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The gerrymandering doom spiral is gaining downward momentum, exactly as expected.

President Donald Trump was about to be blindsided. Yet he seemed clueless that a Social Security political bombshell was about to be detonated from within – one perhaps powerful enough to shatter the ...

Kay Ivey fired one up. And it blew up in her face. The Alabama guvnah lit an exploding cigar when she fired Alabama Department of Veteran Affairs Commissioner Kent Davis. Over what appears to be ...