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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Senators announce bipartisan bills to stop candidates from stealing elections — WASHINGTON — After months of negotiating, a group of senators announced two proposals Wednesday designed to close gaps in federal law and prevent future candidates from stealing elections.
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Marianne LeVine / Politico:
Senators finalize bipartisan proposal designed to prevent another Jan. 6 — A bipartisan group of senators on Wednesday finalized a deal to reform a 135-year-old law that governs the peaceful transition of power, hoping to pass it before the end of the year.
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Ned Foley / Election Law Blog:
Why Congress should swiftly enact the Senate's bipartisan ECA reform bill
Leigh Ann Caldwell / Washington Post:
Trump wanted Pence to reject votes for Biden. A new bill would prevent that.
Trump wanted Pence to reject votes for Biden. A new bill would prevent that.
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CNN:
Bipartisan group of senators cuts deal to change election laws in response to January 6 attack
Bipartisan group of senators cuts deal to change election laws in response to January 6 attack
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New York Times, Roll Call and PoliticusUSA
Melanie Zanona / CNN:
Republican lawmakers thank Pence for his actions on January 6 and encourage him to run in 2024
Republican lawmakers thank Pence for his actions on January 6 and encourage him to run in 2024
Juliegrace Brufke / Washington Examiner:
House Republican Study Committee members praise Pence for certifying 2020 election
House Republican Study Committee members praise Pence for certifying 2020 election
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The Hill
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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Cook Political Report:
Maryland Goes MAGA — For the last seven years, Maryland GOP Gov. Larry Hogan defied political gravity and traditional political stereotypes. But, Hogan's brand of moderate, anti-Trump Republicanism lacks appeal among the GOP faithful who show up and vote in GOP primaries.
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New York Magazine, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, No More Mister Nice Blog and Vox
Jim Swift / The Bulwark:
Maryland GOP Throws It All Away
Maryland GOP Throws It All Away
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ABC News, WBAL, The Triad, Baltimore Sun, The Baltimore Banner, Mediaite, Voice of America, Raw Story, HotAir and CBS News
Hansi Lo Wang / NPR:
Documents detail 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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The Daily Beast and The Root
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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 and Raw Story
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 …
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CNN:
Former Trump White House aide who met with January 6 panel attacks witnesses, lawmakers in profane and sexist rant — (CNN)A former Trump White House aide who met with the January 6 committee earlier this week went on a profane and sexist rant on a livestream after his testimony …
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Quinnipiac University Poll:
Biden Approval Hits New Low Amid Public Discontent With Both Parties, Quinnipiac University National Poll Finds; Nearly Half Of Americans Worry About Being Mass Shooting Victim — mail_outline — One and a half years since President Joe Biden took office, Americans give President Biden …
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CNBC, Bloomberg, Ace of Spades HQ and Political Wire
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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CNN:
Senators expect GOP support to grow for same-sex marriage bill in bid to overcome filibuster — ‘It terrifies me’: Same-sex marriage plaintiff on Roe v. Wade draft opinion — (CNN)Republican and Democratic senators said Wednesday they expect a bill to codify same-sex marriage to eventually win …
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John Wagner / Washington Post:
Schumer seeks enough GOP votes to pass same-sex marriage bill
Schumer seeks enough GOP votes to pass same-sex marriage bill
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Politico, The Hill, HotAir, WEWS, Washington Examiner, NBC News, TheBlaze, The Signorile Report and NewsNation
Tom Nichols / The Atlantic:
Confessions of a Conservative Apostate — What does it mean to be a conservative now? … For weeks I've been watching a parade of Republican officials describe how they worked inside a Republican administration under Donald Trump as the GOP fell to a bunch of kooks, opportunists, racists, and aspiring fascists.
David Wallace-Wells / New York Times:
Endemic Covid-19 Looks Pretty Brutal — It may surprise you to learn, given the mood of the country — and indeed the world — about the pandemic that probably half of all Covid infections have happened this calendar year — and it's only July. By December, the figure could be 80 percent or more.
Julia Ainsley / NBC News:
Secret Service was told at least once before Jan. 6, 2021, to preserve texts — A senior Secret Service official said agency employees received two emails — at least one prior to Jan. 6, 2021 — reminding them to preserve records on their cellphones, including text messages …
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Julian Routh / Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
John Fetterman, in first interview since stroke, talks recovery and return to U.S. Senate campaign trail — This story will be updated. — In his first media interview since suffering a stroke days before the May primary election, Pennsylvania Lt. Gov. John Fetterman …
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Washington Post, The Hill and WHTM-TV
Benjamin Wittes / Lawfare:
In Defense of the Justice Department — Editor's Note: The following article should be read in conversation with “Is the Justice Department Meeting the Moment?” by Quinta Jurecic and Natalie Orpett. Together, the articles articulate two sides of a debate over criticisms …
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Rosalind S. Helderman / Washington Post:
Trump's choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds
Trump's choices escalated tensions and set U.S. on path to Jan. 6, panel finds
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Florida Politics, Al Jazeera and Words & Deeds
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, Kansas Reflector and The American Independent
Politico:
Biden announces modest steps to fight climate's ‘clear and present danger’ — Setbacks in Congress and at the Supreme Court are putting President Joe Biden's climate change goals out of reach as brutal heatwaves descend on much of the U.S. and Europe. — SOMERSET, Mass. …
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National Review, Al Jazeera, CNN and Raw Story
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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 …
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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ABC News, RedState, Insider, Washington Post, Washington Examiner, The Bulwark and Raw Story
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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DSCC, The Hill, DownWithTyranny!, Washington Post, Raw Story and Citizen News
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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.