TX Observer: “Lieutenant Governor Dan Patrick is heartsick and afraid. He’s scared for his six grandchildren, who may grow up in a country that rejects its greatness in exchange for wokeness and anti-whiteness. Critical race theory and the New York Times’ 1619 Project “not only hurts my heart,” Patrick has said, but also “scares the hell…

NY Times: “A year ago, Daniel Darling was following news reports about the development of the coronavirus vaccines with eager anticipation. His family had all had Covid-19 themselves, and his children had lost their beloved piano teacher, an otherwise healthy 50-year-old woman, to the virus. The pandemic was personal. Eventually, vaccination became personal for Mr….

NY Times: “In Terry McAuliffe’s tough fight for a new term as Virginia’s governor, he has been striving to frame the election as a referendum on a president. Just not the one who is currently sitting in the Oval Office. For weeks, Mr. McAuliffe has made little mention of President Biden, instead using his campaign…

WaPo: “The trial over Ahmaud Arbery’s killing promises to be yet another high-stakes test of the proposition that such a thing as colorblind justice can exist in these United States. Arbery, an unarmed Black man — where have we heard that before? — was chased down, accosted and killed near Brunswick, Ga., by White vigilantes in February 2020…

NC Policy Watch: “Voter registration in North Carolina is divided roughly into thirds – a third Democrats, a third Republicans, and a third unaffiliated voters. Donald Trump eked out a victory in North Carolina with 49.9% of the vote to President Joe Biden’s 48.6%. So how did North Carolina Republicans senators come up with proposed…

WaPo: “A fundamental tenet of police training in the United States is that officers who fire their weapons in response to a deadly threat should always aim for “center mass,” generally the chest. That’s the biggest target and so the easiest to hit. But a bullet that finds its mark there is likely to kill….

WaPo: “All 100 seats in the House are on the Nov. 2 ballot. Democrats are defending a 55-45 advantage. Republicans need to flip just six districts to regain the majority they had enjoyed for a generation until Democrats snatched it in 2019, when voters turned out in massive numbers to express their dislike of Trump….

AL Political Reporter: “Twenty-six-year-old white Episcopal seminary student, Jonathan Daniels knew the dangers he faced. His cleric’s collar and the quarter-sized black and white lapel pin that he always wore  — with the white cross in the middle and the initials “ESCRU” underneath, which stood for Episcopal Society for Cultural and Racial Unity — made him…

Arkansas Times: “Casey Copeland, the state contractor who was fired after emailing Rep. Charlene Fite (R-Alma) to criticize her vote to deny gender-affirming care to transgender youth, has had his state contract reinstated permanently. After working as an attorney for the state on dependency-neglect cases since 2012, Copeland said he was fired on April 1 after emailing…

Old North State Politics: “There is indeed a lot of North Carolina past Asheville- hours of it, in fact. There’s a mid-sized university, part of a national park, a portion of the Blue Ridge Parkway, 8 counties, a separate nation, a ton of bears, some good flatpickers, terrific whitewater, three NC House districts, two NC…