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Touch the Third Rail And Die— The Party of Cruelty Strikes Again
Senate Republicans Aren’t Just Coming For Medicaid; They’re Looking at Medicare Too— And Think We Won’t Notice How'd that work out? The...

Howie Klein
Jun 64 min read
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Will The 2026 Blue Wave Be Big Enough To Reach South Carolina... Tuesday's Special Election Says Yes
Nancy Mace's & Lindsey Graham's Careers Could Well Capsize There was a special election Tuesday in a rural South Carolina State House...

Howie Klein
Jun 53 min read
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Maybe Republicans Who Switch Parties Should Wait A Bit Before Becoming Democratic Party Leaders
I'm Glad When Republicans Become Progressives, The Way Elizabeth Warren Did The other day, I posted something at Threads about an...

Howie Klein
May 317 min read
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What Happens When Midterm Voters Meet Trump's Over-The-Top Corruption And The MAGA Plundering?
"Congress surrenders" by Nancy Ohanian I doubt it surprises any DWT readers that Trump’s most successful business venture was the...

Howie Klein
May 306 min read
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Next Year's Midterms Will Bring Undeserved— And Temporary— Good News For Congressional Democrats
Tragically, There Are No Blue Waves— Just Anti-Red Waves Luckily, not as bad as Trump And MAGA Mike The reputational damage to the...

Howie Klein
May 268 min read
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Sure, Trump Lost The Plot— But The Democrats Sure Appear To Be Losing The Moment
Echoes In The Vacuum— The Opposition That Forgot To Oppose As hard as it is to believe— it’s easier to believe Musk used Starlink or...

Howie Klein
May 144 min read
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Let's Not Mix Trump Up With The U.S.A.— And Let's Hope No One Overseas Does Either
A Blue Wave Is Forming— A Big One At a small dinner party the other night, one of the guests, an old friend, stated that she never...

Howie Klein
Apr 265 min read
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DCCC Announced Its Target List For 2026— They Should Put More Energy Into Recruiting Good Candidates
Today's List Is Conservative And Unimaginative But, For Them, OK They're gone... but the DCCC is determined to find plenty just like them...

Howie Klein
Apr 82 min read
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Bannon Is Right About One Thing: "Musk Is A Parasitic Illegal Immigrant Who Wants To Play-Act As God"
Midterms Should Be About Tying Musk & His Cuts To GOP Incumbents In an interview with James Billot , Steve Bannon stoked his war with the...

Howie Klein
Feb 198 min read
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There’s No Way The GOP Will Ring In 2025 With A Dysfunctional Fight Over Speaker... Is There?
Trump And Musk Are Threatening Primaries Against Anyone Who Acts Up Trump told the House he wants puppet MAGA Mike back as speaker. That...

Howie Klein
Jan 14 min read
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Can The Democrats Pull Their Heads Out Of Their Asses And Win The 2026 Midterms?
I saw a House Majority PAC wish list somewhere— 45 Republican-held districts they would like to contest in 2026. If they meant by...

Howie Klein
Dec 14, 20249 min read
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How Fake Partisan Polling Firms Screw Up Elections-- With An Assist From The Media
The New York Times assigned a trio of reporters— Jim Rutenberg, Ken Bensinger and Steve Eder— to get to the bottom of the plague of phony...

Howie Klein
Dec 31, 202211 min read
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Could The Democrats Have Kept The House Majority With A Little Extra Effort And Competence?
One of the most unexpected wins to drop into the Democrats’ lap was in southwest Washington state where a thoroughly red seat was won by...

Howie Klein
Dec 28, 20226 min read
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What It Takes To Win A Republican Party Primary Is What It Takes To Lose A General Election
Republican politicians are having an increasingly difficult time with messaging as the party’s base— primary voters— descend into a world...

Howie Klein
Dec 26, 20228 min read
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The Democrats Are Lucky Trump Didn't Accept His 2020 Defeat And Disappear Like A Mensch
Yesterday, the Ways and Means Committee voted, 24-16, to release Trump’s tax returns from 2015 through 2020. Every Republican voted...

Howie Klein
Dec 21, 202214 min read
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In Making The GOP Over In His Own Image, Trump Has Turned It Into A Party Of Predatory Losers
Marge whines Herschel lost because he told her to stay away from his events and refused to have her speak for him— except at “2 or 3” in...

Howie Klein
Dec 8, 20224 min read
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Most Normal Americans-- If Not Most Republicans-- Still Hate Nazis
How Different Is Nick Fuentes From Newt Gingrich? On Wednesday, far right operative Newt Gingrich published a provocative blog post, Quit...

Howie Klein
Dec 3, 20224 min read
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MAGA Republicans Are Trying To Overturn The Results Of Arizona's Midterms
One of the hallmarks of fascism is that fascists don’t accept election results that don’t go their way. And in Arizona this month, it did...

Howie Klein
Nov 29, 20222 min read
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Karl Rove v Josh Hawley-- And Rove Has Reality On His Side
This morning in his Wall Street Journal column, Karl Rove wrote that crackpot Missouri senator, Josh Hawley— who is up for...

Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20226 min read
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Young Voter Turnout Was Through The Roof-- And It Made a Real Difference
Votes are still being counted but as far as I can tell, there were 6 congressional seats that were decided in favor of Democrats by less...

Howie Klein
Nov 24, 20224 min read
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