Primary day shutout: 2.5 million independents locked out
It's the biggest primary day of the cycle — six states, governorships, open Senate seats, veteran independents on the ballot — and 2.5 million independent voters are being shut out of elections their tax dollars pay for. Trump just lost a fight to pay out January 6th insurrectionists with a $1.8 billion slush fund, then turned around and nominated a housing bureaucrat with zero intelligence experience to run the DNI. Meanwhile Russia killed a three-year-old boy in Dnipro overnight while the White House delayed air defense missiles. This is the no-BS morning briefing for the Angry Middle.
It's primary day in California, Iowa, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, and South Dakota — and depending on your zip code, you either…
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