Ginni Thomas, the right-wing activist wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, not only pushed White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows to work to overturn the 2020 election results — she also urged Republican lawmakers to go “out in the streets” to protest the election, NBC News reported on …
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The Jan. 6 committee recently got its hands on a draft executive order instructing the National Guard to seize voting machines following the 2020 election, but it hasn’t been clear who wrote the order or to what extent former President Trump was involved in the scheme.The New York Times reported …
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Voting restrictions put in place by Republican state lawmakers in Georgia after the 2020 election led to far higher disenfranchisement rates in 2021, according to a report published Friday by Mother Jones. The GOP-supported law enacted in March 2021 limits the use of drop boxes, narrows the time frame voters …
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An Arizona Republican legislator is pushing a bill that would overhaul the state law to give lawmakers the right to reject election results. Republican state Rep. John Fillmore is pushing a proposal that would sharply limit ballot access by eliminating early voting and voting by mail. “We should have voting …
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A federal judge on Thursday ordered a group of nine attorneys to pay about $175,000 in legal fees for starting a lawsuit to try to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election in Michigan. Sidney Powell, who was part of Trump’s “elite strike force” of election lawyers, and Lin …
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Another day, another revelation of an attempt to subvert American democracy. Michael Flynn, the conspiracy theorizing former Trump national security adviser, and Sydney Powell, the conspiracy theorizing former Trump attorney, made a pair of unhinged pleas to the Department of Defense in search of help overturning the 2020 election results. …
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“The history and the story of immigration here is one of, primarily, exploitation,” says Isa Noyola. Noyola, a transgender activist based in Phoenix, is the deputy director of Mijente, one of the country’s most prominent immigrant-rights organizations, representing Latinx communities around the country. When Biden was declared the winner of …
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With President-Elect Joe Biden now the called winner of the 2020 contest, Donald Trump is threatening not to concede the election. Trump’s predicament — a one-term president ousted convincingly during a period of national hardship — is not unprecedented. President George H.W. Bush lost under similar conditions, to Bill Clinton …
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On Wednesday, Donald Trump tried out a new pitch on the suburbanites he is desperate to win back over before November: Stick with me, and the Poors won’t be allowed to bother you! In an announcement on Twitter addressed to “all of the people living their Suburban Lifestyle Dream,” the …
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What a catastrophe Wednesday night was for Mike Bloomberg. The New York plutocrat was kicked in the teeth by Elizabeth Warren in the first minutes — she denounced him as a Trump-like “arrogant billionaire” who called women “horse-faced lesbians” — and never made it back to his feet. Bloomberg stood …
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