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9:50 AM ET, August 14, 2023

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CNN:
Exclusive: Georgia prosecutors have messages showing Trump's team is behind voting system breach  —  Atlanta-area prosecutors investigating efforts to overturn the 2020 election results in Georgia are in possession of text messages and emails directly connecting members of Donald Trump's legal team …
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Rolling Stone:
Trump's ‘Co-Conspirators’ Are Already Starting to Turn on Each Other  —  “It is the 'please don't put me in jail, put that other guy in jail' strategy,” says one attorney working in Trump's legal orbit … A number of the ex-president's chief lieutenants and alleged co-conspirators in the plot …
Discussion: PoliticusUSA
Wall Street Journal:
Georgia Is Ground Zero for Trump Exhaustion as Another Indictment Looms
Judd Legum / Popular Information:
In a small Kansas town, a brazen attack on press freedom  —  “These are Hitler tactics, and something has to be done.”  —  Those were the words of 98-year-old Joan Meyer, the co-owner of the Marion County Record, after her home and office were raided by the City of Marion's entire five-person police department on Friday.
NBC News:
RFK Jr. says he'd sign a federal ban on abortions after three months of pregnancy  —  The stance puts Kennedy — who's mounting long shot bid to unseat President Joe Biden as the Democratic standard bearer in 2024 — out of step with most of his party.  —  DES MOINES, IOWA …
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Politico:
Playbook: Another week, another indictment?  —  Presented by With help from Eli Okun and Garrett Ross  —  DRIVING THE DAY  —  NEW JMART — Jonathan Martin goes long — 5,000 words! — on MITCH McCONNELL's (perhaps) final mission: thwarting DONALD TRUMP and aiding Ukraine.
Christopher Cadelago / Politico:
Newsom vs. DeSantis debate stalling over Fox News audience  —  The California Democrat and Florida Republican agreed to the debate, but hit a stalemate over the network hosting a live studio audience.  —  Gavin Newsom and Ron DeSantis have reached an impasse in their Fox News debate planned for November …
Discussion: The Messenger and The Hill
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Josh Dawsey / Washington Post:
‘Fully expected the downfall’: Inside DeSantis's brawls with Fla. Republicans  —  Some who knew the Florida governor in Tallahassee say they expected him to have trouble translating his governance of the state into a coalition that could win him the presidency
Discussion: Raw Story and Mercury News
Public Notice:
PEPFAR and the death knell of bipartisan cooperation  —  Fighting HIV is now a front in the culture war, showing how the GOP has degraded since the Bush era.  —  ∙ Paid … By Lisa Needham  —  George W. Bush didn't do a lot right in his presidency.
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
GOP sees turnout disaster without Trump  —  Republican strategists are worried that if former President Trump doesn't secure the GOP's presidential nomination next year, or if he is kept off the ballot because of his mounting legal problems, it could spell a voter turnout disaster for their party in 2024.
Discussion: The Message Box and Raw Story
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Meghann Dyke / Washington Examiner:
Rep. Greg Steube introduces impeachment articles against President Joe Biden  —  A Florida Congressman has introduced impeachment articles against President Joe Biden, coming as the first member of his Republican party colleagues to jump-start the process.  —  Rep. Greg Steube (R-FL) …
Washington Post:
White House steps up judicial confirmation efforts after slowdown  —  Good morning, Early Birds.  Our thoughts continue to be with the people of Maui.  Sen. Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) offered one small sign of hope over the weekend.  Tips: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.
Kenneth Niemeyer / Insider:
Massachusetts passed a 4% millionaire's tax last year.  Now every public-school student is going to get free lunch.  — Massachusetts passed a 4% tax on people who make more than $1 million a year.  — Revenue from the new income tax is being used to give kids lunch and breakfast at school.
Deborah Pearlstein / New York Times:
Why Are So Many of Trump's Alleged Co-Conspirators Lawyers?  —  Deborah Pearlstein is a professor of constitutional law.  —  The second federal indictment of Donald Trump describes conduct that posed a profound threat to our constitutional democracy — conduct that deserves serious punishment if proven.
Dennis Romero / NBC News:
2 eject from vintage Soviet jet before crash at Michigan air show  —  No injuries were reported when the MiG-23, flying at Thunder Over Michigan, plummeted and hit vehicles in a parking lot in Belleville, authorities said.  —  Two people in a vintage fighter jet ejected dramatically …
 
 
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The Supreme Court is taking a wrecking ball to the wall between church and state
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