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Gromer Jeffers Jr / Dallas Morning News:
Rep. Ron Wright dies after battle with COVID-19 — Reelected in November, the Republican lawmaker had been fighting cancer. … U.S. Rep Ron Wright of Arlington died Sunday night after a battle with COVID-19. He was 67. — His family and spokesperson confirmed Wright's death Monday morning.
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Claudia Grisales / NPR:
Rep. Ron Wright Is 1st Member Of Congress To Die After Coronavirus Diagnosis
Rep. Ron Wright Is 1st Member Of Congress To Die After Coronavirus Diagnosis
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Washington Post:
Rep. Ron Wright has died after battle with covid-19
Rep. Ron Wright has died after battle with covid-19
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CNN:
GOP Rep. Ron Wright dies following Covid diagnosis
GOP Rep. Ron Wright dies following Covid diagnosis
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Jacob Pramuk / CNBC:
Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas is first sitting member of Congress to die of Covid
Republican Rep. Ron Wright of Texas is first sitting member of Congress to die of Covid
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Ursula Perano / Axios:
Texas Rep. Ron Wright dies following COVID-19 diagnosis
Texas Rep. Ron Wright dies following COVID-19 diagnosis
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Gallup:
Americans' Views of Impeachment, Trump's Record on Issues — WASHINGTON, D.C. — As former President Donald Trump's second Senate impeachment trial is about to begin, a new Gallup poll finds a slim majority of Americans (52%) saying they would like their senators to vote to convict him.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats risk committing a serious blunder at Trump's impeachment trial
Democrats risk committing a serious blunder at Trump's impeachment trial
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Renato Mariotti / Politico:
Witnesses Could Prevent a Foregone Conclusion in Second Impeachment Trial
Witnesses Could Prevent a Foregone Conclusion in Second Impeachment Trial
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Brooke Singman / Fox News:
Biden ‘will not spend too much time’ watching impeachment trial but finds Trump behavior ‘erratic,’ Psaki says
Biden ‘will not spend too much time’ watching impeachment trial but finds Trump behavior ‘erratic,’ Psaki says
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Politico:
Trump lawyers rip impeachment case as ‘political theater’
Trump lawyers rip impeachment case as ‘political theater’
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Melissa Quinn / CBS News:
Trump impeachment lawyers call on Senate to reject “brazen political act” in new filing
Trump impeachment lawyers call on Senate to reject “brazen political act” in new filing
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Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Where Democrats and Republicans agree on Trump
Where Democrats and Republicans agree on Trump
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Andrew McCarthy / Fox News:
Trump impeachment trial - what you need to know, what may surprise you
Trump impeachment trial - what you need to know, what may surprise you
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Karen Heller / Washington Post:
Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he's Trump's impeachment attorney.
Bruce Castor is a magnet for controversy. Naturally, he's Trump's impeachment attorney.
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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: Democratic impeachment managers feeling muzzled — DRIVING THE DAY — Democrats who've struggled for years to hold DONALD TRUMP accountable are at a crossroads again: Do they go all out to convict Trump by calling a parade of witnesses to testify to his misdeeds?
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Nicholas Fandos / New York Times:
Trump Team Offers a Deeper Look at His Impeachment Defense — Former President Donald J. Trump's lawyers asserted in a new filing that Mr. Trump's speech just before the attack “did not direct anyone to commit unlawful actions,” and that he deserved no blame for the conduct of a “small group of criminals.”
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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
John Fetterman launches Senate bid in Pennsylvania
John Fetterman launches Senate bid in Pennsylvania
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Chris Hayes / The Atlantic:
The Republican Party is radicalizing against democracy. This is the central political fact of our moment. Instead of organizing its coalition around shared policy goals, the GOP has chosen to emphasize hatred and fear of its political opponents, who—they warn—will destroy their supporters and the country.
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Erica Werner / Washington Post:
Republican Sen. Richard C. Shelby announces he will retire in 2022 — Sen. Richard C. Shelby (R-Ala.), a fixture of the Senate who chaired the powerful Appropriations Committee, announced Monday that he will retire when his term ends in 2022. — Shelby, 86, was first elected to the House …
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Mollie Hemingway / The Federalist:
The 3 Worst Things About That Terrible Jeep Super Bowl Ad — How could a major corporation not see how propagandistic it comes off to suggest that when Republicans win a national election, that's divisive, but when Democrats win one, that's unifying? — In a generally weak year …
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Politico:
Inside Bidenworld's plan to punish the GOP for opposing Covid relief — Democrats are plowing forward with plans to pass a massive Covid-19 relief package. And if Republicans don't join them, they won't forget it. — Already, there's talk about midterm attack ads portraying Republicans …
CREW:
Jared and Ivanka made up to $640 million in the White House … Jared Kushner and Ivanka Trump reported between $172 million and $640 million in outside income while working in the White House, according to an analysis of financial disclosures by CREW. It is impossible to tell the exact amount …
Jim Mustian / Associated Press:
Stormy Daniels and Michael Cohen, once foes, talk Trump — NEW YORK (AP) — When he was Donald Trump's attorney, Michael Cohen was hellbent on silencing Stormy Daniels, even arranging a hush-money payment to the porn actress that landed him in federal prison.
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Mark Whittington / The Hill:
The Biden administration endorses NASA's Artemis, the Space Force — One of the nagging questions that have haunted space enthusiasts with the change of administrations has been what President Biden will do with the Artemis program to return to the moon as well as the Space Force.
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The Daily Beast:
His Biz Is Shunned, She Resigned, and Everyone Is Being Sued: What Became of Trump's Election Dead-Enders — BIG MISTAKE. HUGE. — Much of the current ruin of Trump's hardcore election dead-enders came as a direct result of their decisions to become major players in Trump's failed endeavor to cling to power.
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Perry Bacon Jr / FiveThirtyEight:
In America's ‘Uncivil War,’ Republicans Are The Aggressors — In his inaugural address, President Biden described America as in the midst of an “uncivil war that pits red against blue, rural versus urban, conservative versus liberal.” His invocation of a civil war and the American Civil War was provocative.
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
The MyPillow guy made a movie of lies about the election. These corporations beamed it into millions of homes. — Mike Lindell, the founder and CEO of MyPillow, created a two-hour movie that uses discredited conspiracy theories to claim that Trump was the real winner of the 2020 election.
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Associated Press:
AP-NORC poll: Few in US say democracy is working very well — WASHINGTON (AP) — Only a fragment of Americans believe democracy is thriving in the U.S., even as broad majorities agree that representative government is one of the country's bedrock principles, according to a new poll …
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic:
Hygiene Theater Is Still a Huge Waste of Time — Six months ago, I wrote that Americans had embraced a backwards view of the coronavirus. Too many people imagined the fight against COVID-19 as a land war to be waged with sudsy hand-to-hand combat against grimy surfaces.
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Trump legacy: Personal responsibility is for suckers and GOP means ‘Grievances On Parade’ — Trump's Senate impeachment trial and fake victims Josh Hawley and Marjorie Taylor Greene symbolize the Republican descent into whiny entitlement. — It seems like every day is Festivus in today's Republican Party.
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CNN:
Is this how I die? — Scenes from the day a pro-Trump mob broke into the Capitol — Joshua Replogle is a photojournalist for CNN. He has worked as a reporter for several local television stations and the Associated Press. He was working inside the Capitol on January 6 …
American Greatness:
Our Animal Farm — The Left's 1960s dream is America's 2021 nightmare. — George Orwell published Animal Farm in August 1945, in the closing weeks of the Pacific War. Even then, most naïve supporters of the wartime Soviet-British-American alliance were no longer in denial …
John M. Donnelly / Roll Call:
Senators killed measure to combat violent extremism in military — About a month before rioters, including some with U.S. military training, stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawmakers deleted from the annual Pentagon policy bill language that would have explicitly made violent extremism a crime in the military code of justice.
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John McWhorter / Persuasion:
The Neoracists — A new religion is preached across America. It's nonsense posing as wisdom. — 2 hr ago — [Excerpt from his new book, The Elect: Neoracists Posing as Antiracists and their Threat to a Progressive America] — One can divide antiracism into three waves.