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Morning Digest: Missouri's top court blocks new GOP gerrymander by reinstating referendum

Democracy advocates won two major legal victories on Thursday evening when the Missouri Supreme Court reinstated a pair of ...
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Morning Digest: Massachusetts could adopt a top-two primary. Democrats are warning of disaster.

But while California’s primary didn’t produce the disaster Democrats feared—Becerra is now all but assured of defeating ...
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How Democratic 'spam PACs' victimize vulnerable seniors

On this week’s episode of The Downballot podcast, Stanford political scientist Adam Bonica discusses his deep investigation into the ways Democratic organizations and “spam PACs” are deploying these ...
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Morning Digest: Families of dead Americans don't want Republicans to use them in ads. The GOP isn't stopping.

In the governor’s race, meanwhile, only the America First Party named a candidate, choosing former state Sen. Brett Lindstrom ...
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Morning Digest: Wild deadline maneuvers cause major upheaval in Alaska's marquee races

Whalen, 39, has pitched himself as a younger and more progressive outsider challenging the 77-year-old Neal. Whalen, however, ...
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No Morning Digest today

As I wrote last week, The Downballot is taking some unexpected time off—a handful of late-summer Fridays—as I recover from ...
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Morning Digest: One more longtime House Democrat looks to avoid a primary upset

Democratic Rep. Stephen Lynch is hoping to avoid becoming the final member of Congress to lose renomination this year, but ...