memeorandum: Secret Service provided a single text exchange to IG after request for many records (Jamie Gangel/CNN)

11:10 AM ET, July 20, 2022

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Cameron Joseph / VICE:

The GOP Just Nominated a ‘QAnon Whackjob’ and a ‘True Confederate’ in Maryland — A guy who tried to impeach Maryland's GOP governor was just nominated to replace him—and he's not even the most extreme candidate who won on Tuesday. — Cameron Joseph — WASHINGTON, US

Discussion: HuffPost

Jim Swift / The Bulwark:

Maryland GOP Throws It All Away — Republicans turned their backs on their popular two-term governor, Larry Hogan, by elevating a crank over his chosen moderate successor. — Back in April, I introduced readers to Dan Cox, a far-right kook and Maryland state legislator running for governor.

Discussion: The Hill, Outside the Beltway and CBS News

Zach Montellaro / Politico:
Trump wins proxy war with Hogan in Maryland primary — boosted by Democrats

Discussion: WBAL, Decision Desk HQ, Fox News, National Review, Baltimore Sun, Voice of America, New York Times, Bloomberg, USA Today, Washington Times, Washington Examiner, Washington Post and Townhall

Henry J. Gomez / NBC News:
Trump-backed election denier Dan Cox wins Maryland's GOP primary for governor

Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:

Documents show the secret strategy behind Trump's census citizenship question push — Former President Donald Trump's administration spent years trying to add a census citizenship question as part of a secret strategy for altering the population numbers used to divide up seats in Congress …

Discussion: Axios and Associated Press

Miriam Jordan / New York Times:

New Findings Detail Trump Plan to Use Census for Partisan Gain — A new trove of memos and emails suggest that the plan to add a citizenship question to the 2020 census aimed to cause an undercount that would favor Republicans. — A new stash of documents obtained by Congress has confirmed …

Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:

Live Ukraine Updates: U.S. Official Compares Russia's Plans to Its Crimea Playbook — Warning of possible further disruptions to Russian fuel exports, including “a complete stop of Russian gas deliveries,” the European Commission is asking E.U. member states to adopt a strict energy consumption plan.

Discussion: Associated Press, The Guardian, Free West Media and Voice of America

Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Russia's goals in Ukraine now include territory outside the Donbas, Lavrov says

Discussion: Politico, Ком …, Financial Times and Reuters

Associated Press:
‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia

Discussion: The Daily Beast, WTOP News and Washington Examiner

Washington Post:
E.U. proposes plan to ration gas ahead of ‘likely’ cutoff by Russia

Discussion: The Full Belmonte, Al Jazeera and MyNorthwest.com

Alex Rogers / CNN:

Trump-backed Arizona Senate candidate escalates election fears ahead of GOP primary — (CNN)Arizona Republican Blake Masters, who earned Donald Trump's endorsement for the Senate race by embracing the former President's lies that he won the 2020 election, has turned to questioning whether …

Discussion: The Hill and Raw Story

CD Media: CD Media Big Data Poll: Blake Masters Holds 11-Point Lead In Arizona Republican Primary For U.S. Senate

Washington Post:
Arizona Senate candidate embraces Trump's extreme style

Discussion: FOX News Radio

David Siders / Politico:

'It's the accumulation': The Jan. 6 hearings are wounding Trump, after all — The conventional wisdom about the Jan. 6 committee hearings was that no single revelation was going to change Republican minds about Donald Trump. — What happened instead, a slow drip of negative coverage, may be just as damaging to the former president.

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Insider, Washington Post, Raw Story and The Bulwark

James Rogan / Washington Examiner:

Why a climate national emergency declaration is ill-advised — At the heart of the climate emergency discussion is the National Emergencies Act of 1976. It's a statute that delegates broad authorities to the president to declare a national emergency. — The NEA reads: “With respect …

Washington Post:
Biden to issue new policy on climate, vowing to act if Congress doesn't

Discussion: Politico, USA Today, BizPac Review, NBC News, HuffPost, E&E, Breitbart and CNN

Alexandra Petri / Washington Post:

Okay, but Cassandra cannot possibly be right *again* — Listen — Gift Article — I hear what you are saying. And, yes, the data is compelling. Cassandra has been right literally every time she has made a prediction. War. Famine. Rights rollbacks.

Eric Connor / Post and Courier:

US Rep. Timmons deflects affair, abuse of power allegations on Upstate SC radio — GREENVILLE — U.S. Rep. William Timmons went on conservative talk radio to address rumors circling for weeks that he had an extramarital affair and abused his power as a congressman to further it.

Jamie Gangel / CNN:

Secret Service provided a single text exchange to IG after request for many records — (CNN)The Secret Service was only able to provide a single text exchange to the DHS inspector general who had requested a month's worth of records for 24 Secret Service personnel, according to a letter …

Discussion: Washington Examiner, Talking Points Memo, The Hill, New York Post, The Guardian, Associated Press, Letters from an American, New York Times and GloriaChristieReports …

Aubrie Spady / Fox News:

Trump-backed Kari Lake shared anti-Trump ‘not my president’ meme on Facebook days before 2017 inauguration — Former VP Pence and Gov. Ducey both recently endorsed Lake's primary opponent Karrin Taylor Robson. — Republican Gov. Doug Ducey of Arizona speaks on Trump's impact on the primaries

Discussion: The Hill and Mediaite

FiveThirtyEight:

The Abortion Vote In Kansas Looks Like It's Going To Be Close — On June 24, the U.S. Supreme Court's conservative majority overturned the constitutional right to abortion in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, saying they were sending the issue of abortion back to the voters.

Discussion: The American Independent and Kansas Reflector

Thomas Franck / CNBC:

Senate advances more than $50 billion bill to boost U.S. semiconductor production — The Senate on Tuesday voted to advance a slimmed-down version of its bill designed to boost U.S. semiconductor competition with China. — The legislation, which would provide about $50 billion …

Discussion: Vox, Bloomberg and Washington Post, more at Techmeme »

Lachlan Markay / Axios:

GOP's grassroots money problem — Democrats across the 10 most competitive Senate races are out-raising Republicans by more than $75 million among small-dollar donors — those giving less than $200 — according to an Axios analysis of Federal Election Commission records.

Discussion: CBS News, Mediaite, Talking Points Memo and Raw Story

Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:

Trump's choices set nation on path to Jan. 6 violence, committee shows — Across seven hearings, the panel's findings have illustrated how the president repeatedly escalated tensions following his election defeat — Gift Article — Donald Trump had already been told by his campaign manager …

Discussion: Words & Deeds

Washington Post:

Brett Kavanaugh's neighbors: For abortion rights but tired of protests — Weekly demonstrations on their street prompt increased noise complaints; police warn of possible arrests — Listen — Gift Article — On paper at least, Emily Strulson might seem a welcoming host …

Discussion: HotAir, Townhall and Althouse

Evan Simko-Bednarski / New York Post:

Indiana mall hero Elisjsha Dicken returned fire just 15 seconds into mass shooting — The hero of the Indiana mall shooting returned fire and fatally struck gunman Jonathan Sapirman just 15 seconds after the carnage began — not 2 minutes, it was revealed on Tuesday.

Discussion: BizPac Review, Breitbart, Washington Examiner, MyNorthwest.com, Wall Street Journal and CBS News

New York Times:
After Indiana Mall Shooting, One Hero but No Lasting Solution

Discussion: bearingarms.com, WGN-TV, TheGrio, Reason and UPI

John Solomon / Just The News:

Colbert crew's behavior in Capitol complex caused Democrat staffer to call for emergency help — Stephen Colbert's comedy crew was warned “several times” it could not trespass on Capitol grounds, and its behavior in a congressional office building during an unauthorized nighttime visit …

Discussion: RedState

Washington Post:

After 246 years, Marines set for their first Black four-star general … Listen — Gift Article — In the late 1980s, Maj. Ronald Bailey met a young Marine he knew had promise. Michael E. Langley was a powerlifter who dominated flag football games, an intellectual who set records …

Sophia Cai / Axios:

Scoop: GOP's oil reserve amnesia — The Trump administration sold oil from the U.S. strategic reserves to China's largest oil producer in 2017, according to government data reviewed by Axios. … - Former President Trump and conservative media personalities have also criticized the sale …

Jack Shafer / Politico:

You Trust the Media More Than You Say You Do — If you follow the trendline of plummeting trust in newspapers, as just updated by Gallup, you could make an argument that by the year 2030 or so, 0 percent of respondents will say they have any “confidence” in newspapers and TV news.

Discussion: TheBlaze, Washington Post and Breitbart

David M. Drucker / Washington Examiner:

Ohio Republicans want more action, effort from JD Vance in key fall Senate race — Complaints about JD Vance and his Senate campaign are rising among Ohio Republicans after the conservative populist posted an anemic second-quarter fundraising report. — Vance entered July with $628,804 …

Ryan Cooper / American Prospect:

Republicans Have Created a Pro-Life Dystopia — And they're not going to do anything to fix it — Roe v. Wade Protest — Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) is arrested during a sit-in outside of the Supreme Court to protest the decision to overturn Roe v. Wade on July 19, 2022.

Discussion: New Jersey Monitor and All in Her Head