The pool of Republican candidates this midterm season is a whole mess, but they still have a shocking number of voters fooled.

Friday, September 23, 2022
BY JULIA CLAIRE & CROOKED MEDIA

- House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) ([link removed]) openly courting the domestic terrorist vote.

We’re a little over a month out from midterm elections and if the crop of Republican candidates this season is any indication (and we suspect it is), the GOP is a mess.

* For instance: Matt DePerno is the GOP’s Michigan attorney general nominee. He’s also under criminal investigation for a conspiracy to unlawfully obtain access to voting machines ([link removed]) . DePerno is the most prominent source of the insane, defamatory Big Lie claim that Dominion Voting Systems changed votes from Trump to Biden in the 2020 election. DePerno continues to sow doubts about the reliability of voting machines on the campaign trail, which I’m sure will prove very rhetorically useful if he loses! The Big Lie proved extremely useful for candidates in GOP primaries, but many of them are now facing the limits of their anti-democratic campaign promises. Jim Marchant, the GOP’s Nevada secretary of state nominee ([link removed]) , said that he wants to end voting by mail, despite the fact that public
records show he has voted by mail in multiple elections.

* Another Trump-backed House candidate in Ohio’s 9th Congressional district, J.R. Majewski, faces public criticism after the Associated Press obtained military documents indicating that he never deployed to Afghanistan ([link removed]) , as he has previously and repeatedly claimed. Majewski held a press conference today ([link removed]) and offered in his defense the explanation that his full military records are “classified.” Lol. In Alaska, an Anchorage judge said yesterday that based on the limited evidence presented, Wasilla Republican Rep. David Eastman is likely ineligible to hold public office due to his membership in the right-wing seditionist
([link removed]) Oath Keepers, which helped orchestrate the January 6 insurrection. Eastman’s name will still stay on the general election ballot and the vote certification will be delayed until a trial scheduled for December can be held.

* In one of the most closely-watched races of the election season, TV doctor, GOP Pennsylvania Senate nominee, and longtime New Jerseyan Dr. Mehmet Oz released his health records ([link removed]) for the exploitative purpose of reminding everyone that his opponent, Lt. Gov John Fetterman (D-PA), recently suffered a stroke. And because Oz has nothing of value to offer the people of Pennsylvania, as reflected in his polling. Fetterman did not release his own, but stated, “In June, I released a letter from my doctor where he clearly stated that I am fit to serve,” Fetterman said in the statement. “Dr. Oz built his entire career by lying to people about health. I trust my actual doctors over the opinion of a charlatan who played one on TV.”

The unhinged candidates on the Republican ticket, if anything, add credence to the idea that Donald Trump was not an anomaly, and that he is a reflection of the party’s true nature.

* In an email blast, the National Republican Senatorial Committee ([link removed]) gleefully asks where GOP governors like Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and Greg Abbott (R-TX) should “ship” migrants next. The NRSC, chaired by Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL) also parrots the false claim that the migrants who were lured by DeSantis’s team under false pretenses and trafficked to Martha’s Vineyard are “illegal immigrants,” but as we’ve reported before, they are asylum seekers who were processed when they arrived at the border, and are awaiting court hearings to adjudicate their claims.


* We know what the modern Republican Party is: they’ve all but fully embraced QAnon, think kidnapping migrants is funny, and at every level of government try to make voting as difficult for their opponents as possible. Now that they got their way with the Dobbs decision, they won’t stop until they get a federal abortion ban. Some key House Republicans are calling to repeal a newly passed prescription drug-pricing measure ([link removed]) , which became law with the Inflation Reduction Act. House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy unveiled the Republican midterm agenda in Pennsylvania ([link removed]) , called the “Commitment to America” (yuck), which is short on policy and heavy on inflaming the culture war (and forced pregnancy).

With so much to lose in this election, we wish we could take comfort in the knowledge that 99.9 percent of Republican candidates are clowns with nothing to offer the American people, but that just doesn’t work. Democrats need all hands on deck not only to cut through the noise the GOP is so adept at creating, but to prove to voters that they’re offering something better.

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Mortgage rates jumped again for the fifth week in a row, averaging 6.29 percent this week ([link removed]) , up from 6.02 percent the week before and the highest level since 2008. This time last year, the rate was 2.88 percent. As a result of higher rates, home prices have finally started to cool, and sales have decreased, but there’s still a shortage of available homes for sale, which keeps prices high. One year ago, if a buyer put 20 percent down on a $390,000 home and financed the rest with a 30 year, fixed-rate mortgage at an average interest rate of 2.88 percent, their monthly mortgage payment was $1,295, according to calculations from Freddie Mac. Today, a homeowner buying the same-priced house with an average rate of 6.29 percent would have a monthly mortgage payment of $1,929. That’s an extra $7,608 per year. Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, having really only one crude tool at his disposal, clearly believes that
raising interest rates is putting the housing market on track to a “reset,” but there’s little evidence that will happen, because the housing supply remains low due to factors like bad zoning laws, lack of new building projects, and private equity firms and the investor class purchasing one-out-of-three available homes in cash as for-profit commodities ([link removed]) before average would-be homeowners could reasonably stand a chance. Until all of those factors are meaningfully addressed, it’s doubtful that we’ll see a significant change.

The McConnell Center (yes, as in Mitch) announced today that Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) will deliver a speech there on Monday ([link removed]) called “The Future of Political Discourse and the Importance of Bipartisanship.” Way to desecrate Bisexual Visibility Day once again, Kyrsten.


David Malpass, the president of the World Bank, announced he will not resign today after apologizing for the response he gave last week when asked whether he believed climate change is caused by humans ([link removed]) : “I don’t know — I’m not a scientist.” Cool guy.


The Kremlin is holding its sham referendums in four occupied Ukrainian territories today ([link removed]) .


In a 5-4 vote, the Supreme Court decided to allow the state of Alabama to execute death row inmate Alan Miller, who suffered a botched lethal injection back in 2018, and apparently another one last night ([link removed]) .


Italy will be holding an all-important parliamentary election on Sunday ([link removed]) expected to propel neo-fascist Giorgia Meloni and her Brothers of Italy party into the premiership.


Russia may be losing its support from India, one of its few remaining major allies ([link removed]) .


Relatedly, as the tide of international opinion continues to decisively shift against Russia, a number of non-aligned countries are now joining the United States and other Western allies in condemning Moscow ([link removed]) .


Career prosecutors have reportedly recommended against charging Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) in a long-running sex-trafficking investigation ([link removed]) . Lest anyone believe this exonerates him, how many people do you know who preemptively try to ask for a presidential pardon for a crime they didn’t commit?


A new study suggests that cities along the coast of South and Southeast Asia are sinking faster than similar cities elsewhere ([link removed]) because of rapid, poorly controlled urbanization, which heightened risks already posed by rising sea levels.

Across the U.S., people in recovery and families of deceased victims of opioid addiction and overdoses are seeking more say in how some $40 billion in opioid settlements are spent ([link removed]) .

Iranian counter-protesters gathered across the country in a show of support for authorities after nearly a week of anti-government protests ([link removed]) and unrest over the death of a 22-year-old woman, Masha Amini, who was killed by the country’s morality police while being detained in their custody for allegedly wearing her hijab too loosely. The pro-government demonstrators chanted epithets against America and Israel, according to the state media, reflecting the government’s official line, which places blame for the unrest on “hostile foreign countries.” State TV suggested that the death toll from this week could be as high as 35, raising an earlier estimate of 26. Anti-government protesters and security forces have clashed in major cities across Iran, in the most severe political violence since 2019. Iran’s government also disrupted internet access and
tightened restrictions on popular social media and communication platforms like Instagram and WhatsApp, which have been used to organize protests.
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On a recent flight, a passenger hacked the intercom system and made a bunch of weird noises ([link removed]) .


Youth activists staged a coordinated “global climate strike” today to highlight fears about the effects of global warming and to demand more aid for poor countries ([link removed]) hardest hit by severe weather.

A jury found Project Veritas guilty of violating wiretapping laws and fraudulently misrepresenting itself to a Democratic consulting firm ([link removed]) , and will be ordered to pay $120,000.
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