Succeeding in politics is often about seizing your moment, and junior Kansas Sen. Roger Marshall appears to be making his break. As is the often case with the modern GOP, Marshall’s big moment involves conspiracy theories, public histrionics, and a ruthless cash grab to milk prospective supporters out of every …
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Donald Trump had something important to say as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day drew to a close on Monday. Since Twitter banned him following the attack on the Capitol, the former president has made the bulk of his announcements through his Save America PAC. This one, however, came on …
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Supreme Court Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Neil Gorsuch released a joint statement on Wednesday pushing back on a report that Sotomayor worked remotely because Gorsuch refused to wear a Covid-19 mask. “Reporting that Justice Sotomayor asked Justice Gorsuch to wear a mask surprised us. It is false,” the statement read. …
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Dan Crenshaw, the acerbic congressman from Texas desperately trying to brand himself as an unnatural chimera of Donald Trump and John McCain, is in hot water today for a video recorded at a Montgomery County Tea Party fundraiser in which he snaps at a young woman for asking him a …
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Oath Keepers leader Stuart Rhodes and 10 co-conspirators were charged with seditious conspiracy on Thursday for allegedly plotting “to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force” via an armed, well-coordinated takeover of the Capitol on Jan. 6. One of the co-conspirators the Justice Department alleges helped organize teams …
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The Supreme Court has blocked the Biden administration’s mandate on employers to require employees to be vaccinated or undergo regular testing for Covid-19. The 6-3 ruling handed down on Thursday is a major blow to Biden’s efforts to get the nation vaccinated as the states are setting records for positive …
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The Jan. 6 committee on Thursday issued subpoenas to four behemoth tech companies over contributing to the “spread of misinformation and violent extremism contributed to the violent attack on our democracy.” The letters sent to Google, Facebook, Twitter, and Reddit signal just how broad the investigations scope has grown as …
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The Claremont Institute, once a little-known think tank often confused with the liberal-arts college of the same name, has emerged as a driving force in the conservative movement’s crusade to use bogus fraud claims about the 2020 election to rewrite voting laws and remake the election system in time for …
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Clay Aiken is running for Congress as a Democrat in North Carolina. This marks the second time the American Idol runner-up has campaigned for a congressional seat, following his unsuccessful bid to join the House of Representatives in 2014. “Can you believe it’s been almost 20 years since I first …
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On Friday, CDC Director Dr. Rochelle Walensky appeared on Good Morning America, and made a statement that pissed off large swaths of the country: “The overwhelming number of [Covid] deaths — over 75 percent — occurred in people who had at least four comorbidities, so really these are people who …
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