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In North Carolina, Roy Cooper is running an ad focusing on his tough-on-crime record. In Iowa, Rob Sand simply replied “no” when asked if he thought biological males should be able to play in women’s sport. In Georgia, Senator Jon Ossoff has rejected defunding the police. In Texas, James Talarico has embraced God.

These purity tests are absurd.

It is not up to you to decide whether a candidate’s views are acceptable. The voters of a state or district decide. What’s important is that these candidates believe in expanding health care access, improving labor rights, and making corporations pay their taxes.

To house everyone from a megachurch pastor like Adam Hamilton, who is running for the Senate in Kansas, to Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan, you need a big tent.

The coalition that passed Roosevelt’s New Deal included everyone from Communist sympathizers to self-avowed white supremacists,

Of course he does.

In 2024, 61% of voters who reported voting by mail-in ballot said they supported Kamala Harris for president, a higher share than those who voted in person

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/09/04/politics/mail-voting-popularity-trump-vis

This is the woman that prevented Joe Biden from taxing private equity.

She threatened to torpedo his biggest bill if he closed loopholes allowing private equity to pay less taxes.

https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/sinema-received-nearly-1-million-from-wall-street-while-killing-tax-hike-on-investors

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/08/09/how-wall-street-wooed-sen-kyrsten-sinema-and-preserved-its-multi-billion-dollar-carried-interest-tax-break.html

https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/congress/kyrsten-sinema-delivers-gift-private-equity-democrats-big-agenda-bill-rcna42394

And one of her biggest Wall Street supporter ? Billionaire Leon Black.

Turns out he is Jeffrey’s Epstein pal. What a small world.

https://theintercept.com/2023/08/03/kyrsten-sinema-private-equity-donors-jeffrey-epstein/

She didn’t only betray voters. She also had an affair.