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Jonathan Tilove / Texas Monthly:
Exclusive: Beto O'Rourke Is Running for Governor  —  For months, Texas Democrats have failed to field a single serious candidate to challenge Governor Greg Abbott's reelection bid.  But today, Beto O'Rourke is announcing in Texas Monthly that he is entering the 2022 gubernatorial race.
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Patrick Svitek / The Texas Tribune:
Beto O'Rourke says he's running for Texas governor  —  O'Rourke's decision to challenge Gov. Greg Abbott ends months of speculation and gives Democrats a formidable campaigner at the top of the ticket — someone who transformed Texas politics with his blockbuster campaign against U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz in 2018.
Mariana Alfaro / Washington Post:
Democrat Beto O'Rourke, onetime presidential candidate, announces bid for Texas governor  —  Democrat Beto O'Rourke announced Monday that he is running for Texas governor, challenging incumbent Greg Abbott (R) in what could become one of the highest-profile races of 2022.
Discussion: Fox News and National Review
YouTube:
I am Running for Governor |  Beto for Texas  —  I am running for governor to serve ALL of the people of Texas.  I believe that the only way we are going to achieve great things for this state is by looking ...
Discussion: Associated Press, CBS News and KXAN-TV
Craig Karmin / Wall Street Journal:
Trumps Selling Prized Washington, D.C., Hotel for $375 Million  —  CGI Merchant Group, a Miami-based investment firm, is in contract to acquire the hotel lease for the Trump International Hotel  —  Donald Trump's family hotel company has reached an agreement to sell the rights to its glittering Washington …
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Chandelis Duster / CNN:
Trump ally Steve Bannon surrenders after his indictment on two counts of contempt of Congress  —  (CNN)Steve Bannon, a former adviser to former President Donald Trump, turned himself in to the FBI Monday morning after being indicted on criminal contempt charges for refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating January 6.
Betsy Woodruff Swan / Politico:
D.C.'s new top cop vs. Steve Bannon
Discussion: Raw Story and MSN
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Rittenhouse, Arbery cases, Jan. 6 probe reveal stench of America's broken justice system
Discussion: The Moderate Voice
Insider:
Trump called January 6 ‘a very beautiful time with extremely loving and friendly people’ in a March 2021 interview for a new book  — Donald Trump called January 6 “a very beautiful time” in a March 2021 interview.  — ABC News' Jonathan Karl writes in his forthcoming book that Trump “fondly” recalled the crowd on Jan. 6.
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Meridith McGraw / Politico:
McConnell sought to disinvite Trump from Biden's inaugural  —  The level of distrust that Mitch McConnell had for then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the deadly Jan. 6 riots on Capitol Hill was greater than previously known.  —  The then-Senate majority leader sought to have Trump disinvited …
Bart Jansen / USA Today:
What documents does Trump not want the Jan. 6 House panel to see? Appointments, call logs and handwritten notes
Discussion: POLITICUSUSA and Raw Story
Mike Allen / Axios:
Inside Chris Christie's breakup with Trump
Discussion: The Hill, Raw Story and Mediaite
Washington Post:
Sen. Patrick Leahy, 81, the chamber's longest-serving Democrat, announces he will retire  —  Sen. Patrick J. Leahy (D-Vt.), the longest-serving Democrat in the Senate, on Monday announced he will retire at the end of his term next year.  —  Leahy, 81, who was first elected in 1974 …
Discussion: USA Today, HotAir and Associated Press
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Kate Scanlon / Washington Examiner:
Patrick Leahy won't seek reelection after 48 years in the Senate  —  Democratic Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont announced Monday he will not seek re-election next year, leaving open a seat he has held since 1975.  —  “I'm proud to be Vermont's longest-serving senator, and my time in the Senate …
Roll Call:
Leahy, longest-serving sitting senator, to retire
Discussion: Insider and VTDigger
Politico:
Leahy, most-senior senator, will retire
CNN:
Exasperation and dysfunction: Inside Kamala Harris' frustrating start as vice president  —  (CNN)Worn out by what they see as entrenched dysfunction and lack of focus, key West Wing aides have largely thrown up their hands at Vice President Kamala Harris and her staff …
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Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:   Misreading the Politics of “Normalcy”
Brian Stelter / CNN:
New book alleges Fox's Maria Bartiromo shouted at Bill Barr about imagined voter fraud  —  (CNN Business)Former attorney general Bill Barr says Fox News host Maria Bartiromo called him up “screaming” about imaginary voter fraud, according to his account in a new book.
Ken Thomas / Wall Street Journal:
Biden to Name Mitch Landrieu to Lead Roughly $1 Trillion Infrastructure Plan  —  The former Louisiana lieutenant governor led the city of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018  —  WASHINGTON—President Biden intends to name former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu to supervise the roughly $1 trillion …
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Washington Post:
Schumer wants to pass Build Back Better as quickly as possible
Associated Press:
US journalist jailed in Myanmar for nearly 6 months is freed  —  BANGKOK (AP) — American journalist Danny Fenster, who was recently sentenced to 11 years of hard labor after spending nearly six months in jail in military-ruled Myanmar, was freed and on his way home Monday, a former U.S. diplomat who helped negotiate the release said.
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Anne Applebaum / The Atlantic:
The Bad Guys Are Winning  —  The future of democracy may well be decided in a drab office building on the outskirts of Vilnius, alongside a highway crammed with impatient drivers heading out of town.  —  I met Sviatlana Tsikhanouskaya there this spring, in a room that held a conference table, a whiteboard, and not much else.
Lynette Horsburgh / BBC:
Liverpool Women's Hospital explosion declared a terror incident  —  An explosion outside Liverpool Women's Hospital on Remembrance Sunday has been declared a terror incident by police.  —  A taxi exploded and was engulfed in flames just before 11:00 GMT at a drop-off zone near the entrance …
Discussion: Politico and Jihad Watch
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New York Times:
How Republicans Have an Edge in the Emerging 2022 Congressional Maps  —  On a highly distorted congressional map that is still taking shape, the party has added enough safe House districts to capture control of the chamber based on its redistricting edge alone.
Discussion: Breitbart
Harry Enten / CNN:
Flu shots uptake is now partisan.  It didn't use to be  —  (CNN)Uptake of the Covid-19 vaccine has, unfortunately, become partisan like so much else in our society.  Almost every Democratic adult (90% to 95%) has gotten a shot, while a little less than two-thirds of Republican adults have.
Will Wright / The Charlotte Observer:
Charlotte-area GOP members shaken by Cawthorn move to district  —  Dual announcements by U.S. Rep. Madison Cawthorn and N.C. House Speaker Tim Moore have shaken the Republican establishment of Mecklenburg County — potentially the new stomping grounds of North Carolina's most controversial politician.
Lawrence H. Summers / Washington Post:
On inflation, it's past time for team ‘transitory’ to stand down  —  There is a wise apocryphal saying often attributed to John Maynard Keynes: “When the facts change, I change my mind.  What do you do?”  After years of advocating more expansionary fiscal and monetary policy …
Discussion: Bloomberg
 
 
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Politico:
GOP weighs trapping Democrats in Trump's budget
Discussion: CNBC and Los Angeles Times
Politico:
Dems' bitter pill: Popular health provisions won't kick in until after the midterms
Elizabeth Elkind / Daily Mail:
Judge cited tweet by Ron Klain for blocking Biden's vaccine mandate: Chief of Staff said imposing it as an emergency workplace safety rule is the 'ultimate work-around …
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