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Axios:
Democrats make quiet history with state-level gains — Overlooked amid frantic punditry about the “red ripple” in Congress: Democrats quietly won and defended majorities in state legislatures across the country, weakening GOP power on issues at the heart of the national political debate.
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Tim Alberta / The Atlantic:
Trumpism Is Toxic — The Republican Party swaggered into Tuesday's midterm elections with full confidence that it would clobber President Joe Biden and his Democratic Party, capitalizing on voters' concerns over inflation and the economy to retake majorities in both chambers of Congress.
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CNBC, Vox, The Hill, The States, Tangle, Mediaite and New Republic
Caroline Vakil / The Hill:
Nevada Senate race on knife's edge as majority hangs in the balance — Republicans and Democrats are on tenterhooks as results from the Nevada Senate race trickle in, with both parties expressing optimism that they'll prevail in a race that will help determine who holds a narrow majority in the upper chamber.
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Washington Times, Raw Story and NewsNation
Politico:
Congress paralyzed by unresolved midterm races
Congress paralyzed by unresolved midterm races
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New York Times, Washington Post, The 19th, Voice of America, Leave the Gun …, Al Jazeera and The Philadelphia Inquirer
Alex Seitz-Wald / NBC News:
Republicans who questioned the 2020 results are bringing back an old norm: Admitting defeat
Republicans who questioned the 2020 results are bringing back an old norm: Admitting defeat
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NewsNation
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
David Shor's (Premature) Autopsy of the 2022 Midterm Elections
David Shor's (Premature) Autopsy of the 2022 Midterm Elections
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HotAir, Raw Story, Vox, The American Conservative, Kevin Drum, The Federalist and Slate
The Philadelphia Inquirer:
'It's time for him to retire': Some Pa. Republicans want to push Trump aside after their election losses
'It's time for him to retire': Some Pa. Republicans want to push Trump aside after their election losses
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The Daily Beast, The Hill, Washington Times and Raw Story
Washington Post:
How Trump, infighting and flawed candidates limited Republican gains
How Trump, infighting and flawed candidates limited Republican gains
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Associated Press, American Greatness, The Daily Caller, CNN, New York Times, The Federalist, Mediaite, HotAir, Forbes, Sputnik News, Wall Street Journal, Washington Examiner, Insider, The Daily Wire, Erick Erickson Show Notes, The Hill, Florida Politics, Raw Story, Fox News, Balloon Juice, NBC New York, WHNT-TV, No More Mister Nice Blog, Daily Kos, Vanity Fair and HuffPost, more at Mediagazer »
The Economist:
A Republican victory will be much smaller than Democrats feared
A Republican victory will be much smaller than Democrats feared
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The Atlantic and The Hill
Ross Barkan / Political Currents:
Where Democrats Lost — The fast-rising Asian vote slips away — What a fascinating night it was.
Where Democrats Lost — The fast-rising Asian vote slips away — What a fascinating night it was.
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Wall Street Journal
Kevin Drum:
Betting markets lost big on Tuesday
Betting markets lost big on Tuesday
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Frontpage Mag, Reason, Political Wire and The Mahablog
Casey Newton / Platformer:
Inside the Twitter meltdown — Elon is speaking. VPs are resigning. Is bankruptcy next? — and Zoë Schiffer — Everything went from bad to worse at Twitter on Thursday. Today let's talk about a truly chaotic 24 hours at the company, and the mounting fears over what it means …
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The Information, The Verge, The Wrap and Bloomberg, more at Mediagazer »
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Bloomberg:
Musk Warns Twitter Bankruptcy Possible as Senior Executives Exit — Elon Musk, in his first address to Twitter Inc. employees since purchasing the company for $44 billion, said that bankruptcy was a possibility if it doesn't start generating more cash, according to people familiar with the matter.
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Reuters, The Information, Breitbart, CNN, Fortune, Forbes, One America News Network, UPI, The Wrap, The Post Millennial, TechCrunch and New York Post, more at Mediagazer »
Washington Post:
Twitter's content moderation head quits as a wave of departures alarms the FTC — Yoel Roth had become the public face of Twitter's efforts to reassure users and advertisers the service would not become a ‘hellscape’ — BREAKING: Twitter's head of safety and integrity, Yoel Roth …
New York Times:
‘Economic Picture Ahead Is Dire,’ Elon Musk Tells Twitter Employees — In his first communications with Twitter's staff, the company's new owner painted a bleak picture as more employees resigned. — SAN FRANCISCO — Two weeks after closing a $44 billion deal to buy Twitter …
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Quartz, Mediaite, Gizmodo, Rolling Stone, The San Francisco Standard, The Hill, TechCrunch, Metro.co.uk, Boing Boing, Bloomberg, Al Jazeera and The Verge, more at Techmeme »
Alex Heath / The Verge:
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer
Elon Musk is putting Twitter at risk of billions in fines, warns company lawyer
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CNBC, CNN, The Daily Caller, New York Times, The Daily Beast, Slate, The Information, Vanity Fair, Occupy Democrats, Politico, Variety, Mediaite, Daily Kos, TechCrunch, Techdirt, The Daily Wire, The Register and The Hill, more at Techmeme »
Jonathan Martin / Politico:
Rick Scott Was Prepared to Take On McConnell — Until Tuesday — For nearly two years, former President Donald Trump has demanded Senate Republicans dump Mitch McConnell as their leader but has never offered an alternative. — This week, one was set to emerge: the man in charge …
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Alex Isenstadt / Politico:
McConnell turns to Brian Kemp to help save Herschel Walker in Georgia runoff — Mitch McConnell is tapping Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp to help Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker over the finish line in his December runoff election — a contest that could decide control of the chamber next year.
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Washington Free Beacon, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, CNN, Raw Story, The Daily Wire, The Daily Caller and Breitbart
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Black Georgia voters say the Walker-Warnock runoff leaves them with a burden to ‘save the Senate’ again
Black Georgia voters say the Walker-Warnock runoff leaves them with a burden to ‘save the Senate’ again
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New York Times, Axios, The American Independent, Fox News, The Hill, Raw Story and Daily Montanan
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
How Warnock became the last Democrat standing in Georgia's top 2022 races
How Warnock became the last Democrat standing in Georgia's top 2022 races
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Washington Free Beacon, Associated Press and NPR
Danielle Douglas-Gabriel / Washington Post:
Federal judge in Texas strikes down Biden's student loan forgiveness plan — A federal judge in Texas on Thursday struck down President Biden's student loan forgiveness program, delivering a victory to a conservative advocacy group that sued to strike down the plan.
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Nate Raymond / Reuters:
U.S. judge declares Biden's student debt relief plan unlawful — A federal judge in Texas on Thursday ruled that President Joe Biden's plan to cancel hundreds of billions of dollars in student loan debt was unlawful and must be vacated, delivering a victory to conservative opponents of the program.
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New York Times, BuzzFeed News, ABC News, Washington Examiner, CBS News, Twitchy, TheBlaze, NBC4 Washington, 6abc, National Review, The Daily Wire and The Intercept
Paul Egan / Detroit Free Press:
Michigan GOP memo delivers scathing election post-mortem on Trump-backed candidates — LANSING — The Michigan Republican Party suffered historic losses on Tuesday because of poor candidates with close ties to former President Donald Trump, who turned off major donors, the party's chief …
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Detroit News, Big League Politics, WOOD-TV, Political Wire and Heartland Signal
Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Sean Patrick Maloney on His Loss, the Media and A.O.C. — Mr. Maloney said that he and other New York Democrats were unable to overcome suburban fears of crime. He also had some harsh words for Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. — For Representative Sean Patrick Maloney …
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The Hill, HuffPost, New York Post, Mediaite and MSNBC
Julia Shapero / The Hill:
Trump to hold ‘special announcement’ at Mar-a-Lago amid GOP pushback on 2024 bid — Former President Trump unveiled new details about his “special announcement” at Mar-a-Lago next week, which is widely expected to launch his 2024 presidential campaign, even as the former president faces pushback from within the Republican Party.
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Jeremy W. Peters / New York Times:
Murdoch's news outlets extend their criticism of Trump.
Murdoch's news outlets extend their criticism of Trump.
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Insider, Forbes, Mediaite, The Hill, Bloomberg, The Wrap, Deseret News, Vanity Fair, Daily Mail, The Moderate Voice, Occupy Democrats, Slate and The Guardian
Paul Steinhauser / Fox News:
Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign
Georgia Senate runoff: Walker hauls in $3.3 million on first day of new campaign
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DSCC, DemCast, The Daily Caller, Balloon Juice, The National Interest, The Hill and NBC News
Politico:
Judge slaps sanctions on Trump lawyers for ‘frivolous’ Clinton lawsuit — A federal judge on Thursday excoriated and sanctioned several members of Donald Trump's legal team, saying the former president's massive lawsuit against his former rival, Hillary Clinton, and dozens of other adversaries amounted …
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CNN, CNBC, Raw Story and PoliticusUSA
Conrad Swanson / Denver Post:
Lauren Boebert takes slim lead over Adam Frisch, thousands of ballots still remain in Pueblo County — Eyes across the country are now watching Colorado's CD3 race, which was far tighter than most expected — Early in the third day of of the 2022 midterm election, incumbent U.S …
Elizabeth Williamson / New York Times:
With New Ruling, Sandy Hook Families Win Over $1.4 Billion From Alex Jones — A judge added $473 million in fees to the award Mr. Jones must pay in a Connecticut case and ordered him not to move his personal assets outside the United States. — The Infowars conspiracy broadcaster Alex Jones must pay …
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Laurel Brubaker Calkins / Bloomberg:
Alex Jones's Assets Are Frozen by Judge in Sandy Hook Case
Alex Jones's Assets Are Frozen by Judge in Sandy Hook Case
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Associated Press, WND, Fortune, Law & Crime, Forbes, Al Jazeera and The Gateway Pundit
Washington Post:
TikTok, time's up. The app should be banned in America. — Marco Rubio, a Republican, is a U.S. senator from Florida. Mike Gallagher, a Republican, represents Wisconsin's 8th Congressional District in the House. — The United States is locked in a new Cold War with the Chinese Communist Party …
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HotAir, National Review, The Information, Washington Free Beacon and Althouse
Wall Street Journal:
FTX Tapped Into Customer Accounts to Fund Risky Bets, Setting Up Its Downfall — FTX's chief executive told investors this week that an affiliated trading firm owes the crypto exchange about $10 billion — What's Next For Crypto? — YOU MAY ALSO LIKE — Created with sketchtool.
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Andrew Cain / Richmond Times-Dispatch:
Earle-Sears breaks with Trump, saying it is time for the GOP to move on — Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who once worked to rally African American support for Donald Trump, on Thursday publicly broke with the former president, saying it's time for the GOP to move on.
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Washington Post, Blue Virginia and Political Wire