Daniel Nichanian. bsky.app/profile/taniel.bsky… Editor & founder of @BoltsMag. Local politics, criminal justice, voting rights.
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“I’ve been getting ready to vote,” says Djvan Carter, who is incarcerated in Maine, where prisoners never lose the right to vote. “But the facility itself, the administration, they don’t help us or guide us. It’s all on us.”
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New overview of noteworthy sheriff/DA races features the drive to make sheriff an appointed position in Pierce County, Washington.
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icymi, check out if and how your state is represented!
NEW: Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, including often deciding how much local help ICE will get.
So I focused all year on whittling down the hundreds of elections happening in 2026
OUT TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal.
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possibly not unrelated to Grassley hand-wringing about the prospect of being a 93 year-old senator under a Democratic governor.
Iowa GOP may call special session to pass tax breaks for steel plant desmoinesregister.com/story/…
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SCOTUS, for the 3rd time, blocks Missouri from using its new GOP gerrymander.
AND it defends Missouri's supreme court, blaming the secretary of state for the mess & the fact that voters are seeing different maps in the primary and general election. supremecourt.gov/opinions/25…
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why that poll of Texas' SD09, in Tarrant, that was circulating last week was so intriguing to me
imo one of the most important local elections this fall
noteworthy on policy *and* on political symbolism *and* in a county that is really pivotal for many other reasons
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imo one of the most important local elections this fall
noteworthy on policy *and* on political symbolism *and* in a county that is really pivotal for many other reasons
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a lot else happening in the piece — but one striking subtheme, i think, is the unapologetically far-right sheriffs sitting in blue, Harris-voting counties.
NEW: Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, including often deciding how much local help ICE will get.
So I focused all year on whittling down the hundreds of elections happening in 2026
OUT TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal.
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The NYT confirms Haaretz's report that Benjamin Netanyahu was secretly warned before Oct. 7, 2023 by the Emirati president that Hamas planned a major attack, per 2 sources
The warning was not shared with Israeli security chiefs, per 5 ex-officials
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#KSSen: D candidate Adam Hamilton is up on TV with this spot --
Meischa to camera:
"One evening I see lights. I open the door and it's a police officer. They arrested me because I didn't make a $50 payment to Roger Marshall"
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NEW: Sheriffs & DAs have huge powers over criminal justice, including often deciding how much local help ICE will get.
So I focused all year on whittling down the hundreds of elections happening in 2026
OUT TODAY: Learn about the 25 most pivotal.
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Latest from Texas, from Texas Public Opinion Research:
Talarico 49%, Paxton 44%
Abbott 50%, Hinojosa 46%
Bo French 45%, Jon Rosenthal 44%
(Undecideds down from 7% to 3% in the Senate race. Libertarian Ted Brown is at 3%.) texaspublicopinionresearch.s…
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Crypto spent extremely heavily to defeat Brown two years ago and they’re gearing for a redo, with a huge drop tonight:
🚨The cryptocurrency money has arrived in #OHSen as FairShake affiliate Defend American Jobs drops $11.46 million, half supporting Jon Husted, half opposing Sherrod Brown
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