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Frederick & Cochrane: Is FBI still colluding with big tech to interfere in our elections?
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Frederick & Cochrane: Is FBI still colluding with big tech to interfere in our elections?

By Kara Frederick  and Daniel Cochrane | Commentary, Daily Signal Four years ago this month, the FBI worked with Facebook and Twitter to suppress a New York Post story detailing the contents of Hunter Biden’s laptop, just weeks before the 2020 U.S. presidential election. Today, on the eve of another contentious election, America could see a repeat of what federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty called the “most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.” The FBI knew Hunter Biden’s laptop was authentic in November 2019. Yet, it repeatedly warned social media platforms of an impending “hack and leak operation” ahead of the 2020 election. READ THE FULL COMMENTARY AT THE DAILY SIGNAL Editor’...
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Brace for ‘unrest’ if Donald Trump wins, Democrats warn
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Brace for ‘unrest’ if Donald Trump wins, Democrats warn

By David Rutz | Breitbart Americans should prepare for “unrest’ if former President Donald Trump completes the greatest political comeback in modern American politics, Democrats told the Wall Street Journal on Monday. The potential for Democrats to perpetrate political violence undermines their narrative that Republicans, and especially the America First movement, are a threat to democracy. “I think there’ll be some violence. I think there’ll be workplace fights. There’ll be fights at kids’ birthday parties. I think they’ll be protests and will turn violent,” Mark Halperin recently told Tucker Carlson. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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Colorado’s 2024 ballot is very crowded. Will voters fill out every bubble?
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Approved, State, The Colorado Sun

Colorado’s 2024 ballot is very crowded. Will voters fill out every bubble?

By Tracy Ross | The Colorado Sun Presidential races typically drive turnout. But Colorado voters have plenty of other reasons to fill out their ballots this year, including statewide measures that would affect everything from abortion rights to mountain lion hunting to the way we vote, potentially defying conventional thinking about voter behavior.  Take Seth Stern, a federally registered firearms dealer and unaffiliated voter from Granby who for 25 years has refused to vote for Republicans or Democrats in a U.S. presidential election and likely will choose a third-party option this year.  It’s the local issues, not who will occupy the White House for the next four years, that keep him showing up.  READ THE FULL STORY AT THE COLORADO SUN
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Washington Post declines to endorse in presidential race, leaving staffers ‘shocked’
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Washington Post declines to endorse in presidential race, leaving staffers ‘shocked’

By Ryan Mills | National Review For the first time in 36 years the Washington Post will not be endorsing a candidate for president, the paper’s publisher announced on Friday in a move that shocked and angered some current and former staffers who have been critical of former president Donald Trump. Publisher William Lewis announced the decision in an opinion piece on the organization’s website. Lewis said the Post is “returning to our roots of not endorsing presidential candidates” this year and in all future presidential elections, repeatedly noting that the Post is an “independent newspaper.” In his piece, Lewis quoted the paper’s editorial board in 1960, when it similarly explained that the paper wouldn’t be endorsing a presidential candid...
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McConnell and Johnson tell Harris to stop ‘fascist’ talk amid threats to Trump’s life
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McConnell and Johnson tell Harris to stop ‘fascist’ talk amid threats to Trump’s life

By Tracy Ross | Washington Examiner Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) and House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) accused Vice President Kamala Harris of paving the way for more political violence with her campaign rhetoric on Friday. The Republican leaders said in a joint statement that the Democrat’s branding of former President Donald Trump as a “fascist” has invited more assassination attempts and run counter to her prior condemnation of such violence. “These words have proven hollow. In the weeks since that second sobering reminder, the Democratic nominee for president of the United States has only fanned the flames beneath a boiling cauldron of political animus,” McConnell and Johnson said. “Her most recent and most reckless invo...
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Here’s how to use BallotTrax to safeguard your vote in Colorado
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Here’s how to use BallotTrax to safeguard your vote in Colorado

By Jen Schumann | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice In Colorado, voters can ensure transparency and increase self-awareness with BallotTrax, an online ballot tracking tool which provides real-time updates on the status of your ballot. Are you signed up for it yet? If not, following is some detail. Mesa County Clerk Bobbie Gross emphasizes the system’s importance, especially in light of recent fraudulent ballot-casting concerns. BallotTrax empowered voters to reach out to Gross when discrepancies arose. “The voters were notified, they contacted our office, which is absolutely what they should be doing,” she said.  Because these voters had registered with Ballotrax and were monitoring notifications, they were able to take swift action, helping Mesa County officials to inv...
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Panel at Colorado Mesa debates merits, concerns with Prop. 131, the ranked-choice voting measure
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Panel at Colorado Mesa debates merits, concerns with Prop. 131, the ranked-choice voting measure

By Jen Schumann | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice Imagine if your vote could genuinely reflect your voice. Some argue Proposition 131, the ranked-choice voting measure, can do just that. During a Grand Junction event hosted by Restore the Balance and Colorado Mesa University, both proponents and opponents of the measure debated the proposition. Panelists tackled tough questions about ranked-choice voting's potential to enhance democracy, versus the risk of confusion at the polls. Following is some of the key discussion between the panel, from Phil Izon, a prominent figure in Alaska’s efforts to repeal ranked-choice voting, to Kent Thiry, who heads up the support side of the Colorado proposition. From left, Josh Daniels, Sheila Reiner, Dr. Tim Casey, Kent Thiry, and Maeve Suns...
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The outcome of Colorado legislative races will have far-reaching implications
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The outcome of Colorado legislative races will have far-reaching implications

By Shaun Boyd | CBS Colorado Congress has passed about 100 bills over the last two years, while Colorado's state legislature has passed nearly 1,000. From fixing our roads to funding our schools, state legislatures touch almost every facet of our lives. And yet, nearly 90% of people surveyed by Cambridge University don't know who their state representative is. But Super PACs know who's running and, according to The Colorado Sun, they've poured $8 million into the races that will determine what gets done -- and doesn't get done -- at the Colorado State Capitol next year. "This is where the action is really on the state level. When you have over 500 bills passed a year, they're doing something. It may not be what everyone wants to see, but it's something," said CBS Colorado Dem...
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In two weeks, $6.6 million was raised for 14 ballot issues on the Colorado ballot
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In two weeks, $6.6 million was raised for 14 ballot issues on the Colorado ballot

By Marianne Goodland | Colorado Politics In just under two weeks, the issue committees battling over most of the 14 statewide ballot issues have collectively raised more than $6.6 million. The most fundraising between Oct. 10 and Monday is Colorado Voters First, which backs Proposition 131, the open primary/ranked choice voting measure. Ben Walton, of the Walton family that owns Wal-Mart, donated $1 million on Oct. 18 to the pro-131 committee. That brings his total to $2 million. Through Oct. 9, the committee had already raised $10.8 million. READ THE FULL STORY AT COLORADO POLITICS
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Undecided voters in key state say Harris’ orange-man-bad ‘fascist’ closing message not persuasive
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Undecided voters in key state say Harris’ orange-man-bad ‘fascist’ closing message not persuasive

By Wendell Husebø | Breitbart Eight undecided Pennsylvania voters sampled in a Mark Halperin focus group believe Vice President Kamala Harris’s orange-man-bad closing message is not persuasive. The focus group represents a rare sampling of swing state undecided voters who are not generally asked their opinions by the establishment media. Harris opted to close her campaign by claiming that former President Donald Trump is a “fascist” who will rule as a hitlerian tyrant. READ THE FULL STORY AT BREITBART
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