A new “policy platform” document sprinkled with nativist and white supremacist language emerged Friday from a newly launched far-right caucus linked to Reps. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and Paul Gosar (R-AZ). The group is, according to the document, pushing for “uniquely Anglo-Saxon political traditions” and new infrastructure that “befits the progeny of European architecture.”
Republicans Flail At Saying Anything But ‘No’ To Infrastructure
Democrats have put together a multi-trillion dollar, expansive legislative package and are pushing hard for it — touting it at press conferences and in releases, walloping Republicans for standing in its way.
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Watch The New Episode Of The Josh Marshall Podcast: Politics of Opaqueness
A new episode of The Josh Marshall Podcast just landed. You can listen to it here.
This week, Josh and Kate discuss policing reform, analyze the dynamics around the infrastructure package and introduce a new segment.
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Biden To Keep Trump’s Historically Low Refugee Limit, Breaking Pledge To Lift Cap
Multiple outlets report that President Joe Biden will sign an emergency declaration on Friday preserving the Trump administration’s historically low 15,000 ceiling on the U.S. refugee program, a stunning reversal of the President’s promise to lift the annual cap.
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Where Things Stand: Anti-Trans Bills Are The GOP’s New Culture War. But Most Americans Aren’t On Board
Without any real policy agenda, Republicans in Congress have largely seized on various fronts in the culture war to distract from Biden’s successes. And GOPers at the state level are doing the same, with a new heightened focus on an element of their socially conservative base’s traditional values: Going after the LGBT community.
Lately, that’s meant a fresh wave of anti-trans rights bills.
2020 Election Conspiracy Theorists Rush To Bankroll Arizona Senate GOP’s Sketchy Audit
The audit that Arizona’s GOP Senate has ordered of the 2020 election in the state’s largest county will be partially bankrolled by private donations — including from a fundraising effort spearheaded by some of the loudest promoters of President Trump’s lies about the 2020 election.
Metal Guitarist Capitol Rioter Will Be First Insurrectionist To Reach Plea Deal With Gov’t
A metal guitarist will be the first defendant in the Capitol insurrection case to reach a plea deal with the government, one that includes cooperating with authorities.
READ: Liberty Sues Jerry Falwell Jr. For Millions In Damages Over Granda Episode
Liberty University sued its former leader Jerry Falwell Jr. on Thursday, accusing the son of its founder of a “business conspiracy” against the institution.
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Extremism in US Special Forces
I wanted to flag your attention to this NBC article about radicalization among current and retired US Special Forces personnel. NBC got access to private Facebook groups for these communities – again current and former. They had a lot of racist, far-right, QAnon type content. Not universal and not uncontested, but still a lot.
GOPers Who Impeached Trump Now Pouring Tens Of Thousands Into Personal Security
Some of the few Republican lawmakers who voted to impeach him after he incited a violent insurrection at the Capitol on Jan. 6, have been pouring tens of thousands of dollars into personal security measures.
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