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“Trump did win it by 22, but Marsha Blackburn in 2018 only won the district by half a point. So Matt Van Epps is going to win it by 9 tonight. The lesson to take away from this is Democrats had three State Representatives running, they picked the liberal wingnut.” pic.twitter.com/ceaLQF5bDR
— Thomas Hern (@ThomasMHern) December 3, 2025
Ed: This is one good point, but the issue is larger than that. First off, the district’s lines shifted after the 2018 midterms, so that may not be a great comparison anyway. More to the point, Democrats nominated a nut, and she still came within nine points of winning an R+10 district. I’m not sure we can take a lot of comfort in that.
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Daily Caller: Van Epps won the special election for Tennessee’s 7th Congressional District on Tuesday, defeating Behn and keeping the historically Republican, President Donald Trump-leaning seat in GOP control. Instead of conceding without incident, Behn said she phoned Van Epps to tell him what she believes he must do in Washington, D.C. — specifically, protect Obamacare subsidies.
“I called the Congressman-elect, Matt Van Epps, and I had one question for him. What will define what happens next? Do not let the Affordable Care Act subsidies expire. Do not raise health care costs for working families in Tennessee,” Behn said.
Behn, who fell short in the traditionally red 7th District after a heavily funded race, framed her loss as a symbolic victory.
“The Republicans made these districts to be uncompetitive. They wanted us to back down, and we did not back down. We showed up. Our campaign raised $2.8 million, outraising our opponent. And from everyday people, not the Billionaire Boys Club, not Trump’s Billionaire Boys Club, but from nurses and teachers in Clarksville and Dickson and young people who donated $5 or $10 to get us over the finish line,” Behn said.
Ed: You don’t win championships through “symbolic victories.” Plus, it’s not clear how much this district was gerrymandered to favor the GOP. It includes a slice of Nashville that Democrats dominate … when their nominees don’t declare their hatred for Nashville in public forums. Plus: Imagine having the arrogance to lose by nine points and then to lecture the winner in private about how he should vote.
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Aftyn Behn (D) lost tonight’s special election in TN, but make no mistake: She’s the median Democrat, a lunatic radical progressive.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Dems continue to run the most Cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs candidates they can find.
Is this really who we want running the… pic.twitter.com/oxYpbdtihz
— Scott Jennings (@ScottJenningsKY) December 3, 2025
Is this really who we want running the country? Defund the police radicals who look down their noses at rural America?
Ed: Clearly not. But the GOP had better get better at organizing, and at delivering clear wins on the economy, if they want to prevent that outcome.
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WSJ: Hiring by American businesses dropped last month, according to an estimate from payroll processor ADP, a further setback for a labor market that has slowed this year.
Private employers shed 32,000 jobs in November, ADP estimated, a swing from the 47,000 private-sector jobs that ADP estimated were added in October. Analysts surveyed by The Wall Street Journal were expecting to see 40,000 new private-sector jobs. …
Weaker hiring has become a growing concern for the Federal Reserve, which has cut interest rates by a half percentage point over its two latest meetings in September and October. The dour report could provide more grist to officials who are on the fence over cutting rates again at the Fed’s final meeting of 2025 next week—a move that bets in financial markets now strongly favor.
Ed: Let’s see what the BLS produces on Friday for November’s numbers. There is some considerable churn in the labor market, as immigrants exit the US and jobs shift to US-born workers. However, it’s never a good sign when jobs numbers go down. If the White House wants to win the midterms, it needs to accelerate supply-side policies. The silver lining is the Fed, which now almost has to keep cutting rates.
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MUST WATCH: @DanaPerino tears into AG Keith Ellison’s corruption in Minnesota’s $1B Somali fraud scandal:
“There’s an actual audio recording of him meeting with representatives of Feeding Our Future, who are both arrested as part of a fraud, and then he asked them for political… pic.twitter.com/bTYZDugN7j
— Conservative War Machine (@WarMachineRR) December 3, 2025
… and then he asked them for political contributions.”
Ed: If Walz was a Republican, this story would lead every cable-news program until he resigned.
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The Atlantic: The man I observed over the next several minutes was unrecognizable. Gone was his equilibrium. He moved between outrage and exasperation as I relayed the excerpts. Harris had accused him, in essence, of measuring the drapes, even inquiring about featuring Pennsylvania artists in the vice-presidential residence; of insisting “that he would want to be in the room for every decision” Harris might make; and, more generally, of hijacking the conversation when she interviewed him for the job, to the point where she reminded him that he would not be co-president.
“She wrote that in her book?” he said in response to the claim concerning the residence’s art. “That’s complete and utter bullshit.”
“I can tell you that her accounts are just blatant lies,” he added.
Ed: Excuse me while I don my shocked face while we discover that Kamala Harris is a liar. This is worth reading in full just to see how angry Harris’ book made Shapiro. Now imagine how it makes other Democrats feel as Harris tries to shift blame onto everyone but herself for her epic face plant last year.
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WATCH: Biden’s former chief of staff admits he DID NOT write the email approving the use of the AUTOPEN himself.
There was NO clear chain of approval from POTUS to autopen. His inner circle was basically playing a game of telephone over autopen pardon approvals, including the… https://t.co/8GXYnMRVYv pic.twitter.com/xZywIUTF0j
— Oversight Committee (@GOPoversight) December 3, 2025
… including the Biden Crime Family.
NULL AND VOID!
Ed: It’s worth getting all of this out in the open. However, don’t expect it to actually reverse the pardons Biden issued through the autopen. No federal judge will recognize the voiding of clemency actions, as I explained in October. That’s especially true for the “Biden Crime Family,” as it is pretty obvious that Biden ordered those pardons no matter how they were signed. However, there still might be legal consequences for people who fraudulently used Biden’s constitutional authority.
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Leon Sapir in the Free Press: In recent years, 27 states—almost all Republican-leaning—have passed laws that restrict or ban medical gender transition of minors. In 2022, Alabama’s Vulnerable Child Compassion and Protection Act criminalized such medical procedures. Advocacy groups including the Human Rights Campaign and the Southern Poverty Law Center immediately sued the state to overturn the law. This suit—Boe v. Marshall—became a major strategic blunder.
The plaintiffs urged the federal district court to rely on the expertise of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH) and its American chapter, USPATH. WPATH was widely touted in the advocacy and medical communities as providing unassailable guidance, in the form of its “Standards of Care,” for how to provide treatment of young people with gender dysphoria—or distress over one’s biological sex.
The court agreed, and the materials obtained in legal discovery by the state of Alabama between 2023 and 2024 about WPATH’s methods and conclusions proved scandalous.
Ed: Read it all. These people deserved to be sued into oblivion.
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🚨#BREAKING: An 18 year-old in Charlotte NC is being held on a staggering $5.3 MILLION bond after he was charged for 16 (!!!) shootings across Charlotte.
This is his 3rd arrest in 3 months…
…AS AN 18 YEAR-OLD!!!
Due to Iryna’s Law, he’s being held in jail. pic.twitter.com/bKu380iseL
— Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) December 3, 2025
Ed: We learned all of these lessons in the 1970s and 1980s. The people who undid the laws that protected law-abiding citizens like Iryna have blood on their hands. Let’s hope that judges don’t reduce the bail on this perp and let him out again.
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Woman says it’s not fair to have requirements in order to receive benefits…pic.twitter.com/fDDpbHvMCH
— Defiant L’s (@DefiantLs) December 3, 2025
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This is hilariously delusional 🤣
Amazon and Microsoft will reportedly leave Washington State if a New Payroll Tax is Passed pic.twitter.com/EBeajS3j9O
Socialist State Rep. Shaun Scott says with a straight face that workers could easily form a “collective” and replace Amazon and…
— MJTruthUltra (@MJTruthUltra) December 3, 2025
and replace Amazon and Microsoft with their own companies.
What should they name their socialist company?
Ed: Brokasoft.
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