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If voters don’t turn out 'we are in trouble': Former Democratic senator sounds the alarm about close races

If Democrats don't get out and vote, it's over, implied former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) on MSNBC Monday. Around the United States there are a number of very close races that will make or break whether the Republican Party takes over the Senate, governors' seats and election monitors.

Democrats have been dismissive, she noted, of people like Dr. Oz and some of the Senate races in which Donald Trump-endorsed candidates were running. Over the summer, those Republicans were a laughing stock, but as the election nears and more and more ads and money is spent to prop these candidates up, the polls are tightening.

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Florida student protesters flood hallways outside Republican Sen. Ben Sasse's first university forum

The public universities of Florida were exempted from the state's sunshine laws, so no one knew that Sen. Ben Sasse (R-NE) was the only person among the final candidates to take over the Florida University system.

In February, the state Senate voted to exempt the university system from requirements under the Florida transparency laws that originally allowed the state's citizens to see the applicants for positions as university presidents.

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Morning Joe bashes Tommy Tuberville's 'blatantly racist' and 'morally depraved' Trump rally speech

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough ripped Sen. Tommy Tuberville's (R-AL) "blatantly racist" remarks over the weekend at a rally for former President Donald Trump.

The Alabama Republican claimed Democrats were "pro-crime" because they believe theft is a form of reparations for slavery, and the "Morning Joe" host said the senator's comments were stupid and bigoted.

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Herschel Walker represents a new low for GOP -- 'even more than the Access Hollywood tape': Morning Joe

MSNBC's Joe Scarborough shamed Republican senators for rallying around Georgia candidate Herschel Walker.

The former NFL star has been engulfed in an ongoing abortion scandal, but the "Morning Joe" host said that's just the tip of the iceberg for what should be disqualifying character issues -- which include credible claims of domestic abuse and neglect.

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John Oliver calls out lazy local news stations that report whatever police tell them without investigating it

In Sunday's "Last Week Tonight" episode, John Oliver spotlighted local media outlets that glorify crime and often get the stories wrong because they buy into whatever police tell them.

In a super-clip of news reports, over and over, local news anchors repeated the words "police say." The way the local news business works follow the adage, "if it bleeds it leads." Oliver makes the argument instead of non-stop crime that promotes the lie that it is running rampant across the country, newsrooms should do their jobs and uncover what actually happened.

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Blake Masters tells Arizona crowd they were all better off in the middle of the COVID lockdown

Republican Arizona Senate candidate Blake Masters spoke at a MAGA rally in Mesa on Sunday, and in his haste to promote how great life was under former President Donald Trump he asked the rally if they were better off two years ago.

Two years ago was just after the most terrifying summer in recent history where offices were closed, unemployment was soaring, Americans were terrified that they were going to be removed from their homes for the inability to pay their rent or mortgages, family members were dying or on ventilators in hospitals, and the stock market was trying to climb back up, but crashed again in October, with investors losing $1.7 trillion.

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Trump suggests FBI planted book on how to build a nuclear bomb in Mar-a-Lago documents

During his Arizona rally, former President Donald Trump falsely accused Democrats of putting a "trigger warning" on the Constitution. He then went off on a rant against Democrats claiming they are the ones who destroy documents and "they plant documents," he continued.

"They plant documents. Let's see, is there a book on nuclear destruction or the building of nuclear weapon cheaply?" he said, sweating in the Arizona heat. "Let's put that box — let's put that in with Trump. Nah, they plant documents. They have a terrible reputation. Look at the kinda things — this is just the small part that I've read. And who would want to be with them? We're safer in that Chinese restaurant."

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This week's Jan. 6 committee hearing is expected to focus on outside consultants working for Trump's White House

Already videos have leaked from documentaries about Roger Stone's involvement in the attempt to overthrow the election. While the House Select Committee hasn't revealed the specifics about the issues they'll address at the Oct. 13 public hearing, they have indicated that there are a lot of unanswered questions they intend to address.

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, The Guardian's Hugo Lowell explained that they got at least 68 minutes of clips of the Danish documentary about Stone.

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Data shows Wisconsin Democrats are seeing dramatic election enthusiasm ahead of the Nov. vote: party chief

Speaking to MSNBC on Sunday, Wisconsin Democratic Party Ben Wikler cited data from the 2018 election to compare to this year's midterm vote. According to him, they've already surpassed their goals for participation.

Typically during midterm elections, the president's party flops. So, in 2018, that was supposed to be a horrific election for Donald Trump. But according to Wikler, the numbers are favoring the Democrats more in the state there than when Trump was in office.

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Ric Grenell greets Nevada at Arizona rally after Mike Lindell endorses Blake 'Matthews'

"Nailed it," far-right Ric Grenell joked. The former acting director of the U.S. Department of National Intelligence greeted Nevada at the start of his speech in Mesa, Arizona on Sunday.

He appeared as part of the warm-up act for Donald Trump, set to speak Sunday afternoon during NFL football games airing across the country.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene uses her First Amendment rights to claim the First Amendment is dead

In an interview at the Republican rally in Arizona Sunday, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) gives a kind of eulogy to the First Amendment of the Constitution.

"Part of my message today in my speech is I'm going to be talking about how the First Amendment is dead," Green said as the public assembled for the political rally. "They've destroyed free speech, the left has. They've canceled our voices. They cancel our businesses, whether you're a baker trying to bake cakes in Colorado."

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Mike Lindell claims he sent subpoenas to several people like James Clapper and John Brennan

Pillow vendor Mike Lindell claimed that he sent a number of subpoenas to people, which includes retired Lt. Gen. James Clapper, the former director of national intelligence under Barack Obama's administration and Former director of the CIA John Brennan.

The problem with the claim is that an individual citizen can't randomly send subpoenas without filing lawsuits and having those subpoenas approved by the court. He has claimed that he's launching a lawsuit against the FBI after they seized his cell phone as part of the Justice Department probe around fake electors.

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Video: San Antonio cop approaches teens in fast-food eatery parking lot — and opens fire moments later

A Texas cop was fired after body camera video revealed he shot a teenager moments after yanking open his car door and ordering him out.

James Brennand, who at the time was a San Antonio police officer, was called to a disturbance Sunday at 10:45 p.m. at a McDonald's parking lot but noticed a suspected stolen vehicle that he said evaded him the day before during a traffic stop, and he approached the car and found two teenagers eating inside, reported KSAT-TV.

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