Elizabeth Preza
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'Scary stuff': GOP election deniers surge to victory in 2024 battlegrounds
In six key battleground states that played a decisive role in the 2020 presidential race, Republican candidates who have openly embraced former President Donald Trump's "Big Lie" have won nearly two-thirds of the GOP nominating contests for positions with power over state and federal elections, a po → Read More
'Do you take home docs marked special access?; CNN host stumps GOP rep twisting himself into knots to defend Trump
CNN host Brianna Keilar on Saturday appeared to stump House Intelligence Committee Ranking Member Rep. Mike Turner (R-OH) as he tried to explain away Donald Trump’s mounting legal troubles after the FBI searched the former president’s Mar-a-Lago estate last Monday.As Keilar noted, the Department of → Read More
'A pattern of conduct to destroy federal record': CREW urges DOJ to probe missing Jan. 6 texts
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW) on Friday filed a complaint with Department of Justice demanding “a broad investigation into the destruction of federal records by government officials involved in the response to the January 6th insurrection and efforts to overturn the 202 → Read More
'He didn’t like to read': Missouri paper highlights a 'particularly curious' element of Trump’s document stash
An editorial published Saturday in Missouri’s St. Louis Post-Dispatch called out former President Donald Trump’s well-documented distaste for reading, posing the question: “Why would an ex-president who doesn't read want boxes of documents at his home?” The Post-Dispatch referenced a series of → Read More
'A tested formula': Columnist details how the GOP spreads misinformation 'to brainwash its base'
Daily Beast columnist Wajahat Ali penned an extensive expose on how the Republican Party is able to manipulate their voter into believing lies and acting out on their behalf. → Read More
DOJ opens environmental racism probe into illegal dumping of trash and 'dead bodies' in Houston
The Biden administration on Friday announced an investigation into how the city of Houston, Texas responds to reports of illegal dumping of everything from trash to human remains in communities of color. → Read More
'Authoritarianism 101': Government watchdogs ring alarm bell over Trump plot to purge civil servants Ii reelected
Government watchdogs on Friday warned that a plan by former President Donald Trump to drastically remake the federal workforce should he win the presidency in 2024 would "utterly destroy" public service in the United States. → Read More
Republicans delay everything in order to destroy Democratic agenda — with an assist from Manchin
Senate Republicans have been playing a transparent game for months now, using their willing tool of Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) to drag out negotiations on any number of issues to keep him away from Majority Leader Chuck Schumer and President Joe Biden. To prevent Democrats from moving any significant p → Read More
Fox News host corrects Devin Nunes to his face for claiming Fox 'destroyed' MSNBC by not airing Jan. 6 hearings
Fox News host Howard Kurtz corrected Truth Social CEO Devin Nunes on Sunday after he claimed that the conservative network "destroyed" MSNBC by not airing primetime hearings about the attacks of Jan. 6, 2021. → Read More
'What side is Matt On?': Gaetz pummeled for complaining about military 'wokeism'
U.S. Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL), one of the increasingly pro-Putin Republicans on Capitol Hill, is being pummeled on social media after attacking Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin over “wokeism,” while, some say, appearing to be siding with a foreign power, namely Russia. → Read More
Trump Jr. says he has a new news business that will aggregate 'real information' like Hunter Biden’s laptop
Donald Trump, Jr. is getting into the news business – well, the news aggregation business, and he says he’s doing it to amplify “real information” like Hunter Biden’s laptop, a supposed story that has become a fetish for the far right. → Read More
National security experts explain why Biden is exactly right to reject a 'no-fly zone' for Ukraine
From Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky to former NATO Commander Philip Breedlove, there are growing calls for the Biden administration to impose a no-fly zone in Ukraine as a way to protect civilians there and destroy the Russian air offensive that has largely grounded the Ukrainian air force a → Read More
'Dumbest' GOP senator who skipped out on Fed nominee vote slammed for blaming Biden for price of gas
A Republican U.S. Senator is being called an “embarrassment to public service,” among other critiques, after suggesting the price of gas is so high many Americans would need to win the lottery to fill up their gas tanks – and blaming President Joe Biden instead of Big Oil and OPEC+. → Read More
Trump 'seriously considered' blanket pardons for all Jan. 6 attack participants before he left White House: report
When Donald Trump all but promised to pardon everyone involved in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol at a Texas rally Saturday night if he gets re-elected he wasn’t pulling the idea out of thin air. In fact, as President, Donald Trump repeatedly investigated the idea, including discussing issu → Read More
Revealed: Mark Meadows possessed 'insane' blueprint for military seizing ballots after Trump's 2020 defeat
Details of documents in the possession of former Chief of Staff Mark Meadows show that there was a blueprint for members of the National Guard and U.S. Marshals to take control of the U.S. election system following former President Donald Trump's defeat. → Read More
Merrick Garland hearing goes off the rails as Jim Jordan demands to play video of parents at school board meetings
The House Judiciary Committee hearing with Attorney General Merrick Garland was briefly derailed on Thursday after Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) demanded to play a video. → Read More
Unvaxxed Allen West is 'probably going to be admitted to the hospital' from COVID despite taking ivermectin
Allen West, the one-term extremist Tea Party Florida Republican U.S. Congressman who is now running to unseat Texas Governor Greg Abbott on Saturday morning announced his wife Angela tested positive for COVID-19 and that he had mild symptoms but did not say he had COVID. West told supporters via Twi → Read More
Trump mocked after he gets booed at his own rally: ‘He created a monster
Former President Donald Trump on Saturday emphatically embraced the COVID-19 vaccine in front of a crowd of his supporters, igniting boos from rally-goers in Alabama, video shows. "Take the vaccines! I did it, it's good!" Trump told the crowd as some attendees started to boo. Responding to the boo... → Read More
'Terrible economics': These states are declining federal unemployment funds. Experts say that's 'a huge mistake'
Residents in South Carolina and Montana next month will lose access to federal unemployment benefits over what those states' Republican governors call a "severe workforce shortage." Experts say the move by Montana's Gov. Greg Gianforte and South Carolina's Gov. Henry McMaster is a "huge mistake."As ... → Read More
McCarthy refuses to remove Gaetz from committee overseeing DOJ despite clear conflict of interest
House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy appeared to downplay the allegations of child sex trafficking and an illicit sexual relationship with an underaged teenage girl against Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on Wednesday, refusing to remove him from the Judiciary Committee which has oversight authority of the D... → Read More