Daniel Nichanian. bsky.app/profile/taniel.bsky… Editor & founder of @BoltsMag. Local politics, criminal justice, voting rights.
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Some MAGA Inc. big donors in Sept.:
— Stephen Wynn gave $8 million
— Stephen Schwarzman of Blackston gave $5 million
— GEO Reentry Services LLC gave $1 million
— Konstantin Sokolov gave $1 million
— Keith Wold Jr. gave $1 million
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Utah Republicans packed the court this year with two extra seats, plus pressured a justice to resign, all in anger at the state Supreme Court helping strike down their gerrymander. New reporting on one of the justices:
#EXCLUSIVE: Newly appointed Utah Supreme Court Justice Michael Menssen signed the effort to repeal Utah’s anti-gerrymandering law, Prop. 4 in February, seven months before he would become a justice. He did not recuse himself from the latest case involving the redistricting plaintiffs against the legislature. @abc4utah
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what an unreal statement after releasing that video, claiming they want the race to be “about substantive issues”
Ramaswamy took credit for the anti-Acton video after his central OH event today.
"It is an ad from our campaign, and the thing that I want to say is that I would love for this race and this election to be about the substantive issues that impact Ohioans, and unfortunately, Amy Acton has been hiding from those issues."
abcnews.com/Politics/amy-act…
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SCOOP: Vivek Ramaswamy is doubling down on the explosive ad featuring Amy Acton's estranged mother attacking her daughter, putting $4 million behind it despite fierce bipartisan backlash
More >>
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NEW: Justice Elena Kagan tonight blasted the Supreme Court's conservative majority for undermining democracy in various rulings that have turbocharged partisan redistricting, eviscerated the Voting Rights Act & eliminated campaign finance restrictions.
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.@50plus1news had evidently conducted extensive data analysis and reporting to establish that Wedgewood was fraud. *And* it appears from their article that Wedgewood tried to protect themselves and their lies until they couldn’t (making their statement today unconvincing.)
We were investigating Wedgewood for faking their data and emailed them for comment this morning, ahead of publishing the findings tomorrow. They are trying to cover up their fraud with the "we were doing a social experiment" excuse.
Full story here: blog.fiftyplusone.news/p/fif…
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And that’s not a coincidence!
A GOP-backed measure in South Dakota would require constitutional amendments to receive 60 percent.
Had this rule already been in place, all four amendments approved by voters since 2020 would have lost instead, including Medicaid expansion.
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hidden underneath the mayoral race in Los Angeles, a DSA candidate is looking to win another big local office that has a lot of underused powers to enforce tenants' and consumers' rights: boltsmag.org/los-angeles-cit…
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These are some of the biggest 'triage' news so far.
GOP is signaling they don't think they can flip one of the districts that DeSantis re-gerrymandered in South Florida. And that they don't think they can hold the NC district Chuck Edwards retired from in scandal this summer.
TRIAGE NEWS: @CLFSuperPAC is axing its reservation to oust Dem Rep Jared MOSKOWITZ
CLF will save $6M in #FL25 (Trump+9). GOP nominee is Scott Singer
ALSO No Going Back PAC is triaging in #NC11 (Trump+10), suggesting they think Jamie Ager (D) will win
More in @PunchbowlNews PM
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Eric Pratt, the republican running for Angie Craig's open seat in MN-02, left the AI restating his prompt on his website.
"The President is not popular, so all messaging should be focused on local politics and needs."
lmfao
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WSJ is reporting this afternoon that Elon Musk took a break from pouring in hundreds of millions of dollars to help Ken Paxton's campaign to order a the slowdown of Starlink that tripped up Ukraine.
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Critics of a far-right Washington sheriff say the armed volunteer posses he created lacked regulation: “We received from that area a lot of serious concern about untrained volunteers wielding weapons, going on people's property, hunting cougars with dogs.”
boltsmag.org/constitutional-…
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New: The list of 20,000 non-citizens DOJ provided to Los Angeles election officials includes duplicates, cancelled registration and "high percentage of U.S. born-persons," LA officials say theguardian.com/us-news/2026…
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Marist's poll last night had Acton leading by 7% (among registered voters, by 8%). If nothing else, today's ad makes me think GOP internal mirror that.
Today's Vivek misfire on Action aside, I have heard there may be something to the public polls sometimes showing Acton slightly better positioned than Brown (and I wonder if today's blowup would only exacerbate that).
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