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Performative Austerity Vanishes As GOP Flees Town Before Trump’s Dictator-Style Parade
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Senate GOP Sorts Out Which Poison Pills It Can Swallow To Pass House’s ‘Big Beautiful’ Bill
Becoming The Swamp
Senate Republicans Uphold Ron Johnson’s Spending Bill Blockade
Wisconsin Lawmakers Get In Last Jabs Before Hugely Important State Supreme Court Election
UNITED STATES - OCTOBER 21: Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wis., talks with reporters after the Senate Republican  luncheon in Hart Building on Wednesday, October 21, 2020. (Photo By Tom Williams/CQ Roll Call/) RonJohn Backs Scott In His Feud With McConnell Over Social Security Cuts
Where Things Stand: The Racist Skin Darkening Has Returned
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Back during the 2020 Senate election in Georgia, the campaigns of the two soon-to-be-defeated GOP senators, Kelly Loeffler and David Perdue, were both accused of digitally altering images of their Democratic opponents in negative campaign ads in racist and antisemitic ways.

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RonJohn’s Campaign Recently Paid Law Firm Of Fake Trump Elector Crony
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Where Things Stand: Watching The Christian Right’s Power Play Out In Real Time
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I made the point yesterday that the language Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) is using to clean up his past marriage equality remarks — earlier this summer he said he had no reason to “oppose” codifying same-sex marriage into federal law — is an obvious cave to the Christian right. In frantic messaging in recent days, Johnson has flip-flopped on his previous position as he struggles with the impossible task of casting himself as a reasonable guy to Wisconsin voters and a reliable ally to Christian conservatives.

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