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It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP
4 months, 2 weeks ago

It Is Possible to Be Too Creepy for the GOP

Slate  

Two years before Democrats had settled on “weird” as the most effective criticism of Republican politics, Blake Masters was the unwitting face of it. A former Silicon Valley venture capitalist with Peter Thiel’s backing who ran for Senate in Arizona, Masters chilled audiences with his extreme political stances on issues like abortion and with front-facing videos and TV ads where …

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4 Senate races that could provide the key to control
2 years, 1 month ago

4 Senate races that could provide the key to control

NPR  

4 Senate races that could provide the key to control Enlarge this image toggle caption Hill Street Studios/Getty Images Hill Street Studios/Getty Images The fight for the Senate couldn't be tighter. PENNSYLVANIA TOSS UP toggle caption Slaven Vlasic/Stringer via Getty Images; Mark Makela/Getty Images With Republican Sen. Pat Toomey's retirement, this state has become Democrats' top pick-up opportunity. GEORGIA TOSS …

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Kelly criticizes Biden, Masters backtracks in Senate debate
2 years, 2 months ago

Kelly criticizes Biden, Masters backtracks in Senate debate

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Democratic Sen. Mark Kelly distanced himself from President Joe Biden on Thursday, calling the U.S.-Mexico border “a mess” and saying his party doesn’t understand border issues during his first and only debate against his Republican challenger Blake Masters. “I suspect President Trump would be in the White House today if big tech and big media and the FBI …

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An insidious ideology called 'neoreaction' is creeping into GOP politics
2 years, 4 months ago

An insidious ideology called 'neoreaction' is creeping into GOP politics

Raw Story  

President Donald Trump’s efforts to overturn the results of the 2020 election were brazenly antidemocratic. It’s called “neoreaction,” and its leading figure, a software engineer and blogger named Curtis Yarvin, has ties to at least two GOP U.S. Senate candidates, along with Peter Thiel, a major GOP donor. They include the 19th-century political philosopher Thomas Carlyle, who disdained democracy and …

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Guerrero: Senate candidate Blake Masters doesn't just want to 'build the wall.' He's building a dystopia
2 years, 5 months ago

Guerrero: Senate candidate Blake Masters doesn't just want to 'build the wall.' He's building a dystopia

LA Times  

Blake Masters, Republican candidate for Senate in Arizona, is ingratiating himself with anti-immigration voters so he can push the agenda of tech billionaire Peter Thiel at the expense of almost everyone else. Masters is a protege and pawn of PayPal’s co-founder and Silicon Valley billionaire Peter Thiel, who has bragged about participating in “the erosion of the nation-state.” Opinion Columnist …

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Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona, citing the candidate’s strident support of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. The former president said in a statement that Masters is a “great modern-day thinker” and that Masters’ chief rival, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich, has done nothing about the election …

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Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies
2 years, 6 months ago

Trump backs Arizona candidate who echoes 2020 election lies

LA Times  

Former President Trump speaks in Houston at the annual meeting of the National Rifle Assn. Donald Trump on Thursday endorsed investor Blake Masters in the crowded Republican Senate primary in Arizona, citing the candidate’s strident support of Trump’s lies about the 2020 election. In picking Masters in Arizona, Trump sided with another acolyte of tech investor Peter Thiel after Trump’s …

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Blake Masters launches GOP run against Sen. Kelly of Arizona
3 years, 5 months ago

Blake Masters launches GOP run against Sen. Kelly of Arizona

Associated Press  

PHOENIX — Blake Masters, an ally of billionaire investor Peter Thiel, kicked off his campaign Monday for the Republican nomination to challenge Democratic U.S. Sen. Mark Kelly of Arizona. Thiel was a prominent 2016 donor to President Donald Trump’s campaign and is widely expected to spend millions supporting Masters’ campaign through an independent super PAC. Masters said he supports the …

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Trump’s pardon blitz keeps ex-Google exec out of prison
3 years, 11 months ago

Trump’s pardon blitz keeps ex-Google exec out of prison

Associated Press  

SAN RAMON, Calif. — A long-running Silicon Valley soap opera took an unexpected twist on Wednesday after outgoing President Donald Trump pardoned a former Google engineer for stealing self-driving car secrets shortly before joining Uber. Trump’s surprise pardon of Anthony Levandowski enables him to avoid serving an 18-month sentence in federal prison that U.S. District Judge William Alsup left no …

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