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Election grifters are cashing in on lies

"This has almost become an industry on the right," expert says

Salon · Feb 18, 2023

Jackie Calmes: Nikki Haley calls herself the GOP's 'new generation' leader, but it's still Trump's party

"New" isn't necessarily better. Sometimes it's not even new.

Los Angeles Times · Feb 18, 2023

How Florida’s Republican supermajority handed Ron DeSantis unfettered power

The governor – expected to mount a 2024 White House bid – is ramping up an extremist crusade

The Guardian - US · Feb 18, 2023

DeSantis 2024 bid takes shape as he enlists aides, woos donors

WASHINGTON — Ron DeSantis’s 2024 campaign team is quickly taking shape with the Florida governor lining up trusted aides to helm an expected presidential bid, according to people familiar with his plans.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2023

Democrats make new push for Biden to add Asian American secretary to Cabinet

Biden has faced criticism for the lack of Asian American heritage among his cabinet secretaries.

Axios · Feb 18, 2023

News briefs

Florida education officials discuss SAT alternative focused on ‘Western tradition’

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2023

‘I’m tired and scared’: The ‘historically bad’ wave of anti-LGBT+ legislation impacting youth mental health

A record number of state-level bills targeting transgender young people and the inflammatory right-wing rhetoric surrounding them are having a damaging effect on LGBT+ youth, Alex Woodward reports

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2023

Texas AG Paxton faces lawmaker pushback over $3.3M whistleblower settlement

AUSTIN, Texas — A fight is brewing over whether the GOP-led Legislature will fund a $3.3 million settlement that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office struck with a group of whistleblowers.

Tribune News Service · Feb 18, 2023

Montana lawmaker: There's a religious right to abortion

Abortion rights groups are challenging abortion bans in some states by arguing the bans — supported by religious principles — violate the religious rights of people with different beliefs

The Independent UK · Feb 18, 2023

Pritzker steers Illinois toward a true balanced budget

The deficit at the end of the coming fiscal year is said to be the lowest “in nominal, non-inflation-adjusted dollars that it has been in 25 years.” Not bad.

Chicago Sun-Times · Feb 18, 2023