can go with offshore wind,” Dan Reicher, a former assistant secretary of energy who now works in the wind industry, told The New York Times. The Biden administration previously approved a wind farm offshore of Massachusetts…