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Daniel Nichanian. Editor & founder of @BoltsMag. Local politics, criminal justice, voting rights.

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1Jul 7, '24JUST IN: Polls closed in France. Exit polls show surprise: —Left coalition (New Popular Front) projected first. (!) —Far-right (RN) has lost its bid to take power. Anti-RN front ap36.6×6.7M16k2.5k1.1k
2Jul 30, '23What is transpiring here is that the Democratic candidate who won a safe blue seat in North Carolina on a pro-choice platform, and then switched to the GOP to give them a supermajo16×2.9M21k6.2k1.2k
3Jun 8, '23Here's the Alabama congressional map that was struck down today. It packs African American residents from Birmingham to Montgomery to Tuscaloosa to Selma into one single district (13.3×2.4M17k2.6k449
4May 16, '23RESULT: Dems just flipped the mayor's office in Jacksonville, Florida. This was the most populous city with a GOP mayor anywhere in the country. No more. Donna Deegan will be the n12.7×2.3M11k1.1k91
5May 17, '23Terrible night for the GOP in cities: In one swell swoop, it has lost the mayor's offices in the most populous city anywhere in the nation that it presently governed (Jacksonville)12.1×2.2M13k1.4k190
6Jun 24, '22The final paragraph of the three liberals' Dobbs dissent: "With sorrow—for this Court, but more, for the many millions of American women who have today lost a fundamental constitut10.8×078k13k732
7Jan 16, '21Justice Sotomayor, on the Trump administration’s rush to kill.9.0×053k15k859
8Aug 13, '23One day after the newspaper was raided by an entire police force, the 98-year old owner of the Marion County Record died today.7.3×1.3M9.1k3.1k290
9Sep 22, '24it took me a moment to realize the NYPD commissioner who was just raided by the feds is the NYPD commissioner who succeeded the NYPD commissioner who was raided by the feds a few w6.8×1.3M44k4.4k1.3k
10Jul 20, '20When you use images from your own presidency to warn of what would happen if your opponent won6.6×048k8.3k257
11Jul 23, '24It’s over: A majority of the pledged DNC delegates have now endorsed Kamala Harris, virtually ensuring she clinches the Democratic nomination on the first ballot. The endorsement o6.6×1.2M8.4k1.5k192
12Nov 5, '25And there's moer: Democrats have flipped two seats in the Mississippi senate, and in so doing they've broken the GOP's supermajority in the chamber.6.2×1.1M27k3.3k701
13Jul 7, '24A video from Paris, of supporters of the Left coalition, waiting for the exit poll to drop at 8pm—and reacting:4.7×866k11k1.6k453
14Aug 7, '24RESULT: Marvin Robinson, a Dem state Rep. in Kansas, was just *ousted* by voters in his Dem primary. Who is Robinson? He provided Kansas Republicans the decisive vote to override t4.7×863k17k2.3k394
15Nov 6, '24RESULT: Kentuckians have rejected Amendment 2, the ballot measure that would have allowed public funding to go to private schools.4.5×827k14k1.1k147
16Nov 3, '24Iowa had abortion protected by its state courts. Then, just *days* before Dobbs, the Iowa's state supreme court struck that right down. The GOP passed a 6-week abortion ban. It was4.4×804k11k1.8k261
17Sep 10, '20BREAKING: Rhode Island Senator Harold Metts, a *30-year* Dem lawmaker who is a fervent opponent of abortion rights, has **lost** Tuesday's primary against a 26-year old progressive4.3×035k3.7k118
18Oct 11, '19going into a city and holding a rally for white people to have them to boo at the mention of a large & ethnically different part of the local population is unapologetic & o4.3×027k7.3k224
19Nov 19, '24A Wyoming judge just struck down WY's abortion bans. Get this: Judge invoked a constitutional amendment codifying a right to make health care decisions... that was passed in 2012 b4.3×781k10k2.5k581
20May 3, '23Big news in Michigan: A county clerk who was an election denier faced a recall election. (She was accused of mishandling equipment.) She massively lost tonight & will be out of4.2×779k18k3k80
21Aug 27, '24Political situation in France is fairly jaw-dropping. 1. Elections were 7 weeks ago, & in France transition is quick. But still no new government, & it's not just bc there'4.1×753k15k1.6k1.1k
22Oct 8, '25JUST IN: The Republican Mayor of Fairbanks, Alaska, lost re-election last night to a Democrat. Mayor David Pruhs is a conservative who fought protections for LGBTQ+ residents; he m4.0×742k16k2.3k431
23Jun 4, '22The Uvalde mother who was handcuffed by the police and then ran to the school says that law enforcement threatened her with probation violation (and so criminal punishment) if she 3.9×024k6.2k606
24Sep 1, '22NEW: Democrats GAIN a congressional seat in Alaska. Mary Peltola has defeated Sarah Palin, 51.5% to 48.5%.3.4×028k2.2k65
25Nov 13, '20Biden won the popular vote by 5+ million & got 306 electoral votes. Trump lost the popular vote by 2+ million & got 306 electoral votes.3.2×023k3k389
26Jun 18, '20Susan Collins voted against the Dream Act in 2010.3.2×022k5k57
27Nov 9, '20🚨 The portal to request a mail-in ballot for Georgia’s January 5th runoffs is now online. If you are in Georgia & if you wish to vote by mail:3.1×011k9k94
28Jun 25, '22France is quickly responding to yesterday's U.S. news by moving to adopt a constitutional amendment codifying abortion rights in the French Constitution. Macron's party and the lef3.1×022k3.4k241
29Mar 6, '24Elon Musk endorsed the challenger to Austin's progressive DA. He emailed Tesla staff to go out to vote in the race today. The DA, José Garza, just won by a 2 to 1 margin.3.0×554k7k1.2k154
30Mar 19, '19🚨news in Florida: a House committee has moved forward a bill to strip Floridians of right to vote if they haven't been able to fully pay court fines & fees. Hundreds of thousa3.0×011k6.9k115
31Nov 10, '24So Dems succeeded in replacing Sinema with Gallego for six years through an open race in a state Trump carried at the same time.2.9×532k10k647216
32Nov 8, '24JUST IN: Pennsylvania Democrats appear to have kept control of the state House. Cambria County just added ballots & nearly finished counting, keeping Dem lawmaker Frank Burns o2.9×525k12k1.4k226
33Nov 9, '22Vermont has a new Senator! Peter Welch wins to replace Pat Leahy, and he'll be the second Democratic senator in the state's history. (@AP calls).2.8×024k1.8k46
34Nov 7, '18Democrats have gained a trifecta in Maine. They picked-up the governorship, AND flipped the state Senate; they already had the House. Immediate impact: Maine will finally move forw2.8×020k3.6k22
35Nov 9, '22I can't possibly understate the political & policy consequences of this: Democrats just gained full control of four state governments today. Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, 2.8×022k2.2k287
36May 19, '21RESULT: Pittsburgh has overwhelmingly voted to ban no-knock warrants for police in a local ballot initiative.2.6×022k2k54
37Jun 23, '20Wow. Voters have been locked out of a polling station in Louisville, & are now banging on the doors demanding to get to vote.2.6×015k5.2k127
38Nov 12, '18I just want to make sure everyone knows Georgia's Secretary of State race went to a Dec. 4th runoff between John Barrow (D) and Brad Raffensperger (R). This is the election to elec2.6×015k5.2k44
40Jul 15, '19ICE agents terrorized this New Jersey teenager throughout Sunday night. She knew not to open the door because of the “know your rights” posts on social media.2.5×011k5.6k137
41Sep 8, '22Woa, an 18-year old high school student, Shiva Rajbhandari, won a school board election in Boise, Idaho, on Tuesday. He ousted an incumbent school member who had received an endors2.5×018k2.7k203
42May 4, '22Huge news in France, that just two weeks ago seemed unthinkable: the four major left and center-left parties have struck a left-wide coalition deal, the first of its kind in decade2.4×020k1.6k455
43Nov 13, '22That's two more years of judges appointed by Biden. Keep in mind, one thing that Biden has been very different on than his predecessors (including Obama) is the professional backgr2.4×020k1.7k121
44Apr 7, '21JUST NOW: Tishaura Jones WINS mayoral election in St. Louis. She ran as the most progressive candidate in the primary & the runoff: includes support for ending cash bail, decri2.4×018k2.6k78
45Nov 11, '22Of the 4 most populous states, the two Dem-run ones (CA + NY) are using independent or court maps. The two GOP-run ones (FL + TX) are using maps strongly gerrymandered by the GOP. 2.3×016k3.1k246
46Oct 16, '20It looks like Harris County is on track to have more than 100,000 in-person voters for the 4th day in a row (out of 4).2.2×018k1.9k34
47Apr 13, '20Jill Karofsky, the liberal challenger, has won Wisconsin's Supreme Court election. She ousts incumbent Dan Kelly, a Scott Walker-appointed, Trump-endorsed incumbent conservative kn2.1×015k2.4k48
48Jan 21, '21exactly 2 weeks ago , at around this hour, Ted Cruz voted to disenfranchise every single voter of Pittsburgh (a city that went for Biden) by throwing out their state's electoral vo2.0×015k2.6k93
49Dec 28, '19watching tech people rediscover public transit is a never-ending spectacle2.0×016k2k61
50Jul 25, '17D.C. has 0 senator but more residents than WY, whose 2 senators were decisive today to advancing a bill that triples D.C.'s uninsured rate.1.9×08.7k5.2k1
51Aug 20, '22What DeSantis is doing here may be the most cynical, antidemocratic, & nakedly destructive of people’s lives maneuvers I can think in recent US politics. Beyond any politics, i1.9×010k3.1k558
52Nov 6, '20Joe Biden is now ahead in Georgia! Latest batch of ballots from Clayton County has given him the statewide lead. More remains from Clayton, part of which John Lewis represented in 1.9×013k2.2k82
53Apr 6, '22Confirmed: The 3 school board candidates who ran on anti-LGBT platforms in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, lost tonight. The election took place in a context of violent threats against the 1.9×014k2k63
54Nov 15, '22RESULT: The GOP has lost control of the Arizona state government for the first time since 2009. Democrats Katie Hobbs will be the next governor, defeating Republican Kari Lake, NBC1.8×015k1.5k62
55Dec 14, '22Big news in Oregon: the outgoing Governor commuted the death sentences of everyone currently on death row in the state.1.7×013k1.4k107
56Jul 5, '20Kanye West is already too late to make ballot in Texas, New York, and Illinois; has 10 days to collect 130,000 signatures to make it in Florida, & an extra day to collect 12,001.7×012k1.8k103
57Sep 26, '21a remarkable referendum today: Berlin voters by a comfortable margin voted that the city should expropriate housing from large landlords (that have at least 3,000 units) & soci1.7×012k1.8k174
58Sep 8, '22NEW: The Michigan Supreme Court just directed the State Board of Canvassers to place two constitutional amendments back on November's ballot: one to protect abortion rights, one to1.6×011k2.4k58
59Aug 27, '19It's frustrating to think of the controversy over @AOC using "concentration camp," when Joe Arpaio used those words to describe a detention center HE HIMSELF ran, & Trump embra1.6×09.9k2.8k69
60Aug 24, '22RESULT: Do you remember Jared Smith, the Florida judge in Hillsbourgh County (Tampa) who tried to block a teenager from accessing abortion because her grades were too low? () He wa1.6×012k1.8k102
61Sep 21, '19A landlord threatened to call ICE on their tenant. And was just fined $17,000 for that. Likely "the first case in the country where an individual was fined for threatening to call 1.6×010k2.5k91
62Feb 15, '18Washington's Senate is on fire. In past month, it has passed automatic & same-day voting registration, a ban on conversion therapy, stronger protections for trans students, str1.6×09.9k2.5k4
63Feb 25, '18In CNN's new poll, Trump's approval is just 22% among all respondents under 35, and 27% among all respondents under 45, and 29% among women.1.6×07.7k3.2k2
64Sep 16, '20BREAKING: Delaware state Rep. Earl Jaques has **lost** to progressive challenger Eric Morrison in tonight's Dem primary. Jaques had opposed gay marriage. Morrison is gay, & lon1.5×011k1.5k77
66May 12, '19O'Rourke, Hickenlooper, Bullock, and Castro, who could run for Senate against GOP incumbents (in TX/CO/MT/TX) but are running for president instead, are polling at 2%, 1%, 0%, and 1.4×08.3k2.5k33
67Nov 22, '22All ballots are now counted in Arizona. And Democrats have won the attorney general race, pending a recount. Mayes leads Hamadeh by 510 votes. Out of 2.5 millions! A margin of 0.021.4×011k1.4k73
68Nov 9, '22Oh, Illinois passed a referendum to codify the right to collective bargaining in its state constitution. The first state to do so!1.4×011k1.5k86
69Dec 7, '22Mark Kelly & Raphael Warnock were two of Dems' best results in 2020—but both needed to run again within 2 years since their first wins were specials. Now they'll both be around1.4×012k77329
70Nov 3, '21RESULT: Tucson voters have approved raising the minimum wage to $15 by a very large margin. Tucson is a key base for Democrats in Arizona, whose senior Dem senator made quite a sho1.4×010k1.5k41
71Dec 7, '22Gwinnett County, the big northern Atlanta suburb, took another jump to the left today. Romney +9 in 2012 Clinton +6 in 2016 Abrams +14 in 2018 Biden +18 in 2020 Warnock +24 in 20221.3×010k1.1k82
72Sep 16, '18The GOP forced Justice Scalia's seat to stay vacant for 419 days. Justice Kennedy's has been vacant for 47 days. I await the GOP's explanation for why any more delay right now woul1.3×07.7k2.6k19
73Oct 28, '20Virginia just banned no-knock warrants, via a law signed by Governor Northam today.1.3×09.7k1.4k31
74Jan 9, '21Between 1836 and 1844, the US House had a literal “gag rule” banning reference to slavery & abolition of slavery. In 1842, an Ohio congressmember was censured by the chamber fo1.3×08.7k1.9k186
75Nov 4, '20to be very explicit: what these results mean is the end of ICE's 287(g) program in two of the biggest counties it exists in. i can't overstate how big this is. and the activism it 1.3×08.1k2.1k104
76Apr 13, '20Okay, this may be the single most definitive aspect of the Wisconsin results so far: Kenosha County has been as swing as it gets, Trump +1%, Evers +3%, and Hagedorn (con) +3%. Now 1.3×09.5k1.3k55
77Jan 14, '19Trump quoting from Pat Buchanan's screed against a multiracial/multilingual America just a few days after Steve King explicitly defended white supremacy tells you all you need to k1.3×07.9k2.2k25
78Jan 6, '21This is the part of the night where things looking promising enough for Democrats that they subconsciously feel it's all a cosmic plot to crush their spirits more vigorously.1.3×09.8k84139
79Apr 7, '21JUST IN: a progressive win in Wisconsin. Jill Underly, a progressive who was supported by teacher's unions, has won WI's statewide election for school superintendent against Deb Ke1.2×09.7k1.2k38
80Nov 8, '17Where we're at: —Dems win #NJGov, full control of NJ government. —Dems win VA Gov, huge gains in VA Assembly (shock shot at majority) —Dems win St. Petersburg & Manchester. —De1.2×07.5k2.2k0
81Nov 9, '22Huge win for the GOP: They've flipped the North Carolina supreme court. This will have huge implications for redistricting and civil rights cases gonig forward, including likely en1.2×07.5k1.7k224
82Nov 8, '18Stacey Abrams has already come closer to a statewide victory in Georgia than any other Democratic candidate for president, senate, or governor since 2000. (And they are still count1.2×09.5k1.2k15
83Nov 12, '22❗️Karen Bass has taken the LEAD in the mayoral race in Los Angeles. She now leads Caruso 50.4% to 49.6%. (Expect her lead to continue to grow quite a bit.)1.2×09.6k82232
84Apr 6, '22BREAKING: One of Trump's fake presidential elector who tried to overturn the 2020 election was running for re-election in Wisconsin today, and lost.1.2×08.4k1.3k40
85Nov 4, '20Two HUGE resuts in Georgia: Dems have flipped the sheriff's offices in Cobb & Gwinnett counties (pop: 1.6 million) This is big for many reasons. 1/ The GOP sheriffs here have i1.2×07.3k1.6k134
86Jun 25, '25Brad Lander speaks: "Andrew Cuomo is in the past. He is not the present or future of New York City. Good fucking riddance"1.2×211k11k861201
87Nov 16, '20‼️ Dems have seized a 17-vote (!) lead in Alaska's HD17 with the count of mail-in ballots, which (if it holds post-canvass & recount) may end up denying the GOP legislative con1.1×09.9k61245
88Nov 26, '22So, 17 of 20 members of Alaska's incoming senate have just formed a coalition to govern the chamber. It'll include all 9 Dems, plus 8 Republicans — isolating 3 conservative Republi1.1×09k856132
89Nov 4, '20In 2002, Nevadans approved a ballot measure to ban same-sex marriages in the state 67% to 33%. This year, they repealed that ban & enshrined same-sex marriage in their constitu1.1×08.4k1.1k59
90Jan 6, '21Jon Ossoff's lead is now larger, in both votes (+12.8K) and in percentage points (+0.30%), than Biden's multi-recounted win over Trump in Georgia.1.0×08.4k88329
91Nov 13, '22There hasn't been a *single* day during ALL of the 117th Congress (current one) without a vacancy in the House. There were 4 vacancies by Feb. 2021; there were 4-6 vacancies (up to1.0×08.1k805156
92Nov 13, '22if it is 218-217 GOP: the over 700,000 residents of Dem Washington, D.C. being denied all congressional representation will be what clinches the GOP majority.1.0×07.8k97270
94Dec 28, '20‼️ The House passed the bill for $2,000 checks by meeting the 2/3rds threshold for an expedited "suspendion of the rules" process. Now 👀 on McConnell (and Perdue, and Loeffler).1.0×07.1k1.1k54
95Apr 12, '20Virginia has repealed the ultrasound requirement before an abortion, as well as the 24-hour waiting period. Northam signed this bill yesterday. Virginia also just banned housing &a1.0×07k1.2k41
96Jan 7, '21The Trump staffers who resign after more than 99% of his presidency is over will spend the next decades telling us they're democracy heroes & selling books on it.1.0×07.9k93448
97Nov 15, '22I think this gigantic result has been drowned out: South Dakotans voting (56% to 44%!) to expand Medicaid will make tens of thousands of people newly eligible for the public insura1.0×06.9k1.3k57
98Jun 27, '21NEW: Marine Le Pen's far-right party has failed to win any of France's regions in today's regional elections. (It fell well short of its pre-election aim of winning several regions0.9×07.2k74647

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