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Many of the same political forces behind Februarys Rage Against the War Machine rally reconvened at the Independent National Convention, held April 3-5 in Austin, Texas. Participants included the Libertarian Party, the Peoples Party, 2020 Democratic Party presidential candidate Tulsi Gabbard and journalist Chris Hedges.

Promoted by its founder, Christopher Life, as a venue to unite the independent political sector, the INC did not appear to draw more than 100 people and was constantly plagued by technical difficulties. It was, overall, a thoroughly right-wing and degraded affair.

Like the Rage rally, far-right libertarianism was by far the most dominant political and social element present at the convention. Nearly every panel featured a self-professed entrepreneur, libertarian, cryptocurrency promoter, anti-vaccine zealot, Republican politician or Texas Nationalist.

Life, one of the four moderators, opened the event by explaining that our independence is what unites us. He founded the One Nation Party USA in 2018 on the basis of a program that includes supporting Trumps tax cuts for the rich and backing the far-right Supreme Court justices that he nominated.

This is the second time Life has organized a coming together of independents in Austin, Texas. On March 14, 2022, he sponsored the first Independent National Union conference, which featured as its main speaker Robert Kennedy Jr., who is now primarily associated with the most intense opposition to vaccines. Kennedy Jr. has said that limited mitigation measures aimed at stopping the spread of COVID-19 are worse than the conditions faced by Anne Frank, the 15-year-old Jewish girl and famed diarist who died in a Nazi concentration camp in May 1945.

While Kennedy Jr. was not at this years event, anti-vaccine and COVID-19 denialism was present throughout. In addition to sponsoring the main panel of the event, Angela McArdle, the chair of the Libertarian Party, provided the INC Keynote Morning address.

McArdle is an anti-Semite who has worked to integrate the Libertarian Party with fascistic militias. Just last month she promoted German New Medicine (GNM) on right-wing commentator Tim Pools podcast. GNM was devised by German ex-physician Ryke Geerd Hamer as a Germanic alternative to mainstream medicine, which he claimed was a Jewish conspiracy. The now-deceased Hamer asserted that diseases were not real, and in a 2009 interview said that almost all Jews survive cancer without chemotherapy, and that AIDS is a Talmudic fraud.

In her short speech opening the event, McArdle denounced the deep state and, in an attack on COVID-19 mitigation measures, un-elected bureaucrats. McArdle repeated the mantra that the event transcended left-right politics.

The first major panel after McArdles speech was titled Independent Parties Working Together. It again featured McArdle, as well as Nick Brana, founder and chair of the Peoples Party. In their comments, both McArdle and Brana pointed to the Rage Against the War Machine Rally as an example for others to follow.

Just a month ago, we came together Brana said, referring to himself and McArdle, a party on the left and the right, and held the largest anti-war demonstration since the Iraq war. In fact, the rally was sparsely attended, attracting primarily an assortment of libertarians and far-right elements.

The entire event served as Trojan horse for far-right politicians and operatives to push their agenda on an unsuspecting, and mostly non-existent, audience.

On Mondays main stage, the afternoon seminar, titled Education/School-Choice Reform, featured Corey DeAngelis, an adjunct scholar at the Cato Institute and a senior fellow at Reason Foundation, a Libertarian Party think tank. DeAngelis heads the American Foundation for Children, an organization that is bankrolled by former Trump education secretary and billionaire Betsy DeVos. Its aim is to defund public schools and transfer money to for-profit charter and religious schools.

At the same time as DeAngelis was hawking parents rights, the upstairs stage had a panel titled Texit & State Sovereignty, which featured three members of the Texas Nationalist Movement (TNM). Speakers for TNM, a far-right secessionist movement, included Kyle Biedermann, a former Republican member of the Texas state House; Daniel Miller, the president of TNM; and Matt Frazier, another member of TNM and cryptocurrency snake-oil salesman.

Biedermann attacked Texas Republican Governor Greg Abbott and Attorney General Ken Paxton from the right, denouncing them for not declaring an invasion along the Texas-Mexico border. That should be done right now, Biedermann said, adding, Texit would make that happen As a sovereign state we will take care of that border. Texas could take care of that border.

Miller agreed with the former Republican state representative, adding, We obviously know there is an open border crisis. The source of the border crisis is the federal government. The best people to govern Texas are Texans, not the 2.5 million people that make up the Washington District of Criminals. The only way to secure the border, have a sensible immigration policy, is to become a self-governing nation and set our own policy.

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One of the moderators of the event, Trent Pool, praised the border policy of Israel as an example to be followed.

At another panel, Diane Sare, an adherent of the fascistic Lyndon LaRouche cult, talked with Christopher Life and his sibling, Benjamin Life, about Art & Movement building. Sare referred to the ongoing political kinship between herself, McArdle and Brana, noting that together they were offering classes on political interventions. Sare, backing Trumps false claims that the 2020 election was stolen, said the interventions were needed because, In these times, when we cant be certain that votes are being counted fairly, how do you get your Congress to change?

Journalist Chris Hedges was brought in as the featured speaker on the second day. As was the case in the Rage rally, Hedges function was to represent the left in the ostensibly left-right coalition.

In a panel on Ending the Forever Wars, Hedges reiterated many aspects of his Rage speech, reflecting on the costs of war and the obliteration of civil liberties. Seeking to ingratiate himself to the right-wing audience, Hedges claimed that the media silences opinions on both the left and right that challenge capitalism.

The faux unity continued into the evening during the keynote address delivered by Hedges.

In his speech, titled Reclaiming our Country, Hedges called for a left-right coalition to wrest power back from corporations and the billionaires. Hedges said this could be done by organizing workers and supporting mass strikes, the one weapon workers possess that can cripple and destroy the billionaire classs economic and political power.

While Hedges took a left tack in his speech, what was more significant than what he said was the forum in which he said it. Hedges homily, delivered to a crowd of far-right nationalists, right-wingers and libertarians, had the character of a Salvation Army preacher delivering a sermon to a brothel.

When Hedges first made his turn to the far-right prior to the Rage event, he justified his new orientation as a temporary alliance made under extraordinary circumstances due to very real threat of nuclear war. He wrote before the February rally that he was participating in the event because the rally was not focused on anything but ending the war, and should these right-wing participants organize around other issues, I will be on the other side of the barricades.

Hedges appearance at the Independent National Convention, a thoroughly right-wing affair aimed at promoting a unity of the far-right, reveals his previous demagoguery as empty, and his new orientation to the right wing as more than a fleeting arrangement.

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In the past couple of months, Americans have suffered disastrous consequences from deregulation initiated during the Trump administration: in transit, the East Palestine derailment threatening the lives and livelihoods of thousands; in banking, the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank and Signature Bank that are still roiling financial markets.

The good news is that despite the overall deregulatory bent of the last administration, the Biden administration has been strengthening antitrust enforcement, plus there have been bipartisan efforts, led in the House by David Cicilline (D-RI) and Ken Buck (R-CO), to strengthen antitrust protections and curb the growing power of Big Tech.

Those bipartisan efforts were stymied thanks to intense lobbying from libertarian-leaning tech companies, think tanks, and advocates, with Big Money funding from the donor network of libertarian oil billionaire Charles Koch, whose influence over antitrust legislation goes back decades. As the new GOP-helmed Congress contemplates reforms, its already clear that party leaders like Jim Jordan (R-OH) and libertarian Thomas Massie (R-KY) who are recipients of Koch cash themselves are planning to do Big Techs bidding and delay or kill regulation and let the companies continue accumulating market power.

From privacy concerns around consumer data to predatory pricing locking out small businesses to the flood of disinformation on social media, Americans have become aware of how much market concentration the big four technology companies have achieved. Americans of all political parties agree that Big Tech companies like Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google have too much power and need to be reined in. President Biden has made promoting competition and ending monopolies a cornerstone of his economic agenda, but he can only do so much facing Republican obstructionism in the House. While congressional action has stalled, the Department of Justice and Federal Trade Commission are working to fully enforce existing antitrust laws.

The tech companies, think tanks, advocates, and Koch network continue to fight these efforts. A far-right founder of the notoriously obstructionist House Freedom Caucus, Jim Jordan is now chair of the powerful Judiciary Committee which oversees antitrust policy. In January, he named Thomas Massie as chairman of the Antitrust Subcommittee, ignoring precedent and bypassing the more senior Ken Buck, whom many had presumed would lead it. Jordans move was not unexpected though, as he opposed Bucks antitrust regulatory approach in favor of a more libertarian one.

Jim Jordans ties to the Koch brothers date back to at least 2008, when he became the first member of Congress to sign onto the No Climate Tax pledge, an initiative of the Koch advocacy group Americans for Prosperity. Koch Industries PAC has donated $60k to Jordan since 2011 the maximum allowed for each of the last six elections and he has been a featured speaker for at least one of the secretive Koch donor retreats.

Thomas Massie has been a recipient of Koch cash since he assumed office in 2012. Like Charles Koch, Massie earned both his bachelors and masters degrees from the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and also like Koch, Massie is an avowed champion of deregulation, having sponsored bills to abolish both the Department of Education and the Environmental Protection Agency.

A recent, fawning profile by the New York Times claims that Mr. Massies politics are very much at odds with the interests of the Republican Partys traditional donor class and leadership and notes his resistance to the influence wielded by corporations and interest groups over our policymaking without noting the funding from Koch (a long-time member of the traditional GOP donor class) or the high scores Massie has received for his legislative votes from Americans for Prosperity.

While Charles Koch is most commonly known for his oil interests, he also has a large stake in Silicon Valley his son Chase runs the venture capital arm, Koch Disruptive Technologies, launched in 2017, the same year his political groups began partnering with Big Tech on public policy fights in DC.

Though Massie is hailed as an anti-establishment contrarian by The New York Times author, his voting record advances the agenda of a libertarian oil and tech billionaire whose primary concerns are juicing corporate profits and deregulating industries his companies already dominate.

But its easy to see why Massie would want to cultivate an anti-establishment, anti-corporate image: its popular with the electorate. GOP voters overwhelmingly support antitrust regulation. In a 2022 poll, 73% of Republican voters said that Big Tech companies are not regulated enough, and 85% of them agree that Big Tech companies have become too powerful, are destroying competition, and are abusing consumers through monopoly behavior.

These popular antitrust policy ideas supported by Republican voters are met with lip service from Republican leaders. Look instead at their actions. Jim Jordans public rebuke of Ken Bucks antitrust work in the last Congress, and naming instead Thomas Massie to lead antitrust policy negotiations, are clear signals that Jordan intends to stall congressional reforms in the tech industry as long as the Republicans hold their House majority.

When the next big disaster unfolds due to deregulation, dont be fooled. Republicans are deflecting blame by attacking the Biden administration as insufficiently populist, but the seeds of the East Palestine train derailment and Silicon Valley Bank bailout were sown under the Trump deregulatory regime and more broadly by the anti-government ethos of the GOP and its Big Money donors.

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Vermont Business Magazine Nationally renowned scholar and political columnist George F. Will is the featured speaker at the Ethan Allen Institutes Thirtieth Anniversary Celebration at the Doubletree by Hilton in South Burlington on Wednesday, May 31. The topic of his talk is Why Conservatism is Important in a Place Like Vermont.

Information on sponsorships and reservations may be found atwww.ethanallen.org. The social hour with cash bar begins at 6:00pm and the dinner at 7:00pm.

George Will, described by theWall Street Journalas perhaps the most powerful journalist in America, is widely regarded as one of the most influential conservative/libertarian journalists and commentators in the nation.He was awardedthe Pulitzer Prize for Commentary in 1977 and has been awarded sixteen honorary doctorate degrees.

He continues his half-century long career as a member of the Washington Post Writers Group and his columns are syndicated in more than four hundred newspapers. Over the years he has appeared many times on ABCsThis Week, NBCsMeet the Press(52 appearances), Fox News, and many other national platforms.

Institute President Myers Mermel said that We invited George Will because of his eloquent advocacy for the fundamentals of a free society: individual liberty, private property, competitive free enterprise, limited and frugal government, strong local communities, personal responsibility, and expanded opportunity for human endeavor, which are the principles of the Ethan Allen Institute. Were thrilled to be able to bring such a distinguished national opinion leader to Vermont for our 30thAnniversary observance, on a topic that Vermonters will find intriguing.

John McClaughry, co-founder of the Institute, says I have enjoyed and learned from George Wills writing for almost fifty years. He is widely recognized as perhaps the most profound conservative/libertarian political philosopher in our country today. His insights on Americas founding, its principles that have sustained us, his immense grasp of our history, and his assessment of our prospects for the future will be valuable, unforgettably delivered, and leavened with his trenchant sense of humor.

Wills academic background includes B.A. Trinity College, M.A. Oxford, and Ph.D. Princeton. He has taught political philosophy at Michigan State, University of Toronto and (twice) Harvard. He has authored 16 books, most recentlyAmerican Happiness and its Discontents.

The Ethan Allen Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan educational organization founded in 1993, has long been Vermonts leading voice for its Mission to influence public policy in Vermont by helping its people to better understand and put into practice the principles of a free society.

Earlier EAI anniversary celebrations, all held at todays Doubletree by Hilton (formerly the Sheraton) Emerald Ballroom, have featured P.J. ORourke (10th), John Stossel (15th), Governors Jim Douglas and Tom Salmon (20th), and Mark Steyn (25th).

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To the Editor:

I have read several letters to the editor regarding a recent RTC letter apparently mailed to all residents of Lyme and Old Lyme and Id like to share a third perspective on the matter which I hope and expect will appeal to the majority of our citizens the all-too-often-overlooked-and-forgotten Moderate voters. However theyre registered, they vote with their own minds and have no misplaced loyalty to one party or the other.

I felt compelled to participate in this conversation because there are myriad parties sharing very biased opinions and while speaking under the guise of wanting whats best for the towns, finish their statements with telling us what to think and for whom to vote in November. I would say ignore them all and instead listen to friends and associates you know and respect.

For the sake of time, Ill focus on the dog whistle of parental rights. In my experience the term dog whistle is cut from the same cloth as any other strawman fallacy wherein someone misinterprets what you said and ignores your intent and replaces it with their contorted version and then attacks that instead.

People who invoke the term parental rights have different things in mind and different aspirations, said Neal McCluskey, the director of the Center for Educational Freedom at the libertarian Cato Institute in Washington. My general impression when I see people invoking parental rights, its been connected to a general idea that parents have been cut out of decisions made by schools.

Parental rights is being represented as a dog whistle for banning books and censorship and anyone who utters the phrase should be summarily ignored. This is beyond ironic. The idea of dismissing anyones opinion based on opinion, perspective, or association is the type of bias we should all be fighting against.

The antithesis of parental rights is parental apathy and school districts that lack parental interest have suffered terribly because of the inevitable trickle-down of apathy, disinterest, and lack of motivation experienced by students when their parents leave education to the educators.

We have the greatest teachers in Region 18 and are lucky to have them. I have dealt directly with many of them on a variety of topics and venues and have personally observed their excellence. I have made a point to stress my personal belief that the purpose of school is to educate rather than indoctrinate and to my eye, the faculty, and staff overwhelmingly agree with this perspective.

Strong communities are built when everyone is involved and works together. Parental rights do not negate teachers being free to teach in their own style they only keep the door open so that parents can remain involved in the education of their children. We should avoid at all costs the idea that one group or another is prohibited from expressing their perspective due to dog whistle words/phrases or group affiliation.

It has been my experience that when people have questions and are allowed to ask them, they find the answers to be quite agreeable. When those doors of communication are closed, the rumor mills take over and the worst and most sensational ideas take over the conversation.

There will always be ideas, classes, and curricula being taught in school with which we will disagree but after school, well have co-workers, bosses, and supervisors with whom well disagree too. The purpose of school is to prepare us for working together in spite of difficulties and to learn to disagree pleasantly, respectfully, and productively. Children should be taught to think, not what to think.

Lets keep things simple and look at people based on the content of their character above all other elements. Im sure if we do that earnestly and honestly, well all find that we agree with each other far more than were being led to believe.

Steven WilsonOld Lyme, CT

Wilson, a Republican, is the chair of the Lyme-Old Lyme Board of Education. His letter is not a statement of the board as a whole.

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Legislative supermajorities are more than just a number for a party to feel good about. As the nation saw in Tennessee last week, a supermajority creates significant powers that go beyond what a simple majority possesses. Supermajorities grant near-uncheckable control for one party, giving a chance to almost entirely sideline a governor.

And over the last month, Republicans have secured three more.

Many state legislatures across the country have these veto-proof majorities, most of which are held by Republicans. GOP supermajorities in three more chambers have recently formed in states with Democratic governors: Louisiana and North Carolina lawmakers flipped parties, and Wisconsin after a special election to fill a vacant seat.

In North Carolina, state House Republicans earned a veto-proof majority last week after state Rep. Tricia Cotham, who represents a district that favors Democrats, flipped her party affiliation. (Republicans secured a supermajority in the state Senate after Novembers elections.) Top Democrats, including state House Democratic Leader Robert Reives and the state party chair, have called for her to resign.

In an interview with Score, Reives said the supermajority doesnt change the caucus priorities, but hes concerned that therell be things that are enacted that are just not reflective of North Carolina, but are things that would be important to the partisans that participate in the process.

Reives said that Democrats are well-positioned to break the supermajority in future elections although much of that is dependent on a looming redistricting fight, with Republicans poised to redraw the maps this summer, while the state Supreme Court looks eager to overturn a past ruling and clear the way for partisan gerrymandering.

But, Reives argued, that could present unintended problems for the GOP. When youre in a supermajority and you redraw maps, youve got a whole lot of incumbents youve got to protect, he said. In your attempt to protect those incumbents, youre going to have to weaken some incumbents.

Republicans celebrated their supermajority last week, but now its back to work, state House Republican Leader John Bell said in an interview.

Make no mistake, Democrats have always worked very hard to break a supermajority, and trying to break a majority, so that makes no difference, he said. Weve always been able to put our best foot forward, put great candidates forward, and I would think that the general public would see nothing less in the next election.

Over in Wisconsin, Republican state Rep. Dan Knodl narrowly defeated Democrat Jodi Habush Sinykin in a special state Senate election last week, granting Republicans a supermajority there that gives the party the ability to impeach state officials. Republicans do not currently have a supermajority in the state Assembly, meaning the party doesnt have power to override the governors veto.

State Senate Democratic Leader Melissa Agard also expressed confidence in being able to break the GOP supermajority in the future, pointing to liberal Janet Protasiewiczs win on the state Supreme Court. The states legislative and congressional maps, which favor Republicans, are likely to come before the states high court, with its new liberal majority.

Agard also said that the close margin of the special election in a Republican-leaning district was reassuring, and shes hoping Democrats work off that momentum.

Theres a lot of people walking around feeling like theres a chance that we may be able to save democracy in the state of Wisconsin, she said. That feels really bittersweet.

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Days until the Mississippi primary: 120

Days until the Louisiana primary: 187

Days until the 2023 election: 211

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EYES ON AZ Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (I-Ariz.) is preparing for a reelection bid, The Wall Street Journals Eliza Collins reports. According to slides from a meeting at a recent staff retreat, one slide breaks down the timeline through the remainder of 2023, including getting a poll and opposition research done by Sept. 30 and getting in place campaign staff by Dec. 31. Another slide on current communications strategy emphasizes her independent streak in the Senate.

Republican Pinal County Sheriff Mark Lamb is set to enter the race for Arizona Senate, per NBC News Vaughn Hillyard. Pinal County is one of the states most populous counties, and Lamb has gained some national name recognition during his time in the role.

2024 WATCH Former Rep. Yvette Herrell (R-N.M.) is holding an announcement rally Monday with Speaker Kevin McCarthy. A spokesperson for Herrell told the Roswell Daily Record that shell be making a campaign announcement, but didnt provide other details. Herrell lost her seat in NM-02 by around one point in November to first year Democratic Rep. Gabe Vasquez.

REDISTRICTING REDUX New York Attorney General Tish James and Gov. Kathy Hochul submitted a court brief Friday in support of having new congressional district lines drawn, POLITICOs Joe Spector reports. The move by the two statewide Democratic leaders helps to reignite the fight over whether the current map that benefited Republicans on Long Island and the Hudson Valley should be redrawn by the states Independent Redistricting Commission ahead of the 2024 elections.

DISCLOSURE DEBACLE Twitter has failed to disclose some political ads running on its site since early March, our Jessica Piper reports. At least three promoted fundraising tweets were not included in Twitters own data, seemingly contradicting the companys policies and raising doubts about the integrity of the platforms data and how many other political ads could go unreported.

LOOKING FOR AIR Donald Trumps opponents are struggling to find a spotlight of their own in the 2024 campaign. POLITICOs Sally Goldenberg and Natalie Allison take a look at how potential and declared candidates like Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis, former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley and entrepreneur Vivek Ramaswamy are navigating the field amid Trumps indictment.

HONESTLY, NEVERMIND Trump was considering hiring Laura Loomer, a far-right activist and former Florida congressional candidate, for a campaign role, per the New York Times Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan. Some of Mr. Trumps aides were said to have concerns that such a hire would cause a backlash, given her history of inflammatory statements and her embrace of the Republican Partys fringes. That proved to be correct: The New York Timess report on the potential hire ignited a firestorm among some of Mr. Trumps most vocal conservative supporters, and by late Friday, a high-ranking campaign official said Ms. Loomer was no longer going to be hired.

CAMPAIGN IN WAITING A reelection announcement from President Joe Biden is now more likely to be the summer rather than spring, CNNs Kevin Liptak, MJ Lee and Jeff Zeleny report.

In an attempt to boost his standing among young voters, Bidens not-yet-announced reelection bid will utilize hundreds of social media influencers to tout his record, Axios Sophia Cai reports. Plus, they might get their own briefing room.

DNC DANCE Democratic Chicago Mayor-elect Brandon Johnson pitched Biden on holding the Democratic National Convention in his city, per NBC News Natasha Korecki. Johnson discussed it on a call in which the president congratulated him on his mayoral win last week.

THIRD-PARTY CORNER Libertarian Chase Oliver, who ran for Georgia Senate last year and earned 2 percent of the vote, pushing the contest to a runoff, filed to run for president. He announced his bid last week.

Q1 TABS There are 5 days until Q1 reports are due to the FEC. Heres a look at some more hauls.

NV-Sen: Democratic Sen. Jacky Rosen raised $2.4 million and had $6 million on hand, per The Nevada Independents Gabby Birenbaum.

AZ-Sen: Sinema brought in around $2 million, per the WSJs Collins. She had close to $10 million on hand, as our Burgess Everett noted last week. For comparison, Democratic Rep. Ruben Gallego, who announced his Arizona Senate bid earlier this year, said he raised $3.7 million in Q1, and his campaign didnt announce how much he had in the bank.

CO-03: Democrat Adam Frisch, who narrowly lost to incumbent Republican Rep. Lauren Boebert last year, raised over $1.7 million.

How much did your campaign raise in Q1? Let me know.

The Roe v. Wade framework making abortion mostly legal, but allowing states to impose modest restrictions is where the majority of American voters are, POLITICOs Steve Shepard writes in his latest poll analysis. About six-in-10 voters support legal abortion in most cases with the median voter supporting some restrictions and just over a third who want it to be entirely or mostly illegal. Such a strict prohibition runs headlong into national public opinion. And it raises the question: How, if at all, are Republicans going to find a message that puts the party more in line with the median voter?

State Solutions Inc., a group affiliated with the Republican Governors Association, placed its first broadcast buy in the race for Kentucky governor, per AdImpact. The spot is set to start Wednesday.

Amanda Elliott has launched Anchor City Strategies, a digital consulting firm. She was previously digital director at the Republican Governors Association.

Former Democratic Wisconsin Lt. Gov. Mandela Barnes is president of Power to the Polls Wisconsin, a group focused on voter turnout.

Alex Lasry is co-treasurer at the Democratic Governors Association. He ran for Wisconsin Senate (along with Barnes) last year.

Alex Floyd is now communications director for Democratic Kentucky Gov. Andy Beshears reelection campaign. He previously worked on Georgia Democrat Stacey Abrams leadership committee.

Ari Appel is chief strategizing officer, Mairead Cahill is political director and Olivia Eggers is press secretary at Building Back Together, the main super PAC supporting the Biden administrations policy agenda.

CODA HEADLINE OF THE DAY: Where are the worst drivers, best restaurants in the D.C. area? The poll data are in. (The Washington Post)

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