Senate Republicans are considering whether or not to stage a fight over the debt ceiling, which could need to occur by the end of this month.
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New Wave Of Anti-Protest Laws May Infringe On Religious Freedoms For Indigenous People
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Over four days in June 2021, thousands of protesters attended the Treaty People Gathering in opposition to Line 3, a crude oil pipeline slated to be built across traditional homelands of the Ojibwe peoples in northern Minnesota.
McAuliffe Baits Youngkin To Lean Into Trump
Republicans have a good model with winning out-year governors races in state like Virginia and New Jersey that hold their elections off the even numbered two year cycle. Bank on the energy of hungry Republicans partisans looking to win and election while presenting themselves to the electorate at large as a salt-of-the-earth problem-solver just looking to lend a hand. (Dems of course have their own version of this playbook.) But the situation in Virginia today shows how the Trump era may pose some problems for that model.
Glenn Youngkin is a former private equity CEO who played hard for Donald Trump’s endorsement to be the Republican nominee for Governor in Virginia. It worked. He got Trump’s endorsement and the nomination. But he’s generally eschewed the Republican label in the general election campaign and certainly not leaned into Trump and all that goes with him.
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TN Top Vaccine Official Fired After GOP Hysteria Over Push To Vaccinate Teens
Dr. Michelle Fiscus, who served as the medical director for vaccine-preventable diseases and immunization programs at the Tennessee Department of Health, was ousted on Monday after state Republican lawmakers attacked her for a recent memo on giving teens the COVID-19 vaccine.
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Biden To Invoke Civil War, Jim Crow Era In Speech Slamming GOP Voting Bills
President Joe Biden on Tuesday will describe state-level Republican voting restrictions as the greatest threat to Democracy since the Civil War, invoking the Ku Klux Klan and the Jan. 6 Capitol attack during a speech on voting rights, a White House official said.
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Where Things Stand: It Was Always Going To Be A Lie
“Just say we won.”
While former President Trump was pushing lies about voter fraud for months leading up to the 2020 election, new reporting on what occurred on election night at the White House is a reminder of the extent to which Trump’s democracy dismantling was rooted in absolutely nothing. That night, Rudy Giuliani was leading the lie-flinging charge.
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Texas Dems Dismiss GOP Gripes, Arguing That Abbott ‘Poisoned The Process’ From The First
Fresh off their flight, Texas Democrats held court outside the U.S. Capitol on Tuesday where they argued that their exodus was only as extreme as the GOP actions that forced it.
Big Lie Lawyer’s Fury Grows As RNC Downplays Its Early Skepticism Of Election-Reversal Fight
Jenna Ellis, who was part of former President Trump’s legal team that unsuccessfully sought to challenge the election results, on Tuesday continued her crusade against Republican National Committee officials who had been skeptical of Trumpworld’s bogus claims of a “stolen” presidential election. Continue reading “Big Lie Lawyer’s Fury Grows As RNC Downplays Its Early Skepticism Of Election-Reversal Fight”
Oh Well
As noted, fired Social Security Commissioner Andrew Saul’s decision to show up for work on Monday as though nothing had happened was deprived of some drama and charge since he was logging on from the home office in his mansion in New York. He found his login credentials had been revoked. “I’m here to do the job, but I can’t do anything with the communications shut down.”
Oh No You Don’t: Fired Trump-Era Official Who Won’t Leave Is Blocked From Agency’s Computers
Former Trump-appointed Social Security Administration commissioner Andrew Saul, who’s been stubbornly clutching onto his post after President Joe Biden axed him last week, hit a snag in his gambit on Monday.