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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
The GOP is quietly ‘Trump-proofing’ our system behind his back  —  Nobody tell Donald Trump, but Republicans in the Senate appear poised to join Democrats in protecting our democracy from exactly the election subversion he attempted in 2020 — and would surely attempt again in 2024 if given the chance.
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Many Senate Republicans aren't protecting Trump after Jan. 6 panel's nod to criminal charges  —  Senate Republicans are stepping out of the way of the House Jan. 6 committee's recommendation that the Justice Department prosecute former President Trump for crimes related to the 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Wall Street Journal:
The Jan. 6 Inquiry's Not-So-Grand Finale
Politico:
The Jan. 6 committee's big reveal hasn't happened yet
Alan Rappeport / New York Times:
Release of Trump Tax Returns Could Herald New Era for Taxpayer Privacy
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
No, the Jan. 6 committee didn't make Trump stronger
Discussion: New York Daily News and Raw Story
Tony Romm / Washington Post:
Congress unveils $1.7 trillion deal to fund government, avert shutdown  —  Lawmakers must act swiftly to approve the measure, known as an omnibus, before a temporary spending agreement lapses at the end of this week  —  Democratic and Republican negotiators early Tuesday unveiled …
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Kevin Freking / Associated Press:
Lawmakers unveil $1.7T bill to avoid shutdown, boost Ukraine  —  Congressional leaders unveiled a government-wide $1.7 trillion spending package early Tuesday that includes another large round of aid to Ukraine, a nearly 10% boost in defense spending and roughly $40 billion to assist communities across …
Nate Raymond / Reuters:
No free PACER as U.S. lawmakers exclude proposal from spending bill  —  U.S. lawmakers have left a proposal to make the federal judiciary's PACER online court records system free out of a sprawling, $1.66 trillion spending measure unveiled on Tuesday, a setback for advocates as the current Congress nears its end.
Lois Beckett / The Guardian:
Police provide first official details of Elon Musk's alleged stalker incident  —  Police say a member of Elon Musk's security team is currently a suspect in their investigation, not a victim  —  Twitter CEO Elon Musk tweeted last week that a “crazy stalker” followed a car carrying …
Discussion: The Daily Beast and Bloomberg
Jill Lawrence / USA Today:
Liz Cheney has been a godsend for democracy, but she doesn't fit anywhere in US politics  —  Her sharp-edged certainty, deployed to save democracy, has been a gift.  But today's GOP is hostile to her precisely because of that mission.  —  View Comments  —  Rep. Liz Cheney sounded …
Discussion: Breitbart
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Sahil Kapur / NBC News:
Congress releases major spending bill with election reforms to prevent another Jan. 6
Wilhelmine Preussen / Politico:
Nazi camp secretary found guilty in potentially final Holocaust trial  —  'I'm sorry for everything that happened and I regret that I was in Stutthof at the time.  That's all I can say,' says Irmgard Furchner.  —  A German court convicted a former Nazi camp secretary of complicity in the murder …
Lee Fang / The Intercept:
Twitter Aided the Pentagon in its Covert Online Propaganda Campaign … Twitter executives have claimed for years that the company makes concerted efforts to detect and thwart government-backed covert propaganda campaigns on its platform.  —  Behind the scenes, however …
Hannah Levitt / Bloomberg:
Wells Fargo to Pay $3.7 Billion for Mistreating Customers  —  Wells Fargo & Co. reached a $3.7 billion settlement with federal regulators, including a record $1.7 billion fine, to cover allegations that for years it mistreated millions of customers, causing some to lose their cars or homes.
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Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
While advising Trump on judges, Conway sold her business to a firm with ties to judicial activist Leonard Leo  —  Longtime judicial activist Leonard Leo appears to have helped facilitate the sale of former White House senior adviser Kellyanne Conway's polling company in 2017 …
Discussion: Raw Story
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Politico:
Abortion roiled the midterms.  Now it will define the presidential race.  —  Donald Trump delivered the Supreme Court majority that voted to overturn Roe v. Wade, signed a laundry list of executive actions that chipped away at abortion access and openly embraced the anti-abortion movement …
Discussion: New York Magazine
Jacob Bogage / Washington Post:
Postal Service will electrify trucks by 2026 in climate win for Biden  —  Agency plans to spend almost $10 billion for 66,000 electric vehicles and related infrastructure  —  The U.S. Postal Service will buy 66,000 vehicles to build one of the largest electric fleets in the nation …
Reuters:
The man behind Trump World's myth of rigged voting machines  —  Central to the election-denial movement is a galaxy of conspiracy theories about vote-flipping supercomputers.  The myths can be traced to Dennis Montgomery, a programmer and former U.S. intelligence contractor.
Discussion: Raw Story
Philip Bump / Washington Post:
The Twitter-FBI story relies far more on insinuation than evidence  —  The third-most important story of Oct. 7, 2016, was a warning from the federal government about Russian efforts to interfere with that year's presidential election.  It was an unusual message and a relatively vague one …
CNN:
First on CNN: 2 Americans held by the Taliban have been released, sources tell CNN  —  Two Americans who had been detained by the Taliban in Afghanistan have been released and are en route to Qatar, three sources familiar with the matter tell CNN.  —  Two of the sources tell CNN …
Wall Street Journal:
Sam Bankman-Fried's Lawyers Hash Out His Transfer to U.S. After Confusion in Court  —  The FTX founder has agreed to be extradited, with lawyers drafting documents, according to a person familiar with the matter  —  Watch: Sam Bankman-Fried Closer to Extradition After Bahamas Hearing
Greg Bluestein / Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
How Abrams' campaign spending led to ‘incredibly bad’ cash crunch  —  The Democrat's spending on a ‘hype house’ and other lavish expenses came back to haunt her by the November midterm, former aides say  —  A rented house in an expensive Atlanta neighborhood meant for TikTok creators that sat largely unused.
Hillel Italie / Associated Press:
Caro still working away on fifth LBJ book, no pub date set  —  The good news on Robert A. Caro's long-awaited next book is that he knows the final words.  The bad news is that he's known them for years and remains far from concluding his Lyndon B. Johnson series.
Jerusalem Demsas / The Atlantic:
The Homeownership Society Was a Mistake  —  It is a truth universally acknowledged that an American in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a mortgage.  I don't know if you should buy a house.  Nor am I inclined to give you personal financial advice.
DCCC:
JEFFRIES ANNOUNCES SUZAN DELBENE AS DCCC CHAIR FOR 2024 CYCLE  —  DelBene a successful former DCCC Red-to-Blue and Frontline Member  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. - Incoming Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries announced today that he has tapped Congresswoman Suzan DelBene of Washington to lead …
Sara Fischer / Axios:
Scoop: ProPublica to return SBF funds  —  ProPublica, the nonprofit investigative news outlet, will return the $1.6 million in funds it received from Sam Bankman-Fried's family foundation, according to a staff memo obtained by Axios. … - The money will instead be moved to a separate account until its …
The Texas Tribune:
A Texas superintendent ordered librarians to remove LGBTQ-themed books.  Now the federal government is investigating.  —  The Education Department's Office for Civil Rights has opened what appears to be the first-of-its-kind investigation into the Granbury Independent School District …
Financial Times:
Billionaire Oleg Deripaska's Sochi hotel complex seized after Russian court order … A Russian court has ordered the seizure of a luxury hotel complex owned by billionaire Oleg Deripaska, one of the few oligarchs to have criticised President Vladimir Putin's war in Ukraine …
Discussion: DNyuz, Defense One and Political Wire
Axios:
Biden in newly surfaced video: Iran nuclear deal is “dead”  —  President Biden said on the sidelines of a Nov. 4 election rally that the 2015 nuclear deal with Iran is “dead,” but stressed the U.S. won't formally announce it, according to a new video that surfaced on social media late Monday.
 
 
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Jacob Shamsian / Insider:
E. Jean Carroll said in deposition she held back Trump rape allegation to not be seen as ‘spoiled goods’
Discussion: Associated Press and Bloomberg
Peter Eavis / New York Times:
Clean Energy Quest Pits Google Against Utilities
Jennifer Rubin / Washington Post:
Ron Klain deserves his share of credit for Biden's success
Jonathan V. Last / The Triad:
Bring Trump to Justice
 Earlier Items: 
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A Pennsylvania county delayed certifying the midterms. That has scary implications for 2024.
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NBC News:
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Big Tech Divided and Conquered to Block Key Bipartisan Bills
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