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The Republicans are taking their terror campaign to the next level
The Wisconsin GOP is mad about election officials following the law.
Lindsay Beyerstein
Lindsay Beyerstein is an award-winning documentary filmmaker, investigative journalist and judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Her forthcoming book is tentatively titled Against the Light: The Deep State Myth from the Illuminati to QAnon.
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The inside game and the outside game: procedure plus a mob
John Eastman co-wrote the blueprint for how Donald Trump could use the military, the police and criminal gangs to hold onto power.
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John Eastman’s manual for state violence
War games often reveal more about the players than they do about the future, and this exercise is no exception.
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'Let’s go, Brandon’ tells us violence isn’t the result of MAGA politics. It is MAGA politics
The GOP's cutesy catchphrase.
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Rolling Stone adds to ProPublica report showing the Trump White House was warned about potential violence on January 6
But proceed with caution
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New York can now celebrate Thomas Jefferson’s ideals without idolizing the slave holder himself
The City Council is taking down the memorial to him.
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Death-threat squads harass voting administrators out of their jobs, clearing way for election theft. It’s a slow-motion coup
“They’re playing the long game.”
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After one big failed coup, the GOP has regrouped to launch countless mini-insurrections
The right wing has cynically declared war on easy targets like teachers and nurses in the hopes they will quit out of fear or frustration.
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The Republican campaign to rifle through the people’s ballots to sustain the Big Lie is a frontal assault on democracy
We cannot afford to let it spread any further.
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The Durham indictment isn't about justice. It's about sending a ‘stop snitching’ message
Snitches might get indicted.
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Look to California to see that the GOP has given up on elections
Trump is out of power, but the legacy of Trumpism lives on.
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For members of Team Horse Paste, the fear is crossing the line from ‘bold independent thinker’ to ‘utter crackpot’
Grifters played on people’s hopes for a quick covid fix and their fear of vaccines, and now their fans are paying the price.