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Mar 2 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
WOW. Huge out of Texas: @PatrickSvitek reports GOP Rep. Van Taylor is suspending campaign over infedelity, the day after he was forced into a runoff.

His runoff foe (now the next congressman?!) went all in with the Big Lie to oust Taylor, I just wrote: boltsmag.org/texas-primarie…
Self has attacked Taylor for “voting for Nancy Pelosi’s witch hunt;” his pinned post on Facebook as today is an endorsement by Michael Flynn; and he has falsely cheered other states for moving to decertify their 2020 results. Oh boy.
Just wow.

Taylor was one of just 2 Texas Republicans to vote for the January 6th commission & to certify the 2020 results, per this great dive: texasmonthly.com/news-politics/…
❗️ What is happening?

The first paragraph of this write-up by the @dallasnews: dallasnews.com/news/politics/… Image

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Mar 2
So... here is my countdown of the top 10 primaries I'm watching tonight in Texas.

(There's a lot more happening, so take this as my own idiosyncratic sense of what I'm finding important!)
1️⃣0️⃣ ATTORNEY GENERAL primaries: Ken Paxton is indicted, but he's managed to channel his far-right politics into a Trump endorsement and a strong position. Meanwhile, Dems decide who'll face him.

The GOP primary is *also* a big test for the Bush family: nymag.com/intelligencer/…
9️⃣ The Dem primary for TRAVIS COUNTY (Austin) CLERK: Voters today are effectively choosing who'll be running the 2024 presidential election in the state's bluest county, and the person will have to navigate a lot of GOP shenanigans. boltsmag.org/voting-rights-…
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Feb 26
The GOP is attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination as too partisan… while McConnell and his allies are pouring in money into an obscure local judge election like this one because they know the outsized power it can yield over voting and civil rights. boltsmag.org/judicial-elect…
The GOP is attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination as too partisan… while in Ohio, Republicans decided this year to literally add partisanship on the ballot for state Supreme Court elections to have a better shot at winning them. cincinnati.com/story/news/pol…
The GOP is attacking Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination as too partisan… just years after engaging in this absurd bit of gamesmanship in North Carolina’s Supreme Court. (That it backfired on the GOP is another matter.)
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Feb 18
Somehow, it's already the end of our second week at @boltsmag, and it's all still too new & dreamlike — so I'm going to do another thread of our stories out this week for you to catch up if you've missed on. ↓↓
1️⃣ Is one of the nation's main capital punishment strongholds in for a reckoning? A DA candidate in Las Vegas told @SamMellins for the first time that he'd never seek the death penalty if elected. Probably the biggest election for death penalty this year. boltsmag.org/nevada-da-cand…
2️⃣ Last year, @celeste_trusty was advocating to lower incarceration in Pennsylvania. Last month, she became the secretary of the state's Board of Pardons, appointed by @JohnFetterman. And she vows to continue pushing to broaden clemency. A powerful Q&A: boltsmag.org/pennsylvania-p…
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Feb 11
It's the end of our first week at @BoltsMag, & I'm so proud of what we have put out in the world already (& of sharing everything that we have in store).

Here's a thread of the 8 stories & pages we published this week on boltsmag.org (before I sleep all weekend). ↓
1️⃣ Trump's Big Lie has put local election admin on hot seat. But it's so extraordinarily difficult to get your bearings on what offices matter where, & this is a big problem as Bannon builds up its takeover strategy. So @yeargain built a unique database: boltsmag.org/the-mosaic-of-…
2️⃣ The database itself is available here, & it's really so rich. I myself learned so much talking about it with @yeargain over the past two months, & it opens up so many ideas for further work. Check out the landscape in your state, at least! boltsmag.org/whats-on-the-b…
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Feb 9
Just in: I’m thrilled @BoltsMag, the outlet I'm launching, is now live! boltsmag.org.

We cover the nuts and bolts of power & political change, from the local up — those overlooked elections & decisions that shape policy.

Follow us on here, then start reading! ↓
We’re focusing on digging into two broad areas where local institutions are so crucial: criminal justice & voting rights.

It’s been amazing to work with @michaelsbarajas on this, and I’m so excited by our first crop of our pieces!
If you’re interested in this content, you can sign-up at boltsmag.org/newsletter.

Follow us here, @BoltsMag, & on facebook.com/boltsmag

I’ll have a lot to share all day. But I want to point to two pieces already that exemplify what’s special about today for me.
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Feb 5
In a big decision, NC's Supreme Court just struck down the GOP gerrymander, 4-3.

Had Dems not won the 2018 Supreme Court race, this would have gone the other way.

2018 is the year that... the GOP tried to rig the election, only to have it spectacularly backfire. Let's recap.
Heading into 2018, the GOP wanted Justice Barbara Jackon (R) to win. It pushed a series of changes to ensure that.

1—It cancelled judicial primaries just for 2018
2—It changed ballot order rules
3—It added partisan ID on ballot

(All these things will soon conspire against them.
Why did they think this helps? Well: Incumbent is a Republican, but it'll be hard for Dems to coalesce around 1 challenger. With primaries cancelled this year, this would mean a November race with one R & multiple Ds. Add partisan ID on ballot, & GOP wins.

(=This is the theory.)
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