Elections2020
Republicans make the FBI look like the good guys
March 3, 2021At Senate hearings on Jan. 6, Republican excuses for right-wing terror try to minimize the threat from white supremacists.
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Lies and white supremacy fuel Republican voter suppression campaign
February 25, 2021Republicans whine about “cancel culture,” but it’s they who are scheming to cancel the right to vote for millions—especially people of color.
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Impeachment manager Raskin’s last word on Trump: He’s ‘a traitor’
February 22, 2021“We proved, in the court of history, that one Donald John Trump, a corrupt liar and a traitor, had incited rebellion,” Raskin told the American Federation of Government Employees' legislative conference.
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Profiles in cowardice: Mitch McConnell
February 18, 2021Mitch McConnell and 42 fellow Republicans who acquitted Trump earned their niche in history, right next to the jurists at Hitler's 1923 Beer Hall Putsch trial.
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For the sake of democracy, kill off the Senate filibuster
February 17, 2021The arcane Senate practice enforces a form of Jim Crow and discriminates against people in states with large working-class populations.
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