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Source (ABC News): “A cat and a dog are competing to become Travis County’s next pet mayor“

Sources: BMG Research (poll) and Poliwave (seats projection)

Sources: BMG Research (poll) and Poliwave (seats projection)

Sources: Race Lab and SiouxFalls.gov

Sources: Race Lab and SiouxFalls.gov

Poll source: “One Nation has hit a record high primary vote as it maintains its lead as the most popular political party in the country in the most recent national poll following Pauline Hanson's calls for Australia to embrace a ‘monoculture‘. The party posted its strongest-ever primary vote”

Seats projection source: Poliwave

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VoteHub

FlatheadCounty.gov

Daily Inter Lake

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VoteHub

FlatheadCounty.gov

Daily Inter Lake

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Ballotpedia/DDHQ

The Press Democrat, a moderate-leaning publication with a conservative history (endorsed Lemus)

Source (Politico)

Per NPR/PBS: "Whitehall City Council Member Lori Elmore will retain her seat after the Franklin County Board of Elections voted Monday to certify the results of a special election that was held on June 23. The board considered whether 31 remaining ballots cast in the election, which were mostly provisional ballots, should count. The results showed Elmore leads by eight votes compared with losing by six votes in the initial, unofficial vote count after Election Day. [...] The effort was motivated by racism against the city's first Black mayor and city council member."

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Poll source: "When asked who bears the greatest responsibility for improving relations between South Africans and foreign nationals [...] the national government was the most frequently cited (35%). This reflects expectations that policymakers and public institutions should take the lead through effective immigration management, law enforcement, economic development, and public leadership. Citizens themselves were mentioned by 11% of respondents"

See also: "South Africa’s unemployment rate stood at 32% in the first quarter of 2026 after 350,000 jobs were lost, with young people hardest hit [...] South Africa’s economy remains largely controlled by a wealthy White Afrikaner minority, leaving many Black South Africans with limited economic opportunities. Unable to challenge what he described as 'the high-level political and corporate structures responsible for their poverty,” he said, many instead direct their frustrations at “defenseless Black immigrants.' While apartheid-era inequality remains central to political debate, he said anger toward the White minority is largely expressed through legal and political channels, while Black African migrants bear the brunt of street-level violence."

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“How many Iranians support the Islamic Republic? In a new working paper, we answer this question using evidence from a nationally representative survey of 2,000 adults in Iran. We use the list experiment, a method for measuring sensitive attitudes.”

Survey source (NIH PubMed): "Significant differences were identified between urban and rural areas in several services. [...] The urban-rural disparities identified show patterns that challenge conventional assumptions."

See also: "Presidential candidate Roberto Sánchez said Tuesday that he’ll refuse to recognize results of Peru’s June 7 presidential runoff [...] Sánchez, an ally of imprisoned former President Pedro Castillo, has promised to make reforms to the nation’s mining sector that would give community groups a stake in copper and gold mines. His campaign easily defeated Fujimori in mountainous areas of southern Peru that have long suffered from economic exclusion, but fell behind Fujimori in Lima, where about a third of Peru’s voters are based. Peru has had eight presidents in the past decade, only two of whom were elected by popular vote. The others replaced presidents who resigned or were removed by Peru’s Congress amid corruption allegations."

Source: NJ Globe

Source: "This decline comes on the heels of strong post-pandemic gains, which saw the city's overall population swell by 70,000 in 2023 and 163,000 in 2024, mostly driven by an influx of migrants and asylum seekers. As tighter federal and local immigration policies went into effect in 2025, international in-migration plunged by 70% while domestic out-migration escalated, reversing past growth. Overall, New York City lost 114,000 more residents to other U.S. cities than it gained last year. This is an uptick from the 94,000 net loss from domestic moves recorded in 2024"