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Official reveals a right-wing militia plot to ‘blow up the Capitol’
Acting Capitol Police Chief Yogananda Pittman revealed disturbing details about multiple right-wing militias that participated in U.S. Capitol riots on Jan. 6. Not only were they contemplating harming lawmakers but, according to Pittman, intelligence indi ...[Read more]
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FBI Seized Congressional Cellphone Records Related to Capitol Attack
FBI began securing thousands of phone and electronic records connected to people at the scene of the rioting — including some related to members of Congress, raising potentially thorny legal questions. Using special emergency powers and other measures, ...[Read more]
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Why QAnon followers have become fixated on a new date: March 4
The startling impacts of former President Donald Trump's presidency and conspiracy theories reach deep into the lives of many families. With the disgraced president out of office, many people are sharing how the QAnon conspiracy theory — built with h ...[Read more]
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The Nazification of the Republican Party
After World War II, the Nazis who helped Hitler rise to power and murder millions of people, including at least 6 million Jews, were put on trial to send a warning to the world. Not all of them faced a judicial process, but enough were not protected by th ...[Read more]
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White Supremacy Set the Stage for Texas’ Miserable Disaster Response
Ted Cruz’s “let them eat cake” vacation to Cancun was a visible reminder of the cruelty of our political system — a system that rewards politicians propped up by corporate money, right-wing lies, and racist ideologies for blaming others and evadin ...[Read more]
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Many Texans have died because of the winter storm — just how many won’t be known for weeks or months
Across Texas, deaths related to the winter storm continued to mount this week amid freezing temperatures, widespread power outages and a scarcity of clean water. While there have been reports that dozens of deaths are tied to the storm in Texas, experts s ...[Read more]
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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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Right-wing talk radio icon Rush Limbaugh dead at 70
Rush Limbaugh, a pioneer in popularizing right-wing talk radio, has died at the age of 70 after a months-long battle with cancer. ...[Read more]
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Pelosi announces plans for 9/11-style commission to examine Capitol riot
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said on Monday that the US Congress will establish an outside, independent commission to review the “facts and causes” related to the deadly 6 January insurrection at the US Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump in the wanin ...[Read more]
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The Capitol Siege Was White Supremacy in Action. Trial Evidence Confirms That.
New footage aired at the impeachment trial of Donald Trump has flooded the U.S. once again with images of the violent mob that stormed the Capitol last month, reigniting our horror and attempt as a nation to make sense of the event. What we witnessed was ...[Read more]
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‘I don’t trust the people above me’: Riot squad cops open up about disastrous Capitol insurrection response
The enemies on Jan. 6 were Americans: thousands of people from across the country who had descended on the Capitol, intent on stopping Congress from certifying an election they believed was stolen from Trump. They had been urged to attend by Trump himself ...[Read more]
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