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Here's another reason Democrats can't trust Kevin McCarthy: Incredibly, he's demanding that Dems support the far right GOP border agenda as part of the next package of aid for Ukraine.

I'm not sure people appreciate how extreme this demand truly is. 1/

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Kevin McCarthy is pushing Dems to include the House GOP border bill in the next Ukraine aid package.

But that bill is wildly radical: It would gut asylum, roll back legal protections for migrant kids, and would probably end Biden's parole programs. 2/

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Get this: By rolling back Biden's parole authorities, the House GOP bill could end the parole program *for Ukrainian refugees.*

It's pretty ghoulish to demand this agenda as part of a package of aid to Ukraine. 3/

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Ending Biden's parole programs isn't "border security." Those programs allow migrants to apply for entry from afar rather than make the trek to the border. This isn't about the border, it's about reducing the number of immigrants allowed in. 4/

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One can envision a bipartisan compromise that would help fix our asylum system. I genuinely think it could have appeal for some Republicans and restrictionist minded writers (cc @DouthatNYT), if they'd give it a hearing. Here's what it might look like. 5/

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Dems have grown overly accustomed to negotiating under threat from Republicans as the normal conditions under which governing must function. Dems shouldn't play along with efforts to link Ukraine aid to the GOP's wildly extreme "border security" bill. 6/6

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SCOOP: Senate Dems have obtained extraordinary new data from the IRS on tax avoidance by the super-rich.

Nearly 1,000 people who earn over $1 million per year didn't file tax returns at all for at least one year from 2017 to 2020, the data shows.

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Also: The 2,000 people who represent the highest-income non-filers in at least one year from 2017 to 2020 owe a total of more than $900 million in taxes.

@RonWyden obtained the data from the IRS. I got a look at it.

GOP wants to gut IRS enforcement.

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The GOP House voted to repeal IRS funding for expanded enforcement against rich tax cheats. Most of the 2024 GOP candidates have attacked that funding.

But it's already bringing in more revenues from wealthy tax avoiders. Rs want to roll that back.

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Sep 27
This is good to see: Reactionary extremism in the "culture wars" continues to mobilize a robust liberal backlash in some of the reddest places in the country.

Let me take you to Hanover County, a rural part of Virginia that backed Trump by 26 points. 1/
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Hanover County is where the school board censored "To Kill a Mockingbird" in the 1960s. Now the board has granted itself sole authority over book removals and gone on a book-banning spree.

Here's the rub: Hanover's school board is still *unelected.* 2/

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Strikingly, a dozen school boards in Virginia remain unelected. Hanover is the biggest one. But a group of parents has collected enough signatures to force a referendum on the issue this fall.

They managed this in a county that Trump won by 62-36.

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Sep 19
NEWS:

Today @GovernorShapiro will announce that Pennsylvania is switching to automatic voter registration, potentially adding tens of thousands of voters to the rolls.

"I see voter participation as key to strengthening democracy," Shapiro tells me.

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By switching to automatic voter registration, Pennsylvania joins around two dozen states that have already made this change. AVR is a quiet success story.

This is what it looks like not just to run on strengthening democracy, but also to deliver on it.

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Switching to automatic voter registration in Pennsylvania could be dramatic. Shapiro says the state calculates that around 1.6 million eligible voters in the state are unregistered. This change could add tens of thousands of new voters to the rolls.

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Sep 15
Important development: Senate Dems are demanding that the Pentagon turn over information about Elon Musk's Starlink contracts with the US military, to investigate whether there are safeguards in them to prevent another version of Musk's recent fiasco.

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Staffers on the Senate Armed Services Committee recently reached out to the Pentagon for info on Starlink's contracts with the US military, a Dem aide tells me. The committee's chair, Sen. Jack Reed, says it is "aggressively probing" the Musk/Ukraine fiasco "from every angle."
The Musk/Ukraine fiasco has revealed something truly disconcerting: We know almost nothing about these contracts with the US military, even though Musk, as we have now seen, wields immense influence over Ukraine's ability to defend itself from the Russian invasion.
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Sep 14
An awful trend: In state after state, voters are mobilizing in defense of democracy. Yet Republicans are responding with still more virulently anti-democratic tactics.

The threat to impeach a liberal judge in Wisconsin is only the beginning. 1/

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It's striking: Even as voters are turning out to protect democracy, Republicans are redoubling their commitment to MAGA-fied anti-majoritarian tactics in the states, which is motivating voters even more.

A "MAGA doom loop" effect is taking hold. 2/

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In Michigan, the state GOP is in chaos, after Trump's loss led to its takeover by MAGA crackpots. Dems won full state control in 2022, leading to still more election denialism, driving away donors and swing voters, hurting Trump's 2024 chances there. 3/

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Sep 6
Really glad to see @mattyglesias showing skepticism toward arguments by @DLeonhardt and Ruy Teixeira on the economics of immigration. I'd like to add a couple of points.
@mattyglesias @DLeonhardt It's true, as @mattyglesias says, that Americans want a secure, orderly border. But @DLeonhardt oversimplifies matters when he declares the issue a uniform winner for Republicans. There are many contrary facts to contend with, as I laid out in this thread:
@mattyglesias @DLeonhardt Again, I wouldn't say this issue is a winner for Dems. But if you're going to talk about the politics of this issue, you need to deal with what actually happened in recent political races involving high profile GOP candidates who made the issue central:
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