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6:55 PM ET, December 6, 2021

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Barton Gellman / The Atlantic:
Trump's Next Coup Has Already Begun  —  Technically, the next attempt to overthrow a national election may not qualify as a coup.  It will rely on subversion more than violence, although each will have its place.  If the plot succeeds, the ballots cast by American voters will not decide the presidency in 2024.
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Jeffrey Goldberg / The Atlantic:
A Party, and Nation, in Crisis  —  In October of 1860, The Atlantic's first editor, James Russell Lowell, wrote of Abraham Lincoln that he “had experience enough in public affairs to make him a statesman, and not enough to make him a politician.”  Lowell, in his endorsement …
George Packer / The Atlantic:
Are We Doomed?  —  A year after the insurrection, I'm trying to imagine the death of American democracy.  It's somehow easier to picture the Earth blasted and bleached by global warming, or the human brain overtaken by the tyranny of artificial intelligence, than to foresee the end of our 250-year experiment in self-government.
Jeremy B. White / Politico:
Nunes quits Congress for Trump Media job  —  Rep. Devin Nunes, a close ally of former President Donald Trump and the former chair of the House Intelligence Committee, will resign from Congress later this month to run Trump's new social media company.  —  Nunes (R-Calif.) …
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Trump SPAC under investigation by federal regulators, including SEC  — Federal regulators are investigating former President Donald Trump's SPAC deal.  — The Securities and Exchange Commission and FINRA probes were disclosed in a filing by Digital World Acquisition Corp., the special purpose acquisition company.
Timothy L. O'Brien / Bloomberg:   Who Just Gave Trump $1 Billion? Let's Find Out.
Washington Post:   Rep. Devin Nunes to leave Congress to become Trump media company CEO
Fox News:
House Republican Rep. Devin Nunes to resign
Aaron Gregg / Washington Post:
Trump SPAC under investigation by financial regulators
Discussion: Politico, Rolling Stone and Deadline
Matt Schudel / Washington Post:
Fred Hiatt, Washington Post editorial page editor, dies at 66  —  Fred Hiatt, a onetime foreign correspondent who in 2000 became The Washington Post's editorial page editor and greatly expanded the global reach of the newspaper's opinion writers in the era of 9/11, the election of Barack Obama …
Washington Post:
Justice Dept. sues Texas over redistricting, citing discrimination against Latinos  —  The Justice Department has sued Texas for the second time in a month over voting-related concerns, this time alleging that Republican state lawmakers discriminated against Latinos and other minorities …
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Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Biden administration sues to block Texas redistricting maps
Politico:
‘Absolute liars’: Ex-D.C. Guard official says generals lied to Congress about Jan. 6  —  A former D.C. National Guard official is accusing two senior Army leaders of lying to Congress and participating in a secret attempt to rewrite the history of the military's response to the Capitol riot.
Axios:
Right wing builds its own echo chamber  —  Conservatives are aggressively building their own apps, phones, cryptocurrencies and publishing houses in an attempt to circumvent what they see as an increasingly liberal internet and media ecosystem.  —  Why it matters: Many of these efforts …
New York Post:
Chris Cuomo prepping to sue CNN for more than $18M over contract: sources  —  Fired CNN host Chris Cuomo is set to sue the network if it balks at paying him at least $18 million to cover what's left on his contract, sources told The Post on Monday.  —  Cuomo, 51, has hired lawyers …
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Lee Brown / New York Post:
Chris Cuomo claims CNN boss Jeff Zucker knew about involvement in gov scandal
Politico:
Democrats fall flat with ‘Latinx’ language  —  As Democrats seek to reach out to Latino voters in a more gender-neutral way, they've increasingly begun using the word Latinx, a term that first began to get traction among academics and activists on the left.  —  But that very effort …
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Carmen Sesin / NBC News:
‘Latinx’ can be ‘counterproductive’ among Hispanic voters, poll finds
Discussion: RedState
Washington Post:
Sidney Powell group raised more than $14 million spreading election falsehoods  —  In the months after President Donald Trump lost the November election, lawyer Sidney Powell raised large sums from donors inspired by her fight to reverse the outcome of the vote.
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
A GOP lawyer issues a frantic warning to his own party about Trump and 2024  —  Benjamin Ginsberg, a veteran Republican election lawyer, just issued a stark warning to lawmakers in his own party: If you don't act now to protect our system, the losing candidate in the 2024 presidential election might seek …
Hannah Natanson / Washington Post:
A White teacher taught White students about White privilege.  It cost him his job. … KINGSPORT, Tenn. — Matthew Hawn checked his phone to see if the wait was finally over.  —  It had been five months since he was fired for teaching about White privilege at a high school in rural Tennessee.
Discussion: HotAir and The Root
Steve Benen / MSNBC:
Trump says a bit too much about James Comey's FBI firing (again)  —  January 6th Committee encounters questions of criminality while following evidence  —  It was on May 9, 2017, when Donald Trump fired James Comey as the director of the FBI.  The Republican president hadn't yet been in office …
Discussion: USA Today, Rolling Stone and The Hill
Allahpundit / HotAir:
“Ongoing genocide”: Biden orders diplomatic boycott of Beijing Olympics  —  How often do you find Joe Biden and Ted Cruz on the same side of an issue?  —  Especially when that side is the middle-ground option between a total boycott of the Games, as some Republicans want …
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Washington Post:
No U.S. government official will attend Beijing Winter Olympics, White House announces
New York Times:
Inside Tesla as Elon Musk Pushed an Unflinching Vision for Self-Driving Cars  —  The automaker may have undermined safety in designing its Autopilot driver-assistance system to fit its chief executive's vision, former employees say.  —  To hear more audio stories from publications like The New York Times …
Brian Murphy / Raleigh News & Observer:
Court ruling stops 2022 candidate filing in new NC districts  —  The North Carolina Court of Appeals has halted candidate filing in U.S. House, state Senate and state House districts, according to the state elections board.  —  Candidate filing starts at noon Monday in federal, state and local races across North Carolina.
Discussion: Election Law Blog
Emma G. Fitzsimmons / New York Times:
New York City sets sweeping vaccine mandate for all private employers.  —  Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a sweeping Covid vaccine mandate for all private employers in New York City on Monday morning to combat the spread of the Omicron variant.  —  Mr. de Blasio said the aggressive measure …
Jordan Liles / Snopes.com:
Did Trump Send This Phallic Christmas Card in 2021?  —  In early December 2021, former U.S. President Donald Trump appeared in a Christmas card with a festive and quite phallic design.  The image was shared heavily by left-leaning and anti-Trump social media accounts.
Discussion: HuffPost, Reuters, RedState and Twitchy
Washington Post:
‘Rife’ cocaine use reported in U.K. Parliament — just as Boris Johnson announces crackdown on drug crime  —  LONDON — The speaker of Britain's House of Commons says he is calling in police to investigate reports that drug use is “rife” in Parliament — as Prime Minister Boris Johnson dressed …
Hamed Aleaziz / BuzzFeed News:
An Internal Document Shows DHS Officials Advised Against Haitian Deportations, Fearing They Could Violate Human Rights Obligations  —  The Department of Homeland Security's civil rights office raised an internal warning to immigration and border officials that deporting Haitians …
CNN:
CNN Exclusive: Top Pence aide cooperating with January 6 committee  —  Washington (CNN)Marc Short, the former chief of staff to Vice President Mike Pence, is cooperating with the January 6 committee, a significant development that will give investigators insight from one of the highest-ranking …
Azeen Ghorayshi / New York Times:
Women Earn $2 Million Less Than Men in Their Careers as Doctors  —  A survey of more than 80,000 physicians estimated that women make 25 percent less than men over a 40-year career.  —  Female doctors make less than their male counterparts starting from their very first days on the job, according to a large new study.
Discussion: STAT and The 19th
The Daily Poster:
Six Things They're Not Telling You About Inflation  —  In the Great Inflation Scare of 2021, the corporate media isn't reporting the full story.  —  Inflation is punching far above its weight in the minds of Americans immersed in louder and louder media alarms about rising prices …
Lenny Bernstein / Washington Post:
As covid persists, nurses are leaving staff jobs — and tripling their salaries as travelers  —  Wanderlust, and the money to fund it, made Alex Stow's decision easy.  After working a couple of years in an intensive care unit, he signed up to be a travel nurse, tripling his pay to about $95 …
Discussion: Florida Politics
 
 
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Scott Lemieux / American Prospect:
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Lachlan Markay / Axios:
Project Veritas hires its first lobbyist after FBI raids
Discussion: Washington Examiner
Jon Brown / Fox News:
Former Sen. Bob Dole to lie in state Thursday in US Capitol rotunda
Discussion: Politico, ABC News and CNN
Matt Cohen / The American Independent:
Proud Boys and Oath Keepers subpoenas could shed light on rise of far-right extremism
 Earlier Items: 
Brian Slodysko / Associated Press:
Turning outrage into power: How far right is changing GOP
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Bryan Schott / Salt Lake Tribune:
A Utah group is going door to door looking for election fraud. But they don't want you to know about it
Caitlin Gibson / Washington Post:
Jamie Raskin's Year of Grief and Purpose
David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:
Brian Kemp moves swiftly to neuter David Perdue in primary poised to bloody Georgia GOP
Ryan Goodman / Just Security:
The Absence of “The Donald”  —  In the several hundred criminal cases brought …
Associated Press:
Trump-tied group pushing for voting changes in Wisconsin
 

 
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Jessica Toonkel / Wall Street Journal:
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Bloomberg:
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Max Tani / @maxwelltani:
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