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Lawrence: While Trump lies about hurricane relief, Harris picks up important endorsements

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  • Lawrence: President who? Who will really do the job? RFK? Musk?

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  • ‘We have to go to watchdog mode’: Sen. Whitehouse on what Dems face in next Trump term

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  • Lawrence: Kamala Harris echoed Frederick Douglass in her final speech

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  • Harris campaign: We have the ‘opportunity to send Trump to Mar-a-Lago for good’

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  • Lawrence’s final message on Harris v. Trump: ‘You can choose hope.’

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  • Lawrence: The one person who did not deny Donald Trump wants Liz Cheney executed is Donald Trump

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  • Allred torches Ted Cruz for claiming voters don’t care about abortion rights

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  • Lawrence: Trump’s ‘whether women like it or not’ comment revives Access Hollywood tape

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  • Emhoff: Trump’s reported Hitler admiration should ‘chill every American to the core’

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  • Lawrence: Using the language of Hitler, Trump calls Americans ‘garbage’ all the time

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  • ‘Fatherland’ tells real drama of son who turned his father in after the January 6 insurrection

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  • Lawrence: In 7 days, we’ll know if Kamala Harris delivered us from Trump’s madness & criminality

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  • Lawrence: At MSG, Trump and his fanatics proved just how safe New York City is

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  • Harris calls out Trump for hypocrisy of abortion bans while not sharing his medical records

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  • ‘Reproductive freedom is on the ballot’: Harris and Beyoncé speak to huge Texas rally

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  • ‘I’m here as a mother’: Beyoncé endorses Kamala Harris in emotional Texas rally speech

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  • Lawrence: Harris & Obama denounce ‘dangerous’ Trump who condemns John Kelly, not Hitler

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  • Lawrence: Reporters must ask Trump ‘what good things did Hitler do?’

    10:01

  • UP NEXT

    ‘It can still be ok if we fight for it’: Poet Caroline Randall Williams reacts to 2024 election

    09:34

  • Dems have ‘work cut out’ for them over next 4 years, says Rep.-elect Vindman

    07:58

  • Lawrence: President who? Who will really do the job? RFK? Musk?

    19:38

  • ‘We have to go to watchdog mode’: Sen. Whitehouse on what Dems face in next Trump term

    04:11

  • Lawrence: Kamala Harris echoed Frederick Douglass in her final speech

    11:23

  • Harris campaign: We have the ‘opportunity to send Trump to Mar-a-Lago for good’

    05:50

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Colin Allred enters U.S. Senate race in Texas

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Former Rep. Colin Allred is jumping back into the Texas Senate race, after losing to Ted Cruz eight months ago.

In a video released Tuesday, Allred, who flipped a red-leaning district in 2018, pledged to take on “politicians like [Texas Sen.] John Cornyn and [Attorney General] Ken Paxton,” who “are too corrupt to care about us and too weak to fight for us,” while pledging to run on an “anti-corruption plan.”

Democrats are hopeful that a messy Republican primary — pitting Cornyn against Paxton, who has weathered multiple scandals in office and leads in current polling — could yield an opening for a party in search of offensive opportunities. But unlike in 2024, when Allred ran largely unopposed in the Senate Democratic primary, Democrats are poised to have a more serious and crowded primary field, which could complicate their shot at flipping the reliably red state.

Former astronaut Terry Virts announced his bid last week, when he took a swing at both parties in his announcement video. Rep. Joaquin Castro (D-Texas) has voiced interest, while former Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who ran unsuccessfully for governor in 2018 and 2022, has been headlining packed town halls. State Rep. James Talarico told Blue Light News he’s “having conversations about how I can best serve Texas.”

Allred, a former NFL player turned congressman, leaned heavily into his biography for his launch video. He retold the story of buying his mom a house once he turned pro, but said, “you shouldn’t have to have a son in the NFL to own a home.”

“Folks who play by the rules and keep the faith just can’t seem to get ahead. But the folks who cut corners and cut deals — well, they’re doing just fine,” Allred continued. “I know Washington is broken. The system is rigged. But it doesn’t have to be this way. In six years in Congress, I never took a dime of corporate PAC money, never traded a single stock.”

Turning Texas blue has long been a dream for Democrats, who argued the state’s increasing diversity will help them eventually flip it. But Trump’s significant inroads with Latino voters in Texas, particularly in the Rio Grande Valley, may impede those hopes. Of the 10 counties that shifted the farthest right from the 2012 to 2024 presidential elections, seven are in Texas, according to a New York Times analysis, including double-digit improvements in seven heavily Latino districts.

Early polling has found Allred leading Paxton by one percentage point in a head-to-head contest — though he trailed Cornyn by six points. The polling, commissioned by Senate Leadership Fund, the GOP leadership-aligned super PAC that supports Cornyn, underscored Paxton’s general election weakness while showing Cornyn losing to Paxton in the GOP primary.

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The Senate megabill is on a collision course with House fiscal hawks

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The Senate megabill is on a collision course with House fiscal hawks

GOP senators appear poised to violate a House budget framework conservatives negotiated with Speaker Mike Johnson…
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Elon Musk says he’ll launch third party if megabill passes

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Elon Musk said Monday he would follow through on threats to establish a third party if President Donald Trump’s “big, beautiful bill” is enacted by Congress. Musk said on X his “America Party will be formed the next day” after its passage. He posted as the Senate moved closer to a final vote on what he called an “insane” domestic policy bill…
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