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Elon Musk’s Twitter released internal discussions about censoring the Hunter Biden laptop story Friday night via journalist Matt Taibbi.The documents reveal widespread internal and external concern at the suppression of the story, a decision made without CEO Jack Dorsey’s knowledge and spearheaded by Vijaya Gadde, then the head of Trust & Safety — Twitter’s top censor. ================= Donald Trump Jr. called out Republicans who are against former President Donald Trump’s choice for the next House Speaker, GOP Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA), and said those Republicans are “in effect empowering those who impeached Donald Trump.” ================== The Democrats reorganized the presidential primary calendar on Friday by removing Iowa as the first-in-the-nation caucus and awarding South Carolina by moving the state’s voting to February 3.

A federal appeals court on Thursday ruled that U.S. District Judge Aileen Cannon did not have the legal authority to appoint a special master to review the documents the FBI seized during the raid of former President Donald Trump’s Mar-a-Lago estate.

Elon Musk confirmed on Wednesday that Twitter has interferred with elections.In response to a report from Reuters about Twitter's move to free speech under Musk, he replied that "The obvious reality, as long-time users know, is that Twitter has failed in trust & safety for a very long time and has interfered in elections. Twitter 2.0 will be far more effective, transparent and even-handed." ---------------------- On Wednesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “Fox & Friends,” White House NSC Coordinator for Strategic Communications John Kirby responded to a question on whether the White House agrees with protestors in China that Xi Jinping should go and COVID restrictions should be lifted by stating the White House is “on the side of peaceful protest” and isn’t “taking a side in terms of what these protestors are about.” He later said frustration over China’s “very severe, very stringent COVID policies” is “what’s really been driving all this public protest.”

U.S. Senators advanced landmark legislation Tuesday, 61-36, that would codify same-sex marriage protections into law, despite opposition from most GOP lawmakers who argue the bill’s language infringes on religious freedoms. ==================== California has released thousands of convicted pedophiles after spending only a few months in prison. ================== On Tuesday’s broadcast of the Fox News Channel’s “America’s Newsroom,” Sen. Tom Cotton (R-AR) said President Joe Biden should speak out on the protests in China to prevent another Tiananmen Square massacre, but also should vow that if an event like that takes place, China will lose its most favored nation status.

Twitter CEO Elon Musk said Monday that he will soon be releasing files on how the social media platform has engaged in suppressing free speech. ================ Former Vice President Mike Pence said Monday on NewsNation’s “On Balance” that former President Donald Trump should apologize for having dinner at his Mar-a-Lago home in Palm Beach, FL with Kanye West and Nick Fuentes. ==================== Georgia broke another voting record Monday, as more than 239,000 early voters came out to the polls in a single day to cast their ballots 2022 senate runoff election between incumbent Senator Raphael Warnock (D-GA) and GOP challenger Herschel Walker.

The White House dismissed Tuesday House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy’s call for Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas to resign for his failure to secure the border. --------------------- GLAAD CEO: DeSantis, Boebert Are to Blame for CO LGBTQ Club Attack — ‘Whether or Not the Motive’ ‘Turns out to Be Hate,’ There’s ‘Culture’ ============ Former President Donald J. Trump holds a towering 30-point lead over the rest of the potential 2024 Republican primary field, according to a poll.

Disney ousted chief executive Bob Chapek on Sunday and announced that it had brought back former CEO Bob Iger to once again take the reins. =================== The founder of the 1619 Project set her sights on a Brooklyn mother who voiced concern after a worrisome subway ride in the Democrat-run city. ================== Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) on this week’s broadcast MSNBC’s “The Sunday Show” that she was “very disturbed” former President Donald Trump will lead domestic terrorists now that his account is reinstated on Twitter.

Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) on Wednesday won reelection as Senate GOP leader with ten defectors voting for challenger Sen. Rick Scott (R-FL). _________________ Oregon sheriffs are vowing not to enforce a strict gun control measure passed by the state’s voters last week. ________________ A bill that would codify same-sex marriage protections into law passed a procedural vote with the support of 12 Republican senators on Wednesday, despite concerns that it would infringe on religious freedoms.

Former President Donald Trump is making a “major announcement” at his Florida home, Mar-a-Lago, on Tuesday, November 15. Trump teased this announcement on Monday, November 7, at the final “Save America” rally of the 2022 midterm cycle in Ohio. Since then, most observers have predicted that his remarks will concern his plans for the 2024 presidential race, in which he is widely expected to be the frontrunner for the Republican nomination. ________________________________ Representative Jamie Raskin (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Anderson Cooper 360” that running for president would not “immunize” former President Donald Trump from being prosecuted. _______________________________- U.S. officials are now briefing the Associated Press that deadly explosions in Poland blamed on Moscow by Ukraine’s President Volodymyr Zelensky were probably caused by missiles fired by Ukrainian forces, with President Joe Biden telling reporters it is “unlikely” Russia is responsible.

In its latest projection, far-left NBC News says the Republican party will narrowly win the House of Representatives by a narrower than narrow 219 to 216 margin. County officials in Nevada over the weekend confirmed that cameras live-streaming vote-counting areas on Wednesday night and Thursday morning went dark for a total of eight hours. Democrat Katie Hobbs defeated Republican Kari Lake to win the governorship of Arizona, following a bruising campaign that included harsh accusations, dramatic swings in the polls, and zero debates.

In 2020, Joe Biden won the popular vote by more than seven million, garnering 81 million ballots compared to Donald Trump’s 74 million. Yet this year, Republicans beat Democrats in the total vote for the U.S. House. GOP candidates received 52,142,213 votes (as of November 13), while Democratic candidates received just 47,127,174. That’s a gap of five million. In other words, the margin for the GOP shifted from minus seven million in 2020 to plus five million in 2022. That’s a margin-shift of 12 million votes. =================== Biden’s approval rating averages 41.5 percent, and he hasn’t been above 50 since August 2021, and yet as far as he’s concerned, everything is going fine. All he needs to do, he thinks, is more of the same. Indeed, on November 13, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi told ABC News that Biden should run again in 2024. As she put it, “He has been a great president and he has a great record to run on.” ==================== It’s been a bad week for the Walt Disney Co. First, Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) won re-election in a landslide victory on Tuesday. Then Disney’s corporate earnings disappointed Wall Street, sending its stock crashing to new lows. Now the entertainment giant is reportedly planning layoffs, a targeted hiring freeze, and travel limitation on its employees.

Former President Donald Trump expressed his fury at Fox News and owner Rupert Murdoch for promoting Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis after the midterm elections in an intentional effort to promote himself as the future of the Republican Party. =========================== Republicans say that the new U.S. House of Representatives majority, which they are likely to control, should immediately disband the Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol. I wish to disagree in the strongest possible terms: the work of the committee remains incomplete, and must be allowed to continue, because the American people expect and deserve to know the full truth. ========================== A federal judge in Texas ruled Thursday evening that President Joe Biden’s student loan bailout is illegal, dealing a massive blow to the administration.

Unmarried women voted Democrat in the 2022 Midterm elections by a significant margin, according to exit poll data. Compared to married individuals favoring GOP candidates this year, a CNN exit poll of 18,571 total respondents found 68% of single women marked their ballots for Democratic politicians — a 37-point margin over the Republican Party. --------------------------- Nicole made landfall as a Category 1 hurricane at 3 a.m. on Hutchinson Island (just south of Vero Beach). While primary impacts are being felt on the east coast of Florida, gusty winds and rainy conditions are expected for Southwest Florida. Potential rainfall totals range between one and three inches by the end of Friday. Some locations may see higher totals. ============================ There are new faces in new places, as three new candidates defeated incumbents in key elections in Collier County. One of the most influential Republican figures in the county, Alfie Oakes, picked out three candidates who he thought should be elected to the Collier County School Board, devoting time and money to their races.

The Republican red wave swept over Florida and skipped most of the rest of the nation Tuesday, leaving the GOP clinging to hopes of a small majority in the House and control of the Senate in question. Despite polls that had Republicans hoping to capture as many as 35 seats, as the votes came in, it became clear that voters’ displeasure with President Joe Biden would not translate into any sort of GOP mandate. --------------------- Republican Ron DeSantis was projected to coast to a second term as governor of Florida Tuesday night, easily besting Democrat Charlie Crist in a rout that will likely amplify growing talk about a 2024 White House run. ------------------ Senate President-Designate Kathleen Passidomo released a statement on Election night following a wave of historic victories across Florida.

Inflation is hands down the most important issue on the minds of Americans on the eve of the midterm elections. An Economist/YouGov poll taken of 1,500 American adults in the first week of November found that 68 percent say that they will be thinking about inflation “a lot” when casting a vote in this year’s election. That’s a higher share than any other issue—from the border, to guns, to abortion—save for the economy, which scores 73 percent. When asked what the single most important issue facing the country is right now, 27 percent say inflation, followed by 10 percent each for healthcare and the economy/jobs. ---------------------- Charlie Crist’s running mate, Karla-Hernandez Mats, praised an organization called Florida Rising, which has been denounced by dozens of sheriffs as an “anti-cop” group. ------------------------- Voters will have the chance to decide on Tuesday whether or not the Lee County superintendent should be an elected position.

President Joe Biden told a climate activist on Sunday he would not allow any new drilling in the United States, just days after he complained that oil companies are not drilling enough. ============== The Florida Department of Law Enforcement’s Election Crime Unit announced it has arrested Cheryl Ann Leslie, 55, for casting her vote in more than one state in previous elections, including 2020. =============== A new Florida election poll released by Spectrum News and Siena College found Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis leads Democrat Charlie Crist by 12 points statewide. In September, the same poll gave DeSantis under 50% support and an 8 point lead.

President Joe Biden told a crowd Thursday evening that former President Donald Trump had used the term “patriots” to refer to people like the man who attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). ============ After the overturn of infamous abortion case Roe v. Wade, “at least 10,000” lives have been saved from abortion as a result of pro-life laws being enacted across the country. ============= Results from the Conservative Energy Network (CEN) in its seventh annual national survey showed a majority of Americans want candidates to share their views about clean energy and climate change. CEN is a national network of state-based organizations focused on promoting clean energy innovation rooted in conservative values. It is a non-profit coalition of 24 state-based conservative clean energy organizations advancing policy solutions that emphasize market competition, consumer choice, and innovation.

President Joe Biden (D) urged Americans to unite around shared values during a speech he delivered Wednesday night where he repeatedly demonized tens of millions of Republicans as a threat to the country. ===================== Republican Gen. Don Bolduc was physically attacked by an unknown individual before the Wednesday debate with Democrat Sen. Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Bolduc’s campaign told Breitbart News. =================== The Parkland shooter who killed 17 people on Valentine’s Day in 2018 was formally sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole on Wednesday after a Florida jury rejected the death penalty last month. The shooter pleaded guilty to 17 counts of murder last year, which included 14 students as young as 14 years old and three staff members, for the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Gov. Ron DeSantis told supporters at a rally that President Joe Biden’s visit to Florida will remind voters in the state of his “poor” policies. “I think we should all thank him for coming to Florida because less than one week for the election he’s reminding every voter in the state of Florida just how poor his policies have been,” DeSantis said. “He’s reminding every voter that these Democrats are with Joe Biden 100% of the time. That’s not what we want in the state of Florida.” ============ Gov. Ron DeSantis told supporters at a rally that President Joe Biden’s visit to Florida will remind voters in the state of his “poor” policies. “I think we should all thank him for coming to Florida because less than one week for the election he’s reminding every voter in the state of Florida just how poor his policies have been,” DeSantis said. “He’s reminding every voter that these Democrats are with Joe Biden 100% of the time. That’s not what we want in the state of Florida.” ============= The Council on Foreign Investment in the U.S. (CFIUS) should take action to ban TikTok, Brendan Carr, one of five commissioners at the Federal Communications Commission, told Axios in an interview. ============ Analysts at the non-partisan Cook Political Report moved the rating for ten congressional districts in favor of the Republican candidates with only a week left before the midterm race.

Executives from Facebook and Twitter, including the recently-fired head of trust & safety Vijaya Gadde, held regular meetings with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to discuss censorship on a wide range of topics, including the withdrawal from Afghanistan, coronavirus, and “racial justice,” according to leaked documents. =========== Republican Rep. Lee Zeldin takes the lead in the New York gubernatorial race in his attempt to oust Democrat Gov. Kathy Hochul, according to a Trafalgar Group published late Monday night. ============= U.S. Rep. Byron Donalds, R-FL, has a new Republican messaging plan if elected as Conference Chairman, according to the Daily Caller. Donalds will encourage Republicans to engage with a “broader swathe of the American public in new media formats” if he is elected conference chairman and says Republicans are “limiting themselves in their messaging by not engaging with voters who could be open to conservative ideas.”

The FBI have reportedly visited a home dubbed by neighbors as a “hippie collective” in connection to the attack on Paul Pelosi, husband to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA). ========== The crowd at a Luke Bryant concert erupted in cheers Friday night when the country music singer brought Florida Governor Ron DeSantis (R) on stage to promote the state’s recovery efforts from Hurricane Ian. ----------------- President Joe Biden (D) faced mockery online late last week after he falsely claimed on the campaign trail that there are “54 states.”

Two people familiar with the deal say that Elon Musk is in control of Twitter and has ousted the CEO, chief financial officer, and the company’s chief lawyer. ============= 1:48 Video of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) speaking with President Joe Biden at the airport in Syracuse, New York, on Thursday shows him fretting about losing key U.S. Senate seats. ================ As Floridians begin to vote early in the 2022 midterm election, officially held on Nov. 8, 2022, counties are already releasing updated vote counts by party affiliation.

Feminist attorney Gloria Allred and an anonymous woman charged in a press conference Wednesday that Republican Senate candidate Herschel Walker had a yearslong affair with the unnamed woman and drove her to get an abortion 30 years ago ============= Justice Samuel Alito warned Tuesday that the leak of Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization put his life and the lives of other justices in danger, saying they became “targets for assassination.” =========== The Florida Board of Medicine and the Florida Board of Osteopathic Medicine Joint Rules/Legislative Committee will hold a rule workshop to listen to presentations, public comment, and develop draft rule language, according to the meeting agenda.

Pennsylvania Democrat John Fetterman’s struggles were apparent at Tuesday’s U.S. Senate debate with Republican Dr. Mehmet Oz. ======= Fetterman, the state’s lieutenant governor, suffered a stroke days before the Democrat primary in May and has struggled with his words ever since. After facing intense pressure from local and national newspapers like the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Washington Post, Fetterman finally agreed to debate Oz. ============ As Floridians begin to vote early in the 2022 midterm election, officially held on Nov. 8, 2022, counties are already releasing updated vote counts by party affiliation. ========== Attorney General Ashley Moody filed a brief in the U.S. Supreme Court opposing the Biden Administration’s immigration policies.