Excellent news
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Excellent news
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Correction. Orwell never said this. He did however, warn that: "political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.” (That's Politics and the English Language, one of my favorite essays)
When you have the chance, please take the time to watch Harrison Ford's remarkable, beautiful Life Achievement Award acceptance speech. #ActorAwards
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For those at home unfamiliar with the 2006 election
31 seat swing in the House
5 seat swing in the Senate
And that preceded 2008
21 additional seats for Dems in the House
8 additional seats for Dems in the Senate
And we are seeing a similar version of this in the United States right now.
Research by @chenoweth.bsky.social and the Crowd Counting Consortium suggests that the perception of democratic threat, from Trump's power grabs and ICE, have played a critical role in motivating a mass resistance movement
Trump approval declined among every category grouping shown.
Well said.
BREAKING: A federal court rejects a meritless effort by partisan actors in Utah to put a gerrymandered congressional map back in place. The court protects our clients' victory and solidifies that a fair, legal map must be implemented for the midterms.
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BREAKING: Three federal judges unanimously rejected the latest — and likely last — attempt by GOP lawmakers to block a new congressional map from being used in Utah's 2026 midterm elections.
Crowd-sourced data gives us a lens into how big the ICE surge was in MN compared to other places, visualized today in the Minnesota @startribune.com
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Same or lower
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Trump pres. approval underwater, big time
📉Below 50%
🟡Age 50-64 46%
🟡White 45%
🟡Age 65+ 42%
📉Below 40%
🟠ALL ADULTS 36%
🟠Age 35-49
🟠Women 33%
📉Below 30%
🔴Independents 26%
🔴Age 18-34 25%
🔴Latino 22%
🔴Black 21%
📉Below 20%
🟣Democrats 5%
Bleak: akin to Bush 2006-08 collapse
www.cnn.com/2026/02/23/p...
It looks more and more likely that Utah will have a fair congressional map for the 2026 Midterms. Thanks to all who made this happen and who will keep fighting for fair representation.
You’d think when we are nearing Bush II post Katrina/Iraq approvals which is worse than even Biden had and just a nightmare with Indies there would be some serious journalists doing serious articles on the multiple polls showing 60%+ disapproval just in the last 24hrs
Those are catastrophic approval ratings indeed.
Finally, SCOTUS reaffirms what we've known all along, Trump's tariffs are an unconstitutional tax on the American people.
Over the last year, working people paid an average of $1,000 more because of these tariffs. And Trump has no plan to put that money back in your wallet.
UNIQUELY UTAH
-Most educated red state
-Fastest-growing, youngest state
-Least Evangelical state; 52% LDS/Mormon vs 70% in 2004
-81% of Wasatch Front suburban cities swung LEFT in 2024
-Swung blue more than any other state, 2004-2024
-Only state where Harris % > Biden %
-Prop 4/Fair Maps (+1 D 2026)
Thousands of institutions abandoned programs, ended or rewrote scholarships, closed down clubs and publications, all in pre-emptive compliance.
And you know why?
Mostly because they wanted to do it if they thought they could blame someone else for it.
NEW: A majority of Republicans (56%) qualify as either Christian nationalism Adherents or Sympathizers, compared with 1 in 4 independents (25%) and less than 1 in 5 Democrats (17%), according to PRRI's latest report "Mapping Christian Nationalism Across the 50 States."
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My favorite 2025 election maps document the dramatic surprise upset of an increasingly embattled 2-time incumbent mayor by a moderate reform candidate here in Provo, Utah's 4th largest city. A mudslide in SE Provo after the primary + other factors helped swing the vote +5 pts against the incumbent.
My favorite election maps I made in 2025 document the dramatic surprise upset of an increasingly embattled 2-time incumbent mayor by a moderate reform candidate here in Provo, Utah's 4th largest city. A mudslide in SE Provo after the primary helped swing the vote +5 pts against the incumbent.
Excellent maps and visualizations as always.
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o... [GIFT LINK]
This essay by Will McGrath is so compelling (gift link):
www.nytimes.com/2026/02/18/o...