Plunderbund: GOP gubernatorial candidate Mike DeWine is fortunate Ohio no longer has a law against false advertising in political campaigns.

Show Me Progress: Who’s afraid of Chuck Todd? Missouri Republican Senate candidate Josh Hawley.

Calculated Risk: After slashing almost 300,000 federal, state and local government jobs under President Obama, the public sector is growing again under Donald Trump.

Dean Heller, on Bundy ranch militiamen in Nevada, April 18, 2014.)

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