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"Story Highlights:
Government/Poor leadership remains the top problem, at 29%
Democrats’ concern about government near record high
Mentions of immigration rebound to 20%"
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“Government and political leadership remained Americans’ top concern in February, when asked to identify the ‘most important problem facing this country today.’ Immigration emerged as the clear second choice, followed by the economy and inflation.” politicalwire.com/2026/03/05/g...
Bernard LaFayette, Selma voting rights organizer and leader with the Chicago Freedom Movement, dies at 85
Follow the money
The Coinbase CEO met with Trump at the WH & hours later Trump attacked banks for opposing stablecoin yields
His family has made hundreds of millions from World Liberty Financial, which issues USD1 — a stablecoin that benefits directly!
Corruption in plain sight
The New York Times analyzed newly released satellite imagery, verified videos, and official government statements and detemined that U.S. missiles likely destroyed tbe elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 175 people.
The Trump administration would only say that it’s “investigating” the matter.
Bernard LaFayette, the advance man who did the risky groundwork for the voter registration campaign in Selma, Alabama, that culminated in the passage of the Voting Rights Act of 1965, has died.
"Five Republican incumbents were also swept from the State Legislature.” politicalwire.com/2026/03/05/a...
“Three veteran Democrats in safe seats who tended to vote with the GOP all lost their primaries by as much as 48 points, as their challengers promised to push back harder against Republicans’ steamrolling approach to legislating."
@propublica.org is one of the most important publications in the U.S. right now.
Freedom of the Press is a fundamental part of Democracy for a reason. This story is a major part of the reason Kristi Noem was canned.
"'The gravest decision a President can make is whether to send American troops into harm’s way. Trump, who once defined himself in opposition to foreign entanglements, has pivoted with astonishing alacrity toward open-ended confrontation across multiple theaters.'”
"“But the gambit carries extraordinary risks—for Trump’s presidency, for Iran’s fragile political future, for regional stability, and for the safety of Americans at home and abroad.
“'In short, if Trump campaigned as a President of peace, he has governed as the opposite. Now he has drawn the U.S. into the kind of conflict he long pledged to avoid. …'”
"'Trump promised to end wars, not start them. Instead, he has deployed military force in increasingly dizzying ways. No other modern American leader has directed assaults in as many countries in such a short span of time. …'”
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Kristi Noem’s firing could have a chilling effect on cabinet members’ ability to award nine-figure no-bid contracts to their cronies.
I’ve been asked if I would support Sen. Mullin as Noem’s replacement.
The answer is a resounding NO. The rot in DHS is deep, much deeper than any individual.
It’s a question of policy not personnel. The Senate should not consider any DHS Secretary nominee until DHS and ICE are reined in.
The media has rejected GOP efforts to characterize the war as anything but a war. The AP even assigned *ownership*. “Senate Republicans voted down an effort ... to halt President Donald Trump’s war against Iran.” (Even CNN’s Wolf Blitzer said *with pride* that he called it a war from day one.)
Kristi Noem has done a stunning amount of damage and it’s good she’s gone.
But this doesn’t change the fact that we need a complete overhaul of DHS, impartial investigations into the killings of two American citizens, and information on children that were taken from Minnesota.
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Kristi Noem has used $200M+ in taxpayer funds to pay firms with close ties to her top aides to make anti-immigrant PSAs.
Her luxury jets will cost taxpayers nearly $300M.
Trump's lackeys rail against "government waste," but are happy to pilfer taxpayer funds for themselves.
Markwayne called Rand Paul a “freaking snake” last week and said he supported his neighbor beating the crap out of him. Let’s see who the chair of the Senate Homeland Security committee is…oh goody it’s Rand Paul.
"While winning in Texas will be hard this year - we’ve haven’t won a statewide race there in 32 years - things are aligning in a way to give us a shot."
"While we came out of the Senate primary with a unified party behind our young, talented nominee, James Talarico, the Republicans are heading into a very contentious and difficult run-off between a tired incumbent and one of the most corrupt, extreme politicians in modern American history.
"In Texas on Tuesday night we saw what we’ve been seeing in elections of all kinds all across the country this cycle - strong Dem intensity, Republicans struggling.
"'we overperformed in Senate District 9 by 31 points and won that seat back back in January. Now we’re overperforming a primary by 30 points. It starts to make you wonder if those data points are about to become something that is consistent. And, you know, you love to see it.
"'Republicans usually outvote Democrats, 65/35, 70/30 in the state. And so to have a swing like that, that’s thirty points… it starts to build out a trend line…
"'I’ll say [the] headline to me is for the first time since 2002, Democrats outvoted Republicans in Texas. That is remarkable because even though we’ve seen elections that have been tight in Texas, we haven’t seen primaries that have been tight.
