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E.J. Dionne Jr / Washington Post:
Take the win, Democrats, and don't look back — Celebrate victory. Explain what you've achieved. Defend it from attack. Change the public conversation in your favor. Build on success to make more progress. — And for God's sake, don't moan about what might have been.
Discussion:
Raw Story and Conservative Brief
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Harry Enten / CNN:
Why Democrats are in a lot of trouble in Virginia — Candidates make closing arguments in tight VA governor race — (CNN)Virginia will have the eyes of the political world on it Tuesday night. Most of the attention will be on the marquee gubernatorial election between Democrat Terry McAuliffe and Republican Glenn Youngkin.
Discussion:
Washington Monthly, Politico and FiveThirtyEight
Wall Street Journal:
Tight Race for Virginia Governor Tests Dueling Party Strategies — Democrats see the contest as a referendum on Trump, while Republicans say voters will be moved by school issues and waning enthusiasm for President Biden — HANOVER, Va.—A fiercely competitive race for governor …
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CBS News and Associated Press
Politico:
‘A real lag’: Dems fret over Black votes in Virginia — More than a dozen top Democrats involved in the Virginia gubernatorial race expressed concern about Democrats' standing with Black voters. — Princess Blanding, a Black woman whose brother was killed by a Richmond police officer in 2018 …
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Washington Post, Tom Bonier and Virginian-Pilot
Washington Post:
Warnings of violence before Jan. 6 precipitated the Capitol riot — and his team had spotted increasing signs that supporters of President Donald Trump were planning violence when Congress met to formalize the electoral college vote, but federal law enforcement agencies did not seem to share his sense of urgency.
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Insider, Reuters, PRESS RUN, New York Magazine, Slate, Raw Story, The Mahablog, Mother Jones, Crooks and Liars, Digby's Hullabaloo and Eschaton
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Washington Post:
Former president Donald Trump's response to the findings of The Post's Jan. 6 investigation
Discussion:
Raw Story and Digby's Hullabaloo
Olivia Beavers / Politico:
GOP relishes political upsides as Dems toil for unity — Most of the House GOP isn't lifting a finger to help Democrats out of their infrastructure jam, and with good reason. Just ask Rep. Randy Weber. — “They're probably going to put us back into power,” the conservative Texas Republican said with a loud laugh.
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New Republic, Associated Press, The Hill and HotAir
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Cristina Marcos / The Hill:
Cheney in defiant floor speech: Trump on ‘crusade to undermine our democracy’
Discussion:
Insider
Carol Rosenberg / New York Times:
U.S. Military Jury Condemns Terrorist's Torture and Urges Clemency — Seven senior officers rebuked the government's treatment of an admitted terrorist in a handwritten letter from the jury room at Guantánamo Bay. — GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — Seven senior U.S. military officers …
Discussion:
Al Jazeera, Agence France-Presse and The Talking Dog
Brett Bachman / Salon:
GOP candidate: Michael Flynn trying to run extortion plot on U.S. officials to reinstall Trump — Pennsylvania Senate candidate Everett Stern made the bombshell accusation in a press conference Saturday — A Republican Senate candidate alleged over the weekend that former national security adviser …
Discussion:
emptywheel
David M. Herszenhorn / Politico:
Biden says Russia, China 'didn't show up' on climate change commitments — ROME — U.S. President Joe Biden on Sunday blamed Russia and China for any disappointment over the level of commitment by G20 leaders to fight climate change. — “With regard to the disappointment …
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Fox News, RedState, Japan Times, The Moderate Voice, TASS, Radio Free Europe/Radio …, Bloomberg and NBC New York
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Jon Brown / Fox News:
Biden apologizes for being late to G20 press conference: ‘We were playing with elevators’
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The Gateway Pundit and RedState
Reuters:
Houthi missile attack on mosque, religious school kills and injures 29 civilians in Yemen - minister — A Houthi ballistic missile attack on a mosque and a religious school killed and injured 29 civilians, including women and children, in the Yemeni province of Marib, the country's information minister …
Discussion:
Al Jazeera
Karen Townsend / HotAir:
Southwest Airlines apologizes for pilot's “Let's Go Brandon” remark — A pilot on a Southwest Airlines flight from Houston to Albuquerque delivered a three-word sentence that set off some of his passengers. During the pilot's greeting to the passengers, he finished up with “Let's Go Brandon”, a popular hashtag on social media.
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Matt Taibbi / TK News:
The “Let's Go, Brandon!” Freakout Goes Next-Level
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New York Times, The Daily Caller, Twitchy, Louder With Crowder, IJR, Washington Examiner, The Daily Wire, Insider, TheBlaze, Scripting News and BizPac Review
Gary Fineout / Politico:
Florida Democrats anxious as DeSantis seems unbeatable — TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Ron DeSantis appears unstoppable. — A year before the Florida gubernatorial election, the Republican governor has nearly $60 million in the bank. The GOP is on the cusp of becoming the state's majority party …
Jeff Stein / Washington Post:
Treasury Secretary Yellen expresses openness to defusing debt ceiling without GOP votes — After some party leaders ruled out approach last month, Yellen says Democrats-only budget process could prove ‘viable’ way to tackle debt limit — SOMEWHERE OVER THE ALPS — Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen …
Roger Sollenberger / The Daily Beast:
Jan. 6 Organizers Are Raking It In With Trump and GOP Groups — The firm that helped organize the Stop the Steal rally on Jan. 6 has become a favorite events organizer for Donald Trump and GOP groups. — When then-President Donald Trump held his “Stop the Steal” protest on Jan. 6 …
Discussion:
Raw Story
Adam J. White / The Bulwark:
The Administration of Abortion Laws—and More — We should be wary of an outsourced, passive-aggressive administrative state. — The abortion case that the U.S. Supreme Court is hearing this morning isn't actually about abortion. — To be sure, the case—really a pair of cases …
Discussion:
ABC News, Mother Jones and Commentary Magazine
Seth Hettena / Rolling Stone:
New Trouble for Trump: His Company Is Accused of a Major Insurance Scam — Two former insiders tell Rolling Stone that Trump's team attempted to turn a storm into a massive payday — part of a pattern of shady insurance practices that have caught law enforcement's attention
Discussion:
Raw Story
Karol Markowicz / New York Post:
There's nothing fake about parents' outrage in America's culture war — Are culture wars bad? Or are they necessary to shape the direction of the country? — Last week, former President Barack Obama stumped for Terry McAuliffe in Virginia: “This fake outrage that right-wing media peddles …
Will Bunch / The Philadelphia Inquirer:
‘When do we get to use the guns?’ The life-or-death stakes of the Kyle Rittenhouse trial — The late conservative icon Barry Goldwater famously said “extremism in defense of liberty is no vice,” but last Monday the limits of that — and American political speech in general …
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