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Third-Party ROUNDUP: Jill Stein Paid $100K to MAGA Operative; RFK Jr. Continues Chaos Operation

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – As the clock keeps ticking toward Election Day, Vice President Kamala Harris continues to garner support from Americans of all backgrounds. Republicans, on the other hand, continue to boost third-party candidates in their effort to undermine Democrats and tilt the election toward Trump.  On September 21, The Wall Street Journal revealed that Jill Stein paid $ 100,000 to Trent Pool, a MAGA operative who participated in the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6. This builds on previous reporting that exposed ties between Stein and other Trump-affiliated…

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Weekly Spoiler Roundup: Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Continues Sinking to New Lows and Desperate Tactics as Support Plummets

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Meanwhile, Cornel West Facing Scrutiny for Potentially Illegal Coordination With Republicans WASHINGTON, D.C. – As Vice President Kamala Harris has successfully reset the presidential race in Democrats’ favor, this week, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. continued to sink lower and lower to stay relevant.  In Texas, RFK Jr. is accused of falsifying a majority of his petition signatures to “overwhelm the system.” A review by the Texas Democratic Party’s voter protection director found that 70% of the 245,000 signatures his campaign submitted “failed miserably” to meet the state’s election laws’ basic…

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Congress continues to work on what amounts to an agenda for the lame duck session

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Best listening experience is on Chrome, Firefox or Safari. Subscribe to Federal Drive’s daily audio interviews on Apple Podcasts or PodcastOne. The remaining days of the 117th Congress leave both chambers with a bit of an agenda. Perhaps topping the list for the Senate is keeping its record of passing Defense authorization bills by the end of the calendar year. To get an update on all this, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with Bloomberg Government deputy news director Loren Duggan. Interview transcript: Tom Temin: And now the lame duck is paddling away.…

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USPS continues postal banking pilot, despite House Republicans’ objections

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The Postal Service is telling its regulator it has no plans yet to pull the plug on a postal banking pilot, despite a lack of customers and opposition from House Republicans. USPS told the Postal Regulatory Commission in a recent filing that it will continue the postal banking pilot “in its current form” past March 2022. “No final determinations have been reached with regard to ending the pilot, or with regard to any other potential steps that might be taken to modify the pilot,” USPS attorneys wrote. USPS spokeswoman Tatiana…

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Greg Abbott continues to blame everyone but himself for his disastrous Operation Lone Star scheme

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Texas Gov. Greg Abbott’s Operation Lone Star has been an unmitigated disaster, and he’s the one solely to blame for that. He’s the one who decided to use vulnerable asylum-seekers as a primary campaign prop. He’s the one who deployed soldiers to the border scheme. He’s the one who’s forced them to live in deplorable conditions when they could have been at home. Ultimately, it all points back to Abbott. (Personal responsibility, as Republicans used to like to say.) But as a leaked survey has revealed continued discontent among deployed soldiers (aside from…

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