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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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Steven Shepard / Politico:
Voters show little support for Electoral College revolt — On the eve of an historic Electoral College vote, a new POLITICO/Morning Consult poll shows there's little support for a long-shot effort to free this year's electors to choose a candidate other than Donald Trump.
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The Week and New York Times
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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Law News, Raw Story, BizPac Review, The Daily Caller, ABC News, American Thinker, RT, twitchy.com, The Gateway Pundit and The Guardian
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
‘Faithless electors’ explain their last-ditch attempt to stop Donald Trump
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, The Daily Caller and New York Times
Steven Shepard / Politico:
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
Insiders: Electoral College won't block Trump
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The Geller Report
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
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, ThinkProgress 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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Politico, BizPac Review, AOL, 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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Political Wire 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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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 and alan.com
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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.
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Jezebel and Mediaite, more at Mediagazer »
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
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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Occupy Democrats, Le·gal In·sur·rec· tion, Washington Post, Politico, AOL and ABC News
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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