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Eli Yokley / Morning Consult:
The Republican Party's Image Has Recovered From the Fallout of Jan. 6 — Voter sentiment about the GOP, and Trump himself, has bounced back over the past year — 34% of voters say the Republican Party is headed in the right direction, up 10 points from immediately after Jan. 6 …
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Politico:
They resigned in protest over Jan. 6 — then never went after Trump again — In the hours after a mob of angry Donald Trump supporters stormed Capitol Hill on Jan. 6, a number of prominent Trump administration officials and Republicans decided that they'd had enough.
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Raw Story, Poynter, CBS News, Los Angeles Times, The Dispatch, Washington Times, WPRI-TV and Election Law Blog
Jim McGovern / The Boston Globe:
The coup is still underway — Make no mistake — an aspiring dictator, egged on by his allies in Congress, failed to hold on to power this time. But those very same people haven't given up. — “Are you OK?” — “Where are you? Be safe.” — I've seen a lot in my years on Capitol Hill.
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Politico, NBC News and Associated Press
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
Is the ‘smoking gun’ in Trump's Jan. 6 attempted coup hiding in plain sight? — While America was preoccupied last week with getting home from the holidays or lining up around the block for COVID-19 testing, there was a bombshell development in the investigation to learn just how far Donald Trump …
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CNN, Raw Story, Japan Times and The Hill
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Could Jan. 6 happen again? — Lawmakers and security officials who have spent the last year assessing the failures on Jan. 6, 2021 are all pondering the same question — could it happen again? — As they cope with the searing trauma in their own ranks, they've tried to patch flaws …
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Washington Post, Washington Examiner, Raw Story, WTOP News and HuffPost
Igor Bobic / HuffPost:
Capitol Riot A Distant Memory In The Senate: Seems ‘As If It Never Happened’
Capitol Riot A Distant Memory In The Senate: Seems ‘As If It Never Happened’
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PBS NewsHour, CNN, New Republic, The Hill, Raw Story, Politico, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Japan Times and Robert Reich
Joel Rose / NPR:
6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as ‘The Big Lie’ takes root
6 in 10 Americans say U.S. democracy is in crisis as ‘The Big Lie’ takes root
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Opinion Today, The Hill and ABC News
Margaret Sullivan / Washington Post:
If American democracy is going to survive, the media must make this crucial shift — Journalists stepped it up in 2021, but now we need a concerted effort — In the year since the Jan. 6 insurrection, mainstream journalists have done a lot of things right.
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National Review
Hans Nichols / Axios:
Scoop: Manchin returns to Build Back Better negotiations with demands — Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) is open to reengaging on the climate and child care provisions in President Biden's Build Back Better agenda if the White House removes the enhanced child tax credit from the $1.75 trillion package …
Bloomberg:
U.S. Catches Kremlin Insider Who May Have Secrets of 2016 Hack — IT executive Vladislav Klyushin's journey into U.S. custody is a blow to the Kremlin, say people familiar with a Russian intelligence assessment of what he may have to offer — In the days before Christmas …
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Metacurity and Social Media IO Roundup, more at Techmeme »
Drew Harwell / Washington Post:
Since Jan. 6, the pro-Trump Internet has descended into infighting over money and followers — Far-right influencers and QAnon devotees are battling over online audiences in the power vacuum created by Trump's departure from office — The far-right firebrands and conspiracy theorists …
New York Times:
How the E.U. Allowed Hungary to Become an Illiberal Model — After years of complacency and wishful thinking, Brussels is finally trying to rein in the country's pugnacious leader, Prime Minister Viktor Orban. — BRUSSELS — After long indulging him, leaders in the European Union …
CREW:
The Corporate Insurrection: How companies have broken promises and funded seditionists … On January 6, an armed and violent mob stormed the Capitol. It was the first time the building had been breached since the War of 1812. At the end of the day, the death toll stood at five.
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Wall Street Journal:
Monthly Child-Tax-Credit Payments Cease, Ending Cushion for Family Budgets — Many Democrats want to revive the expanded child-tax credit, but opposition from Sen. Joe Manchin and Republicans is forcing them to rethink — Families are bracing for bank balances to suffer when the middle …
Liza Lin / Wall Street Journal:
Tesla Opens Showroom in China's Xinjiang, Region at Center of U.S. Genocide Allegations — Maker of electric cars risks wading into human-rights dispute that has entangled Western companies — Tesla Inc. has opened a new dealership in Xinjiang, the remote region where Chinese authorities …
The New York Times Company:
David Fahrenthold Joins The Times — David is joining The Times's Washington bureau as an investigative reporter. Read more in this note from Elisabeth Bumiller. — I'm thrilled to announce that David Fahrenthold of The Washington Post will be joining The Times's Washington bureau as an investigative reporter.
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Kyle Sammin / The Federalist:
Far-Left District Attorneys Have Unleashed Murder In Cities Like Philadelphia — Even before COVID or BLM riots, crime rates began to rise under leftist district attorneys who refuse to put criminals in jail. — We still debate the reasons that crime fell in the 1990s. Better policing?
Jose Pagliery / The Daily Beast:
Ex-National Archivist Thinks Trump Is Hiding His Records to Avoid ‘Prison Time’ — HAND 'EM OVER … “There are things in those records that are going to make real trouble.” — With the National Archives now at the center of a historic fight over records between the current and former president …
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Raw Story and National Zero
Dan Pfeiffer / The Message Box:
How the Media's Addiction to Bad News Hurts Dems — Earlier this fall, cable news, Twitter, and much of the media were engulfed in a moral panic about the supply chain. The pandemic-related delays in the manufacture and delivery of certain products morphed, as it often does, into something dire enough to get eyeballs and clicks.
House Republican Leader:
A Letter to House Republicans from Leader McCarthy about 2022 — This is a big year - maybe the most important of our time in Congress. — We all enter 2022 with renewed optimism, but against the same backdrop of challenges that faced our country this past year.
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The Hill, New York Times, The American Spectator and Fox News
Jon Gambrell / Associated Press:
Yemen rebels seize UAE ship; hackers hit Israeli newspaper — DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Yemen's Houthi rebels seized a ship in the Red Sea, armed drones targeted Baghdad's international airport, and hackers hit a major Israeli newspaper Monday — a string of assaults that showed …
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The Times of Israel
BMJ:
Covid-19: An urgent call for global “vaccines-plus” action — An open letter by a group of public health experts, — SARS-CoV-2 has infected more than 278 million people globally, with at least 5.4 million deaths recorded by the World Health Organisation as of 26 December 2021.
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Politico
The White House:
FACT SHEET: The Biden-Harris Action Plan for a Fairer, More Competitive, and More Resilient Meat and Poultry Supply Chain — In July, President Biden signed an Executive Order on Promoting Competition in the American Economy to create a fairer, more resilient, and more dynamic economy.
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Associated Press and Florida Politics
Richard Luscombe / The Guardian:
US could be under rightwing dictator by 2030, Canadian professor warns — Canadian political scientist warns in op ed of Trumpist threat to American democracy and possible effect on northern neighbor — The US could be under a rightwing dictatorship by 2030, a Canadian political science professor …
Robert Spencer / Front Page Magazine:
Muslim Staffer for AOC Refers to Israel as ‘Racist European Ethnostate’ — More fake history for leftists to lap up. — Hussain Altamimi, according to Fox News, is a legislative assistant for Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-Hypocritical Florida Vacay). It is unclear whether …
Eric Daugherty / Florida's Conservative Voice:
AOC Spotted MASKLESS in Crowd at FL Drag Queen Bar — MIAMI (FCV) - FCV was sent exclusive footage where Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) is seen maskless in a large crowd of tightly-packed people at a Miami Drag Queen bar. — EXPOSED: AOC is STILL lounging it up in Florida, in large crowds and maskless.
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Ben Smith / New York Times:
Founder of CrowdTangle Hopes to Bring Transparency to Social Media — The co-founder of CrowdTangle has been working with Congress on legislation to make tech companies disclose their inner workings. — Brandon Silverman's last day at Facebook was Oct. 8, and like many others who have sold …
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