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The senator from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking a fight with party progressives. Maybe there’s a lesson there.
The senator from purple Georgia is leading in polls and fundraising without picking a fight with party progressives. Maybe there’s a lesson there.
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The 1856 caning of Senator Charles Sumner, an anti-slavery Republican, by a pro-slavery U.S. Representative Preston Brooks was a step on the road to the Civil War and has echoes in our own violent times.
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Andy Burnham has built his political identity around Britain’s neglected industrial communities. His premiership may depend on whether he can deliver for them.
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The agency’s subtler tactics in recent months aimed to lull citizens into complacency. Arrests, detentions, and deportations have all increased under new DHS Director Markwayne Mullin.
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When President Donald Trump addressed the nation regarding alleged vulnerabilities in the U.S. election system, he proclaimed that “no country can be great without fair and honest elections.” No argument there. What he said, however, was mostly not new, and what was new was riddled with overstatement and exaggeration. While he promised the truth lay in a document dump to be posted online, the papers, upon examination, do not contain significant new revelations about vulnerabilities in election systems. If his purpose was to undermine the midterm elections, which he desperately needs to win and is almost sure to lose, it…
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Donald Trump’s White House address to the nation about election integrity landed with all the force of a cotton ball. No one who has followed the last three presidential elections would have predicted an honest accounting from the 47th president, who continues to falsely insist that he won the 2020 contest against Joe Biden. The octogenarian’s claims of stolen elections have long since been debunked, rejected at the time by everyone from Mike Pence to Trump-appointed jurists to the rest of the world. But like boomers seeing their favorite band, long shed of most of its original members due to…
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On Thursday night, President Donald Trump is scheduled to address the nation and will reportedly repeat his false claim that the 2020 presidential election, which he lost to Joe Biden, was stolen. Reports indicate that he’ll focus on, among other things, the Chinese acquisition of (publicly available) voter files and returns from Georgia, a state that Trump narrowly lost but whose results he sought have overturned, despite the state’s Republican governor and secretary of state insisting that voting was entirely above board. The address makes a recent piece, “Trump’s Election Subversion? Which ones are most concerning, and how you save…
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