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19 Dec, 9 tweets, 3 min read
Don’t lose sight of the country-defining presidential election today in Chile between the Pinochet-nostalgic José Antonio Kast & left organizer Gabriel Boric.
For more context:

a profile of Kast: theguardian.com/world/2021/dec…

& a profile of Boric: cnn.com/2021/12/17/ame….
Chile’s runoff has triggered ugly & violence-condoning both-sideist takes bloomberg.com/opinion/articl…
FIRST RESULTS in CHILE:

BORIC (left) leads KAST by 53.4% to 46.7% with 13% of precincts reporting; that's 950K votes already.

(In the first round, in November, the earlier batches of precincts counted skewed right.)
The left stays ahead in Chile, with 30% of precincts now reporting their votes (that's 2.2 million votes).

BORIC is now ahead of KAST 54.1% to 46.9%.
It's been called by Chilean media:

Gabriel Boric will be Chile's next president.
Kast has already conceded, & has issued a tweet congratulating Boric.

And the Chilean TV has upped its graphic game:
scenes of jubilant left celebration on Chilean TV
Chile wastes no time to showcase what a peaceful transition of power looks like.

Within an hour of the call, the incumbent President & the new President-Elect do a joint TV appearance & are now chatting back-and-forth.

Boric now leads by 11%, a historically large win in Chile.

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Huge blow to Dems in Wisconsin, somewhat expected given the GOP-majority court is among the most polarized in the country.

The ruling's effect is that the HEAVILY gerrymandered maps the GOP drew for 2010s will carry into the 2020s, no matter the veto power Dems gained in 2018.
Wisconsin's 2019 Supreme Court race, held far (far) from the national spotlight in the spring of 2019 and which the GOP-aligned candidate carried by 5921 votes (out of 1.2 million) will loom very large when it comes to deciding national power thru this coming decade.
Note these developments should not be not surprises. We know (and should know better) that these local & state elections matter & will have momentous consequences when they're happening.
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The woman’s tennis association directly suggests the statement attributed to the disappeared player is fake: “I have repeatedly tried to reach her, to no avail.”
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BIG RESULT: Democrats have flipped the county government in Monroe County, NY. (That’s Rochester, total pop 750K.) For the first time in 30 years!

Incomplete results on Election Night had the GOP ahead for the majority, but the count of mail flipped it. democratandchronicle.com/story/news/202…
There was a premature avalanche of stories about New York State as tho results were final two weeks ago. This was frustrating because we went thru this in 2020, when early results were very incomplete and changed a lot when mail ballots were counted.
Rochester is only about a third of Monroe, pop-wise.

Added context:
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A few months later, New Orleans activists mobilized to “flip the bench” by putting public defenders committed to reforms on it: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…

Two won. Here’s one example of why it mattered:
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Here's a thread on many states that matter: idea is to encapsulate as many stakes as I can for each within 280 characters.
A disclaimer that this thread can't possibly rival the mega-thread I did 12 months ago what was brewing in each state, plus DC and Puerto Rico. (See below.)

But getting our attention to the breadth of what's going on feels just as important!
1️⃣ Virginia (where else to start?):

—Gov race is the one we're all looking at
—Dems also defend Assembly (GOP needs +5 to tie)
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—Two other statewide races: LG & AG
—Watch prosecutor race in Chesapeake (most others decided in primary or at filing)
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