I don’t often get to say something a Coalition party has done is correcting their own mistake for once but I can say that with confidence here - literally everything in the post is still as wrong now as it was on February 4 but they corrected their grammar so that’s a start. 

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Police this week have said the rise of potentially violent white supremacy in the country is shocking, making up half their calls about potential terror attacks now. It’s a nuanced topic, with a lot of moving parts, but there are some key players that are normalising extremism and maybe we should not vote for them this year.

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Time’s short today - we’re about to have a power cut for some lines work all day - so I need to speed run this…

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They touted the Move On order as a “law and order” announcement on the weekend, those who work with communities and rough sleepers call it cruel and callous. The data from overseas tells us it will exacerbate issues, put rough sleepers in more harm and cause a higher chance of creating inescapable poverty traps and increases criminal activity, the research on fixing this shows the coalition have made it all worse at every step. This is what election 2026 is looking to be from the coalition - uniformed, callous, cruel and pleasing to the worst people.

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I hate to admit what today is but I will shamelessly use it to ask a favour...

For almost 50 years, Winston Peters has found ways to blame migrants and minorities for problems to stir up racism and turn it into votes. For some of his voters, that’s what they relish. For others it’s what they choose to ignore because he speaks about culture war topics (many of which also have a race based element to them), or he gave them the gold card.  So when Chris Hipkins asks if the PM will reign in the racism - we all know the answer already…

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In one month this year, the coalition already raised almost half a million dollars in large donations from Billionaires wanting to keep a system where your mince has gone up 19% in a year and we’re working harder for less every day. Is this the way you want to the election outcome decided?

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It’s an election year which means Polls galore!

But while they can show us trends, they’re really only good for drama and content in the short term - and that can be manipulated to push specific media agendas. 

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Whether it’s the Prime Minister or your local Councillor, when disaster hits, we expect our leaders to stand up and lead - and this week, as extreme weather again smashes Aotearoa, we again find examples of piss poor leadership and empathy - but hey, the State of Origin is coming, so… cool I guess.

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Tax or levy or fee for a bad LNG plan, dropping the Te Reo name for the school lunch program, the race baiting, the rage farming, the U-turns and downplaying of bad decisions and begging for bipartisan acceptance of their ideas - it’s a flood of distractions from the coalition to make you forget something really basic - they buggered up the economy and we are all paying the price for it.

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