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Kerry Eleveld's Profile
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Kerry Eleveld is the author of "Don't Tell Me To Wait: How the fight for gay rights changed America and transformed Obama's presidency," published October 2015 to critical acclaim by the NYT, Kirkus Reviews, and others.
Groups: Daily Kos Elections, Daily Kos, 50 State Strategy Project
Home Page: kerryeleveld.com
Twitter: @kerryeleveld
Diaries published: 3642 (1 day since last diary on Wed Sep 12, 2018 at 04:55 PM PDT)
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Most Recommended Diary: Trump associate, rattled by Mueller interview, dishes about three 'frightening' hours of questioning, 384 comments, 540 recommends
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A handful of staunchly conservative groups are coordinating efforts to back the speakership bid of Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan, who is currently embroiled in a sex abuse scandal that includes multiple lawsuits and a federal investigation.
The Club for...
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There's just no words for how incomprehensibly out of touch Donald Trump is with the havoc he and his trade policies are wreaking on farmers. Here's what Trump told a local KELO reporter in South Dakota last week when he was asked for...
by Kerry Eleveld
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“Lyin' Ted” Cruz is actually in re-election trouble in a state that should be a gimme for Republicans: Texas. And now the Republican Senate, desperate to save its majority from “shipwreck,” is being forced to devote resources to prop up one of its most...
by Kerry Eleveld
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It appears Donald Trump's unhinged, combative style of governance isn't going over well in the Midwest, where a new NPR/Marist poll shows support for Congressional Republicans collapsing.
In that poll, the generic ballot trended upward for...
by Kerry Eleveld
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The Congressional Budget Office assessed the damage the Republican tax giveaway to the rich is doing to our national debt and found the GOP is on course to deliver, according to Axios. Instead of hitting that $1 trillion deficit by 2020, the nation...
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Legal challenges from women Donald Trump has slandered and sought to silence show just how tough Trump really is when he's backed into a corner. And more than anything, he's a craven wimp. At the moment, Trump is being hounded by two lawsuits in...
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- Sen. Susan Collins (R-ME) can't get her story straight. Up until now, she's been insisting that she's not hearing from her constituents on the nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court like she did on Affordable Care Act repeal. So why should...90 comments 144 Recs
- Could the terrible political environment and Donald Trump’s sinking approval rating put the Senate in reach for Democrats? While the entire House is up for grabs this year, the Senate has looked out of reach for Democrats because, with only a third of...99 comments 134 Recs
- In December 2017, Judge Alex Kozinski retired as a judge on the United States Court of Appeals 9th Circuit after six extremely accomplished women who clerked for him came forward to detail allegations of sexual harassment. The number of women has now...78 comments 154 Recs
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- Campaign Action National polling by CNN conducted at the end of hearings for Brett Kavanaugh show that he's hardly more popular than the unindicted co-conspirator who nominated him. Just 38 percent of Americans say he should be confirmed, while 39...54 comments 130 Recs
- Although the Sept. 11 attacks are now 17 years distant, the victim count continues to rise. Most are rescue workers and others who labored in the toxic smoke of Ground Zero . Twenty-three NYPD ...11 comments 64 Recs
- Gretchen Whitmer told her rape survival story. Now those images are in a Republican ad attacking herGretchen Whitmer gained national prominence in 2013 when, as a Michigan state senator, she stood up and testified against a Republican “rape insurance” bill by telling her own story of sexual assault. Five years later, she’s Michigan’s Democratic...37 comments 108 Recs
- This post was written and reported by freelance contributor A. Rochaun Meadows-Fernandez through our new Daily Kos freelance program. The United States has faced a lot of polarizing issues in its history, but few have been as significant as the...8 comments 73 Recs
- Three Republican judges go into a St. Louis courtroom in March; an anti-abortion opinion-flouting Supreme Court precedent walks out in September. Is it any surprise, as emails surface in which Supreme Court nominee Brett Kavanaugh circulated articles...27 comments 66 Recs
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