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11:55 PM ET, January 4, 2022

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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.
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 …
New York Times:
How Trump Kept His Grip After Jan. 6  —  Hi.  Welcome to On Politics, your guide to the political news in Washington and across the nation.  We're your hosts, Blake and Leah. … Six weeks after the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol, Donald Trump's pollster, Tony Fabrizio …
David Rothkopf / USA Today:
What if the Jan. 6 insurrection had succeeded in illegally installing Trump?
Washington Post:
The government we defended last Jan. 6 has a duty to hold all the perpetrators accountable
Discussion: Daily Kos and New York Times
Washington Post:
‘No pictures, no pictures’: The enduring images from Jan. 6
Discussion: Florida Politics
CNN:
January 6 committee chairman wants to speak directly with Mike Pence
Discussion: Raw Story and New York Times
Washington Post:
Facebook groups topped 10,000 daily attacks on election before Jan. 6, analysis shows
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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Clare Malone / New Yorker:
Ben Smith Can't Say What His New Media Venture Is  —  The departing Times media columnist and former editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News wants to push the envelope but isn't yet ready to say just how.  —  Ben Smith had a hundred-and-forty-four unread text messages when we talked …
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 …
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
Discussion: WTVR-TV
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Sharon Terlep / Wall Street Journal:
Walmart, Kroger Raise Prices of Covid-19 Test Kits
Discussion: Bloomberg, New York Times and CBS News
FOX 35 Orlando:
New COVID-19 variant named IHU discovered in France
Discussion: New York Post and Townhall
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.
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 …
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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Miles Parks / NPR:
Here's where election-denying candidates are running to control voting
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.
Discussion: Althouse
Zachary Petrizzo / The Daily Beast:
‘Vaccine Police’ Leader Traveling Country With Flamethrower 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 …
Discussion: Raw Story
Michael David Smith / ProFootballTalk:
One MVP voter says he won't vote for Aaron Rodgers, calling him “the biggest jerk in the league”  —  Packers quarterback Aaron Rodgers is the favorite to win the league's MVP award.  But one voter has already ruled out Rodgers for consideration.  —  That voter is Hub Arkush …
Garion Frankel / Chalkboard Review:
BREAKING: Chicago Teachers Union Begins Strike Over in-Person Learning  —  As many schools across the country resume in-person learning after the holiday break, Chicago Public Schools (CPS) finds itself in turmoil.  —  On Tuesday, the Chicago Teachers Union (CTU) voted to refuse anything but a return to remote learning.
Discussion: Washington Post, Forbes and NBC Chicago
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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.
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.
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.
Discussion: Fox News, Politico and Washington Post
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.
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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John Solomon / Just The News:
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Washington Post:
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Data For Progress:
Majority of Voters Still Want the Build Back Better Act Passed
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Tristan Justice / The Federalist:
Pelosi Is Blocking Access To House January 6 Records. What Is She Hiding?
New York Times:
Leftists Are Ascendant in Latin America as Key Elections Loom
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John Stoehr / The Editorial Board:
Lies are bad. A press corps enabling liars is worse
Discussion: The Covid Chronicles and Daily Kos
Fortesa Latifi / Teen Vogue:
This is what it's like to be the child of a January 6 insurrectionist.
Discussion: Raw Story
 

 
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