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Chris Geidner / BuzzFeed:
The Anti-Trump Electoral College Effort Is Only The Beginning — WASHINGTON — The battle over Monday's electoral college vote is the beginning, not the end. A larger campaign to undermine the legitimacy — and constitutionality — of Donald Trump's presidency is likely just getting underway.
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Heat Street and Common Dreams
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Michael Moore / Facebook:
A Personal Appeal to the Republican Members of the Electoral College from Michael Moore — Dear Republican Electors: — Ok, if you've read this far, knowing that it's me, Michael Moore, writing to you -\-\ well, thank you for having an open mind and the willingness to listen to someone you don't agree with.
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ABC News, Political Wire, Law News, Heat Street, Raw Story, The Daily Caller, American Thinker, RT, BizPac Review, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit and The Guardian
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt
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The Week and New York Times
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘Faithless electors’ explain their last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
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The Geller Report
Ed O'Keefe / Washington Post:
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
The electoral college is poised to pick Trump, despite push to dump him
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, The Daily Caller, Common Dreams and Hot Air
New York Times:
Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections
Trump's Electoral College Victory Ranks 46th in 58 Elections
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NBC News and ThinkProgress
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’
Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’
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RedState, Instapundit, The Gateway Pundit, BizPac Review and Raw Story
Ben Kamisar / The Hill:
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
Five things to watch when the Electoral College votes Monday
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Politico, No More Mister Nice Blog, AOL, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller and Raw Story
Kenneth P. Vogel / Politico:
Trump private security force ‘playing with fire’ — GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan — President-elect Donald Trump has continued employing a private security and intelligence team at his victory rallies, and he is expected to keep at least some members of the team after he becomes president, according to people familiar with the plans.
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Talking Points Memo, Political Wire, Politicus USA and The Week
Scott Detrow / NPR:
To Rehabilitate Democratic Party, Obama Plans To ‘Coach’ Young Talent — President Obama sees a role for himself in rebuilding the Democratic Party after he leaves office — coach. — “What I am interested in is just developing a whole new generation of talent,” Obama told NPR's Steve Inskeep …
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Talking Points Memo
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Paul Krugman / New York Times:
How Republics End — Many people are reacting to the rise of Trumpism and nativist movements in Europe by reading history — specifically, the history of the 1930s. And they are right to do so. It takes willful blindness not to see the parallels between the rise of fascism and our current political nightmare.
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John Hawkins' Right Wing News
Shane Goldmacher / Politico:
Trump advisers spar over new political arm — Donald Trump's top advisers are jousting over control of the new political group they are forming to help press the president-elect's agenda, as rival camps have formed with repercussions for who ends up as senior staff at the White House.
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Political Wire
Louis Nelson / Politico:
Bill Clinton: Trump knows how to get ‘angry, white men to vote for him’ — President-elect Donald Trump “doesn't know much,” former President Bill Clinton told a local newspaper earlier this month, but “one thing he does know is how to get angry, white men to vote for him.”
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Political Wire, Washington Free Beacon and alan.com
Caitlin MacNeal / Talking Points Memo:
Trump Team Still Won't Accept CIA Conclusion On Russian Hacks — Reince Priebus, incoming chief of staff for Donald Trump, on Sunday morning said that Trump will not yet accept the CIA's conclusion that Russian hacks into Democratic groups were an attempt to boost Trump to victory.
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Michael Wines / New York Times:
All This Talk of Voter Fraud? Across U.S., Officials Found Next to None — After all the allegations of rampant voter fraud and claims that millions had voted illegally, the people who supervised the general election last month in states around the nation have been adding up how many credible reports of fraud they actually received.
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Talking Points Memo, ABC News and The Week
Annie Karni / Politico:
Shul ties: Ivanka and Jared's big move has D.C.'s Jews buzzing — At the intimate, light-brick synagogue in Georgetown, members don't fuss over their famous-for-Washington congregants. Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew prays at Kesher Israel just like everybody else in the tight-knit Modern Orthodox community.
Greg Jaffe / Washington Post:
Washington's most exclusive meeting may lose its luster under Trump — For eight years, it has been the most exclusive, and arguably most important, daily meeting in Washington. Each morning, President Obama gathers his inner circle for the Presidential Daily Briefing …
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NBC News
Juan Williams / The Hill:
Big questions over Trump's pick for schools — Is President-elect Trump's nomination of Betsy DeVos to be Secretary of Education a Christmas present for America's public schools or shiny wrapping paper on a lump of coal? — A teacher from Iowa recently wrote an open letter to DeVos …
Eric Eyre / Charleston Gazette-Mail:
Drug firms poured 780M painkillers into WV amid rise of overdoses … Follow the pills and you'll find the overdose deaths. — The trail of painkillers leads to West Virginia's southern coalfields, to places like Kermit, population 392. There, out-of-state drug companies shipped nearly …
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FiveThirtyEight and Balloon Juice
Carimah Townes / ThinkProgress:
White nationalists target Jews in small Montana town — A call to action in the Daily Stormer describes Jews as a “vicious, evil race of hate-filled psychopaths.” — A white-supremacist call to action to “troll” Jewish people in Whitefish, Montana—home of white nationalist Richard Spencer's mother …
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Occupy Democrats, Jezebel and The Talking Dog
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Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:
White supremacist website calls for action in Montana
White supremacist website calls for action in Montana
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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money