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              • 5 more women testify calling Marissa Alexander's husband brutally abusive
              
              
              • Cartoon: We are what we drink
              
              
              • Cruise ship carrying Texas Ebola health worker refused entry in Belize
              
              
              • If you could kick Mitch McConnell out of office in just two hours, would you do it? MoveOn and Daily Kos have a way for you to do just that. Sign up to make GOTV calls to Democrats, and make sure Mitch McConnell is out of a job on November 5.
              
              
              • If you can’t make calls to Get Out The Vote, chip in $1 each to nine Democratic candidates in crucial toss-up races so they can get Obama voters to the polls.
              
              
              • Was Scott's fantrum a failed ploy?
              
              
              • Fantrum: FL-Gov debate sponsor with ties to Scott altered debate rules to hurt Crist
              
              
              • Stephen Colbert on Fangate: Rick Scott was 'blown away'
              
              
              • Watch Jon Stewart slam Mitch McConnell as architect of government failure
              
              
              • South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley: Not a single CEO minds our Confederate battle flag
              
              
              • New draft of controversial trade deal leaked—and it's not good
              
              
              • GOP Senate candidate: Let's make the retirement age 70!
               
            • The real reason behind Rick Scott's infamous debate tantrum
            
            
            • “I did not commit biological fraud,” says Mississippi woman who married the man of her dreams
            
            
            • Ending the Walmart scam
            
            
            • We’re not kidding: Republicans are favored to take control of the Senate in 19 days. No matter where you live, please sign up to make phone calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide the election.
            
            
            • I’m really sorry but I can’t make phone calls right now. Instead, I will help out by contributing $1 each to nine crucial toss-up races so they can get Democratic voters to the polls.
            
            
            • Cartoon: In defense of the 'R' word
            
            
            • The biggest health threat is not Ebola—It's the stupid
            
            
            • Stephen Colbert mocks Sean Hannity's 'Question of the Day'
            
            
            • Unreal: Rick Scott refuses to debate Charlie Crist because of a—well, just watch
            
            
            • Cartoon: The bizarro Nobel prizes
            
            
            • Beltway hacks try to claim Scott's not the weirdo for his fan tantrum. Nice try, gasbags
            
            
            • Obama is a damn good president. Why do Dems hide it?
            
            
            • Kochs send misleading 'voter registration' mailers out in Illinois
            
            
            • #GamerGate. The battle on the internet you haven't heard of.
            
            
            • Wealth inequality hurting corporate profits
             
          • Woo-hoo!! Supreme Court in state with key Senate race kills voter ID law
          
          
          • Forget fan-gate, take a look at Rick Scott’s closing statement!
          
          
          • Wow! Endangered Republican senator demonstrates exactly why nothing gets done in Congress
          
          
          • We’re not kidding: Republicans are favored to take control of the Senate in 19 days. No matter where you live, please sign up to make phone calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide the election.
          
          
          • I’m really sorry but I can’t make phone calls right now. Instead, I will help out by contributing $1 each to nine crucial toss-up races so they can get Democratic voters to the polls.
          
          
          • “Fan-gate:” Was Rick Scott’s tantrum a failed ploy?
          
          
          • Fox News reports Warren Buffett donated $1.2 billion to pro-choice organizations
          
          
          • Colorado Senate debate: Moderator confronts Republican on personhood bill denials
          
          
          • Election Outlook: Colorado weirdness raises bigger questions
          
          
          • More updates from the Iceland volcano: Lava flow expanding near vents, earthquakes in abundance
          
          
          • Republicans grudgingly admit their South Dakota candidate is bombing
          
          
          • Ebola funding won’t get a hearing from House Republicans, but Ebola panic will
          
          
          • Georgia Republican thinks people upset about his outsourcing career are just ignorant
          
          
          • Larry Pressler lies about wanting to raise the retirement age
          
          
          • CHART: Minimum wage opposition could hurt Republicans in key states
          
          
          • How I made phone calls to save the Senate, even though I live in a blue state
        • The worst secretary of state in the nation gets skewered for suppressing the vote in Kansas
        
        
        • If the GOP has thoroughly accomplished one thing in the past 6 years, it's this
        
        
        • Wow! Hundreds are signing up every day to make phone calls to turn out Democratic voters in the states that will decide which party controls the Senate. Sign up to make calls, Craig!
        
        
        • I can’t make phone calls now. But I can help win the breakthrough Senate race in South Dakota by contributing $3 each to Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland and local grassroots efforts to help get Native American voters to the polls.
        
        
        • Breakthrough in path to diabetes treatment
        
        
        • Rolling Stone: Obama is one of the 'most successful presidents in history' (plus an interview with Paul Krugman)
        
        
        • The story behind this AMAZING photo of young Nigel
        
        
        • If you sign this petition to the EPA right now, you can actually DO something about climate change
        
        
        • The South Dakota Senate race is Schrödinger's election
        
        
        • Spoiler independent candidate saying he's 'not rich,' claims upscale D.C. apartment as his 'principal residence'
        
        
        • Medical anthropologists address Ebola fearmongering
        
        
        • Black teenage foster child gets accused by neighbors of burglary and pepper-sprayed in his own home
        
        
        • 'We'd have a vaccine by now if it were not for budget cuts,' says head of NIH about Ebola
        
        
        • POTUS designates San Gabriel Mountains (350,000 acres) a national monument
        
        
        • Medicaid scores high marks with customers in three red states
        
        
        • Good news for seniors, Medicare 'Part B' premiums won't rise in 2015
        
        
        • Microsoft CEO admits he was 'completely wrong' to tell women not to ask for raises
        
        
        • Voter suppression is un-American
        
        
        • Here's how we're going to help win South Dakota
         
      • Highly respected conservative judge rips 'voter ID' laws—and the GOP—in blistering opinion
      
      
      • The chart that every Republican fear-mongering about Ebola needs to see
      
      
      • Cartoon: America of the future
      
      
      • Unbelievable: GOP male state rep says female Democratic candidate is 'ugly as sin' and can't win
      
      
      • A swing of only 4% turns 2014 into a Democratic wave: Sign up to make calls from home to get Democratic voters to the polls in the toss-up states that will decide the Senate.
      
      
      • I can’t make phone calls, but I can contribute $3 to Democratic Senate candidate Rick Weiland to help a progressive populist win a red state with huge voter turnout program.
      
      
      • Meet the toughest political ad in memory: 'Republican Cuts Kill'
      
      
      • My problem is not with president Obama
      
      
      • D.C. Football owner using disgraced Navajo Nation president to support his team's racism
      
      
      • Georgia voter suppression update: Where are 40,000 voter registrations?
      
      
      • Larry Pressler sat on board of company while it defrauded investors of millions
      
      
      • Detour to gridlock: Stephen Colbert looks at the 2014 midterms
      
      
      • Germany offers free college tuition to U.S. and international students
      
      
      • An open letter to Mitch McConnell: Obamacare is not 'just a website'
       
    • Idaho’s race for governor just got really, really weird
    
    
    • NASA: Methane hot spot in U.S. is triple the size of previous estimates
    
    
    • Georgia Republican who takes 'pride' in outsourcing gets hit with the ad he deserves
    
    
    • RNC Chair Preibus gets defensive over public health budget cuts
    
    
    • We’re not kidding: Republicans are favored to take control of the Senate in 21 days. No matter where you live, please sign up to make phone calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide the election.
    
    
    • I’m really sorry but I can’t make phone calls right now. Instead, I will help out by contributing $1 each to nine crucial toss-up races so they can get Democratic voters to the polls.
    
    
    • Iowa Republican candidate hates veterans
    
    
    • Who knew? Looks like proudly defending outsourcing is not a political winner.
    
    
    • Two Nobel Peace Prize winners unafraid to speak truth to power
    
    
    • National media does McConnell's bidding on Grimes non-story
    
    
    • McConnell doubles down on Obamacare nonsense in Kentucky debate
    
    
    • WTF? Scott Walker says minimum wage “doesn’t serve a purpose”
    
    
    • NEWS FLASH to the Koch brothers: Late ad buys don’t buy much
    
    
    • Two-thirds of Americans worry about widespread Ebola epidemic here
    
    
    • Our stunningly competitive race in South Dakota gets the national attention it deserves
    
    
    • Seeking his 4th term, watch Kansas Senator Pat Roberts—18 years ago!—proclaim he would only serve two terms
     
  • Chuck Todd blames Alison Lundergan Grimes for his journalistic screw up
  
  
  • New York Times exposes another Bush WMD deception
  
  
  • Cartoon: Awkward moment
  
  
  • We’re not kidding: Republicans are favored to take control of the Senate in 20 days. No matter where you live, please sign up to make phone calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide the election.
  
  
  • I’m really sorry but I can’t make phone calls right now. Instead, I will help out by contributing $1 each to nine crucial toss-up races so they can get Democratic voters to the polls.
  
  
  • Wendy Davis slams Greg Abbott on MSNBC ignoring wheelchair ad attacks
  
  
  • Huge Senate news: Nunn surges ahead in Georgia: 48-45
  
  
  • Stephen Colbert brutally mocks GOP efforts to win over women voters
  
  
  • Utterly bogus ruling by 5th Circuit reinstates Texas voter ID law
  
  
  • Healthcare efficiency: Guess where the U.S. ranks
  
  
  • If you sign this petition to the EPA right now, you can actually DO something about climate change
  
  
  • Abortion? The Google doctor can't see you now
  
  
  • GOP 'winning message' continues to insult women's intelligence
  
  
  • Democratic early vote outpacing 2010
  
  
  • Who's behind the newest Koch Super PAC? Hint: It's not the little guy.
  
  
  • A powerful NY Times exposé: 'The Secret Casualties of Iraq's Abandoned Chemical Weapons'
  
  
  • U.S. Supreme Court bars Texas from closing abortion clinics during appeals process
  
  
  • North Carolina Republicans thinks 'entitlement' programs are 'de facto reparations'
  
  
  • Bannock Street Project: Democratic 'ground game of unprecedented strength'
   
• Yes, Republicans really ARE that evil. Look at what this Senate candidate wants to do.


• “I did not commit biological fraud,” says Mississippi woman who married the man of her dreams


• Second nurse infected with Ebola traveled on plane, President in emergency meeting


• We’re not kidding: Republicans are favored to take control of the Senate in 20 days. No matter where you live, please sign up to make phone calls to Democratic voters in the toss-up states that will decide the election.


• I’m really sorry but I can’t make phone calls right now. Instead, I will help out by contributing $1 each to nine crucial toss-up races so they can get Democratic voters to the polls.


• Obamacare rate shock? Not for 2015.


• Senate GOP candidate says people with pre-existing conditions were ‘happy’ before Obamacare


• Remain calm. You are not going to get Ebola


• Another poll shows union-hating Governor Scott Walker in the fight for his life. Throw him an anvil!


• Since St. Louis has decided against releasing a report, here’s the timeline of Mike Brown’s death


• Michelle Nunn leads proud outsourcer David Perdue in latest poll


• DEVELOPING STORY: As Georgia early voting begins, 40,000 new registrations still unprocessed


• Barricading the ballot box: How Republicans consolidate power


• Inside the GOP’s “secret school” on how to not become the next Todd Akin


• Texas hospital staff had to learn Ebola protocols on the fly


• Dialing for South Dakota: Talking to these two


• Control of the Senate runs through South Dakota reservations, and you’re helping get out the vote