In This Episode
Tuesday’s special election and primaries deliver some Democratic victories and a warning against complacency, another Republican is indicted for corruption, and Dan offers tempered thoughts on Mark Leibovich’s Paul Ryan profile. Then Matt Rivitz of Sleeping Giants talks to Tommy about their success in persuading companies to remove ads from right-wing news outlets that promote bigotry and hate.
Show Notes:
Election Day on Tuesday:
- New York Times: Kansas and Ohio Races Remain Too Close to Call
- Washington Post: GOP declares victory in a U.S. House race in Ohio that’s still too close to call
- The Atlantic: The Ohio Results Point to Democratic Strength in 2018—and a Showdown in 2020
- Politico: GOP skirts disaster in Ohio
- CNN: Here’s the real lesson of the Ohio special election
- New York Times: In Ohio Election, Republicans Test a Midterms Rescue Plan: Polarization
- CNN: Trump may not be enough to swing Latino turnout Democrats’ way
- AP News: GOP grumbles as Donald Trump reshapes midterm campaigns
- Axios: “Red wave”: Inside Trump’s frenetic rally schedule
- New York Times: Few Have Lost Races, but All Republicans Have Lost Support in Special Elections Under Trump
- Washington Post: The House map is very broad for Democrats. And Trump is the reason why
- FiveThirtyEight: What went down in the OH 12 Election
Dem Primaries:
- New York Times: 5 Takeaways From Tuesday’s Election Results
- Politico: Top takeaways from a pair of election-night squeakers
- Vox: 4 winners and 3 losers from the August 7 primary and special elections
- Washington Post: Winners and losers from Tuesday’s elections
- Vox: An openly LGBTQ Native American woman just won a Democratic House nomination in Kansas
- Huffington Post: Women Break New Records In 2018 Primaries
- Washington Post: Women just broke a record: The most female nominees for governor in a single year
- Washington Post: Democratic Party’s liberal insurgency hits a wall in Midwest primaries
- New York Times: Whitmer and Schuette Win Michigan Governor’s Nominations
- Politico Magazine: Down Goes Socialism
- Politico: Bernie and his army are losing 2018
- The Intercept: Notorious Ferguson Prosecutor Ousted in a Night of Victories and Disappointments for Insurgent Candidates
- Daily Beast: There Will Now Likely Be Two Democratic Socialists of America Members in Congress
Other Results:
- AP News: Washington state Democrats eye 3 GOP House seats
- CNN: Washington state’s primary results paint a grim picture for GOP
Right to Work:
- Vox: Missouri voters just blocked the right-to-work law Republicans passed to weaken labor unions
- St. Louis Post Dispatch: Democrats, unions declare victory as ‘right to work’ loses by wide margin in Missouri
- Wall Street Journal: Money Fuels a Fight to Overturn Anti-Union Law in Missouri
- Washington Post: Labor’s next big fight comes this week in Missouri
- Politico: Missouri right-to-work vote
- Guardian: Future of unions hangs in the balance with Missouri ‘right to work’ vote
- Washington Post: Unions won a rare victory in Missouri. But they still face a tough road ahead
- Huffington Post: How Labor Won The Right-To-Work Fight In Missouri
- Politico: Missouri rejects right to work
- New York Magazine: Labor Fights Back in Missouri Initiative to Overturn Right-to-Work Law
Chris Collins:
- AdWeek: Q&A: Sleeping Giants Founder Talks InfoWars, Doxxing and the Corrosive Effects of Social Media
- New York Times: Revealed: The People Behind an Anti-Breitbart Twitter Account
- The Daily Caller: Sleeping Giants’ Anonymous Founder Unmasked; Top Ad Writer Behind Boycott Campaign Targeting Breitbart, Ingraham
- Sleeping Giants Facebook Page: Official statement from Matt Rivitz
- GQ: How an Activist Group Turned to the Dark Side to Hit Breitbart Where It Hurts
- Washington Post: The mysterious group that’s picking Breitbart apart, one tweet at a time
Matt Rivitz:
- AdWeek: Q&A: Sleeping Giants Founder Talks InfoWars, Doxxing and the Corrosive Effects of Social Media
- New York Times: Revealed: The People Behind an Anti-Breitbart Twitter Account
- Sleeping Giants Facebook Page: Official statement from Matt Rivitz
- The Daily Caller: Sleeping Giants’ Anonymous Founder Unmasked; Top Ad Writer Behind Boycott Campaign Targeting Breitbart, Ingraham
- GQ: How an Activist Group Turned to the Dark Side to Hit Breitbart Where It Hurts
- Washington Post: The mysterious group that’s picking Breitbart apart, one tweet at a time
