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Delaware general election 2024 Kent County candidates in county, House and Senate races

Friday, September 27th, 2024

via Delawareonline (Delaware)

Profiles of candidates for Kent County offices and state House and Senate races in districts in the county plus when and where to vote

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FOIA Friday: Court records disclose crimes alleged against man Chesterfield County police shot

Friday, September 27th, 2024

via Inside NoVa (Virginia)

One of the less noticed features of the Virginia Way is the long-running tendency of the commonwealth's leaders to conduct their decision-making behind closed doors. While the Virginia Freedom of

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U.S. appeals court hears arguments over hold on Iowa immigration law

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via Quad-City Times (Iowa)

A federal appeals court heard arguments Thursday over a halted Iowa law that would allow the arrest of immigrants if they had previously been denied entry into the country.

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Busted on video: Corey DeAngelis, school choice evangelist, is in gay porn

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via Arkansas Times (Arkansas)

A side hustle in gay porn would all be well and good, except that DeAngelis made a name for himself by attacking wokeness in public schools generally and targeting queer people specifically.

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Arizona Voter Guide: Key 2024 Federal, State, Maricopa County races

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via ABC15 Arizona (Arizona)

From a U.S. Senate race between Ruben Gallego and Kari Lake, to House races and Maricopa County positions, there are several contested elections this fall in Arizona.

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A ‘religious separatist movement in American education’ • Michigan Advance

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via Michigan Advance (Michigan)

The effort to get school vouchers approved nationwide has a long and varied history, but a book released this month posits that it is essentially a Christian Nationalist attempt at undermining public…

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With an election looming, the U.S. is approving citizenship applications at the fastest speed in years

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via Los Angeles Times (California)

Many immigrants want to get citizenship in time to vote in the upcoming election. The Biden administration says the uptick in new citizens is due to efforts to reduce a backlog of applications that…

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Kamala’s Anticipated Coronation

Thursday, September 26th, 2024

via California Globe (California)

In 'Kamala demands a life of luxury,' Daniel Greenfield recently wrote, 'Kamala falsely claimed that she was raised in 'a middle-class household', she was actually the 'privileged child of foreign…

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Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools tells staff not to ‘explicitly’ celebrate Banned Books Week

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

via The Charlotte Observer (North Carolina)

CMS claimed neutrality on Banned Books Week. Then, it told librarians not to celebrate it.

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At Moms for Liberty’s national summit, a singular focus on anti-trans issues

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

via The Daily Gazette (New York)

The Hechinger Report covers details about the Moms for Liberty national summit, with anti-trans issues as the focus.

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Federal appeals court weighs challenge to Florida restrictions on educators’ pronouns

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

via Orlando Sentinel (Florida)

Restriction part of series of controversial measures Gov. DeSantis and Republican lawmakers approved in recent years that focus on transgender people.

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Meet the candidates for Warren County’s Iowa House District 22 seat

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

via The Des Moines Register (Iowa)

Meet Republican Samantha Fett and Democrat Rory Taylor, the two candidates competing for the open Iowa House District 22 seat in Warren County.

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‘Freedom to Read ‘Em’: Anne Arundel Libraries declare themselves a book sanctuary

Wednesday, September 25th, 2024

via The Baltimore Banner (Maryland)

The Anne Arundel County library system announced it has become a Book Sanctuary, dedicated to protecting books from censorship and educating the public about book ban efforts

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Noel joins County Attorney’s Office for ‘the best interests of the child’

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

via Clinton Herald (Iowa)

Less than three months ago, Victoria Noel became a new Assistant County Attorney in Clinton, filling a role the County Attorney's Office had lacked for about five or six years,

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Images from a Trump campaign bus tour stop at the GOP headquarters in Appleton

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

via The Post-Crescent (Wisconsin)

A Trump campaign bus tour stop at the Outagamie County GOP headquarters in Appleton, Wis. on Tuesday, September 24, 2024. Neither President Trump nor his running mate J.D. Vance will be making an appearance during the 3 day, statewide tour.

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Stumping for Trump in Green Bay during ‘a battle like never before.’ Here are the takeaways

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

via Green Bay Press-Gazette (Wisconsin)

The message: voters are the warriors, the ballot box is the battlefield.

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Fairhope officials: Misinformation fueling panic over unfounded migrant influx

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

via al (Alabama)

City officials Monday debunked social media misinformation about thousands of immigrants migrating to the Baldwin County city.

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Rutkowski: The ballot and my campaign for school board

Tuesday, September 24th, 2024

via Daily Independent (Arizona)

It's hard to ignore the lead-up to the November election. Of course, we'll be voting for president, vice president, senator, congressman, sheriff, mayor and council, school board and multiple …

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‘I fear the country I love is becoming the country I left’ – For Lily Tang Williams, her politics are rooted in lessons from China

Monday, September 23rd, 2024

via Concord Monitor (New Hampshire)

Lily Tang Williams keeps a bulky, dated photo album at her house in Weare. It creaks when she opens it – the sticky plastic protectors holding the photos to the pages don't do their job well anymore. Inside are dozens upon dozens of black-and-white...

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