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Barack Obama / USA Today:
Former President Barack Obama: We need to follow John Lewis' example and fight for our democracy  —  “The world, and future generations, will be watching,” Obama writes as he calls on Senate to “do the right thing” and pass legislation to protect voting rights.  —  Barack ObamaSpecial to USA TODAY
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Marc Elias / Democracy Docket:
The New Voting Rights Bill Is the Law We Need Right Now  —  Democrats have released their final bill to fight voter suppression and prevent future election subversion.  The Freedom to Vote: John R. Lewis Act is, as its name suggests, a merger of the Senate's Freedom to Vote Act …
Washington Post:
Trumpworld descends on the Pennsylvania Senate race  —  Good morning.  It's Thursday and one year since Donald Trump was impeached for a second time.  Serving or receiving a subpoena today?  We obvi want to hear from you: earlytips@washpost.com.  Thanks for waking up with us.  —  The campaign
Discussion: New York Times, HuffPost, CNN and Fox News
Washington Post:
How pollsters say Democrats should talk about voting rights
ABC News:
Biden heads to Capitol Hill to rally Democrats on voting rights
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
The Doom Loop Of “Relevance”  —  Rich Lowry and I disagree about Liz Cheney and Ron DeSantis  —  “Trump and I, we've had a hell of a journey.  I hate it to end this way, oh my God I hate it. ...  All I can say is count me out.  Enough is enough.”  —  Lindsey Graham, Now: (January 12, 2022)
Discussion: IJR and New York Times
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Jonathan Swan / Axios:
McCarthy's plot to build the House of Trump  —  Kevin McCarthy is signaling he'll institutionalize key Trumpian priorities if he takes over as House speaker next year — aggressive tactics targeting undocumented immigrants, liberals and corporate America.  —  Why it matters …
Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Kevin McCarthy's coverup for Trump may be hiding knowledge of possible crimes  —  Let's be clear: In refusing to testify to the House select committee examining Jan. 6, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy may well be helping to cover up potential crimes committed by Donald Trump.
Wall Street Journal:
The Capitol Riot Really Was an Insurrection  —  A response to Jeffrey Scott Shapiro on the legal definition in the U.S. Code.  —  Jeffrey Scott Shapiro is correct that insurrection under 18 U.S.C. 2383 is a crime with specific elements ("Stop Calling Jan. 6 an 'Insurrection,'" op-ed, Jan. 6).
David Leonhardt / New York Times:
Is Omicron Peaking?  —  In parts of the Northeast, it seems to be.  —  The number of new Covid-19 cases in New York City rose more than twentyfold in December.  In the past few days, it has flattened.  —  In both New Jersey and Maryland, the number of new cases has fallen slightly this week.
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Malachi Barrett / MLive.com:
Republicans who falsified Michigan electoral college vote under scrutiny from Congress, Attorney General  —  1,204  —  Falsified documents claiming Michigan's electors voted for former President Donald Trump were given by state election officials to a congressional panel investigating the Jan. 6, 2021 riot.
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David Charns / KLAS:
I-Team: Nevada Republicans sent National Archives fake electoral certificates saying Trump won election
Discussion: Mediaite
Meridith McGraw / Politico:
Trump is eyeing the White House and wants a more compliant Senate for when he gets there  —  As Donald Trump charts out his midterm elections strategy, his focus has turned to the contest for the Senate, not just in hopes of getting it back under GOP control but of having more compliant lawmakers there should he become president again.
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Lee Moran / HuffPost:
‘Spineless’ Lindsey Graham Ridiculed For Latest Show Of Subservience To Donald Trump
CNN:
‘Under Trump it was so much better’: The reality Democrats may be missing is that people are hurting right now  —  Reno, Nevada (CNN)Outside a Costco, Laura Godinez lifts meat, toothpaste, coffee, bottled water and bulk supplies of DayQuil from her cart — just the staples …
Discussion: The Hill and New York Times
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Andrew Feinberg / The Independent:
Glenn Beck has Covid again after refusing vaccine: 'It's going into my lungs'  —  Right-wing talk radio personality Glenn Beck on Wednesday said he has contracted Covid-19 for the second time and complained about the disease's effect on his lungs.  —  “It's starting to go into my lungs today and a little disturbing.
Discussion: The Hill
Washington Post:
The past seven years have been the hottest in recorded history, new data shows … In the middle of a historically sweltering summer, a NASA researcher stood before Congress and declared the unvarnished, undeniable scientific truth: “The greenhouse effect has been detected,” James Hansen said.
Lawrence Jones III / HotAir:
The latest Kamala Harris interview went as well as expected  —  How often do clips from an interview with a major politician genuinely make you laugh out loud?  —  Not in a spiteful performative sense, I mean, but in sincere amusement at the haplessness on display?
Discussion: Washington Examiner and Twitchy
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Luke Rosiak / The Daily Wire:
Loudoun Rapist Sentenced, Put On Sex Offender Registry For Life  —  LOUDOUN COUNTY, Virginia — The 14-year-old boy who raped a ninth-grader in a girls' bathroom while he wore a skirt and blouse was sentenced on Wednesday to residential treatment, as it emerged that he also allegedly attacked a third girl …
David French / The Atlantic:
How the Right's Rules of Rhetoric Create Racial Provocateurs  —  Anti-anti-racism can look a lot like ... racism … One of our nation's most important religious, cultural, and political projects is creating and sustaining a robust and just public policy aimed at repairing the harm inflicted …
U.S. ARMY RECRUITING COMMAND:
Army offers up to $50k in enlistment incentives  —  The U.S. Army is offering its largest bonus ever for new recruits with up to $50,000 available to qualified individuals who sign on for a six-year active-duty enlistment.  —  The total incentive package for a new recruit is based …
Vivian Salama / Wall Street Journal:
U.S. Diplomats in Geneva, Paris Struck With Suspected ‘Havana Syndrome’  —  Mysterious neurological ailment has afflicted as many as 200 U.S. officials in diplomatic posts world-wide  —  WASHINGTON—Officials serving at U.S. diplomatic missions in Geneva and Paris are suspected …
Jan Ransom / New York Times:
A Look Inside Rikers: ‘Fight Night’ and Gang Rule, Captured on Video  —  Videos obtained by The New York Times reveal scenes of violence as the Department of Correction struggles to restore order in the jail system.  —  The men had gotten along on Rikers Island, had even been friendly …
Discussion: Washington Post, Insider and The Root
Washington Post:
Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, hire 1,000 staffers to work on climate change  —  Good morning and welcome to The Climate 202!  Yesterday was a busy day for climate policy, but we've got you covered.  —  Biden's Energy Department to announce Clean Energy Corps, will hire 1,000 staffers to work on climate change
Discussion: The White House
Ed Pilkington / The Guardian:
Trump loyalists form alliance in bid to take over election process in key states  —  ‘Coalition of America First secretary of state candidates’ disclosed by Jim Marchant, who is running for secretary of state in Nevada  —  Extreme Republicans loyal to Donald Trump and his “big lie” …
Discussion: Political Dictionary
Daniel Boguslaw / American Prospect:
Fire Jeff Zients  —  Biden's COVID czar has gone from ‘Mr. Fix-It’ to grim reaper, steering the administration's pandemic response to catastrophic lows.  —  White House COVID-19 Response Coordinator Jeff Zients speaks during a press briefing at the White House, April 13, 2021.
Discussion: Eschaton
Emily Caldwell / Dallas Morning News:
D.C. delegate says Ted Cruz's effort to block district's student vaccine mandate ‘crosses the line’  —  The Republican senator from Texas says D.C ‘has no right’ to force parents to get their children vaccinated for COVID-19.  —  WASHINGTON — Eleanor Holmes Norton has a message for Texas …
Discussion: The Hill and POLITICUSUSA
Glenn Kessler / Washington Post:
Biden claims yet another arrest for which there's little evidence  —  “I did not walk in the shoes of generations of students who walked these grounds.  But I walked other grounds.  Because I'm so damn old, I was there as well.  You think I'm kidding, man.  It seems like yesterday the first time I got arrested.”
 
 
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