{"id":655,"date":"2025-09-12T16:28:00","date_gmt":"2025-09-12T16:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/?p=655"},"modified":"2026-04-21T17:44:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T17:44:04","slug":"midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-250912","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flipthestates.com\/pages\/midterms-get-out-of-your-bubble-250912\/","title":{"rendered":"Midterms: Get Out of Your Bubble"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Get Out of Your Bubble.<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

There’s plenty of outrage in our inboxes so we aren’t going to do that. Instead, we want to create a place to check out different voices, sources, stories and comments about what’s going on in our democracy, our government and world.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Charlie Kirk was assassinated in a brazen act of political violence.<\/strong>
Watch this brief statement<\/a> from Mayoral candidate Mamdani on Kirk’s assassination and our plague of violence. Former police officer Michael Fanone, permanently injured while attempting to protect the Capitol on Jan 6, also put out a statement on political violence reminding us both things can be true: we can be appalled by this murder and still condemn Krik’s politics and methods.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And there was another school shooting at a CO high school this week.<\/strong>
Gun violence is the common factor. We aren’t doing much to stop school shootings, but we are growing a massive, billion dollar industry around school shootings, says NPR<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Meanwhile, the Supreme Court keeps green lighting Trump’s assault on our institutions, but Federal Judges are finally pushing back.<\/strong>
According to extraordinary legal analyst and court watcher Dahlia Lithwick, federal judges are getting fed up by shadow docket Supreme Court decisions overturning them with no explanation. Read her fascinating piece in Slate<\/a> and this piece from NBC news<\/a> explaining what the shadow docket is, why it matters and how judges are pushing back by going pubic with their rebuke.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A different kind of Democrat is running in Texas<\/strong>
At Flip the States, we are focused on real chances to flip seats and take back power. For years, there’s been claims that Democrats will flip a state-wide Texas seat, but the truth is, it hasn’t really been close. Despite that, it’s worth checking out this profile on Democratic TX State Rep James Talarico<\/a> in Politico. He just announced a run for Senate but what makes him interesting is how he represents the next generation of potential Democratic leaders, ones bringing their authentic selves – in this case, a highly religious man who is also willing to sit down with Joe Rogan – to their public service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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