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Oct 15 2020
Analysis
With militias on the rise, states boost vigilance
Around the time that Sylvia Santana watched armed men pile into the Michigan Capitol in Lansing to protest pandemic restrictions in April, a plot to attack politicians involving at least one of those men, the FBI says, had begun to hatch.
Tempers were stretched. A seemingly fringe idea transformed into an operation.
Members of a self-constituted militia now envisioned themselves
Christian Science MonitorMar 19 2021
Analysis
Biden Administration Silent After Ford Ditches Ohio For Mexico
Ford announced it is moving a nearly $1 billion project from Ohio to Mexico, prompting criticism from a major labor union and silence from the Biden administration, which has pledged to invest in domestic union projects.
President Joe Biden has repeatedly said he will be the most pro-union president in history by investing significant amounts of money in domestic infrastructure spending
Washington Free BeaconOct 02 2020
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Seventeen Republican congressmen and Justin Amash vote against House resolution condemning QAnon
The House passed a resolution condemning the conspiracy theory movement known as QAnon, but 17 Republicans and Michigan Rep. Justin Amash, a libertarian, voted against it.
H.R. 1154 passed on Friday 371-18, with one person voting present. QAnon is a right-wing conspiracy group that believes, among other things, that a group of powerful politicians is involved in a child sex-trafficking
Washington ExaminerSep 01 2018
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Betsy DeVos says she won't stand in way of schools buying guns
Education Secretary and former Michigan school choice advocate Betsy DeVos suggested she won't stand in the way of local school districts spending federal funds to buy guns to protect themselves and their students.
USA TODAYDec 20 2020
News
A Whopper of an Election-Rigging Claim
Antrim County in Michigan was the kernel of the “rigged election” narrative: It was there that the county clerk, an earnest Republican woman, copped to a mistake that, for a short time, caused 6,000 Trump votes to be counted as Biden votes.
It was a good-faith error. It was, inevitably, corrected. And there are paper receipts for all votes. Even if the machine tabulation is thrown off
National Review (News)Nov 24 2020
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Pennsylvania and Nevada certify Biden wins over Trump
Pennsylvania and Nevada on Tuesday officially certified that President-elect Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump in both states’ elections, making Trump’s effort to reverse Biden’s projected win in the Electoral College even more unlikely to succeed.
The certifications of Biden’s victory in both states — where the Trump campaign had challenged new mail-in ballot processes — came
CNBCJul 22 2019
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Conservative Beauty Queen Stripped of Her Title Over ‘Offensive’ Tweets
A beauty pageant winner known for her conservative views was stripped of her title after the Miss World America competition deemed her social media content “offensive, insensitive, and inappropriate,” The Detroit Free Press reports. Kathy Zhu, a 20-year-old University of Michigan student and Trump supporter, was stripped of her Miss Michigan title one day after she was crowned. On Twitter, Zhu
Daily BeastMay 20 2021
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Squad Dems break with Pelosi and reject $1.9 billion for additional Capitol security
The progressive Squad nearly sunk a Capitol security bill Thursday backed by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi over their objections to funding a "broken" policing system and ignoring the root cause of the Jan. 6 riot which they say is "White supremacy."
The House barely passed the $1.9 billion supplemental budget for additional security funds during a heated vote that forced leadership to
Fox News DigitalNov 20 2020
News
Georgia and Giuliani
“A hand tally of ballots cast in Georgia for the presidential race has been completed, and it affirms Democrat Joe Biden’s narrow lead over Republican President Donald Trump, according to results released Thursday by the secretary of state’s office.” (AP News)
“President Trump and his legal team on Thursday stepped up their campaign to shift the outcome of the presidential election,
The Flip SideJan 28 2021
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Joe Biden’s Revocation of Keystone XL Permit Draws Criticism from Labor Unions
President Joe Biden’s executive order to revoke the March 2019 Permit for the Keystone XL Pipeline project drew criticism from labor unions.
North America’s Building Trades Unions (NABTU), which championed Biden towards the end of his campaign, said Jan. 21 it is “deeply disappointed in the decision.”
“Environmental ideologies have now prevailed, and over a thousand union men and
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