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“It should be of tremendous concern,” he told The Hill. “You have one political party which is hell-bent on depressing turnout. They’re backed up now by the Supreme Court of the country and the control of the Congress is very tight right now.” Very tight is an understatement. “It’s not theoretical, it’s a real practical…

Well, that correspondence is bound to unearth some doozies. Given what Giuliani serves up on air, it’s pretty hard to even imagine what he relayed off-air.  Dominion is also seeking to understand Giuliani’s relationship with the network, how formal it was, and whether he was paid or unpaid. Powell, who was originally part of Trump’s “Elite…

“The Justice Department will not stand idly by in the face of unlawful attempts to restrict access to the ballot,” Clarke said. Clarke noted that SB202 had been enacted through a “rushed process” that included the law ballooning from just three pages as passed by the state Senate to over 90 pages several days later…

When they claim to be pro-military, Trump, Carlson, Fox News, and the rest don’t mean the actual military. They certainly don’t mean the thousands of officers and enlisted who have served with Milley around the world. Or the thousands of sailors who served under Navy Captain Brett Crozier before he was removed for actually trying to…

Asked whether they identified as pro-Trump, anti-Trump, or otherwise, right-leaning respondents who were pro-Trump still far outpaced the other wings of the party. Here’s the breakdown of the general population when asked, “Do you consider yourself…”: A pro-Trump Republican: 31% An anti-Trump Republican: 5% A Republican who does not have strong feelings one way or…

ABC News: Since federal prosecutors obtained the cooperation of GOP Rep. Matt Gaetz’s once close-ally in May, sources tell ABC News the ongoing investigation, which includes sex trafficking allegations involving Gaetz, has engulfed the tight-knit Central Florida political scene as prosecutors continue their investigation of the Florida congressman. Former Seminole County tax collector Joel Greenberg,…

When Vankin uses the term “biological warfare,” it’s easy to think of the claims circulating on the right about how the coronavirus was supposedly engineered in a Chinese lab. But while that theory is strongly disputed by scientists who have examined the evidence, there are definitely other forms of warfare—like that of someone deliberately failing…

House members noted in their letter that while some ICE offices have claimed they won’t again detain someone they released due to the virus, other ICE offices are ready to go full steam ahead. In their letter, Sen. Warren, Connecticut Sen. Richard Blumenthal, California Sen. Alex Padilla, Massachusetts Sen. Ed Markey, Rhode Island Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, California Sen. Dianne…

On April 5, an anonymous texter said a family member was “going to have a very unfortunate incident.” The following week, a texter wrote, “We plan for the death of you and your family every day.” And on April 24, another text warned, “You and your family will be killed very slowly.” In the early…

In 1954, attorney Joseph Welch famously boiled down his disgust over the character assassination of Joe McCarthy when he asked the senator, “Have you no sense of decency, sir? At long last, have you left no sense of decency?” That same question could be aimed toward any of the Republican senators now engaged in daily attacks on…