The assault on the Democrats’ main fundraising platform is a partisan hatchet job, but ActBlue itself is far from blameless.
Ken Paxton
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Now There Are Five
Ken Paxton’s Texas primary victory puts another Republican Senate seat in play, alongside those of North Carolina, Maine, Ohio, and Alaska.
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Trump Trips Up Trump
The continuing negative fallout from Trump’s crusades against his own party’s incumbents
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Spring Training for the Election Canceler
Trump moves to preempt Texas Republicans’ upcoming Senate primary.
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A Sign of the Times in Texas?
Democrats weary of the hyper-partisan chaos on Capitol Hill opt for a mild-mannered white state representative over a bold Black House member.
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Q&A: Talarico or Crockett? A Threshold Choice in Texas.
The Prospect talks with the Progressive Change Campaign Committee’s Adam Green about the Democratic U.S. Senate primary in the Lone Star State.
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The Texas Model
Wealthy oil and gas interests getting politicians to do their bidding: coming to a federal government near you.
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America’s Judicial Divisions
Every major policy issue is now also a courtroom battle, decided in increasingly partisan settings. And there’s no end in sight.
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Texas Will Mess With You
The state is a national incubator for bad ideas, which it then seeks to project across the nation.
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The Company You Keep
Ken and Angela Paxton have ties to a jet-setting lobbyist-turned-CEO caught in a tangled web of alleged fraud involving a powerful business clan and a commercial shipping giant.