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21WIRE | Across America, Democrat leaders are still demanding more lockdowns, mandatory masks, school closures and other unconstitutional measures.

  Today the Topeka Capital-Journal, which endorsed Trump in 2016, decided to not make the same mistake again. They urge their readers to vote for Biden despite him being a Democrat: "He deserves your support anyway... In these difficult times, after four years of chaos and confusion, the United States needs a steady hand.

  Kansas is a very red state. In fact, the candidate Schumer recruited to run as a putative Democrat, Barbara Bollier is, in fact, a Republican. She served as a Republican in the state House from 2011 to 2017 and has been in the state Senate since 2016. At the very end of 2018, she switched parties, no doubt with Schumer promising her the U.S. Senate nomination. He forced former United States Attorney for Kansas Barry Grissom to drop out of the race and endorse her as soon as Bollier declared a few months later.

Ugly Nazi/GOP propaganda in Kansas-- July, 2020The coronavirus pandemic has been no walk in the park for Kansas-- but it has been worse for all of Kansas' immediate neighbors. As of Saturday, 283 Kansans have died of COVID-19. That's 97 deaths per million residents of the state. Their four neighbors, though, fared worse:

You know what would be amazing? That Trump winds up being so toxic that he even manages to lose the Kansas Senate seat for the Republicans! I know, I know... it's impossible. Actually it is-- literally-- impossible since even if the Schumer candidate, Barbara Bollier, wins, it's still a Republican in the seat. (A few months ago, she switched parties, although certainly not her ideology, but...

Nancy Ohanian envisions Trump celebrating Easter SundayKansas is one hella red state. The last time the state voted for a Democrats was in 1964. In 2016, Hillary won just 35.7% of the vote. The 40-member state Senate has 29 Republicans and 11 Democrats and the state House consists of 84 Republicans and 41 Dems. But in 2018, Kansans got lucky-- luckier than anyone could have imagined.

I first heard about Asa Hutchinson, now governor of Arkansas. in 1986 when he ran for the U.S. Senate against Dale Bumpers. Bumpers, a moderate Democrat, pulverized the radical right Hutchinson, winning all but 6 of Arkansas' 75 counties in a 433,122 (62.3%) to 262,313 (37.7%) rout. Ten years later, Hutchinson's brother, Tim, left his congressional seat open to run for the Senate. The two brothers both won their races.

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real picture of two fascistsThis week AP reporter John Hanna reported how McConnell is moving to deny Kansas Republicans the opportunity to pick their own Senate nominee this year, basically using the same anti-democracy tactics that Schumer uses with the DSCC and that Cheri Bustos uses in the House.I'm no fan of Kansas racist and neo-Nazi Kris Kobach

Alabama and Kansas are very different demographically-- Alabama, for example, has a sizable African-American population (26.4%) and Kansas' African-American population is just 5.6%-- but the two states have something very much in common: both are Republican bastions. Alabama's PVI is R+14 and Kansas' is R+13. In 2016, Hillary won just 34% in Alabama and 36% in Kansas. Alabam's politics is based on racism.