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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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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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Chad Pergram / Fox News:
Republican Texas Rep. Ron Wright dead at 67, sources say
Republican Texas Rep. Ron Wright dead at 67, sources say
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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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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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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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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Democrats risk committing a serious blunder at Trump's impeachment trial — It's one of the most consequential questions confronting Democrats in the post-Trump era: Is the party prepared to accept and act upon the full implications of the GOP's worsening radicalization?
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Gallup:
Americans' Views of Impeachment, Trump's Record on Issues
Americans' Views of Impeachment, Trump's Record on Issues
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Prodigal Republicans — The Never Again Trumpers? — 7 hr ago
The Prodigal Republicans — The Never Again Trumpers? — 7 hr ago
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American Enterprise Institute, Washington Post and RealClearPolicy
Andrew Desiderio / Politico:
Where Democrats and Republicans agree on Trump
Where Democrats and Republicans agree on Trump
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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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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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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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The Hill:
Mo Brooks expresses interest in running for Shelby's Senate seat
Mo Brooks expresses interest in running for Shelby's Senate seat
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United States Senator Richard Shelby:
Shelby Statement on 2022 Election
Shelby Statement on 2022 Election
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Washington Post:
Live updates: House impeachment managers reject calls to dismiss case against Trump after his attorneys label it ‘political theater’
Live updates: House impeachment managers reject calls to dismiss case against Trump after his attorneys label it ‘political theater’
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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 …
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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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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:
Magistrate judge orders release of top Proud Boys organizer charged in Capitol insurrection — A federal magistrate judge in Seattle on Monday ordered the release of top Proud Boys organizer Ethan Nordean, rejecting prosecutors' call to detain him pending trial for his role in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the Capitol.
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Katelyn Polantz / CNN:
Judge agrees to release prominent Proud Boys leader facing Capitol riot charges
Judge agrees to release prominent Proud Boys leader facing Capitol riot charges
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Associated Press
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 …
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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Holly Otterbein / Politico:
John Fetterman launches Senate bid in Pennsylvania — Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman launches his Senate bid Monday, making him the first major candidate to enter what is all but certain to be a highly expensive and competitive race for the open seat.
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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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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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Andrew Stiles / Washington Free Beacon:
BIDEN'S VIETNAM: 60K Americans Dead from COVID-19 in First Three Weeks of Presidency — More Americans have died from COVID-19 in the first three weeks of Joe Biden's presidency than during the entire Vietnam War, a grim milestone for a leader who vowed to make ending the pandemic …
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The New Neo
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.
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Kang-Xing Jin / About Facebook:
Reaching Billions of People With COVID-19 Vaccine Information — We're running the largest worldwide campaign to promote authoritative information about COVID-19 vaccines by: — Helping people find where and when they can get vaccinated — similar to how we helped people find information about how to vote during elections
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Morgan Chalfant / The Hill:
White House indicates Trump hasn't asked for intel briefing — White House press secretary Jen Psaki on Monday indicated former President Trump hasn't asked for an intelligence briefing days after President Biden said he didn't think his predecessor should receive one.
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Mark Whittington / The Hill:
The Biden administration endorses NASA's Artemis, the Space Force
The Biden administration endorses NASA's Artemis, the Space Force
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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 …
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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.
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.
Charlie Savage / New York Times:
Civil-Liberties Groups Ask Biden Justice Dept. to Drop Julian Assange Case — A Friday deadline in the London extradition case may force the Biden administration to decide whether to keep pursuing a Trump-era policy. — WASHINGTON — A coalition of civil liberties and human rights groups urged …
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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 …
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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