Month: November 2022

Politico: “Powered by a multimillion-dollar get-out-the-vote program, turnout among Asian Americans nearly doubled in Georgia from 2016 to 2020, according to the Democratic firm TargetSmart — a major boon for Democrats, who they backed overwhelmingly. The same analysis found that the number of ballots cast by Asian Americans in the state increased by upwards of 60,000…

Poker News: “A new bill being proposed in Texas could threaten the existence of dozens of poker rooms and social clubs that have sprouted up throughout the southwestern state in recent years. While collecting rake is illegal in Texas, the law does allow for gambling to occur in a “private place” where every player has a fair shot at…

USA Today: “Republican Gov. Asa Hutchinson said former President Donald Trump’s meeting with a white nationalist last week was not “accidental” and that “it shouldn’t happen.” Trump, who this month announced he was running for president in the 2024 election, hosted a dinner with white supremacist Nick Fuentes and rapper Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, at his Mar-a-Lago resort…

The Guardian: “Six people were killed and four wounded in a shooting at a Walmart in Virginia late on Tuesday night, police said, in the second high-profile mass killing in the US in a handful of days. The assailant was also dead. Police said the suspect was a store employee. The chief of Chesapeake police,…

Rural Urban Bridge Initiative: “The Rural Urban Bridge Initiative invites liberals and progressives to think differently, talk differently and act differently in order to understand the causes of the rural-urban divide and then do something to repair it. We develop political, economic and communications strategies that build bridges and serve the common interests of working…

Political Wire: “Alabama Gov. Kay Ivey (R) sought a pause in executions and ordered a “top-to-bottom” review of the state’s capital punishment system Monday after an unprecedented third failed lethal injection, the AP reports.”

WaPo: “In an evenly divided Senate, subpoenas are issued on a bipartisan basis. But having 51 Democratic senators in the next Congress would give Democrats on key committees unilateral control over investigations. If Democrats used that power wisely but aggressively,they could demonstrate to the country what congressional oversight looks like when it’s genuinely conducted in…

TX Observer: “More than 5,500 children, including breastfeeding infants, were forcibly separated from their parents during the Trump administration’s family separation policy, which began as a pilot program in El Paso in early 2017. On June 20, 2018, former President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing Department of Homeland Security (DHS) officials to stop…

NC Policy Watch: “”Five Black incumbent legislators lost elections in eastern North Carolina districts last week, contributing to an overall decline in Black representation from rural counties with significant African-American populations.   Two of the incumbent House candidates who were defeated last week, Democratic Reps. Howard Hunter III of Hertford County and James D. Gailliard of…

WRAL: “Berger, after suggesting it would be handled before year’s end, has now pushed back any consideration of Medicaid expansion into the new year. It has already become entangled with unrelated concerns about the certificate of need regulations for hospital expansion. There are indications it will also be tied to concerns about medical debt and…