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Welcome to Missouri where our GOP supermajority puts the FUN in dysfunction. 

Quick Hit: Post Dobbs case rape related pregnancies https://www.lonestarlive.com/news/2024/01/texas-has-the-most-rape-related-pregnancies-of-any-state-with-total-abortion-ban.html

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision in 2022, 14 states have instituted total abortion bans. Between July 2022 and January 2024, an estimated 65,000 women and girls in these states became pregnant as a result of rape, according to the study published in JAMA Internal Medicine.

1. True Or False
   1. Colorado is on the verge of becoming a Democratic stronghold
      1. https://coloradonewsline.com/2024/01/25/colorado-gop-transformation-into-cult/
      2. Earlier this month, the Colorado Republican Party became only the second state party in the nation to endorse Donald Trump in his campaign to be president again. The state GOP’s own bylaws say it can’t take sides in a Republican primary contest. The party’s job is to support Republican candidates, not any particular Republican candidate, unless that candidate is unopposed.
2. Yeah…NO
   1. The fascists are driving off the good people
      1. https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/us-legislators-elected-officials-abortion-gun-control?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
      2. A major survey by the Brennan Center for Justice released on Thursday warned that the spate of extremist intimidation that has been seen nationally in the US, epitomized by the attack on the Capitol building on 6 January 2021, is also sweeping local and state politics. In the fallout, elected individuals are limiting their interactions with constituents and narrowing the contentious topics they are prepared to take on.
3. Yeah… Yeah! 
   1. Tuition free journalism school
      1. https://www.axios.com/2024/01/25/cuny-journalism-school-craig-newmark-tuition-free
   2. 
       
4. Buy or Sell
   1. Political Media Will Be Completely Different By End Of This Decade
      1. https://www.semafor.com/article/01/21/2024/inside-the-collapsing-us-political-media-industrial-complex
5. The Big One
   1. Republicans across the country are having BIG feelings
   2. Michigan: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/jan/25/rnc-kristina-karamo-michigan-republican?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
   3. Missouri: https://themissouritimes.com/senate-leadership-holds-press-conference/
      1. Then it kept getting worse: https://missouriindependent.com/2024/01/25/missouri-senate-gop-warfare-escalates-with-suggestion-of-expelling-freedom-caucus-leader/
   4. Arizona: https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/24/us/politics/kari-lake-arizona-gop.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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6. 2024 Election Coverage Era
   1. GOP is having money troubles
      1. https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2024/jan/26/rnc-seeking-new-credit-line-to-help-climb-out-of-m/
      2. 
          
   2. New Hampshire Results
      1. Biden wins big even as a write in - THIS is an actual “win”
      2. Haley performs well but Trump takes majority of delegates out of New Hampshire 
         1. Haley isn’t going anywhere either
            1. https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/nikki-haley-trump-republican-primary/index.html
            2. But RNC would very much like her to do so
               https://www.semafor.com/article/01/24/2024/rnc-to-nikki-haley-drop-out

GOP proposing a move that let’s them move past democracy as a party and just declare a winner, which is really super cool: 

https://www.cnn.com/2024/01/25/politics/rnc-trump-presumptive-nominee-resolution/index.html

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