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Texas mayor resigns after telling residents without power during bitter cold snap to ‘get off your ass’
At a time when the Lone Star State is being battered by severe winter weather, record cold and widespread power outages, Tim Boyd — the far-right Republican mayor of Colorado City, Texas — lambasted residents of his city for complaining about be ...[Read more]
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GOP voters are deeply dissatisfied, driving support for a third party in the US to all-time high
Americans' support for the formation of a third political party has reached 62%, a 5-point uptick since last fall and an all-time high in Gallup's polling. Likewise, just 33% of Americans think the nation's two parties are adequately representing the inte ...[Read more]
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Republicans are on the verge of a dangerous choice against democracy
It must be said, ahgain, the question is settled. A bipartisan majority of the members of the United States Senate voted this week to declare that the upper chamber of the United States Congress has the authority to conduct a trial of an impeached former ...[Read more]
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Mike Pompeo spent over $10,000 in taxpayer funds on engraved pens for the costly Madison Dinners: watchdog
Now that a Democratic president, Joe Biden, is in the White House, Republicans have suddenly rediscovered fiscal conservatism and concern for the national deficit. But when Donald Trump was still president, then-Secretary of State Mike Pompeo — accor ...[Read more]
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‘Downright Scary’: In 2021 Alone, GOP Introduces 100+ Voter Suppression Bills in 28 States
"Democrats have a clear choice. They can get rid of the filibuster to pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression, or they can allow the GOP to undermine democracy for the next decade." ...[Read more]
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Trump was a symptom of US societal breakdown – not the disease
The death spiral of the American Empire will not be halted with civility. It will not be halted with the 42 executive orders signed by Joe Biden, however welcome many are, especially since they can, with a new chief executive, be immediately revoked. It w ...[Read more]
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Stop Trying to Make This About Unity. There is no uniting with fascists
Calls for unity with Republicans do not make sense in the light of the downward extremist spiral of GOP. ...[Read more]
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All 10 GOP senators behind skimpy COVID relief offer happily voted for $740 billion military budget
Each of the 10 Republican senators who threw their support behind a widely criticized $600 billion coronavirus relief proposal on Sunday recently approved a whopping $740 billion military budget, a vote progressive lawmakers are highlighting as further ev ...[Read more]
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The GOP ‘can’t be saved’ and should be ‘smashed to bits’: Former Republican Senate candidate
A former Republican candidate for Senate has determined that his one-time party is a lost cause that deserves to be demolished.In an interview with the New York Times, former Washington State Republican party chairman Chris Vance said that he's been watch ...[Read more]
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GOP in disarray after historic defeat: ‘Political disaster doesn’t begin to describe how bad this is for Republicans’
A new report from Roll Call details some of the many challenges facing the Republican Party as it looks to an uncertain future following former President Donald Trump's electoral defeat. As the party turns its focus to the 2022 midterms, it remains "divi ...[Read more]
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‘You’re saying we’re all liars!’ Rand Paul melts down on ABC when confronted with election ‘lies’
Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) became annoyed with an ABC host on Sunday over the suggestion that former President Donald Trump's defenders are all "liars" about the results of the 2020 election."This election was not stolen," ABC host Georgia Stephanopoulos began ...[Read more]
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