Joe Manchin has shoveled another heap of dirt on President Biden’s Build Back Better social spending agenda. “What Build Back Better bill?” he said on Tuesday when reporters asked about him about the legislation. “I don’t know what you guys are talking about.” “No, no, no, no,” Manchin added when …
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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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President Biden will nominate a Black woman to fill the seat left vacant by retiring Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer. Biden initially promised on the campaign trail to nominate a Black woman if he was elected and a Supreme Court seat became vacant. White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki confirmed …
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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who according to The Washington Post is now counseling Republican leadership in Congress ahead of the 2022 midterms, threatened jail time for members of the Jan. 6 committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. “You’re gonna have a Republican majority in the House, a Republican …
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Tusitala “Tiny” Toese — an infamous Proud Boy street brawler who was shot in the leg during a violent clash with antifascist protesters this summer in Olympia, Washington — has been arrested and jailed on felony warrants from both Washington state and Oregon. Toese was booked into the Thurston County, …
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A new intelligence report from the CIA has debunked the theory that a bizarre illness affecting U.S. diplomats and spies across the globe is result of a worldwide campaign by a “hostile power.” According to NBC News, six individuals familiar with the matter say the intelligence agency “has found plausible, …
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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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