Brett Pransky
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Governor Tom Wolf Vetoes Bills Attacking Voters, Transgender Athletes
Way back in 2010, the GOP launched a corporate and billionaire funded nationwide movement to buy majorities in state legislatures, and then use those majorities to radically gerrymander the United States. And for the most part, it worked. The result in Pennsylvania has been a General Assembly that has gone so far to the right…
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Fetterman Campaign Trolls Its Way To Record-Breaking Fundraising Numbers
On Tuesday of last week, Lt. Governor John Fetterman’s Senate campaign announced that it raised a stunning $11 million in the last fundraising quarter. His opponent, TV doctor Mehmet Oz posted $3.8 million over the same period, but more than half of that consisted of loans he made to his own campaign. Fetterman’s popularity in…
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Committee Exposes PA Congressman Scott Perry’s Role In Jan. 6 Coup Attempt
Overturning the results of the 2020 election in Pennsylvania was an integral part of Donald Trump’s January 6, 2021 attempted coup, and he had a lot of help from Pennsylvania Republicans. Before the hearings resume, here is a refresher on one PA connection brought to light by the Committee: One key component of the plot…
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As Oz Campaign Goes Quiet, Fetterman Goes for the Knockout
After the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, fulfilling their ideological promises to America’s extreme political right, GOP candidates in swing districts across the country suddenly became unavailable for comment. The move makes sense. Overturning Roe may be the pinnacle of judicial manipulation that right wing activists have been seeking for generations, but the decision…
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TV Doc Pivots Away From Trump & His Radical Base
In the final weeks of the Republican Senate Primary in Pennsylvania, GOP candidates sought only one thing: Donald Trump’s endorsement. When Trump endorsed TV doc and very recent Pennsylvania resident Mehmet Oz, the Oz campaign responded by plastering the words “Trump endorsed” on each and every piece of campaign advertising. It quickly became impossible to…
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Mastriano Pledges To Remove Voting Rights From Every Pennsylvanian If He Wins
No matter how many times right-wing politicians and talking heads say otherwise, there was no widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election. That said, many politicians on the right have taken this baseless fever dream and turned it into a brand. So after the conspiracy theories were debunked, they had a choice – admit their…
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Support for PA Republicans Plummets in New Post-Roe Poll
According to a new survey conducted by Public Policy Polling, Pennsylvania swing district Republican Brian Fitzpatrick will lose his seat in Pennsylvania’s 1st Congressional District if voters in the district become aware of his anti-choice stance on abortion.
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Roe Decision Central To Lehigh Valley Congressional Race
In Pennsylvania’s 7th district, incumbent Democrat Susan Wild, a vocal supporter of a woman’s right to choose, is taking on Republican Lisa Scheller.
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Could the next attack on democracy be a state-level electoral college?
While it is arguable that subverting the will of the people was the original intent of the electoral college at the federal level, it is certainly the intent of the current proposal in Texas, and this is why Pennsylvanians should expect it to rear its ugly, anti-democratic head here at home.
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Lincoln Project Takes Aim At Mastriano’s Election Lies
In a new ad targeting GOP conspiracy theorist and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, The Lincoln Project is turning up the heat and saying the word that many Pennsylvania voters have been using in diners and coffee shops across the state: Traitor.
