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Chilling WaPo with a Weird Euphemism in Title: “Trump loyalist pushes ‘post-constitutional’ vision for second term”
A battle-tested D.C. bureaucrat and self-described Christian nationalist is drawing up detailed plans for a sweeping expansion of presidential power in a second Trump administration. Russ Vought, who ...
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Someone Needs to Take Away Steven Calabresi’s Keys to the Volokh Conspiracy Blog
Something like this in coming out as an election denier is just embarrassing. And it is part of a recent pattern of poorly reasoned and odd postings that make me worried for his mental acuity. And ...
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North Carolina: “Surprise GOP campaign finance law proposal prompts walkout by Democratic senators”
in a surprise move that caught most Legislative Building watchers off-guard, Republican lawmakers unveiled legislation on Thursday that would make significant changes to state campaign finance law.
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“RNC hires a prominent ‘Stop the Steal’ advocate to help craft its 2024 platform”
The Republican National Committee has hired a prominent supporter of the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” movement, who has since fueled conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, to ...
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“A Republican Election Clerk vs. Trump Die-Hards in a World of Lies”
Cindy Elgan has overseen elections in rural Nevada without incident for 20 years, but now even her neighbors wonder if she’s part of ‘the deep state cabal.'” ...
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Swindlers,’ ‘Hijacking,’ and ‘Blackmail’; Inside the Kennedy campaign’s Natural Law Party meltdown in Florida.”
AMID VOTER DISENCHANTMENT with a Trump-Biden rematch, third-party activist Joseph Wendt believed 2024 could transform American politics. And Robert F. Kennedy Jr. might be the candidate to do it. “It ...
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“Kennedy’s Campaign Is Accused of Lying About His New York Residency”
NYT: A group aligned with President Biden is challenging Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s New York ballot petition, saying his campaign lied about his New York residency. The group, Clear Choice, says he long ...
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Combating Misinformation and Building Trust in Elections: Assessing Election Official Communications During the 2022 Election Cycle
Lea. Abstract: In this project, we identify the dominant trust-building campaigns used by state and local election officials, with an emphasis on combating misinformation, during the 2022 election ...
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“Several Pa. House Republicans boo officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6”
WaPo: Two former law enforcement officers who defended the U.S. Capitol from rioters during the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection were jeered by state GOP lawmakers as they visited Pennsylvania’s House of ...
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“Dispute over mailed ballots in a New Jersey county delays outcome of congressional primary”
AP: Whether to count more than 1,900 mail ballots cast in one New Jersey county will be up to a judge after their envelopes were unsealed prematurely and members of the local election board deadlocked ...
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“The G.O.P. Push for Post-Verdict Payback: ‘Fight Fire With Fire’”
NYT: Republican allies of Donald J. Trump are calling for revenge prosecutions and other retaliatory measures against Democrats in response to his felony conviction in New York. Within hours of a jury ...
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Key Election Denier Scott Perry Appointed to House Intelligence Committee
Perry, a hard-line Republican who previously served as the chair of the right-wing House Freedom Caucus, played a key role in promoting false claims of election fraud and pushed the Trump White House ...