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Progressive Groups Push Democrats on ‘Freedom’ for Midterm Election Message

For much of the midterm campaign, Democrats have grappled with how to define their message, weighing slogans like “Democrats deliver” and “Build back better,” and issuing warnings against “ultra-MAGA” Republicans. Now, a coalition of progressive organizations has settled on what its leaders hope will be a unified pitch from the left. This November, they plan […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 11, 2022, 12:32 pm
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Opinion | Are Democrats Bungling Their Outreach to Voters?

To the Editor: Re “Fed Up With Democratic Emails? You’re Not the Only One,” by Lara Putnam and Micah L. Sifry (Opinion guest essay, nytimes.com, Aug. 1): The on-the-ground organizing the writers favor is admirable. But in deriding letters to voters, they are far off the mark. The science is clear: Large-scale randomized controlled trials […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 10, 2022, 1:48 pm
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How Democrats Salvaged a History-Making Bill

The climate change and prescription drug law has revived a set of party goals that were widely thought to be dead. View the Original Article More

by Tonya Frazier August 9, 2022, 5:00 am
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Democrats Enter the Fall Armed With Something New: Hope

Vulnerable incumbent Democratic senators like Maggie Hassan of New Hampshire and Catherine Cortez Masto of Nevada are already planning events promoting the landmark legislation they passed over the weekend. Democratic ad makers are busily preparing a barrage of commercials about it across key battlegrounds. And the White House is set to deploy Cabinet members on […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 9, 2022, 4:00 am
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Democrats and Republicans Struggle to Forecast 2022 Midterms

Doug Sosnik is the kind of political analyst who likes to figure out the results of the next election well in advance — it’s just how he’s wired. But even Sosnik, a former adviser to President Bill Clinton who now tries to forecast elections as a hobby, is stumped about the 2022 midterms. “I can’t […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 8, 2022, 6:00 pm
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For The First Time Since November Democrats Lead On Average Of All Congressional Ballots

According to 538’s average of all generic congressional ballot questions, Democrats have taken the lead over Republicans for the first time since November. A Big Post Roe Change In The Midterm Polling Average For Democrats The 538 graph: For the first time since Nov 15 of last year, Dems are leading in the 538 generic […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 8, 2022, 12:17 pm
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Democrats Just Hired 87,000 More IRS Employees to Harass, Attack Americans — Here’s a List of the Conservative Groups the Obama IRS Targeted in 2012

On March 26, 2014, IRS Commissioner John Koskinen testified before the House Oversight and Government Reform. Koskinen told Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) during the hearing that Lois Lerner’s emails were archived and it would take a long time to retrieve them. In June 2014 the IRS told Congress Lois Lerner’s emails were lost in a computer crash. Advertisement – story […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 8, 2022, 9:09 am
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Democrats’ ‘Inflation Reduction’ Bill To Make The IRS Larger Than FBI, Border Patrol, State Department Combined

The Senate on Sunday passed the Democrats’ sweeping economic package that would allocate billions of taxpayer dollars to facilitate the expansion of the Internal Revenue Service’s workforce. The IRS would receive $80 billion if H.R. 5376, the $750 billion “Inflation Reduction Act” passes the House and lands on Biden’s desk. The funding would mark a […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 7, 2022, 7:43 pm
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Rick Scott Gets Brutally Busted As He Falsely Claims Democrats Are Cutting Medicare

Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) tried to claim that Democrats are cutting with their reconciliation bill but was called out on Face The Nation. Video: Transcript via CBS’s Face The Nation: MARGARET BRENNAN: Well, I- you know, no matter what, it does not look like there is any way to stop what is expected to be […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 7, 2022, 12:36 pm
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Senate ‘Vote-a-Rama’ Lasts Through the Night With Democrats’ Agenda at Stake

WASHINGTON — A bleary-eyed Senator Joe Manchin III, the West Virginia Democrat who brokered the climate, health and tax deal that was on a glide path to passage within hours, sat silently at his desk in the Senate chamber around midnight on Saturday, gazing blankly into the middle distance as he munched on M&Ms. A […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 7, 2022, 11:42 am
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Democrats Hold Off Republican Amendments, And Some of Their Own

For Republicans, the hourslong ritual of the vote-a-rama served as a last-ditch effort to inflict political pain over a package they have no intention of supporting. They railed against the hundreds of billions of dollars in climate spending, tried to siphon funds toward restricting immigration at the southwestern border and repeatedly attacked a $80 billion […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 7, 2022, 11:34 am
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In Senate Battle, Democrats Defy Biden’s Low Standing (for Now)

PHOENIX — In a Senate split 50-50, Democrats on the campaign trail and in Congress have zero margin for error as the party tries to navigate a hostile political environment defined chiefly by President Biden’s albatross-like approval ratings. But with the Senate battlefield map mostly set after primaries in Arizona and Missouri this past week, […] More

by Tonya Frazier August 6, 2022, 4:00 am