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Burgess Everett / Politico:
McConnell cracks door to Electoral Count Act reform — Mitch McConnell is signaling he's open to reforming the Electoral Count Act, one year after Senate and House Republicans objected to certification of President Joe Biden's win ahead of an attempted insurrection.
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Ex-White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to meet with 1/6 committee — (CNN)Former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham will meet Wednesday evening on Capitol Hill with the select committee investigating the January 6 insurrection, according to multiple sources familiar with the meeting.
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Matt Fuller / The Daily Beast:
The Real Tragedy of Jan. 6 Is That It's Still Not Over — I had a front-row seat to the riot. A year later, one thing is clear: Nothing has changed. … It was around noon on Jan. 6, 2021, and I was already late. — I was supposed to be covering the counting of the electoral votes …
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Francis Fukuyama / New York Times:
One Single Day. That's All It Took for the World to Look Away From Us. — Mr. Fukuyama is the author of the forthcoming book “Liberalism and Its Discontents.” — The Jan. 6 attack on Congress by a mob inspired by former President Donald Trump marked an ominous precedent for U.S. politics.
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Washington Post:
How Congress can fix the Electoral Count Act — Edward B. Foley is a professor of constitutional law at Ohio State University, where he heads the university's election law program. Michael W. McConnell, formerly a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 10th Circuit …
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Mona Charen / The Bulwark:
Did the January 6 Coup Fail? — By warping the Republican party, Trump made another coup attempt possible. — January 6th should have been the point of no return, the pivot point at which even the most blinkered sugarcoaters of Trumpism recoiled in disgust from what they had wrought.
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Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
More than 1,000 US public figures aided Trump's effort to overturn election — Insurrection Index identifies those who acted as accomplices by participating in 6 January attack or spreading Trump's ‘big lie’ — More than 1,000 Americans in positions of public trust acted as accomplices …
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John Nichols / The Nation:
To Avert Another January 6, Expel Coup Plotters From Congress
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Alan Feuer / New York Times:
Prosecutors Move Quickly on Jan. 6 Cases, but One Big Question Remains
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New York Times:
A Long, Hard Year for Republicans Who Voted to Impeach After Jan. 6
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Alayna Treene / Axios:
Omicron, snowstorm thwart Schumer's midterm year quick start
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Travis Gettys / Raw Story:
More than 1,000 public figures exposed as accomplices to Trump's effort to overturn democracy
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Associated Press:
Images of chaos: AP photographers capture US Capitol riot
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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
How to get real accountability for Jan. 6
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New York Times:
How Trump Kept His Grip After Jan. 6
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Sophia Cai / Axios:
Top Senate Republican signals support for election reform
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Jordain Carney / The Hill:
Manchin floats modest Senate rules changes
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CNN:
What is Sean Hannity hiding?
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Mike Allen / Axios:
Jan. 6 committee may hold prime-time hearings
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David Wasserman / Cook Political Report:
2022 House Overview: Still a GOP Advantage, but Redistricting Looks Like a Wash — The surprising good news for Democrats: on the current trajectory, there will be a few more Biden-won districts after redistricting than there are now — producing a congressional map slightly less biased in the GOP's favor than the last decade's.
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Surprise: Democrats dodged a gerrymandering fiasco. A top analyst explains why. — The long-awaited, long-feared Gerrymandering Apocalypse of 2021 has not materialized for Democrats after all. — Throughout last year, many analysts and panicked Democrats alike concluded that Republicans …
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Leila Abboud / Financial Times:
Macron says his strategy is to ‘piss off’ France's unvaccinated as Covid surges — Parliament suspends vaccine pass debate and rivals criticise president for ‘vulgar’ expression and ‘lack of empathy’ — President Emmanuel Macron has come under fire from political rivals for saying he wanted to …
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Matthew Dalton / Wall Street Journal:
France's Macron Rails Against Unvaccinated People
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David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Omicron Is Milder — How should that affect your behavior? — The details of the Omicron variant are becoming clearer, and they are encouraging. — They're not entirely encouraging, and I will get into some detail about one of the biggest problems — the stress on hospitals …
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Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Lawmakers begin early talks about another round of coronavirus relief targeting businesses — Democrats and Republicans have discussed setting aside billions to help restaurants, gyms and performance venues, though GOP concerns about spending could scuttle the effort
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Washington Post:
More than 40 percent of Americans live in counties hit by climate disasters in 2021 — As climate-fueled extreme weather intensified last year, more than 80 percent of Americans experienced a heat wave. The impacts of fires and severe storms also spread. — 2021 ended as it began: with disaster.
Brooke Staggs / Orange County Register:
Husband: Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died of COVID-19 complications — GOP leaders say Ernby's death won't deter them from speaking out against coronavirus vaccine mandates. — Deputy District Attorney and GOP activist Kelly Ernby wasn't vaccinated when she died early this week …
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U.S. Department of the Treasury:
Treasury Sanctions Milorad Dodik and Associated Media Platform for Destabilizing and Corrupt Activity — Dodik's Destabilizing and Corrupt Activities Undermine 26 years of Progress Since the Dayton Peace Accords — WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control …
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American Greatness:
The Ridiculous Fantasy of a National Divorce — The solution is not some sort of secession or civil war. The solution is for the Right to stop being rank amateurs when it comes to politics and governance. — Every now and then an absurd idea enters the discourse and picks up a sort of memetic traction in spite of itself.
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
The GOP isn't even trying to sound coherent anymore — We must stop pretending the GOP is a real political party made up of coherent adults. To understand why, let's examine a single day this week. — On Tuesday, former president Donald Trump, the undisputed head of the party …
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Eric Levitz / New York Magazine:
Don't Look Up Doesn't Get the Climate Crisis — Don't Look Up is an obscenely overlong, occasionally funny satire of American media and politics. But it aspires to be something more. — As he has emphasized in interviews, director Adam McKay conceived of the film as an allegory for the climate crisis.
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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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Kevin T. Dugan / New York Magazine:
The Dark Side of COVID Testing — Getting swabbed is usually free, but CareCube is accused of a scam to make customers pay. — It took only a few days before Rachel Ramirez started feeling sick after a nearby co-worker came down with COVID this past fall.
Douglas Murray / Common Sense:
When the Right Plays With Jew-Hate — Given today's political environment—in which the left seems unhinged from reality, unable to say that there is one thing that is a man and another thing that is a woman, or to articulate the most basic defense of liberalism and the West—one might imagine that the right is sitting pretty.
Oma Seddiq / Insider:
Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene urges Republicans to leave Twitter and says the platform ‘attacked our country as a whole’ by banning her — Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene blasted Twitter for banning her personal account from its website. — The company is “completely out of bounds,” she said in a Newsmax interview on Tuesday evening.
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