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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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Washington Post and The Hill
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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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Washington Examiner and Vox
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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The Triad, WBAL, Baltimore Sun, Politico, Raw Story, Voice of America, HotAir and CBS News
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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New York Times, Associated Press, Talking Points Memo and Axios
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Dan Mangan / CNBC:
Rudy Giuliani ordered to testify at Georgia grand jury in Trump election meddling case — Rudy Giuliani has been ordered to testify Aug. 9 before a grand jury in Georgia that is collecting evidence in a probe of possible criminal meddling in that state's 2020 presidential election by former President Donald Trump.
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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The Daily Beast, 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
New Findings Detail Trump Plan to Use Census for Partisan Gain
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Washington Post
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
Senators finalize bipartisan proposal designed to prevent another Jan. 6
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Washington Post and Insider
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
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
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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Insider, Washington Examiner, Washington Post, Raw Story, The Bulwark, CNN and National Review
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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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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The Guardian, Politico, Ком …, Financial Times and Reuters
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
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Defense One, Al Jazeera, Washington Post, Graham's Newsletter, Washington Examiner, WTOP News, Free West Media and Voice of America
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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WHTM-TV
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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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 …
Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Democrats reluctantly coalesce around Manchin's climate-less offer on Biden bill — WASHINGTON — Democratic leaders have decided to accept an offer by Sen. Joe Manchin and move forward on a slimmed-down bill with drug pricing and health insurance funding — leaving efforts on climate change for another day.
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BACKSTORY JOURNAL and The Hill
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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.
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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The Hill, Washington Examiner, HotAir, NBC News, WEWS, 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 »
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
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
Your-pain-our-gain Buttigieg: I'm “astonished” that people aren't flocking to EVs — If you got strong Marie Antoinette vibes from Pete Buttigieg's House testimony yesterday, his appearance today on CNBC's Squawk Box will amplify them considerably. The Transportation Secretary told Rep. Carlos Gimenez …
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Townhall and The Federalist
Manny Garcia / Austin American-Statesman:
Uvalde families deserve the Texas House Committee report in Spanish. Here it is. — The Austin American-Statesman is publishing in Spanish the entire report from the special Texas House committee empaneled to investigate the tragic deaths of 19 children and their two teachers at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde.
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
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, Washington Examiner, NPR and Ground News
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.
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 …
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 …