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Feb 15 2022
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What John Durham's Court Filing Alleges
Special Counsel John Durham alleged in a court filing last week that a lawyer for Democrats shared data with a federal agency allegedly showing the use of Russian-made phones near the White House in 2017.
The February 11 filing also accuses attorney Michael Sussmann of lying to the FBI in September 2016, when he said he was not working "for any client" when he presented the agency with
NewsweekJun 22 2021
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Senate GOP blocks voting rights bill
Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked a sweeping bill to overhaul federal elections, ratcheting up already inflamed tensions over voting rights.
Senators voted 50-50 in the evenly divided Senate on advancing the For the People Act, splitting along party lines and failing to get the 60 votes needed to overcome a GOP filibuster.
The vote is the culmination of weeks of partisan
The HillApr 23 2021
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Manchin: I would endorse Murkowski 'in a heartbeat'
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia didn’t flinch when asked whether he would cross party lines to back his Republican colleague and friend in Alaska’s Senate race.
Manchin revealed in a joint interview with Republican Sen. Lisa Murkowski that he would endorse her for reelection in 2022 “in a heartbeat.” Murkowski, one of seven GOP senators who voted to convict former President
Washington ExaminerJun 17 2021
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Biden Believes Putin Wants To Save Russia’s Soured Reputation On World Stage
Fresh off a face-to-face meeting with Vladimir Putin, President Joe Biden made the case that the Russian president knows he needs to improve the country’s reputation on the international stage.
Putin is afraid, Biden surmised, that “his credibility worldwide shrinks” as Russia’s human rights abuses, attacks on the free press and reputation for meddling in foreign elections increasingly
HuffPostJun 10 2021
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The Congressional Black Caucus Is Blocking A Black Republican From Joining The Group
The Congressional Black Caucus is blocking membership to Rep. Byron Donalds, a Republican from Florida who has tried to join the organization, a source familiar with the CBC's plans told BuzzFeed News.
It’s been six months since the members who won election in 2020 were inducted into the CBC, a powerful and nominally nonpartisan group of Black lawmakers in Congress. Donalds, who won
BuzzFeed NewsDec 11 2020
Analysis
7 Things You Need to Know About Monday’s Electoral College Vote
Monday essentially will be the real presidential Election Day, or is scheduled to be, as electors gather in their respective state capitols to cast votes.
When voters pick their candidate for president on Election Day every four years, as well as in early and mail-in voting this year, they actually choose a slate of electors associated with a candidate.
Each of those electors
The Daily SignalApr 04 2022
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Democratic anxiety grows over Biden’s dismal polls
Democrats are growing increasingly worried about President Biden’s standing in the polls seven months out from the midterm elections.
Biden hasn’t seen a boost in his approval ratings amid Russia’s war in Ukraine despite support among Americans for the steps that he has taken.
While the economy continues to gain jobs and the unemployment rate is low, something Biden touted on
The HillJul 15 2021
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More than 150 companies back update to Voting Rights Act
More than 150 companies, including PepsiCo, Amazon and Target, threw their support behind updating the Voting Rights Act in a letter released Wednesday.
The signatories, all U.S. employers, urged Congress to enact the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act, legislation that would restore a key provision of the 1965 law that was stripped out by the Supreme Court in 2013. The bill would
NBC News (Online)Feb 02 2022
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Report: Former President Trump had a role in plan to seize voting machines
A new report from The New York Times suggests that former President Donald Trump was more directly involved with a plan to seize voting machines during the 2020 election than previously thought.
The New York Times report said that Trump directed his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, to call the Department of Homeland Security to see if the DHS could legally control voting machines in three swing
Deseret NewsJul 12 2021
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Texas Democrats skipping town once again as legislature reconsiders GOP voting bills
Democrats in the Texas House of Representatives are once again fleeing the state in a second bid to prevent the Republican majorities in the legislature to pass a controversial GOP-sponsored elections bill to strengthen voting access rules.
The Democratic lawmakers aim to fly to Washington, D.C. on Monday, a source with knowledge of the plans confirmed to Fox News, in order to deny the
Fox News (Online News)