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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A frantic warning from 100 leading experts: Our democracy is in grave danger — Democrats can't say they weren't warned. — With yet another GOP effort to restrict voting underway in Texas, President Biden is now calling on Congress to act in the face of the Republican “assault on democracy.”
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John Aldrich / New America:
Statement of Concern — The Threats to American Democracy and the Need for National Voting and Election Administration Standards — We, the undersigned, are scholars of democracy who have watched the recent deterioration of U.S. elections and liberal democracy with growing alarm.
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Fox News, Los Angeles Times and Washington Post
Amy Gardner / Washington Post:
After defeating restrictive voting bill, Texas Democrats send loud message: ‘We need Congress to do their part’ — Texas Democrats who defeated a Republican effort to pass a suite of new voting restrictions with a dramatic, late-night walkout from the state House chamber on Sunday have a message …
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Democrats and GOP face off in New Mexico special congressional election
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New York Times, Albuquerque Journal, Washington Post and CNN
Sam Brodey / The Daily Beast:
Joe Manchin: Deeply Disappointed in GOP and Prepared to Do Absolutely Nothing
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CNN, Daily Kos and Crooks and Liars
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
Coups and Rumors of Coups — The threat is no joke. — Let's stipulate that any talk about coups is crazy. Our traditions and institutions — both in and out of the military — are simply too strong, and the very idea of a coup is so profoundly un-American that it is unthinkable.
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Crooks and Liars, Talking Points Memo, The Time of Monsters, The Gateway Pundit and RedState
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Texas Republicans Want to Make Trump's Coup Nice and Legal Michael Flynn said a coup “should happen”; Republicans prefer to use the legislature. — This past weekend, former national security adviser Michael Flynn appeared at the “For God & and Country Patriot Roundup,” a right-wing conclave in Texas, where he endorsed a military coup.
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Wall Street Journal, CNN and BizPac Review
Katie Shepherd / Washington Post:
At Texas event with QAnon ties, Louie Gohmert downplays Jan. 6: 'It wasn't just right-wing extremists' — Over the weekend, hundreds gathered in Dallas for a four-day conference with ties to prominent QAnon figures to listen to keynote speakers who repeated false claims that former president Donald Trump won …
Gabriel Debenedetti / New York Magazine:
The GOP Has Discovered Joe Biden's Political Superpower — Something strange has been happening to my in-box. It's still a wasteland, a ghastly stream of spam and requests from an endless array of politicians and political organizations. But the GOP fundraising emails — usually the loudest …
David Johns / The Hill:
Critical race theory is under attack — One hundred years ago today, mobs of armed white supremacists violently attacked and killed Black residents and destroyed Black businesses in Tulsa, Okla., in the Greenwood District. — The Tulsa Race Massacre is one of the most devastating …
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Just Security, Jewish Journal and Hackwhackers
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The White House:
FACT SHEET: Biden-Harris Administration Announces New Actions to Build Black Wealth and Narrow the Racial Wealth Gap … One hundred years ago, the thriving Black community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma, known as “Black Wall Street,” was ruthlessly attacked by a violent white supremacist mob.
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New York Times, Fox News, Politico and Insider
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Annie Linskey / Washington Post:
Ahead of Tulsa trip, Biden to unveil plans to reduce Black-White wealth gap
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Talking Points Memo, National Review and Hackwhackers
Politico:
Republicans fear Trump will lead to a ‘lost generation’ of talent — As Donald Trump ponders another presidential bid, top Republicans have grown fearful about what they're calling the party's “lost generation.” — In conversations with more than 20 lawmakers, ex-lawmakers, top advisers and aides …
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Washington Post:
Anthony Fauci's pandemic emails: ‘All is well despite some crazy people in this world’ — Fauci's correspondence from March and April 2020, obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, offers a peek into his world during the frantic early days of the coronavirus crisis
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Raw Story
Daniel Greenfield / Front Page Magazine:
The Democrat Model for the Future is the Worst City in America — The only things going up are murder rates, STDs and electric car chargers. — Daniel Greenfield, a Shillman Journalism Fellow at the Freedom Center, is an investigative journalist and writer focusing on the radical Left and Islamic terrorism.
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Politico:
Put Trump on the ballot in '22? No thanks, some Dems say — As Donald Trump cannonballs back into national headlines more scandal-ridden than ever, it turns out that Republicans aren't the only ones who don't want to fixate on the former president. Many House Democrats feel the same way.
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No More Mister Nice Blog, Raw Story and The American Spectator
Tucker Higgins / CNBC:
Supreme Court will soon release a potentially pivotal decision for LGBT rights — The Supreme Court is expected to release a decision in the coming days that could provide the first glimpses of how its 6-3 conservative majority will shape the future of LGBT rights.
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Reason and Political Wire
Ned Parker / Reuters:
U.S. cities hire specialists to counter climate change as impacts worsen — Tucson hired a forester. Miami named a heat officer. And Los Angeles appointed a climate emergency mobilization director. — Across the United States, cities have launched new programs focused on dealing with extreme weather …
Kayla Epstein / Insider:
Low-paid Capitol Hill staffers are moonlighting for Starbucks and Door Dash. They're fed up with unlivable salaries that hinder diversity and kneecap careers. — Hill staffers have put up with low wages for years. Some start in the high $20,000s. — Powerful Congress members …
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Insider
Haley Britzky / Task & Purpose:
Army officer running for Congress under investigation after questioning whether ‘sleepy guy’ Biden is president — Stovall also conducted a campaign interview in uniform. — The Army is investigating a reserve officer who used photos of himself in uniform in an ad for his congressional campaign …
New York Post:
Hunter Biden's laptop keeps damning Joe, but most media just ignore it — Hunter Biden's laptop continues to yield damning information that shows his dad, President Joe Biden, played a significant and knowing role in his son's sleazy influence-peddling. And while the media efforts to pretend …
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Washington Examiner
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: White House employees to return to fully in-person work in July — The White House will invite all employees back to work in July, signaling an end to pandemic protocols for remote work for President Biden's core team. — Driving the news: In a memo sent to the White House Office …
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Political Wire
Jonathan Allen / NBC News:
Trump's back. Here's what his re-entry means for 2024. … WASHINGTON — Defeated presidents usually go away — at least for a long while. Not Donald Trump. — Trump returns to the electoral battlefield Saturday as the marquee speaker at the North Carolina Republican Party's state convention.
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Raw Story
Marina Pitofsky / The Hill:
Pride Month organizers to draw attention to anti-transgender laws — Tuesday marks the beginning of Pride Month, and LGBTQ groups say they plan on drawing attention this year to the anti-transgender bills making their way through state legislatures across the country.
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Washington Post and IJR
CBS News:
Partner of fallen Capitol officer Brian Sicknick “disgusted” by senators who stopped January 6 commission — Gladys Sicknick, the mother of Brian Sicknick — the U.S. Capitol police officer who died after supporters of former President Trump stormed the building on January 6 — said her final interaction with her son was brief.
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The Daily Beast and Raw Story
CNN:
Vice President Harris' team tries to distance her from fraught situation at the border — (CNN)In the weeks since the President asked her to take charge of immigration from Central America, Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff have sought to make one thing clear: She does not manage the southern border.
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Maggie Severns / Politico:
An Evangelical Battle of the Generations: To Embrace Trump or Not? — For years, there was an adage around Liberty University that if God split Jerry Falwell in half, you would have his sons Jerry and Jonathan. — Jerry Jr. inherited his father's desire to be a force in American politics …
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Raw Story
DW.COM:
Belarus enacts new rules restricting citizens from leaving — Minsk's border agency has announced new rules that will make it nearly impossible to leave the country. As citizens attempt to flee Belarus, longtime leader Alexander Lukashenko appears to be closing all the exits.
Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Maureen Dowd Talks ‘Mare of Easttown’ With Kate Winslet — The star of ‘Mare of Easttown’ is back on the sides of buses. Without airbrushing. — Philly's a tough town. — If there's a quintessential story about the City of Brotherly Love, it's this one: In 2015 …
Sarah Kliff / New York Times:
The Covid Vaccine Is Free, but Not Everyone Believes That — Concern over unexpected bills was one of the reasons respondents in a U.S. survey gave for hesitation about getting the shot. — When Paul Moser considers getting a coronavirus vaccine, he also thinks about his outstanding medical debt …
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