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2026 Elections: To the Midterms and Beyond!

In addition to a wealth tax, I think we need legislation giving ordinary people a share of the wealth generated by corporations selling their personal info they collect all over the internet.

Every website you visit, everything you click on, is collected and monetized by companies dozens of times over, and you never see a penny from it. If a company is making money from my personal data, I should get a cut of that.
 
Susan Collins launched her reelection by opening a box of New Balance sneakers on camera. She didn't mention that the billionaire who owns New Balance had already handed a million dollars to the super PAC keeping her in office.
"This is perfect for 2026," she'd said, holding up the shoe. "Because I'm running."
Running on whose money, exactly?
Nearly 100 billionaires and their spouses have poured $9.8 million into Collins' reelection machine, about a third of everything her side has raised.
Ken Griffin wrote a single $2.5 million check. Blackstone's Stephen Schwarzman, who once likened a tax on his industry to the Nazi invasion of Poland, added a million more.
They have reason to trust her.
In 2017, Collins floated an amendment to close a private equity loophole and spend the money on affordable child care. A day later she dropped it and voted for Trump's tax cuts instead.
Private equity has been her most reliable donor ever since.
So when Maine families needed cheaper child care, Collins protected the loophole.
When the hedge funds needed a senator, they had one.
Her challenger, Graham Platner, has raised $9.6 million almost entirely from small donors. The average gift is $26, from more than 15,000 volunteers in nearly every zip code in the state.
One campaign is paid for by the people who live under its votes. The other by the people those votes protect.
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Republican hatred of ranked-choice voting may lead to nominee best known for racist AI slop

In the waning weeks of the Republican gubernatorial primary campaign, Maine Republican Party Executive Director Jason Savage appeared on Rep. Laurel Libby’s YouTube channel to urge members of his party to consider ranking more of the candidates on their ballot.

“If you’re looking at a scenario where you have a clear favorite, but there are three other people you kind of like, it doesn’t hurt you to rank,” said Savage, before interrupting himself. “I sound like I’m doing a promo for ranked-choice voting here.”

Libby quickly stepped in to issue a “disclaimer” that “we don’t like ranked-choice voting.”

Steve Robinson, editor of the Maine Policy Institute’s website The Maine Wire, issued a similar appeal the day before the primary. In a 2,500-word piece titled “My Endorsement in the Governor’s Race,” in which he never actually endorsed a candidate, he wrote that “conservatives must master ranked-choice voting.” He further urged them to support the candidates who can best attract independent voters and to “fill in the whole ballot, top to bottom, in the order of who can actually win.”

These efforts, obviously meant to boost a subset of candidates who were seen as more institutionally aligned and palatable to a broader electorate, failed miserably. Instead, Bobby Charles, a candidate who ran an aggressively bigoted and hate-filled campaign, is likely to be the nominee.

Charles’ primary campaign was less of a political operation and more of an AI content farm, blasting out dozens of images attacking Somali-Mainers, pride celebrations and his fellow candidates on Facebook.
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Have exciting, dynamic candidates on the ballot and let us rank them and check out what happens....
 
NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that?SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.
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NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.
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This country is soooooooooooooooooo dumb.
 
ScoobyDoo said:
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Aaron Rupar (@atrupar.com)

NEWS CENTER MAINE: This is the first reelection campaign that you're run since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade. I was hoping you could talk to me a little bit about your vote to confirm Kavanaugh and whether you regret that? SUSAN COLLINS: I do not regret that vote.
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This country is soooooooooooooooooo dumb.
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And women will still vote for her because she is "pro-choice" and Platner said means things about women.
 
Not "the country." About 1/3 of the country barely register as gibbons on the intelligence scale.

Trade them 40 Bud Lites and a truck to give up their vote and we'll be fine.
 
Kepler said:
That can't still be a real thing, can it? After Dobbs the con job is fully exposed. Nobody that stupid isn't already a sperm to worm MAGAt.
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Underestimate her ability to spin at your own peril.

Most people seriously do not pay attention.

She really will get softball "interviews" on morning drive radio and talk about fluff and lots of soccer moms dropping the kids off on the way to work will nod their heads.

And there are $300 million in attack ads already queued up to go after Platner.
 
ticapnews said:
Underestimate her ability to spin at your own peril.

Most people seriously do not pay attention.

She really will get softball "interviews" on morning drive radio and talk about fluff and lots of soccer moms dropping the kids off on the way to work will nod their heads.

And there are $300 million in attack ads already queued up to go after Platner.
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If those ads are about as soft as the ones they’re throwing at Peltola up here (Sullivan supports our veterans!) they aren’t going to do shit.
 
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