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Texas politics, no stranger to dirty tricks, now heads into a hypercharged 2026 election season with few rules governing artificial intelligence, as cheap, realistic tools have made campaign fakery easier to create and harder to detect.
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Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
And so, even though Republicans were trying dirty tricks.. Democrats still prevailed.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
Of course Nixon and his colleagues were immersed in dirty tricks.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
The revelations included instances of the CIA’s violating its charter with assassinations, coups, dirty tricks, human drug experimentation, and domestic spying, especially on opponents of Nixon’s war in Southeast Asia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2020
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Philip Jankowski, Dallas Morning News, 2 Jan. 2026
And so, even though Republicans were trying dirty tricks.. Democrats still prevailed.
—Jack Fink, CBS News, 13 Dec. 2025
Of course Nixon and his colleagues were immersed in dirty tricks.
—Owen Gleiberman, Variety, 29 Aug. 2025
The revelations included instances of the CIA’s violating its charter with assassinations, coups, dirty tricks, human drug experimentation, and domestic spying, especially on opponents of Nixon’s war in Southeast Asia.
—Matthew Wills, JSTOR Daily, 1 Apr. 2020
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