BREAKING: MLB Moves All-Star Game Out Of Atlanta Over Restrictive Voting Law

Major League Baseball commissioner Robert Manfred Jr. announced Friday that the All-Star Game and 2021 draft will be moved from Atlanta after Gov. Brian Kemp (R) signed a restrictive voting bill into law last week.

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What We Know About Vehicle-Ramming Incident That Left Capitol Cop, Suspect Dead

Update: This story has been updated to include a briefing from law enforcement.

What was supposed to be a quiet Good Friday afternoon on Capitol Hill instead conjured memories of the Jan. 6 insurrection.

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Oath Keepers In Golf Carts Swerved Around Cops On Way To Jan. 6 Attack, Indictment Says

Two men who acted as bodyguards for Roger Stone in the run-up to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack used a pair of golf carts to race to the attack as it happened, federal prosecutors alleged Thursday

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Gaetz’s GOP Colleagues Grumble About Him Privately, But Keep Quiet In Public

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) hasn’t seen many of his fellow GOP lawmakers stand up for him amid his burgeoning scandal involving alleged sex trafficking — and apparently that’s no surprise.

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Will There Be Justice For Trump?

Impeachment was a crucial forum for holding Trump accountable, but there are other ways to exact a price for his attempts to subvert the election. And we’re hearing rumblings that some of those actions are already in motion — including lawsuits targeting Trump’s election conspiracy of the sort the NAACP has filed on Rep. Thompson’s behalf, defamation litigation against his lawyers, and criminal investigations like the one out of Fulton County, Georgia.

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NBC: Gaetz Spokesman Resigns Amid Probe Into Sex Allegations

The communications director for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) had resigned amid allegations that the congressman made payments to multiple women recruited online for sex, according to NBC News.

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Reports: Gaetz Caught On Surveillance Vid With Alleged Sex Trafficker Sifting Through IDs

As time goes on, things get worse for Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) and his friend, the former Seminole County tax collector and now alleged sex trafficker Joel Greenberg.

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Now Corporations Are Beginning To Line Up Against Texas’ Restrictive Voting Bills, Too

A pair of far-reaching elections bills that would make voting more difficult in Texas are attracting ire of the Lone Star State’s business community.

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Gaetz Antics Apparently Common Knowledge in MAGAville

The Matt Gaetz story is exploding in so many bizarre and incriminating directions at once that it’s pretty hard to keep up with all the threads of the story. But there’s one broader element of the saga which has become increasingly evident over the last couple days: Matt Gaetz lifestyle and behavior, if not the specific alleged crimes, appear to have been common knowledge in MAGA world and among DC Republicans generally.

A few examples.

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Ossoff Urges Businesses To Stop Donating To GA GOP Over Voting Restrictions

Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) on Thursday called on major businesses and organizations that oppose Georgia Republicans’ new sweeping restrictions on voting to hit the wallets of those directly responsible for the law.

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