BREAKING: for months, Ohio's SOS Larose has claimed that he wanted to expand drop boxes in Ohio counties, but that Ohio law prevented him from doing so.
Just now, all three judges in our drop box appeal agreed with us that nothing in Ohio law prevents him from adding more.
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"We agree with the trial court that the Secretary's interpretation of R.C. 3509.05 is not reasonable and that the statute neither prescribes nor prohibits ballot drop boxes at locations other than the boards of elections....
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"...If, as appellees argue, the Secretary wants to permit additional drop boxes, he has the authority to do so and nothing in this decision prohibits him from rescinding Directive 2020-16 and issuing a new directive accordingly."
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Now that the law is clarified....for the third time....as allowing more drop boxes, we call on Frank Larose to make good on his public and private commitment to add drop boxes.
There is still time to add them for the final weeks of this election.
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JD Vance flies to Indiana.
In the wide open, he and other federal officials pressure state leaders to rig Indiana’s map to help seal House elections outcome 15 months in advance.
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Specifically, by giving themselves two extra seats in the House, and eliminating all Democratic seats in the Hoosier State.
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In one twisted way, JD’s visit and open pressuring of state officials to hand him those House seats is helpful.
Because it makes perfectly clear that we are watching November 2020-January 2021 all over again—Trump’s just doing it before the 2026 elections rather than after.
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A brand new poll shows that, at + 10, @amyactonoh has the highest job approval rating in the state.
By a lot.
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Combine that with the fact that Vivek Ramaswamy has unusually high negatives (basically accomplishing this all on his own 👀) and this race for Governor is tied even in a sample that decisively voted for Trump.
Thank you to those Texas Democrats taking their courageous stand, and thank you to those supporting them in Texas and beyond. Standing up to the anti-democratic tactics of Trump and state leaders
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like Abbott is absolutely critical at the moment.
In fact, there is no choice.
As a matter of strategic action, and as a matter of message.
In fact, if our actions don’t match our words, we lose!
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For good and for bad, we project powerful messages way beyond the words we use. Drew Westen calls it our “meta-message”— what we communicate from our action or inaction, and the urgency with which we act.
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