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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
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HuffPost, The Hill and Lawyers, Guns & Money
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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.
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Baltimore Sun, Raw Story, HotAir, Outside the Beltway, The Hill and CBS News
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 …
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Axios, Associated Press and The Full Belmonte
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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 …
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Washington Post
Tamar Hallerman / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
Judge orders Giuliani to testify before Fulton grand jury — Rudy Giuliani, former President Donald Trump's personal attorney, is being ordered to appear in front of a Fulton County special grand jury next month after failing to attend a hearing in New York to challenge a recent subpoena.
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Associated Press, Insider, Axios and CNN
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Rudy Giuliani ordered to testify at Georgia grand jury in Trump election meddling case
Rudy Giuliani ordered to testify at Georgia grand jury in Trump election meddling case
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Politico and Just The News
FiveThirtyEight:
The Abortion Vote In Kansas Looks Like It's Going To Be Close — A new poll shows that Democrats may be more energized than Republicans. — By Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Nathaniel Rakich and Amelia Thomson-DeVeaux and Nathaniel Rakich — Jul. 20, 2022, at 9:33 AM
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New York Times, The American Independent and Kansas Reflector
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 …
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats reluctantly coalesce around Manchin's climate-less offer on Biden bill
Democrats reluctantly coalesce around Manchin's climate-less offer on Biden bill
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The Hill
Associated Press:
‘The mouth of a bear’: Ukrainian refugees sent to Russia — NARVA, Estonia (AP) — For weeks Natalya Zadoyanova had lost contact with her younger brother Dmitriy, who was trapped in the besieged Ukrainian port city of Mariupol. — Russian forces had bombed the orphanage where he worked …
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Wall Street Journal, The Daily Beast, Bangor Daily News and Washington Examiner
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Matina Stevis-Gridneff / New York Times:
Live Ukraine Updates: U.S. Official Compares Russia's Plans to Its Crimea Playbook
Live Ukraine Updates: U.S. Official Compares Russia's Plans to Its Crimea Playbook
Mike Brest / Washington Examiner:
Russia's goals in Ukraine now include territory outside the Donbas, Lavrov says
Russia's goals in Ukraine now include territory outside the Donbas, Lavrov says
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Politico, Ком …, Financial Times and Reuters
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.
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Insider, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Bulwark and CNN
Scott Tobias / The Reveal:
The case of the disappearing blockbuster: James Cameron's ‘True Lies’ — The first $100 million movie is simultaneously retrograde, forward-looking and completely of its time. — Last week on Facebook, Jamie Lee Curtis shared a fond memory about a stunt she did for James Cameron's 1994 …
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 …
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Washington Post, Citizen News, Raw Story and The Hill
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Schumer seeks enough GOP votes to pass same-sex marriage bill — Listen — Gift Article — Senate Majority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said Wednesday that he is working to get sufficient Republican support for the Senate to pass a bill that would federally protect same-sex marriages.
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Washington Examiner, The Hill, TheBlaze, The Signorile Report, NewsNation and Political Wire
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Thomas Franck / CNBC:
Senate advances more than $50 billion bill to boost U.S. semiconductor production
Senate advances more than $50 billion bill to boost U.S. semiconductor production
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Politico, Vox, Bloomberg, Washington Post and The Daily Caller, more at Techmeme »
Jordan Green / Raw Story:
Witness Garrett Ziegler lashes out at J6 committee in white nationalist grievance rant — After invoking the Fifth Amendment and executive privilege more than 100 times to refuse to answer questions from the January 6th Committee on Tuesday, former White House aide Garrett Ziegler opened …
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.
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
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.
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New Jersey Monitor
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.
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CBS News, Mediaite, Raw Story and Talking Points Memo
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.
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Raw Story
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 …
Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump's choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds — 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 …
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The Hill:
Democrats want Biden to go scorched-earth on GOP — When Michelle Obama declared “When they go low, we go high” about Republicans in 2016, Democrats generally agreed with the sentiment. — After all, the party was up against Donald Trump, a man who seemed to find joy in making personal attacks part of his daily routine.
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Bloomberg, New York Magazine, HotAir and NPR
Caitlin McFall / Fox News:
Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asks Congress for air defense systems, thanks US for support — Ukrainian first lady Olena Zelenska asks for weapons to stop Russian bombs hitting ‘children in their strollers’
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New York Times, Reuters, Washington Post and CBS News
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 …
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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 …
The Lever:
The Manchin Aide Turned Corporate Shill — Former top Manchin aide Jonathan Kott launched an anti-Sanders dark money group and now lobbies for oil giants, Big Pharma, and Fox News. — Late last week, after Sen. Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) obliterated much of what was left of President Joe Biden's agenda …
Laura Weiss / New Republic:
After Roe's Repeal, CVS Told Pharmacists to Withhold Certain Prescriptions — In the weeks since the Supreme Court issued its ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women's Health Organization, which allows states to make abortion illegal, there has been a raft of stories about patients with chronic illnesses …