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direct message news politics read clearly skip to content friday october 9 2026 politics read clearly get the direct message politics read clearly toggle navigation latest the build out statehouse city hall your money justice public health safety watch the direct message get the direct message latest signals live analysis progressive prosecutor cedrick frazier is winning the hennepin race by promising to charge ice 3 weeks ago analysis the man who paid for donald trump jr s bahamas wedding runs a boxing body financed by 3 weeks ago analysis federal judge refuses to end 13 years of oversight of maricopa sheriff ruling that 90 3 weeks ago analysis kraft pledged 2 million in palestinian aid publicly even as he has for years routed 3 3 weeks ago see every signal justice melissa lucio stays on texas death row after the court of criminal appeals over four dissents denied relief even though cameron county prosecutors had conceded evidence was withheld austin texas melissa lucio remains under a death sentence after the state s highest criminal court rejected her trial judge s finding that she is innocent justin brown october 9 2026 6 min read politics abiy ahmed won the nobel peace prize in 2019 seven ethiopian armed groups have now allied to remove him from power the alliance includes the amhara fano national movement the oromo liberation army and the tigray people s liberation front 01 one story three layers tension the judge who presided over melissa lucio s 2008 trial later found her innocent and the cameron county district attorney conceded evidence had been withheld the court of criminal appeals left her death sentence in place anyway over four dissents noise two simplified versions circulate the innocent mother railroaded and the bruises that speak for themselves both skip the habeas rule that makes a trial judge s findings only a recommendation direct message the cost falls on lucio who stays on death row on her family and on cameron county residents in whose name the sentence would be carried out and who keep funding the case the order protects the finality of the 2008 verdict and the state s position now that district attorney luis saenz says he will seek to carry it out nothing changes on the ground no execution date is set and the fight moves to federal court follow the evidence 08 the direct message one letter a week politics read clearly the decision the vote ruling contract or rule that actually happened this week named plainly what it does who pays who benefits and what changes for the people living with it every claim with a receipt join the direct message free weekly no spin no outrage just the decision and its consequences join the newsletter politics read clearly articles about editorial standards newsletter advertise contact privacy terms 2026 dmnews editorial decisions are independent of advertisers and sponsors