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IN state Rep. Bartlett (D) introduces an amendment to the anti-abortion bill to outlaw erectile dysfunction drugs: "We're forcing young girls to be mothers, but not forcing the men to be fathers ... If an unwanted pregnancy is an act of God, then impotency must be an act of God."
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NE State Sen. Lou Ann Linehan (R) complains filibusters of anti-trans bills made her miss her grandson's preschool graduation. Sen. Megan Hunt (I): “You won't come off this bill that hurts my [trans] son. You hate him more than you love your own family. That's why you're here."
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Moderators closed tonight's Wisconsin Senate debate by asking each candidate to say something they find admirable about the other. Lt. Gov Mandela Barnes (D) said Sen. Ron Johnson (R) is a "family man." Johnson said Barnes is "against America." The audience booed Johnson.
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President Biden slams Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI): "You paid for your Social Security. Every single paycheck from the time you were a kid ... Then along comes Ron Johnson from Wisconsin ... He wants to put Social Security and Medicare on the chopping block every single year."
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Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz (DFL) explains why he rejected Republican lawmakers' attempts to means-test school meals for K-12 students: "The haves and the have-nots in the school lunchroom is not a necessary thing. Just feed our children."
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MO State Rep. Phil Christofanelli (R) criticizes fellow GOP Rep. Ann Kelley's anti-LGBT school bill. PC: Who is Martha Washington? AK: [George Washington's] wife. PC: With your bill, how could that be mentioned in the classroom? AK: That's not sexual orientation. PC: Really?
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U.S. Rep. Jason Smith (R-MO) melts down as an NBC reporter questions GOP claims of DOJ political interference in favor of Joe Biden before he was president.
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WI State Sen. Felzkowski (R), presenting a natural immunity bill, says she has had both delta and omicron infections. WI State Sen. Larson (D): "I would note that if natural immunity was something that would prevent you from getting COVID, you wouldn't have gotten COVID twice."
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Vice President Kamala Harris swears in John Fetterman (in a suit) as a senator.
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On secretly recorded audio first reported by the McCurtain Gazette-News, GOP McCurtain County, Okla. officials — including the sheriff — talk about hiring hitmen to assassinate local journalists and complain that Black people now have the right to not be lynched.
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Laura Strietmann, Cincinnati Right to Life leader, on the 10-year-old girl who was raped and went to Indiana for an abortion: "While a pregnancy might have been difficult on a 10-year-old body, a woman's body is designed to carry life." OH State Rep. Miranda (D) shuts her down.
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NE State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D-Omaha) prepares to filibuster every bill on the legislative agenda unless Republicans pull their anti-trans bill. "If people are like, 'Is she threatening us?,' let me clear: Yes, I am. I am threatening you."
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The #ChicagoTrumpProtest has turned into a MARCH! We are shutting down State street! #ImpeachTrump
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MO State Rep. Mack (D) confronts Rep. Basye (R) over an anti-trans bill: "I was afraid of people like you... 18 years I walked around with 'nice' people like you who voted for crap like this. Thank God I made it out. I think every day of kids... who haven't escaped this bigotry."
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SEN. RAND PAUL (R-KY): “The countries that have been attacked, Georgia and Ukraine, were part of the Soviet Union." SEC. BLINKEN: “That does not give Russia the right to attack them.”
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MO State Rep. Proudie (D) goes after GOP House members pushing a dress code for women — requiring they wear jackets — in a rules bill. "I spent $1,200 on a suit, and I can't wear it in the People's House because someone who doesn't have the range tells me that's inappropriate."
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Minnesota State Sen. John Jasinski (R) argues against legalizing marijuana because it will result in early retirement for drug-sniffing dogs: "The police dog discussion ... that's a big issue."
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BREAKING: WI Gov. Tony Evers (D) breaks a Republican gerrymander, signs new legislative maps into law: "Wisconsin, when I promised fair maps, I damn well meant it ... People should get to choose their elected officials, not the other way around.”
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Gov. Kristi Noem (R-SD), who just signed the first anti-trans bill of 2022 into law, is asked why she thinks 90% of LGBTQ+ youth in South Dakota are diagnosed with anxiety or depression: “I don’t know. That makes me sad, and we should figure it out.”
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp (R) said he is open to banning contraception “depending on where the legislatures are” during the next session. “You could take up pretty much anything … I think, I’d have to check and see because there are a lot of legalities.”
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Sen. Raphael Warnock (D): “One thing I have not done — I have never pretended to be a police officer, and I’ve never threatened a shootout with the police.” In response, Herschel Walker (R) pulled out a prop badge: “I am work with many police officers.”
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A powerful speech against anti-trans legislation from Kentucky State Rep. Pamela Stevenson (D-Louisville): "First, you hated Black people. Then, you hated Jews. Now, you're hating everybody. So the question is when the only people left are you, will you hate yourself?"
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IN state Rep. Engleman (R) introduces an amendment to eliminate rape and incest exceptions in the new anti-abortion bill. Rep. Fleming (D) asks if that would prevent a 5th grader (10-year-old) rape victim from getting abortion care. Engelman sighs: "It... It does."
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One day after Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds (R) signed a book ban into law, Sioux City West High School’s class of 2023 valedictorian Patrick Baughman uses his platform to speak out: “Support trans rights and read banned books … Don’t let them take away our love.” (VIDEO @scj )
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Wisconsin State Rep. Deb Andraca (D-Whitefish Bay) asks her GOP colleagues why their proposed tax credit for farmers was not indexed to inflation, but a tax credit for private school tuition was. No one answers. The room was silent for 35 seconds.
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Dan Kelly, after losing the Wisconsin Supreme Court race, goes full sour grapes: "It brings me no joy to say this: I wish that in a circumstance like this, I would be able to concede to a worthy opponent. But I do not have a worthy opponent to which I can concede."
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In case you don't have 18 seconds to spare, this chyron nails it.
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"Who wants to watch me slay a zombie?" - Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signing three bills killing the state's 92-year-old anti-abortion law.
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MO State Rep. Peter Merideth (D) on a just-passed GOP budget defunding libraries: "They actually took out all state aid for public libraries explicitly because librarians are suing over their First Amendment rights ... We are starting to live in a dystopian future from 1984."
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Chuck Todd schools Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) on the difference between classified document disclosures from President Biden and former President Trump. Jordan: "They raided Trump's home. They haven't raided Biden's home." Todd: "Because Biden didn't defy a subpoena."
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Sen. Ron Johnson asked about reducing child care costs: "Well, people decide to have families and become parents. That's something they need to consider when they make that choice. I've never really felt it was society's responsibility to take care of other people's children."
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Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) responds to Stephen Miller criticizing automatic voter registration: "That guy's a dope who can't tell the truth." "I went to court more than 40 times to defeat people like Stephen Miller ... who tried to thwart the will of the people here."
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Minnesota Sen. Gene Dornink (R-Brownsdale), during a hearing on sick time, calls a female pilot a “stewardess” and apologizes: PILOT: I’m a first officer for Delta. DORNINK: I’m sorry? PILOT: I’m a pilot.
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) says climate change will be good for the U.S. because it will be less cold: "Global warming will actually be beneficial ... Why wouldn't we take comfort in that? ... Y'know, concerned if you're in the hot region of Africa ... but we're in good shape."
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Nebraska State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings) is facing bipartisan calls to resign after he interjected a colleague's name into a reading of a graphic rape scene multiple times. SEN. MACHAELA CAVANAUGH (D): "I didn't know you were capable of such cruelty."
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House Oversight erupts as Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R) asks to introduce evidence. REP. RASKIN (D): "In the past, she's displayed pornography. Are pornographic photos allowed to be displayed in this room?" MTG: "It's not pornography." RASKIN: "Ok well you're the expert."
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NEW: Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) recently touted an “incredible victory”: I-27 highway expansion funding. His office says he led the “bipartisan, bicameral effort.” It was funded through an appropriations bill, passing 68-31. Cruz voted against it.
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Gov. JB Pritzker (D-IL) during his victory speech: "There is no nice or easy way to say this, but until the Republican Party is ready to expel the extremists in their midst, we need to do it for them at the ballot box."
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FACT CHECK: GOP Rep. Mike Gallagher (WI-08) says he’s “never voted for a debt ceiling increase.” That is false: he voted for one in 2018 and criticized his colleagues who voted against it.
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IN state Rep. Davisson (R) argues for requiring forced birth of non-viable fetuses. Asked what he would tell children of a mother going through pregnancy resulting in stillbirth: "[None] of us are guaranteed tomorrow. We must accept death as a consequence of life."
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Minnesota House Minority Leader Mark Johnson (R), while arguing that Republicans aren't bigoted, uses a derogatory term for Polish people: "We are not calling groups any names ... It doesn't matter what your race, color, your creed. Norwegian, Polack, Somali, you name it."
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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH) on Dobbs: "This is big government coming into doctors' offices, bedrooms, a small group of people trying to control American citizens, make women second-class citizens ... The vast majority of American[s] are exhausted ... This is a country built on freedom."
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All credit for the original reporting goes to the McCurtain Gazette-News community paper (a largely offline publication)! We scour papers for local media for stories like this. Want to stay informed and support our work? Follow us @HeartlandSignal and @WCPT820 !
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At an event in Kentucky, President Joe Biden (D) unites Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), former Sen. Rob Portman (R-OH), Gov. Mike DeWine (R-OH) and Gov. Andy Beshear (D-KY) to tout a $1.6 billion grant to improve the Brent Spence Bridge.
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Mike Pence claims that at an Iowa school, students need parental permission to get an Aspirin but the school nurse gives out gender transition plans without telling anyone. There is no evidence of this.
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Nebraska State Sen. Machaela Cavanaugh (D) sobs on the chamber floor as she honors the parents of trans kids present in the gallery.
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As Kentucky State Rep. Nancy Tate (R) introduces her bill to persuade women with nonviable pregnancies to not seek abortion care and carry them to term, Reps. Racheal Roarx (D), Lindsey Burke (D) and Adrielle Camuel (D) walk out in protest.
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Des Moines resident Felicia Hilton testifies on Iowa's six-week abortion ban: "You're the same people who will slap loaves of bread out of Jesus' hands ... [You] celebrate the oppression of women ... [while the Governor] is cutting food assistance." "This state is ridiculous."
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Obama throws the kitchen sink at Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), saying he fought for tax write-offs for private jets, voted to raise the retirement age to 70 and supported a plan to cut Social Security and Medicare: “He should not be your Senator from Wisconsin.”
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BREAKING: The Wisconsin Senate voted along party lines to remove Meagan Wolfe, the state's top nonpartisan election official, from office, drawing applause from 2020 election deniers in the gallery who have pushed for her ouster.
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REPORTER: "You would be okay with the Supreme Court leaving the issue of interracial marriage to the states?" SEN. MIKE BRAUN (R-IN): "Yes. If you are not wanting the Supreme Court to weigh in on issues like that, you are not going to be able to have your cake and eat it too."
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NEW VIDEO: ND State Rep. Nico Rios (R) unleased a racist and homophobic rant at police during his DUI arrest, calling an officer a "f--king f--got," ranting about migrants destroying England, and threatening to call the Attorney General. Video first released by  @bistrib .
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In advancing HB2779, a bill modeled after the Texas abortion law, Tennessee Rep. Rebecca Alexander (R) says that it would be permissible for any family member of a rapist to sue the victim of rape for proceeding with an abortion. The bill is moving forward to full committee.
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On the day Roe was overturned, GOP candidate for MN Lt. Gov. Matt Birk spoke at an anti-abortion convention where he said culture promotes abortion by "tell[ing] women they should have careers," and people "always want to play the rape card." He also compared abortion to slavery.
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Fmr. President Obama at a Detroit rally: Gov. Whitmer's opponent claims "Democrats have been working for decades to topple the United States because they're still upset about losing the Civil War. And COVID restrictions were part of some plan to do this." "First of all, what?"
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Sen. Tammy Duckworth (D-IL): GOP Senators are "asking paid staffers and pages to bring them water at exactly the temperature they like—with or without ice, sparkling or not sparkling," but doing nothing to stop a law that makes it illegal to give water to voters at the polls.
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At Moms for Liberty's Philadelphia event, North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) says dictators like Hitler, Stalin and Mao are being taken out of context and promotes reading their writings. "...It is time for us to get back and start reading some of those quotes."
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NE State Sen. Megan Hunt (D) calls out her GOP colleagues for their anti-trans legislation: "This bill harms me in an unforgivable way ... Don't say 'hi' to me in the hall ... Don't walk by my desk and ask me anything ... No one in a world holds a grudge like me."
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BREAKING: The Minnesota Senate votes to legalize recreational marijuana by a vote of 34 to 33.
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Rep. Jim Banks (R) voices support for efforts to prevent women from leaving Indiana to access reproductive care. MILLER: "If a young lady can hop in a car in Fort Wayne and... [cross into] Illinois [to] an abortion clinic... the fight is far from over." BANKS: "Exactly right."
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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (R) tells Dana Loesch the "only thing we're not doing is shooting people" crossing the border because "the Biden Administration would charge us with murder."
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Hey folks, we’re @HeartlandSignal . We follow extremists in state legislatures and shine a light on their radical behavior. Want to support our work? Give us a follow!
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Wisconsin State Rep. Chuck Wichgers (R-Muskego), speaking against access to contraception, says it leads to infidelity, men devaluing women, women thinking they're better than nature and the "proliferation of STDs."
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Former Minnesota Gov. Jesse Ventura (I) joins Gov. Tim Walz (D) as he signs a bill legalizing marijuana: "Prohibition will end today on cannabis ... a plant made by God. [Gov. Walz and the Legislature], thank you." "Jimi Hendrix is looking down on Minnesota smiling today."
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Today, Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) responded to a reporter's question about the Great Replacement theory: "I've never even heard of it, OK? I don't know what you're talking about." Here's Johnson, in August, attacking Democrats and explaining the theory:
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GOP candidate for Minnesota secretary of state Kim Crockett, who would be the state’s chief election officer, says that people requiring assistance because they do not speak English or are disabled “raises the question: Should they be voting?”
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Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker (D) signs a first-in-the-nation ban on book bans: "Book bans are about censorship, marginalizing people, marginalizing ideas and facts. Regimes ban books, not democracies."
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MN State Sen. Lieske (R) offers an amendment to stop abortions of "a child in part born alive.” MN State Sen. Mann (D): “[We] shouldn't be making medical decisions… We're literally making stuff up... A child doesn't come out partway alive and doctors kill it. It’s not a thing.”
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NEW: On the The Regular Joe Show, Sen. Ron. Johnson (R-WI) argues for eliminating entitlements: "Social Security and Medicare, if you qualify, you just get it no matter what the cost... We ought to turn everything into discretionary spending so it's all evaluated."
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Nikki Haley tells Bloomberg News "65 is way too low" for the retirement age, advocates attaching it to life expectancy
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NEW: Arizona GOP gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake uses footage of Russian soldiers marching in her campaign ad, claiming (incorrectly) that they are the Arizona National Guard.
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NEW: Financial documents show Dr. Oz co-founded a health care data business with Kai Shing-Tao, the CEO of an invasive surveillance company tied to the Chinese government
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Hi there, we're @HeartlandSignal . We watch for moments like this that slip through the cracks (and make sure they don't). Help us hold people like Kristi Noem accountable and give us a follow!
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Taylor Swift in Chicago: “We can’t talk about Pride without talking about pain … There are so many harmful [anti-LGBTQ+] pieces of legislation … That’s why I post, ‘This is when the midterms are.’ [We need to do] our research on these elected officials.”
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Ohio State Rep. Anita Somani (D-Dublin), an OB-GYN, opposes overriding Gov. Mike DeWine's (R) veto of a gender-affirming care ban and chastises her anti-science Republican colleagues. "Your Google search [doesn't make] your knowledge equal to my 30+ years in medicine."
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Debating a 14-week abortion ban, Wisconsin State Rep. Joel Kitchens (R) says abortion isn't health care and claims he's an expert because he was a veterinarian: "I did thousands of ultrasounds on animals ... I think I know mammalian fetal development better than anyone here."
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NEW AUDIO: Wisconsin GOP Senate candidate Eric Hovde casts doubt on nursing home residents being able to vote: "Well, if you're in a nursing home, you only have a five, six-month life expectancy. Almost nobody in a nursing home is in a point to vote."
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Newly elected Minnesota State Sen. Nathan Wesenberg (R) suggests jailing Gov. Tim Walz (D) over COVID-19 mandates and refers to the vaccine as "a death shot" in one of his first public speeches since his election.
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CAUGHT ON TAPE: GOP Michigan attorney general nominee Matt DePerno says Plan B should be banned. “You have to stop it at the border. It would be no different than fentanyl.”
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Last night, Janet Protasiewicz was sworn in as a Wisconsin Supreme Court Justice, creating a 4-3 liberal majority on the court for the first time in 15 years.
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Obama in Milwaukee: "[Republicans] want to gut Social Security, Medicare, and give more tax breaks to the wealthy." "Their answer to everything... If there was an asteroid headed toward Earth, ask [Republicans] 'what do you want to do?'... We need a tax break for the wealthy."
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Minnesota State Sen. Warren Limmer (R-Maple Grove) says safe gun storage laws will keep farmers from protecting their families against cows. "You even walk too close to a cow, and it'll take you down and trample you into dust."
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Rep. Tim Ryan (D-OH): "Can you imagine saying out of one side of his mouth he's pro-cop and out of the other ... he's raising money for the insurrectionists who were beating up the Capitol police? ... One guy he tried to raise money for got four years in prison!"
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Gov. Tony Evers (D-WI) at his inauguration: "I'm Tony Evers and yes, I am jazzed as hell to be sworn in again as the 46th governor of the great state of Wisconsin."
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Announcing his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in Wisconsin, Republican Eric Hovde says he understands the tragedy of children being trafficked through Central America because he owns three homes there.
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Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg schools U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R-PA) on electric vehicles and the auto industry. BUTTIGIEG: “If you are of the view that there should be no subsidy to propulsion vehicles, then are you against oil and gas subsidies?”
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LIZ CHENEY: "I would not vote for J.D. Vance." JUDY WOODRUFF (PBS): "So if you were a Buckeye State voter, you'd be voting for Tim Ryan?" CHENEY: "I would."
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Nebraska State Sen. Steve Halloran (R-Hastings): "No one's forcing anyone to be pregnant. Pregnant's a voluntary act between two consenting adults."
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Here's DeWine's opponent, former Dayton Mayor Nan Whaley (D): "Teachers need 180 hours to renew their teaching license ... but only up to 24 hours of training to carry a gun ... That is insane." "[Mike DeWine] doesn't give a shit about whether you or your family are safe."
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Former President Donald Trump, leaving Hotel Fort Des Moines, says he will win the Iowa caucus again: “We’ve won it twice as you know; I think we’re going to have a tremendous night."   He lost the 2016 GOP Iowa caucus, taking second to Sen. Ted Cruz.
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NEW: James Roosevelt Jr., the grandson of former President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, has endorsed Mandela Barnes (D) in his Wisconsin Senate race against incumbent Sen. Ron Johnson (R), saying Johnson is a threat to FDR’s Social Security program
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NE State Sen. Megan Hunt (D-Omaha) passes on a message from her trans son: "No one in school is bullying me. None of my teachers are making my life hard. I'm a normal kid ... and no one says anything to me except my mom's colleagues. Except lawmakers."
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NEWS: Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer (D) signs into law protections for surrogacy and IVF: “Some said we’d never be in a place where IVF surrogacy and contraception would be threatened, let alone abortion. But that's exactly where we are right now in this country.”
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Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI), running from the press. JOHNSON: I'm on the phone right now. REPORTER: No you're not. I can see your phone. I can see your screen.
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Michigan GOP Senate candidate Peter Meijer refuses to answer, three times, whether he believes in rape and incest exceptions for abortion: “In what context … Again, I’m not sure what you mean.”
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2 years
White House Press Sec. Jen Psaki, when asked if Josh Hawley's (R-MO) smear campaign against Judge Jackson will hinder her nomination: “I’m not sure that someone who refused to tell people whether or not he would vote for Roy Moore is an effective and credible messenger on this.”
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