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A Fascist Trump Rally In Greenville — Scholars say the rally — where Trump supporters chanted “Send her back!” about Muslim Rep. Ilhan Omar — is an escalation in America's slide toward fascism. — GREENVILLE, N.C. — Mark and Nancy Dawson think Muslims should be removed from the United States.
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House Dems warn Omar in ‘imminent danger’ after Trump rally chants — House Democrats erupted in fury Thursday over President Donald Trump's attacks on freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar at his reelection rally, fearful that crowd chants of “send her back” have personally endangered her and her family.
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Trump Disavows ‘Send Her Back’ Chant as G.O.P. Frets Over Ugly Phrase — WASHINGTON — President Trump on Thursday disavowed the “send her back” chant that broke out at his re-election rally Wednesday night when he railed against a Somali-born congresswoman, as Republicans in Congress rushed …


‘Send her back’ a worst-case scenario for Trump — A reelection campaign dominated by incendiary chants of “send her back” is a worst-case scenario for President Trump, warn senior Republicans who are moving swiftly to douse a political prairie fire sparked by the commander-in-chief's use …
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Vanity Fair, Rolling Stone, Vox and Political Wire


House Republican campaign chairman says there's no place for ‘send her back’ language — The chairman of House Republicans' campaign arm on Thursday criticized the “send her back” chant that animated the crowd at Donald Trump's Wednesday night rally and added a dimension to the president's attacks on four Democratic freshman women.
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Washington Post, The Atlantic, One America News Network, IJR, Breitbart and CNN


Trump says not happy with backers' ‘send her back’ chant
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Stop Chanting ‘Send Her Back.’ Citizenship Isn't Conditional.
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Trump falsely claims he tried to stop ‘Send her back!’ chants about Rep. Ilhan Omar
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Vanity Fair, Althouse, Outside the Beltway, VICE, The Root and Mediaite

Flirting with fascism: This was the most sickening moment of your presidency, Mr Trump …
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Mediaite, Breitbart, Talking Points Memo and Washington Times

Republicans Lay Out 2020 Strategy to Paint Democrats as Radicals
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Roll Call and Daily Wire


FBI believed Trump was closely involved in hush-money scheme, unsealed documents show — The release of the previously redacted documents came one day after the judge in the case disclosed that prosecutors had concluded their probe into Cohen's campaign finance crimes.
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Prosecutors weighed DOJ policy blocking indictment of a sitting president in closing Trump hush-money probe — WASHINGTON — Federal prosecutors' decision to end an investigation into hush money payments to women claiming affairs with Donald Trump relied at least in part …
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Michael Cohen Files Implicate Trump, Hope Hicks and David Pecker — MANHATTAN (CN) - Three years after the “Access Hollywood” tapes sent shot waves of panic through the Trump campaign and the publishers of the National Enquirer, hundreds of pages of new search warrant materials unsealed on Thursday catalogue the cover-up that ensued.


New Cohen documents reveal calls with Trump, National Enquirer publisher before payment
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Daily Kos, Boing Boing, CNN, Talking Points Memo, The Week and The Gateway Pundit

Unsealed warrants just directly implicated Trump in porn star hush money felony
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ThinkProgress, New York Times, Althouse and Axios

Hope Hicks' testimony gets second look after Cohen document dump
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Jake Tapper Appears to Have Taken a Break From Truth-Telling — Late this afternoon, after increasing tensions among the House Democratic caucus seemed to pause in the wake of Donald Trump's racist tweets about Reps. Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, and Rashida Tlaib, CNN anchor Jake Tapper had some news.
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House Democrats move to tamp down internal feud, delete tweets that sparked infighting
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Politico and Political Wire

McConnell: Trump ‘on to something’ with attacks on four congresswomen
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Pentagon Contractor Allegedly Threatened to Kill Congresswoman Over Vaccine Bill — Feds charged Darryl Varnum in late June after he told a member he was ‘gonna kill your ass if you do that bill.’ — A Pentagon cybersecurity contractor has been charged with threatening to kill a member …
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Boing Boing


O'Hare Standoff: Federal Officials Detaining Three Children Of Undocumented Parents — Chicago lawyers, a representative from the Mexican Consulate and a congresswoman from Illinois have all met with U.S. Customs and Border Protection officials to find out why three American citizen children are being detained at O'Hare Airport.
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What Americans Do Now Will Define Us Forever — The conservative intelligentsia flocked to the Ritz-Carlton in Washington, D.C., this week for the National Conservatism Conference, an opportunity for people who may never have punched a time clock to declare their eternal enmity toward elites …
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Lawyers, Guns & Money and Vox


I'm Paid to Watch Tucker Carlson Each Night. Don't Tell Me This Rant About Ilhan Omar Isn't Shocking | Opinion — Tucker Carlson raced to the defense of President Donald Trump and his racist tweets against “the Squad” this week, accusing the four non-white Democratic congresswomen …


Hollywood stars open wallets to Buttigieg's 2020 campaign — WASHINGTON (AP) — A-list celebrities seem to be opening their hearts — or at least their wallets — to Pete Buttigieg. — The South Bend, Indiana, mayor was a virtual unknown months ago. But he used breakout town hall performances …
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Pete Buttigieg Is Still Figuring This Out
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E.P.A. Won't Ban Chlorpyrifos, Pesticide Tied to Children's Health Problems — WASHINGTON — The Environmental Protection Agency on Thursday announced it would not ban a widely-used pesticide associated with developmental disabilities and other health problems in children.
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Grist, The Week, Political Wire and Boing Boing


End Wall Street's Stranglehold On Our Economy — Last month, I announced my economic patriotism agenda — a commitment to fundamentally change the government's approach to the economy so we put American workers and middle-class prosperity ahead of multinational profits and Wall Street bonuses.
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Warren likens private equity to ‘vampires’ in plan targeting Wall Street ‘looting’
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Iran makes ‘substantial’ nuclear offer in return for US lifting sanctions — Iran has offered a deal with the US in which it would formally and permanently accept enhanced inspections of its nuclear programme, in return for the permanent lifting of US sanctions.
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Associated Press, Politico, Washington Free Beacon, The American Conservative, Daily Kos, The Daily Caller and CNN


Booker says he felt disrespected in his verbal tussle with Biden — Sen. Cory Booker said Thursday that he felt disrespected by Joe Biden's counterattack after Booker condemned the former vice president for his remarks about working with segregationist senators.
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Trump Voters Are Not the Only Voters — They are, in fact, in the minority — so why do the media and Democratic leaders seem so obsessed with them? — The anti-Trump vote is the single largest coalition in American politics. That was true in 2016, despite Hillary Clinton's defeat in the Electoral College.
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Trump likely to tap Scalia's son for Labor chief — President Donald Trump is likely to nominate Eugene Scalia, son of the late Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, to be the next Labor secretary, according to three sources familiar with the plans. — The younger Scalia …
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The Week


The Alaska village where every cop has been convicted of domestic violence — Dozens of convicted criminals have been hired as cops in Alaska communities. Often, they are the only applicants. In Stebbins, every cop has a criminal record, including the chief.
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New York Post


Plea deal by Kamala Harris AG office for sexual-harassing San Diego mayor was too lenient, critics say — Kamala Harris' presidential campaign biography rests heavily on her career as a prosecutor, including six years as California attorney general. But it omits a plea deal her office negotiated …
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twitchy.com


EXCLUSIVE: Career officials rebut claims of White House interference in security clearance process — Two career White House security officials have testified in a closed door session with the House Oversight Committee that no political pressure was asserted on their office …


Acting Head Of Customs and Border Protection Says New Asylum Rule In ‘Pilot’ Phase — Toggle more options — Mark Morgan, acting head of Customs and Border Protection, said on Thursday the Trump administration's new asylum rule, unveiled earlier this week, is being rolled out as a small …


Trump says the U.S. Navy shot down an Iranian drone in the Strait of Hormuz — DUBAI — A U.S. naval ship destroyed an Iranian drone that flew too close and ignored multiple calls to stand down on Thursday, President Trump said. — The Iranian drone came within 1,000 yards of the USS Boxer …
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Foreign Policy and Mother Jones


House Dem impeachment support gains new momentum — Public support among House Democrats for impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump is growing despite Speaker Nancy Pelosi's attempts to halt the effort. — More than two dozen Democrats who hadn't previously taken …
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Washington Examiner, FiveThirtyEight and Denver Post