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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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Common Dreams, Heat Street, RedState, CANNONFIRE, Independent Journal Review and Politico
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Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
Pa. electors get police protection: ‘This is stupid’ — Facing a wave of calls, Pennsylvania electors sounding unshakable — President-elect Donald Trump during a “thank you” rally in Alabama tonight. — President-elect Donald Trump — HARRISBURG — Thousands of emails land in their inboxes every day.
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RedState, BizPac Review, The Gateway Pundit and Raw Story
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, American Thinker, RT, twitchy.com, The Daily Caller, The Guardian and The Gateway Pundit
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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Outside the Beltway and The Week
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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Raw Story and The Daily Caller
Luke Harding / The Guardian:
Leak reveals Rex Tillerson is director of Bahamas-based US-Russian oil company — Rex Tillerson, the businessman nominated by Donald Trump to be the next US secretary of state, is the long-time director of a US-Russian oil firm based in the tax haven of the Bahamas, leaked documents show.
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Informed Comment, Common Dreams, The Daily Caller, ThinkProgress, The New Americana, Washington Monthly, Jezebel, Occupy Democrats, alan.com and Observer
Cyra Master / The Hill:
Trump holds off record session with reporters — held an off-the-record conversation with reporters on Sunday evening. — While the topics of conversation were not reported, the meeting was confirmed in a presidential pool report. It's been more than 140 days since Trump has held a press conference.
Robert D. McFadden / New York Times:
Zsa Zsa Gabor, Actress Famous for Her Glamour (and Her Marriages), Dies at 99 — Zsa Zsa Gabor, the Hungarian actress whose self-parodying glamour and revolving-door marriages to millionaires put a luster of American celebrity on a long but only modestly successful career in movies and television, died on Sunday in Los Angeles.
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TMZ.com, Jezebel and New York Magazine
Keila Szpaller / Missoulian:
White supremacist website calls for action in Montana — A white supremacist website called The Daily Stormer has posted a call to “TAKE ACTION” against Jewish people in Whitefish, providing personal contact information and urging a “troll storm” against them.
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Raw Story and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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
Jaweed Kaleem / Los Angeles Times:
Election officials focus on whether voter ID laws contributed to Hillary Clinton's defeat — Delia Anderson, a 77-year-old Milwaukee resident, did not vote on election day because she did not have the correct photo ID card. — Starting with John F. Kennedy's victory over Richard Nixon in 1960 …
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Hot Air
Nicholas Kristof / New York Times:
Donald Trump: The Russian Poodle — In 1972, President Richard Nixon's White House dispatched burglars to bug Democratic Party offices. That Watergate burglary and related “dirty tricks,” such as releasing mice at a Democratic press conference and paying a woman to strip naked and shout …
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War on the Rocks
Eric Bradner / CNN:
McCain: Russian election-related hacks threaten to ‘destroy democracy’ — Washington (CNN)Sen. John McCain said Russian election-related hacks threaten to “destroy democracy” and faulted the American response as “totally paralyzed.” — McCain, the Arizona Republican who chairs …
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Washington Post, Occupy Democrats and Politico
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
Bipartisan Letter Seeks Single Inquiry Into Russian Hacking Claims
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Political Wire
Paul Schwartzman / Washington Post:
On New York's Fifth Avenue, Trump's White House North — NEW YORK — The world's power address du jour is a sheath of soaring black glass on Fifth Avenue, at the entrance to which a cop in combat armor — his fingers on an assault rifle — took a moment the other day to tell a tourist where to find the city's best pizza.
ABC News:
Senior GOP Lawmaker Calls for Investigation of CIA Director Over Media Leaks on Russian Hacking — A senior Republican congressman called for an investigation into whether the head of the CIA leaked to the media while withholding from Congress the agency's findings that Russians used hacking …
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Daily Mail, Associated Press and Politico
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Fox News:
Reince Priebus on war of words with White House over Russia — This is a rush transcript from “Fox News Sunday,” December 18, 2016. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated. — CHRIS WALLACE, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: I'm Chris Wallace. — With the Electoral College set to meet tomorrow …
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Althouse and Politicus USA
ABC News:
‘This Week’ Transcript 12-18-16: Donna Brazile — THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT FOR ‘THIS WEEK’ on December 18, 2016 and it will be updated. — MARTHA RADDATZ, ABC HOST: Let's take that straight to Donna Brazile, the chair of the Democratic National Committee, which took the brunt of Russia's cyber hack.
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Althouse, AOL, Politico and Politicus USA
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Mallory Shelbourne / The Hill:
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
Dem boss demands bipartisan congressional investigation into Russian hacks
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The Gateway Pundit
Nicki Rossoll / ABC News:
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
DNC Chair Contradicts Obama: Russian Hackers Came After Us ‘Until End of Election’
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Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion and The Week