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Politico:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 event amid GOP complaints — Senate Republicans can now breathe easier on Jan. 6. — Former President Donald Trump's announcement Tuesday evening that he would cancel a previously planned press conference is good news for Senate Republicans, who earlier in the day openly fretted …
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
Scoop: Jan. 6 committee to request Sean Hannity's cooperation — The Jan. 6 select committee is preparing to ask Fox News Channel host Sean Hannity for his voluntary cooperation with its investigation of the assault on the U.S. Capitol, a source with direct knowledge of the plans tells Axios.
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 news conference at Mar-a-Lago, blames news media and House committee investigating attack on Capitol — Former president Donald Trump has canceled the news conference he planned to hold on Jan. 6 to mark the first anniversary of the attack on the Capitol by a mob of his supporters.
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Max Greenwood / The Hill:
Trump cancels Jan. 6 press conference — Former President Trump is scrapping a planned news conference on the one-year anniversary of the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. — The former president had planned to use the Thursday news conference at Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. …
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Politico:
Sean Hannity tried to dissuade Trump from Jan. 6 strategy, texts show — Sean Hannity repeatedly tried to scale back Donald Trump's effort to use the Jan. 6 session of Congress to overturn the 2020 election results, according to text messages between the Fox News host and former White House chief …
David Rothkopf / USA Today:
What if the Jan. 6 insurrection had succeeded in illegally installing Trump?
What if the Jan. 6 insurrection had succeeded in illegally installing Trump?
Billy House / Bloomberg:
Capitol Riot Panel Weighs Televised Hearings in Prime Time
Capitol Riot Panel Weighs Televised Hearings in Prime Time
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Associated Press, National Zero and Breitbart
Kyle Cheney / Politico:
Police officer lawsuits pile up against Trump over Jan. 6
Police officer lawsuits pile up against Trump over Jan. 6
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Washington Post:
The government we defended last Jan. 6 has a duty to hold all the perpetrators accountable
The government we defended last Jan. 6 has a duty to hold all the perpetrators accountable
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New York Times, Daily Kos and Raw Story
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
What Merrick Garland should say about Jan. 6
What Merrick Garland should say about Jan. 6
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Politico, New York Post, Mediaite, Raw Story, CyberDisobedience, The Hill and Talking Points Memo
Miles Parks / NPR:
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
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Florida Politics and Washington Post
New York Times:
House Panel Asks Sean Hannity of Fox News to Cooperate in Jan. 6 Inquiry
House Panel Asks Sean Hannity of Fox News to Cooperate in Jan. 6 Inquiry
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Media Matters for America, Mediaite, Raw Story and Hollywood Reporter
Washington Post:
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Pelosi Is Blocking Access To House January 6 Records. What Is She Hiding?
Pelosi Is Blocking Access To House January 6 Records. What Is She Hiding?
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Washington Times and IJR
David Gelles / New York Times:
Ben Smith Is Leaving The Times for a Global News Start-Up — Mr. Smith will help start a new organization with Justin Smith, the chief executive of Bloomberg Media. — Ben Smith, the media columnist for The New York Times, is leaving the paper to start a new global news organization with Justin Smith …
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Benjamin Mullin / Wall Street Journal:
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith Steps Down to Found News Startup
Bloomberg Media CEO Justin Smith Steps Down to Found News Startup
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Ben Winslow / KSTU:
Entrata founder emails Utah tech CEOs, claiming COVID vaccine part of extermination plot by ‘the Jews’ — SALT LAKE CITY — The founder and chair of Entrata, a Silcon Slopes tech firm, sent an email to a number of tech CEOs and Utah business and political leaders, claiming the COVID-19 vaccine …
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Alejandro Alvarez / WTOP News:
I-95 in Va. reopens as motorists battle bailout traffic jam on Route 1 — Have you or someone you know been stuck on I-95? Tell WTOP about your experiences. — Listen to WTOP live online and on the radio at 103.5 FM. Download the free WTOP News app for Android and Apple phones to sign up for custom traffic and weather alerts.
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Jordan Boyd / The Federalist:
New York Magazine Writer Mocks Conservatives Helping Stranded Drivers On Snow-Covered I-95 — A New York Magazine writer took to Twitter on Tuesday to mock a conservative group trying to help drivers stranded on snow-covered I-95 in Virginia. — After a snowstorm and subsequent accidents trapped hundreds …
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Yaron Steinbuch / New York Post:
‘90 Day Fiancé’ star retires from selling farts after heart attack scare — She had a fart attack. — A reality TV star who launched a gassy venture peddling her fancy flatulence to strangers Stephanie Matto, 31, blew away people on social media when she recently announced …
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The Daily Caller
Sophia Cai / Axios:
Top Senate Republican signals support for election reform — A top Republican is signaling his party isn't necessarily opposed to joining with Democrats to clarify an existing federal law to reduce the potential for election subversion. — Driving the news: While broader federal voting …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The smoking gun that Liz Cheney is looking for on Trump comes into view — For weeks, Rep. Liz Cheney has hinted that the House select committee examining Jan. 6 might urge the Justice Department to consider prosecuting Donald Trump. The grounds for this criminal referral might be that Trump obstructed the …
New York Post:
Manhattan DA to stop seeking prison sentences in slew of criminal cases — Who needs soft-on-crime judges when the district attorney doesn't even want to lock up the bad guys? — Manhattan's new DA has ordered his prosecutors to stop seeking prison sentences for hordes of criminals …
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Melissa Nann Burke / Detroit News:
Rep. Brenda Lawrence to retire from Congress, leaving Detroit-area seat up for grabs — Washington — U.S. Rep. Brenda Lawrence said she plans to retire from Congress at the end of her term, becoming the 25th House Democrat to decide against seeking reelection in 2022.
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Washington Examiner
Simon van Zuylen-Wood / Washington Post:
The Radicalization of J.D. Vance — As he runs for the Senate, the ‘Hillbilly Elegy’ author has gone from media darling to establishment pariah. Is his new, fiery, right-wing persona an act? Or is something more interesting going on? — Let's start with the beard. J.D. Vance didn't used to have one.
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Althouse
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
No Way to Grow Up — American children are in crisis. — American children are starting 2022 in crisis. — I have long been aware that the pandemic was upending children's lives. But until I spent time pulling together data and reading reports, I did not understand just how alarming the situation had become.
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David Edwards / Raw Story:
Ron Johnson escalates attack on vaccines: ‘Why do we think that we can create something better than God?’ — Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) this week doubled down on his campaign to promote the so-called “natural immunity” that occurs after one has been infected by Covid-19.
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Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Ron DeSantis's Vaccination Status Is Now a State Secret … Florida governor Ron DeSantis has been walking a delicate balancing act on vaccinations, assiduously courting vaccine skeptics without going so far to the right that he lands in Marjorie Taylor Greene territory.
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Washington Post
John Sexton / HotAir:
Democracy is not in crisis just because Democrats are losing — Everywhere you look, Democrats are warning about the threat to democracy currently posed by Trump or the GOP or some combination of the two. The panic seems omnipresent and is peaking as we approach the anniversary of the Jan. 6 riots at the capitol.
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Paul Blest / Discourse Blog:
January 6 Isn't an Electoral Strategy — Everything we've seen so far suggests voters just don't care. — In 1873, Alexander Hamilton Stephens was elected as a Democrat to the U.S. House of Representatives in a special election in Georgia. A year later, Stephens' party took back the House …
Kara Voght / New Republic:
Inside D.C.'s Rowdy New Progressive Scene — Once a month, in the latter, vaccinated half of 2021, denizens of D.C.'s progressive ecosystem flocked to a bar in Washington's Adams Morgan neighborhood for a happy hour hosted by the pollster and think tank Data for Progress.
NBC News:
Capitol rioter compares attacks on her to treatment of ‘Jews in Germany’ — Jenna Ryan, a Texas realtor who has sought to parlay her role in the Capitol riot into a career as a right-wing media personality, posted a tweet in March last year that quickly went viral.
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Raw Story, Law & Crime, Mediaite and POLITICUSUSA
Felicia Sonmez / Washington Post:
Sen. Ted Cruz says Republicans are likely to impeach Biden if they retake House — Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Tex.) predicted Republicans would move to impeach President Biden “whether it's justified or not” if they retake the House in this year's midterm elections. — The White House responded Tuesday …
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Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
Flamethrower Brandishing Antivax Leader Who Planned to Arrest Democratic Governors Jailed for Trespassing — The antivax leader, who set out to arrest Democratic governors, has found himself behind bars. — An anti-COVID-19 vaccine organization leader, who recently set out on a cross-country road trip …
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Raw Story
John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse — Propaganda works when reporters fear telling the truth. — It's conventional wisdom among newspaper reporters that we should let readers decide. Don't come to conclusions. Just present the facts objectively. Leave the rest to the op-ed page.
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The Covid Chronicles and Daily Kos