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Politico:
POLITICO Playbook: A victory lap and a reality check — DRIVING THE DAY — It was all smiles and selfies at the White House on Monday as Democrats celebrated passage of the bipartisan infrastructure deal. But rising voter concern about inflation has cast a pall over President JOE BIDEN's victory lap.
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Victoria Eavis / Casper Star-Tribune:
Wyoming GOP votes to no longer recognize Rep. Cheney as a Republican
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CNN:
House Republicans shrug off threats of violence as Democrats prepare to punish Gosar
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Insider, Mediaite and Talking Points Memo
Katherine Tully-McManus / Politico:
Dem tension breaks, but to-do list looms
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The Hill, New York Post, Common Dreams, Townhall, Election Law Blog, National Review, Associated Press and Roll Call
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Kevin McCarthy says he called Paul Gosar about now-deleted tweet
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Jennifer Szalai / New York Times:
In Another Trump Book, a Journalist's Belated Awareness Steals the Show … When you purchase an independently reviewed book through our site, we earn an affiliate commission. — By the looks of his formidable résumé, the veteran Beltway journalist Jonathan Karl shouldn't startle all that easily.
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HuffPost and Balloon Juice
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Kimberly Wehle / The Bulwark:
Trump in the Wings? — The lawsuits over the former president's executive privilege claims feed into the far-right narrative that he is the rightful president. — Defenders of democracy scored two significant points last week. First, a federal district judge rejected former President …
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New York Times, Politico, The Daily Caller, Raw Story and Red Voice Media
Will Steakin / ABC News:
Trump allies pressed Defense Department to help overturn election, new book says — Michael Flynn told a DoD official that Democrats were “stealing the election.” — In the aftermath of the 2020 election, some of Donald Trump's closest allies embarked on an unprecedented effort …
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New York Magazine, Insider, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo, Occupy Democrats, Raw Story, Rolling Stone and Crooks and Liars
Joe Battenfeld / Boston Herald:
Biden tormented by Republican guerrilla campaign and ‘I did it’ stickers — If you see Joe Biden's picture on a gas pump these days, it's not a tribute to his amazingly successful energy policy. — The stickers — with Biden pointing to the $3.50 a gallon gas price and saying “I did that!”
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Bloomberg, CNN and Ace of Spades HQ
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Becket Adams / Washington Examiner:
Jen Psaki is annoyed you'd ask about Biden defaming Kyle Rittenhouse as a white supremacist
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The Western Journal, Summit News, IJR and The Daily Wire
Josh Rogin / Washington Post:
Biden administration soon to announce diplomatic boycott of the Beijing Olympics — With the Beijing Winter Olympics just three months away, the Biden administration will soon have to make clear whether it plans to send an official delegation to China. But sooner rather than later …
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Steven Lee Myers / New York Times:
Biden and Xi Pledge More Cooperation, but Offer No Breakthroughs
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Steve Benen / MSNBC:
New anti-election memo from Team Trump comes into sharper focus — Bannon makes curious choice of lawyer for contempt of Congress case — Over the course of the last year, the public has learned in frightening detail just how far Donald Trump and his team went to pressure …
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Right Wing Watch, Raw Story and Washington Post
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Politico:
Rep. Jackie Speier retiring from Congress — Rep. Jackie Speier on Tuesday announced she would not seek reelection to Congress next year, becoming the latest House Democrat to opt against running for another term. — “It's time for me to come home — time for me to be more than a weekend wife …
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Washington Post, Daily Kos and Townhall
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Emily Brooks / Washington Examiner:
Jackie Speier is eighth House Democrat to announce retirement in 2022
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CNN
Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Jackie Speier will not run for reelection to Congress in 2022
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USA Today, Roll Call, UPI and Political Wire
Christopher Mathias / HuffPost:
Tucker Carlson's Jan. 6 ‘Documentary’ Is His Most Nakedly Fascist Piece Of Propaganda Yet — His recent series for Fox Nation, “Patriot Purge,” is setting the stage for something even worse than the attack on the Capitol. — Tucker Carlson's “Patriot Purge,” a revisionist history …
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Media Matters for America
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Nikki McCann Ramirez / Media Matters for America:
On Fox Nation, Tucker Carlson goes full anti-vaccine with Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
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Insider, Joe.My.God. and Eschaton
Kyle Whitmire / al.com:
Hubbard still pulling strings from prison, tapes reveal — This is an opinion column. — In September, Mike Hubbard said he was sorry — for something. — In a letter to Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker, the former Alabama House speaker apologized — for his convictions. Not his crimes.
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Political Wire
Washington Post:
The second-biggest program in the Democrats' spending plan gives billions to the rich … The House is expected to vote this week on President Biden's Build Back Better legislation. The social spending bill includes investments in clean energy and affordable child care …
Washington Post:
Americans broadly support Supreme Court upholding Roe v. Wade and oppose Texas abortion law, Post-ABC poll finds — Americans say by a roughly 2-to-1 margin that the Supreme Court should uphold its landmark abortion decision in Roe v. Wade, and by a similar margin the public opposes …
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Washington Post:
Biden administration to announce purchase of 10 million courses of Pfizer anti-covid pill … The Biden administration is expected to announce this week it is purchasing 10 million courses of treatment Pfizer's covid pill, a multibillion dollar investment in a medication that officials hope …
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Axios:
Goldman: “Inflation will get worse” — “The current inflation surge will get worse this winter before it gets better,” Goldman Sachs Global Investment Research warns clients in a “2022 U.S. Economic Outlook.” — Driving the news: But Goldman expects the economy “to reaccelerate …
Miriam Jordan / New York Times:
Unauthorized Migration Across the Mexico-U.S. Border Slips — Border crossings declined for the third consecutive month in October, but thousands of Haitians and other migrants were waiting in Mexico, hoping to head north. — After a major influx of migrants overwhelmed …
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Mediaite
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Anna Giaritelli / Washington Examiner:
DHS inspector general declined to investigate horse-mounted Border Patrol ‘whipping’ accusation
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Fox News, National Review, Washington Times and Townhall
David Pitt / USA Today:
Audit: Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds improperly used COVID funds for salaries — DES MOINES, Iowa — A state audit report on government spending released Monday accused Iowa Gov. Kim Reynolds of using nearly $450,000 in federal coronavirus relief funds to pay salaries for 21 staff members …
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Talking Points Memo, The American Independent, Joe.My.God., The Hill and Political Wire
Wall Street Journal:
Activision CEO Bobby Kotick Knew for Years About Sexual-Misconduct Allegations at Videogame Giant — Top executive didn't inform board of some reports, including alleged rapes; company faces multiple regulatory investigations — Bobby Kotick, the longtime chief executive …
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Nicole Gaudiano / Insider:
Democratic strategists plan to get aggressive on critical race theory, saying Republicans are putting ‘politicians in charge of the classroom and white supremacists in charge of the curriculum’ — Democratic strategists say the party should hit back harder against GOP critical race theory claims.
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Twitchy, Ace of Spades HQ, Washington Post and Los Angeles Times
Ruth Ben-Ghiat / Lucid:
Waiting for the Apocalypse: The Unnerving New Normal — A few months ago, the humorist David Sedaris wrote about his joy at feeling he no longer had to care about political news. Four years of “constant monitoring” of events, which a friend of his likened to having a second job, had left him exhausted.
David Charns / KLAS:
I-Team: Las Vegas man, whose case GOP highlighted as voter fraud, to plead guilty to voting twice — Donald “Kirk” Hartle agrees to plea deal, will likely avoid prison time — LAS VEGAS (KLAS) — A Las Vegas man charged with forging his dead wife's signature on her ballot …
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Political Wire and Boston.com
Tovia Smith / NPR:
Why Boston will need to wait longer for its 1st elected Black mayor — For the first time in its history, Boston is inaugurating a newly-elected mayor on Tuesday who is not a white man. Michelle Wu - who's Asian American, is the first woman and first person of color elected to lead the city.
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Twitchy
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Andrew Sullivan and the Narrative of the “MSM Narrative” — The narrative on MSM narratives is false. — Over the weekend Andrew Sullivan published a jeremiad against the “mainstream media” that tracks pretty closely with the Matt Taibbi-Glenn Greenwald-Bari Weiss view …
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