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Trump Fans Were Duped Into Donating Money to Whatever He Wants to Use It For
Trump and his post-election PAC, Save America, raised hundreds of millions of dollars imploring supporters to pony up and pay for his vividly doomed courtroom fights… except the fine print on the donation page stated that he can use that money however h ...[Read more]
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Suspect Reported Dead After Vehicle Rams Security Barrier, Injures Officers on Capitol Hill
The U.S. Capitol was placed under lockdown Friday after a person rammed their vehicle into a security barricade at the complex, killing one officer and injuring another. After ramming the barricade, the driver reportedly exited the vehicle with a knife, ...[Read more]
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Georgia’s New Voting Law Is Rife With Hidden Horrors
When we first reported that handing a slice of pizza to a voter waiting three hours in a line is now a felony in Georgia, other media quickly picked up the story, highlighting the cruelty of Georgia Republicans making predominantly Black voters suffer fro ...[Read more]
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Angry, despondent, and powerless: New report reveals how loyal Trump voters are coping with his loss
In a March 26 report, Democracy Corps explained, "We conducted focus groups in March with Trump loyalists in Georgia and Wisconsin and Trump-aligned, non-Trump conservatives and moderates in suburban and rural Georgia, Ohio and Wisconsin. It took a long t ...[Read more]
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The Republican Party’s dark turn is fracturing its support base and even its ideology
The United States Chamber of Commerce is pretty much the gold standard when it comes to indicating the political opinions of corporate America. For this reason, it's a bit curious that one of the nation's biggest business lobbies isn't doing what you'd ex ...[Read more]
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America’s Fascism Problem Isn’t Going Away
Connect the following dots. Tucker Carlson recently agreed with a guest — a famous Republican — that they’d have to “elect a fascist” soon, or else. Stephen Miller, the architect behind “separating families” and putting kids in cages is now ...[Read more]
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Dominion lawyer lays out in painstaking detail why Fox News messed with the wrong company
I'm not a lawyer :"simple country, unfrozen caveman, or otherwise" but I have to think that knowingly spreading lies about the one thing a company does, thereby shredding that company's credibility in the eyes of millions of Americans, is kind of a big de ...[Read more]
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Ammon Bundy has amassed an army of over 50,000 as he looks for his next battle in a religious war
Ammon Bundy, right-wing malcontent behind the 2016 armed takeover of Oregon's Malheur Wildlife Refuge and now a western anti-mask movement, believes he's doing God's work.Coming from a long line of religiously inspired men who have been "called" to defend ...[Read more]
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After a year of downplaying the pandemic, longtime Fox News employee died of COVID-19
Maria Bartiromo’s Fox News gig has been a long march into the bottom of an ocean awash in fearmongering, bigotry, and misinformation. Like most Fox News programming this past year, Bartiromo’s programs have been showcases for easily... ...[Read more]
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Gunman ambushed National Guard caravan bringing COVID-19 vaccines to Texas
On Monday morning, a caravan of National Guardsmen were transporting COVID-19 vaccines to Matador, Texas, when they were assaulted and pulled over on the road by an Arizona man, Larry Lee Harris, just outside of Idalou.... ...[Read more]
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Yes, Blame Christian Fundamentalism for the Atlanta Murders
WHY DID Robert Aaron Long kill six Asian women, in three Atlanta-area massage parlors, as well as two other people who happened to be on the premises? Many have answered: Because they were Asian women. And in the Western imaginary — in films, jokes, por ...[Read more]
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