#Capitol

NEW: For the first time since the Civil War, a serious secession bill has been filed in a U.S. state. Here's what the new Texas secession bill would do, and
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I really can't with the Lincoln Project.This ad tries to pin racist voter suppression on the insurrection wing of the GOP... while pretending disenfranchising Black people hasn't been a mainstream
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While millions of Americans are out of work, and many working Americans suffer from COVID-19 they contracted while working on a factory line, @SpeakerPelosi has more than doubled her $500K-$1
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It's unsettling how much of our politics has become "don't do that or the GOP base will murder their fellow Americans." Seems pretty unsustainable but there doesn't appear to be
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Lots of stuff happened on Capitol Hill yesterday. All sorts of reflexivity and fertile fallacies. And, if you haven't figured it out yet, you are only allowed to believe one
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News Corp headliners are trying to frame Craig Kelly as an independent truth teller who is being smeared for going against the orthodoxy. That's absurd: Kelly baselessly speculates or, worse,
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We will soon know:-the obstruction of justice in the Mueller Report-that Trump & Junior committed perjury -that there was direct coordination with Russia and other nations-that Kushner, Trump and others
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Trump backs down - on transition, on prosecuting MAGA rioters, on links to far right. Why? Because a felony was committed somewhere in the chain of command that led to
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Unlike leftwing terrorists, white supremacist groups have been closely, obsessively monitored by the government for decades. They also take rightwing violence far, far more seriously.The idea that Trump is leading
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A Nevada GOP Chairman sent this BONKERS letter to Republican voters:"Let me be clear: Trump will be president for another four years. Biden will not be president. Yes, I know those are
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@sethackerman's right. Complacency's fine in that enough laws exist, rioters arrested, and Trump's denounced his own on camera and promised (again) peaceful exit. I think the real complacency lies elsewhere:
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1. Calendar: Over the next two weeks we would learn shocking information about many of our government officials and wealthy elite. Their involvement in a Chi*ld Se*x Traffic*king & Pedo*philia
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FWIW- a large element of the Republican party wanted to do all the shit they are doing now when Obama was elected. There is a reason I left the GOP
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That unerring Democratic ability to throw away every decent opportunity rears its ugly head. Now it looks like they won't call witnesses in Trump's trial. That is a mistake so
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We cannot allow the historic & horrific events of the past 48 hours to fade without significant consequences. In our 100+ years of history, @ADL has never called for the
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Coup and counter-coup. @ELuttwak in his recent Wall Street journal piece argued that the attempt to seize the Capitol was not a “coup”. This seems to be mainly an argument
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