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5 players Broncos could trade away before NFL roster cuts
As the Broncos trim the roster down to 53 players, they could consider trading away these players.
Vikings Predicted to Lose Breakout Offseason Star at Week’s End
The Minnesota Vikings are expected to cut the standout rookie this weekend and then lose him to another NFL team on the waiver wire. The post Vikings Predicted to Lose Breakout Offseason Star at Week’s End appeared first on HEAVY.
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Olympic champion Alysa Liu takes season off after Milan gold, promises return
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Dave Toub breaks down Harrison Butker’s performance vs. Buccaneers
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Every Georgia football season opener during the Kirby Smart era
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How Ikea Turned a Controller Thumbstick Into the Star of Its Xbox Gaming Range
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Nebraska opens season in USA TODAY Sports preseason top 50
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Kenyan mother dies after bleeding for hours after childbirth
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Release of Marine veteran from Russian custody turns focus to other detainees with health concerns
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Arizona Cardinals sign punter, safety before preseason finale
The Cardinals filled their two roster vacancies with a punter and a safety on Tuesday.
Eagles injury updates from Tuesday’s open practice
Lane Johnson, Jordan Davis and E.J. Jenkins were evaluated during Tuesday’s open practice, while seven Eagles did not participate
Patriots RB TreVeyon Henderson gets update after injury scare
What's the latest on the health status of Patriots running back TreVeyon Henderson, who left Monday's practice early with an injury?
Seahawks waive UDFA RB Anthony Hankerson
The Seahawks move on from Hankerson following the team’s second preseason matchup against the Titans.
Geralt Returns in The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt — Songs of the Past and Remastered
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ASUS Intros ROG Gladius IV Ace Wireless Gaming Mouse at Gamescom 2026
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Gears of War: E-Day Campaign Hands On – Brutal, Brilliant, and Quintessentially Gears
There’s something to be said for a video game so emotionally striking in what it offers that I spend a few seconds just sitting in the lobby, looking at the characters in awe. That’s how I started my first hands-on preview of the Gears of War: E-Day campaign last week, an experience that caught me […]
Ben Roethlisberger highlights key mental trait in Steelers young QBs
Ben Roethlisberger praised Will Howard and Drew Allar for showing short memories and mental poise during Pittsburgh's preseason loss to the Jets.
Rainbow Six Tactics Revealed: Building a Turn-Based Tactical Experience
Rainbow Six Tactics is a new tactical chapter for the franchise, blending strategic depth, high global stakes, and turn-based gameplay that demands the planning, precision, and teamwork that define Rainbow Six.
New injury crops up for 49ers No. 1 wide receiver
The San Francisco 49ers were back to practice on Tuesday, but their top wide receiver is sidelined with a new injury.
Grading PFN's 2027 NFL mock draft for the Vikings
We took a look at PFN's latest 3-round 2027 NFL Mock Draft and graded it.
The Entertainment Industry's Biggest Names Back Stability AI in Latest Funding Round
/PRNewswire/ -- Stability AI, the leader in purpose-built AI products for professional creatives across music, gaming, and entertainment, today announced a...
Series Entertainment Launches RUN, the AI-Native Hub Where Creators Build, Ship and Earn
SAN FRANCISCO, August 25, 2026--Series Entertainment today debuted RUN, an AI-native ecosystem designed to collapse the distance between a creative spark and a sustainable career.
Iowa football duo lands within USA TODAY Sports' top 100 players
A pair of Iowa football players were ranked inside USA TODAY Sports' top 100 players entering the 2026 season.
The Entertainment Industry's Biggest Names Back Stability AI in Latest Funding Round
/PRNewswire/ -- Stability AI, the leader in purpose-built AI products for professional creatives across music, gaming, and entertainment, today announced a...
Rhode Island Launches New Program to Cover Lab and Office Costs for Up to Eight Life Science Startups
/PRNewswire/ -- For an early-stage life science company, the hardest part often isn't the discovery. It's finding a place to develop it — a lab, the equipment,...
New Jersey Social Media Legislation Brings Renewed Focus to Youth Mental Health
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Introducing the Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection
To help celebrate 25 years of XBOX, the Designed for XBOX 25th Anniversary Collection is now available for preorder.
TryHard Joins Forces with EHang and SKYTEK to Advance Next-Generation Drone Entertainment in Japan
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Juno Health and SlicedHealth Partner to Deliver Comprehensive Revenue Optimization for Rural and Critical Access Hospitals
Juno Health, a trusted healthcare technology partner for acute care, teams up with SlicedHealth, a leading healthcare revenue cycle and operations intelligence company, to offer SlicedHealth's revenue cycle tools as an integrated and included complement to Juno EHR's native revenue cycle management suite. This partnership delivers a more powerful, end-to-end financial health solution to the small hospitals and clinics the two companies serve.
Nine Blue Collar Entrepreneurs Awarded Jobber Grants for Business Excellence, Including a First-Ever $100,000 Grant
/PRNewswire/ -- Jobber, the leading provider of software for blue collar businesses, today announced the nine recipients of its 2026 Jobber Grants program,...
Health Savings Account Participation on the Rise, Retirement Strategy Needs Attention, PSCA Finds
ARLINGTON, Va., August 25, 2026--The Plan Sponsor Council of America’s (PSCA) 2026 Health Savings Account Survey shows increased participation as 83% of employees contributed to their Health Savings Account (HSA) in 2025, up from 73.4% in 2024. Despite the growth, only one-quarter of employers position HSAs as part of a long-term retirement savings strategy.
Lewis Line Appoints Jackie Trimble as Director to Lead Growing Entertainment Division
Today, Lewis Line, the Gen-Z-owned public relations firm based in LA, announces the appointment of Jackie Trimble as Director of Entertainment, where she will lead strategy and execution as the firm expands from music into the wider entertainment industry.
Lewis Line Appoints Jackie Trimble as Director to Lead Growing Entertainment Division
/PRNewswire/ -- Today, Lewis Line, the Gen-Z-owned public relations firm based in LA, announces the appointment of Jackie Trimble as Director of Entertainment,...
PLT Health Solutions Brings Its Clinically Supported Branded Ingredient Platform to Vitafoods Asia
PLT Health Solutions, Inc. will exhibit for the first time at Vitafoods Asia, 2-4 September in Bangkok, Thailand, bringing its portfolio of more than 30 clinically supported branded ingredients to Asian brand owners and product developers. A major focus at the show will be the company's joint health and mobility portfolio. PLT will bring next-generation Kinexa™ Joint Longevity Complex to the Asian market for the first time. PLT introduced Kinexa™ in 2016 and has continued to develop the ingredie
Allegheny Health Network and The START Center for Cancer Research Announce Strategic Collaboration to Expand Patient Access to Early-Phase Cancer Trials
/PRNewswire/ -- Allegheny Health Network ("AHN"), a 16-hospital integrated health system serving western Pennsylvania, and The START Center for Cancer Research...
Michigan State football 2026 game-by-game predictions: Rutgers
Predicting every Michigan State football game for the 2026 season -- next up is the regular season finale against the Rutgers Scarlet Knights
Capital One Business Travel Limited Time Offer Ends Sept. 7 for New Spark Cash Plus and Spark Cash Cardholders
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TryHard Joins Forces with EHang and SKYTEK to Advance Next-Generation Drone Entertainment in Japan
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TryHard Joins Forces with EHang and SKYTEK to Advance Next-Generation Drone Entertainment in Japan
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Six Flags Announces Corporate Headquarters Relocation to Arlington, Texas
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Florida, hard-hit by Obamacare drop-off, feels the squeeze of rising healthcare costs
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Colorado moves up in preseason USA TODAY Sports power rankings
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Stable Sea Expands WisdomTree Relationship With Two New Tokenized Funds for Business Cash
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Final takeaways from Cowboys' win over Cardinals: Unique situations
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Detroit Lions top PFF receiver corps rankings
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4 Commanders most in need of a big preseason finish
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Fractal establishes India Business Unit to meet increasing demand from large Indian enterprises
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Omega Just Released a Mini Moonwatch
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Kevin Byard praises Christian Gonzalez’s character amid contract talks
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Former Panthers CB signs with Steelers on Monday
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Mike Vrabel reveals three unexpected Patriots standouts vs. Eagles
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WHO RUNS MARYLAND POLITICS NOW?
ByThe Maryland Wire The Machine Didn’t Die — It Broke Apart Mike Miller is gone. Steny Hoyer is retiring. The two men who helped define Maryland political power for generations are disappearing from the map. Nobody has inherited all of what they controlled. Instead, Maryland power has fractured among Wes Moore, legislative leaders, county organizations, federal figures and a new generation fighting to connect the pieces. By The Maryland Wire For decades, there were two names in Maryland politics that required almost no explanation. Mike Miller. Steny Hoyer. You didn’t necessarily have to agree with them. You didn’t even have to like them. But everyone understood something: Not social-media power. Not cable-news power. Not the temporary power that comes from one big election. They possessed political infrastructure. Relationships. Institutional memory. Donors. Staff. Allies. County leaders. Lobbyists. Legislators. Operatives. And the ability to connect people who needed something with people capable of delivering it. Today one is gone. The other is preparing to leave Congress after more than four decades. And Maryland faces a question it hasn’t had to answer in generations: The answer may be: Nobody. At least not the way Miller once did. Maryland’s old machine wasn’t inherited by one person. It fragmented. And now several ambitious political networks are competing to assemble the pieces. Miller presided over the Maryland Senate for 33 years, becoming one of the longest-serving legislative leaders in American history. He stepped down as Senate president in 2019 and died in January 2021. (Behavioral and Social Sciences) But Miller’s real power wasn’t the title printed on his door. It was the accumulation of relationships behind it. Miller came from Maryland’s old Democratic organization and developed into an extraordinarily adaptable political operator, retaining authority even as the Senate around him became younger and more liberal. (The Washington Post) He understood something fundamental: politics is information. Who wants what? Who owes whom? Which senator needs help? Which county executive wants something in the budget? Which committee chairman can move a bill? Which lobbyist represents which client? Which candidate should receive support today because that candidate could be a senator ten years from now? Miller knew the answers because he’d spent decades collecting them. Miller’s influence wasn’t confined to elected officials. Former Miller aides became prominent Annapolis lobbyists. Maryland Matters noted figures such as Joseph Bryce and Timothy Perry among the high-profile lobbyists who had once served as top Miller aides. (Maryland Matters) That was one of Miller’s greatest political achievements. He didn’t merely accumulate power around himself. He produced alumni. Staffers became lobbyists. Legislators became committee chairs. Allies became power brokers. And decades of relationships reinforced one another. By the end, Mike Miller wasn’t simply a person. He was an ecosystem. Hoyer’s network was different. Miller’s power was rooted in Annapolis. Hoyer connected Maryland to Washington. He served in the Maryland Senate before winning election to Congress in 1981 and ultimately became one of the longest-serving members of the U.S. House and a longtime No. 2 in House Democratic leadership. In January 2026, Hoyer announced that he would retire rather than seek another term. (The Washington Post) His influence stretched through: Prince George’s County, Southern Maryland, Congress, federal agencies, donors, campaign organizations, and generations of Democratic candidates. And Hoyer had something machine builders value enormously: a succession network. That became obvious almost immediately. When Hoyer announced his retirement, Maryland’s 5th Congressional District exploded with candidates. Twenty-four Democrats entered the race. But when the votes were counted, the winner was Adrian Boafo, Hoyer’s former campaign manager. Boafo wasn’t running without establishment help. He was endorsed by Hoyer. He was endorsed by Governor Wes Moore. And he ultimately won the Democratic nomination. (AP News) In his victory speech, Boafo described the result as voters deciding it was time to “pass the torch to a new generation of leaders.” (AP News) That phrase captures the transition perfectly. Hoyer’s seat isn’t simply being vacated. Parts of his network are being transferred. But they aren’t being transferred to another Steny Hoyer. They’re being absorbed into a newer political constellation. And standing prominently inside that constellation is Wes Moore. If someone forces you to name the single person sitting nearest the center of Maryland Democratic politics today, the answer is Governor Wes Moore. The 2026 Democratic gubernatorial primary underscored the scale of his position. Moore won renomination overwhelmingly, receiving roughly 88% of the Democratic primary vote. (WBAL-TV) But raw votes tell only part of the story. Look at the party infrastructure. The Maryland Democratic Party says Steuart Pittman ran for state party chairman in 2025 “at the suggestion of Governor Wes Moore.” Pittman took office that July. (The Maryland Democratic Party) That’s important. Governors traditionally influence their state parties. But party leadership plus fundraising, endorsements, executive appointments and national relationships creates the beginning of something bigger: a political network that could survive the governor’s term. Moore also played a role in the Hoyer succession by backing Boafo. That’s how political organizations reproduce themselves. You support tomorrow’s politician today. And that’s the distinction that matters. Moore has enormous statewide visibility. Miller had decades of accumulated legislative control. Moore can endorse candidates. Miller could influence the environment in which legislators lived every day. Committee assignments. Leadership positions. Legislative priorities. Relationships that had been accumulating since before many current lawmakers entered politics. Moore may have a larger national profile than Miller ever possessed. But he doesn’t possess Miller’s half-century of Annapolis memory. Nobody does. Which is why the modern Maryland political structure looks less like a pyramid and more like several power centers connected by overlapping relationships. One of those centers belongs to Senate President Bill Ferguson. Ferguson controls an institution no governor can simply command. The Senate. Maryland’s official 2026 legislative records identify Ferguson as Senate President. (Maryland General Assembly) That means influence over: committee structure, Senate leadership, legislative priorities, confirmations, and negotiations with the House and governor. But Ferguson is not Mike Miller 2.0. Miller’s extraordinary longevity allowed him to become almost inseparable from the institution. Ferguson possesses the office. Miller possessed the office plus decades of political mythology and accumulated relationships. Those aren’t the same thing. The House now has its own new center of gravity. Official 2026 legislative records identify Joseline Peña-Melnyk as Speaker of the House of Delegates, alongside Ferguson as Senate President. (Maryland General Assembly) That makes the current Maryland governing triangle: Executive power. Senate power. House power. None fully controls the others. And that fact alone demonstrates how different modern Maryland is from the Miller era. The governor proposes. The legislature disposes. Committee leaders negotiate. County interests intervene. And political coalitions shift issue by issue. That’s not one machine. That’s a networked power structure. Then there’s U.S. Senator Angela Alsobrooks. Her significance isn’t that she is the new Hoyer. She isn’t. Hoyer spent decades constructing his network. Alsobrooks brings something different: Prince George’s County roots, a statewide electoral organization, a United States Senate platform, and relationships with national Democratic leaders. That makes her a critical bridge between Maryland and Washington at precisely the moment Hoyer leaves. Hoyer’s retirement therefore doesn’t necessarily weaken Prince George’s influence. It changes who carries it. Prince George’s itself is undergoing a dramatic generational transition. Official 2026 results show Aisha Braveboy winning the Democratic County Executive primary with 87,944 votes and 73.31% of the vote. (Maryland State Board of Elections) That’s political infrastructure. Prince George’s is one of Maryland’s central Democratic vote engines. A county executive with that level of primary support gains: appointments, budget influence, organizational relationships, donor access, and a platform for cultivating the next generation of political leadership. Braveboy therefore isn’t merely another person on the Maryland power map. She controls a place from which a political organization can be built. Boafo is particularly interesting because he sits almost perfectly at the intersection between the old and new worlds. He worked for Hoyer. Hoyer endorsed him. Moore endorsed him. Then Boafo beat an enormous Democratic field for Hoyer’s seat. (AP News) That doesn’t make him powerful on Hoyer’s scale. He’s just beginning. But it illustrates how power actually transfers: not through a ceremonial handoff, but through endorsements, donors, staff, relationships, and voter confidence. Boafo may become Hoyer’s congressional successor. He will not automatically inherit Hoyer’s 40-plus years of political capital. That part has to be rebuilt. This is the part that often gets overlooked. When a machine breaks apart, power doesn’t only move upward. Some people’s relationships become less valuable. Former Miller aides still know Annapolis. Former Miller allies still possess institutional memory. Veteran lobbyists don’t forget how legislation works. But something fundamental disappeared when Miller did: the common center. The person capable of connecting all of them instantly was gone. That changes the value of a political network. Imagine knowing everybody in Annapolis. Useful. Now imagine the person who introduced many of those people, appointed committee chairs, influenced Senate priorities and understood decades of relationships is simultaneously Senate President. Much more useful. Remove that person and the individual relationships remain. But the system becomes decentralized. First: Bill Ferguson. The Senate’s institutional relationships now run through his leadership rather than Miller’s. Second: the House leadership. With the Miller-Busch generation gone, today’s House leaders are building their own committee chairs, alliances and relationships. Third: Wes Moore. Moore became governor after Miller was gone. That distinction matters. Earlier governors had to operate with Miller sitting across State Circle. Moore entered office during a generational reset. Instead of negotiating with the old machine, he has the opportunity to help build the next network. Fourth: Angela Alsobrooks and the emerging Prince George’s generation. Hoyer is leaving. Miller is gone. The county’s political leadership now belongs to another generation. Fifth: politicians who were outside the old Miller organization. When someone dominates an institution for 33 years, inevitably some politicians develop within that organization and others outside it. Miller’s departure created room for people who may never have risen as quickly under the old structure. That’s the biggest point. If Mike Miller’s power had simply transferred to Bill Ferguson, Maryland would still have a machine. If Hoyer’s influence simply transferred to Boafo, Maryland would still have a machine. If every county leader simply took orders from Moore, Maryland would have a machine. None of those things happened. Instead: Moore controls the statewide executive platform. Ferguson controls the Senate. Peña-Melnyk controls the House. Alsobrooks has statewide and federal reach. Braveboy has Prince George’s executive power. Pittman leads the state Democratic Party after Moore encouraged him to seek the role. (The Maryland Democratic Party) Boafo represents the beginning of the post-Hoyer congressional generation. And Baltimore, Montgomery County, organized labor, donors and other county organizations maintain their own centers of influence. That’s not one machine. If you want to understand where Maryland power is moving, don’t simply watch office titles. Watch endorsements. Who does Moore support? Who does Alsobrooks support? Who gets Ferguson’s allies? Who gets House leadership? Who gets Hoyer’s blessing? Who gets labor? Who gets major donors? And most importantly: That is where the new Maryland network becomes visible. The Boafo race was a textbook example. Hoyer’s successor didn’t emerge randomly from 24 candidates. He had ties to the outgoing incumbent and support from the governor. The old network and the emerging one overlapped. And voters chose him. (AP News) Moore may ultimately become the most important person in determining whether Maryland develops another durable statewide political organization. But the test isn’t whether Moore himself remains popular. The test is what happens to the people he supports. Which delegates become senators? Which senators become committee chairs? Which county officials become executives? Which staffers become candidates? Which appointees become statewide leaders? Who gets his donor network? Who gets his political advisers? Who eventually gets his endorsement when Maryland faces a post-Moore gubernatorial succession fight? That’s how we’ll know whether Moore was merely a successful governor— or the founder of another generation of Maryland power. There’s another category worth watching: politicians who came from Miller’s Maryland but remain active in the new one. Dereck Davis is one. Anthony Brown is another. Veteran legislators and former officials throughout the state still possess old relationships that newer politicians don’t. These people can function as bridges. That’s important because political systems rarely reset completely. The new machine usually grows partly from pieces of the old one. Donors don’t disappear. Lobbyists don’t disappear. Operatives don’t disappear. Institutional memory doesn’t disappear. They find new centers of gravity. If you want one name: His overwhelming 2026 Democratic renomination, executive authority, national profile and influence within the Maryland Democratic Party make that difficult to dispute. (WBAL-TV) But saying Moore “runs Maryland” the way Miller once ran the Senate would oversimplify the reality. Maryland power today looks more like this: WES MOORE Statewide organization.Appointments.Fundraising.Executive government.National Democratic relationships. BILL FERGUSON The Senate.Committees.Confirmations.Legislative leverage. JOSELINE PEÑA-MELNYK The House.Committee leadership.Budget and legislative leverage. ANGELA ALSOBROOKS Statewide electoral organization.Federal platform.Prince George’s relationships.National Democratic connections. AISHA BRAVEBOY Prince George’s executive organization.County government.A major Democratic vote base. THE POST-HOYER GENERATION Boafo and the emerging political class that will have to rebuild Hoyer’s Washington-Maryland network rather than simply inherit it. It did something more interesting. Mike Miller’s influence was too personal, too old and too deeply rooted in his own relationships to be inherited whole. Hoyer’s network is too extensive and too intertwined with decades of congressional politics to fit neatly inside one successor. So the pieces are moving. Toward Moore. Toward Ferguson. Toward Peña-Melnyk. Toward Alsobrooks. Toward Braveboy. Toward younger candidates and new county organizations. And toward veteran political survivors who understand both eras. That’s the next chapter of Maryland politics. The person who eventually connects: Annapolis, Prince George’s, Montgomery County, Baltimore, labor, business, donors, the Maryland Democratic Party, and the congressional delegation will possess something Maryland hasn’t truly seen since Miller’s heyday. Not merely another elected official. And maybe that’s why searching for “the next Mike Miller” is the wrong exercise. There may never be another one. The more important question is: Miller spent half a century becoming that person. Hoyer spent decades becoming another version of it. Maryland’s current political leaders are still competing for the privilege. And until somebody actually connects all those pieces, the most accurate answer to the question “Who runs Maryland?” may be the most fascinating one of all: No one does. Not anymore. But there are plenty of people trying. Sources University of Maryland and Maryland Matters — Miller’s 33-year Senate presidency and political legacy. (Behavioral and Social Sciences) Washington Post historical reporting — Miller’s rise from Maryland machine politics and ability to retain power as the Senate evolved. (The Washington Post) Maryland Matters — former top Miller aides who moved into Annapolis lobbying and the changing Senate power structure. (Maryland Matters) Washington Post and Reuters — Hoyer’s January 2026 retirement announcement after more than four decades in Congress and his long Democratic leadership career. (The Washington Post) Associated Press — Adrian Boafo’s 2026 victory in the Democratic primary to succeed Hoyer, including Hoyer and Moore’s support and Boafo’s “pass the torch” remarks. (AP News) Maryland Democratic Party — Steuart Pittman’s official biography stating that he sought the state chairmanship at Moore’s suggestion. (The Maryland Democratic Party) Maryland General Assembly — official 2026 records identifying Bill Ferguson as Senate President and Joseline Peña-Melnyk as Speaker. (Maryland General Assembly) Maryland State Board of Elections — official 2026 Prince George’s County results showing Aisha Braveboy’s dominant County Executive primary victory. (Maryland State Board of Elections) 2026 election reporting — Moore’s overwhelming Democratic gubernatorial primary victory. (WBAL-TV)
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