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Quinnipiac University Poll:
More Prefer Republicans To Win Control Of The House And Senate, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; 68% Say Higher Prices Are Changing Spending Habits — mail_outline — With Election Day in the rearview mirror and both political parties setting their sights on the 2022 midterm elections …
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Marquette University:
New Marquette Law School Poll finds majority of Republicans across the nation favor a Trump run for president in 2024, while majority of voters overall are opposed — Please note: Complete Poll results and methodology information can be found online at law.marquette.edu/poll
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Politico:
Dems agonize over tax cuts for rich: ‘Bad policy, bad politics’ — Democrats are struggling with a huge problem that could sink them at the ballot box: They may end up looking more sympathetic to rich people than Republicans. — After spending several election cycles campaigning …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
GOP senators appalled by ‘ridiculous’ House infighting
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David Brooks / The Atlantic:
The Terrifying Future of the American Right — Rachel Bovard is one of the thousands of smart young Americans who flock to Washington each year to make a difference. She's worked in the House and Senate for Republicans Rand Paul, Pat Toomey, and Mike Lee, was listed among the …
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The Triad
Devlin Barrett / Washington Post:
U.S. indicts two Iranian hackers over 2020 election misinformation campaign — Two alleged Iranian hackers were indicted by the U.S. Justice Department Thursday and accused of engaging in a hacking and disinformation campaign targeting American voters in the run-up to the 2020 U.S. presidential election.
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Justice News:
U.S. Attorney Announces Charges Against Two Iranian Nationals For Cyber-Enabled Disinformation And Threat Campaign Designed To Interfere With The 2020 U.S. Presidential Election — Conspirators Crafted Unique Messaging Themes For Each Side of the U.S. Political Spectrum to Capitalize on the Perceived Fears of the Targeted Audiences
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U.S. Department of Justice:
Two Iranian Nationals Charged for Cyber-Enabled Disinformation and Threat Campaign Designed to Influence the 2020 U.S. Presidential Election — An indictment was unsealed in New York today charging two Iranian nationals for their involvement in a cyber-enabled campaign to intimidate …
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Press Association:
Pennsylvania teen had his hands up when fatally shot by State Police, new videos show — Authorities obscured the last 4 seconds of Christian Hall's life in publicly released videos. New footage shows he had his hands up when troopers killed him. — STROUDSBURG, Pa. …
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The Hill
Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Defense Was Strong. It's Also a Threat to the Rule of Law. — In August 2020, Kyle Rittenhouse illegally brought an AR-15 rifle to Kenosha, Wisconsin, in the name of law and order. As protests and riots raged in the wake of the police shooting of Jacob Blake …
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Farhad Manjoo / New York Times:
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
Kyle Rittenhouse's Firearm Made Everything Worse
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ProPublica:
Texts Show Kimberly Guilfoyle Bragged About Raising Millions for Rally That Fueled Capitol Riot — Text messages reviewed by ProPublica represent the strongest indication yet that members of the Trump family inner circle were involved in financing and organizing the Jan. 6 “Save America” …
Allison Quinn / The Daily Beast:
Paul Gosar Boasts of His ‘Thug Life’ Cred as His Own Family Demands His Ouster Over Violent Murder Video — The Arizona Republican appeared to relish in the backlash over his violent anime video on Gettr. — Rep. Paul Gosar (R-AZ) appears to be relishing in the backlash over his decision …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Democrats, You Have One Job — And most of the country thinks you're failing at it.
Democrats, You Have One Job — And most of the country thinks you're failing at it.
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Phill Swagel / CBO Publications:
CBO to Publish a Complete Cost Estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act, This Afternoon — The Congressional Budget Office will publish a complete cost estimate for H.R. 5376, the Build Back Better Act (Rules Committee Print 117-18 incorporating a manager's amendment by Congressman Yarmuth), this afternoon.
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Matt Dixon / Politico:
‘This is about power’: DeSantis gets big wins ahead of 2022 — TALLAHASSEE — Florida's special legislative session can be summed up in one phrase: What Gov. Ron DeSantis wants, he gets. — DeSantis called the special session in October to fight the Biden administration's coronavirus vaccine mandates …
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David Gura / NPR:
A look into the ugly and incredibly personal fight over Biden's pick to oversee banks — The president's pick to become a top banking regulator doesn't usually attract a lot of interest, but this time is different. — President Biden has nominated Saule Omarova, a law professor at Cornell University …
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Politico:
Say goodbye to swing districts. Lawmakers are drawing easy wins in dozens of states. — When most voters go to the polls to elect members of Congress next year, the general election will essentially be meaningless. That's because winners are being determined right now …
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Washington Post, Outside the Beltway and Election Law Blog
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Robyn Dixon / Washington Post:
Belarus's Lukashenko tried to use migrants as a weapon. That's now turned against him. — MOSCOW — Months after Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko unleashed a migrant crisis against the European Union, the gambit has come full circle. — Lukashenko's regime is now struggling …
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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
Why Vermont's Phil Scott, the Country's Most Popular Governor, May Be Resisting the GOP's Calls to the Senate — Scott's standing is driven by solid support among Democrats and independents — Republican Phil Scott of Vermont has been America's most popular governor throughout 2021 …
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Washington Examiner
Edward Luce / Financial Times:
Why Democrats are so bad at politics — Americans have much more in common than the party's conventional approach allows — The skill at which Donald Trump excels is creating a master narrative and ensuring every American hears it — no consultants needed.
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The Blue State Conservative
Jackson Richman / Washington Examiner:
Bye bye, BBB? — Ahead of President Joe Biden signing an infrastructure bill into law on Monday, Vice President Kamala Harris said, “Now, this bill, as significant as it is, as historic as it is, is part one of two.” — This is wishful thinking. Progressives have gotten played on supporting the bill …
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin undecided on helping start debate on Biden spending bill
Manchin undecided on helping start debate on Biden spending bill
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Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Pattern of GOP Voter Fraud — In case after case from 2020, it turns out that Republicans were the ones misbehaving at the ballot box. — On Tuesday, Donald Kirk Hartle, the CFO of a Nevada company that hosted a September 2020 rally for Donald Trump, pleaded guilty to voting twice …
Ashish K. Jha / The Atlantic:
You Should Get a Booster Now — As the air gets colder and drier and people in most of the United States move indoors, a winter spike in COVID-19 cases is beginning to materialize. The drop in new infections across the Deep South after a difficult summer raised hopes that the country …
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New York Post
Curtis Bunn / NBC News:
Anxiety builds waiting for verdicts in the Rittenhouse and McMichael-Bryan trials — Donald Grant finds it difficult to look at the trial in the killing of Ahmaud Arbery through a single lens. Whether he processes it as a Black man, as the father of a young son or as a mental health professional …
Wall Street Journal:
Biden's Handling of Immigration Marred by Internal Rifts and Policy Reversals — Disagreements among top advisers are hampering the administration's approach to record numbers of migrants at the border — WASHINGTON—The Biden administration's immigration policy has been muddled …
Matthew Cantor / The Guardian:
Cryptographers fight to keep ‘crypto’ prefix: ‘We all have hills we are willing to die on’ — Los Angeles' renamed Crypto.com stadium is good news for cryptocurrency fanatics but strikes a blow against cryptographers — he stadium that is home to the Los Angeles Lakers is getting a new name: the Crypto.com Arena.
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Matt Labash / Slack Tide:
Jesus Wept — Are Christians hurting Christianity? — As a lifelong evangelical Christian and a military brat who grew up in a succession of Southern Baptist churches and schools, I am no stranger to seeing anger and faith commingled. I was angry myself, with my parents, for dragging me to church 17 times a week.
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Raw Story
Corin Faife / The Markup:
Facebook Isn't Telling You How Popular Right-Wing Content Is on the Platform — Facebook insists that mainstream news sites perform the best on its platform. But by other measures, sensationalist, partisan content reigns — In early November, Facebook published its Q3 Widely Viewed Content Report …
oklahoma.gov:
Governor Stitt Commutes Julius Jones' Sentence to Life Without Possibility of Parole — Pursuant to Article 6, Section 10 of the Oklahoma Constitution, Governor Kevin Stitt today issued Executive Order 2021-25 to commute the death sentence of Julius Jones, who was tried and convicted …
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Adela Suliman / Washington Post:
Rupert Murdoch says Trump should move on: ‘The past is the past’ — Conservative media mogul Rupert Murdoch is publicly rebuking former President Donald Trump — telling him to get over the past and focus on the future. — Trump — who continues to allege that the 2020 election was …
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Garry Kasparov / Wall Street Journal:
‘Woke’ Is a Bad Word for a Real Threat to American Democracy — In authoritarian regimes, vengeance and coercion stand in place of justice and reason. I've seen it before. — The search is on for new words for old ideas. “Cancel culture” and “woke” have become overused and abused …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Trump's rage at Georgia Republicans should unsettle us all — Earlier this year, Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp signed the most nationally scrutinized “election integrity” bill in the country. The Republican governor hoped this would atone for the sin of being insufficiently corrupt on Donald Trump's behalf …
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