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Heidi Przybyla / Politico:
'It's going to be an army': Tapes reveal GOP plan to contest elections  —  Video recordings of Republican Party operatives meeting with grassroots activists provide an inside look at a multi-pronged strategy to target and potentially overturn votes in Democratic precincts …
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Greg Sargent / Washington Post:
Opinion Hapless Trumpist Mo Brooks gives away the GOP ‘vote fraud’ scam  —  You might have noticed that many of the same Republicans who insisted that “voter fraud” cast doubt on Donald Trump's 2020 loss mysteriously don't see fraud at play in elections that they win.  This is routinely described as “hypocrisy.”
Discussion: Mercury News and Election Law Blog
Politico:   POLITICO Playbook: Secret recordings reveal GOP ‘precinct strategy’
Joseph R. Biden Jr / New York Times:
President Biden: What America Will and Will Not Do in Ukraine  —  The invasion Vladimir Putin thought would last days is now in its fourth month.  The Ukrainian people surprised Russia and inspired the world with their sacrifice, grit and battlefield success.
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Politico:
U.K. seeks U.S. approval to send rocket systems to Ukraine
Discussion: The Daily Wire
Roman Olearchyk / Financial Times:
Ukraine's troops retreat from besieged city of Sievierodonetsk
Discussion: The Guardian and WTOP News
Peter Hermann / Washington Post:
D.C. gun seizures are soaring — but charges aren't sticking  —  Police say there are legal hurdles to securing convictions even when they recover a weapon.  Defense attorneys say they are bringing weak cases.  —  A D.C. police officer pulled over the driver of a Pontiac Bonneville …
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Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
Biden, Democrats out of sync in pushing assault weapons ban
Adam Wren / Politico:
How the gun debate will be won or lost in the suburbs
Discussion: New York Times
Alexander Martin / Sky News:
US military hackers conducting offensive operations in support of Ukraine, says head of Cyber Command  —  In an exclusive interview with Sky News, General Paul Nakasone confirmed for the first time that the US had “conducted a series of operations” in response to Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Discussion: New York Post
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Sinéad Baker / Insider:
Zelenskyy shuts down Newsmax interviewer who tried to get him to say there would be no war if Trump were president  — A Newsmax host asked Zelenskyy if Russia's invasion may have been prevented with Trump as president.  — Zelenskyy said it was not important which party was in power in the US.
Discussion: The Daily Beast
Mark Berman / Washington Post:
Texas officials: Teacher didn't leave door propped open before massacre  —  Authorities said last week that the gunman entered Robb Elementary School through a door that a teacher left open  —  Four days after saying that the gunman who massacred children in a Uvalde, Tex. …
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NBC News:
Texas school police chief hasn't responded for days to state investigators about Uvalde shooting
CNN:
Uvalde school district police chief declines to answer CNN questions in first public comments in a week
Dennis Aftergut / The Bulwark:
The Humiliation of John Durham  —  Hired by Bill Barr to investigate the Trump investigators, the prosecutor had little to show for his work even before his defeat in court yesterday.  —  John Durham, the special counsel appointed days before the 2020 election by Donald Trump's attorney general William Barr …
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Don Moynihan / Can We Still Govern?:
Anatomy of a fake  —  What a viral fake news story about “race-based grading” tells us about our media ecosystem  —  This is the tale of a fake news story, widely shared by a lot of smart people who so badly wanted for it to be true that they didn't care that it wasn't.
Discussion: Townhall
Associated Press:
Biden's ex daughter-in-law opens up about marriage to Hunter  —  WASHINGTON (AP) — Kathleen Buhle, the ex-wife of President Joe Biden's son Hunter, says she has “total control over my life now,” five years after her divorce, as she opens up about her marriage in a new memoir.
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Scott Whitlock / Newsbusters:
It's Not Just Hunter: Networks Bury Sketchy Financial Dealings of James Biden
Discussion: Wall Street Journal
Sandra Sobieraj Westfall / People.com:   First Look at Kathleen Buhle's Memoir: Hunter Biden's Ex on His Affair with Sister-in-Law — and Forgiveness
Aaron Blake / Washington Post:
The final, brutal collapse of GOP's big Michael Flynn conspiracy theory  —  Among the many GOP efforts to counterprogram the Russia investigation with thinly constructed conspiracy theories, one of the most persistent ones was the so-called unmasking of Michael Flynn.
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Jim Geraghty / National Review:
Joe Biden Is Too Old to Be President  —  On the menu today: As President Biden continues to misstate his own policies, it is a painful sign that the next president must be someone who has enough youth and energy to handle the pressures of the job.  —  The Wrong Man for a Tough Job
NBC News:
‘Outsider’ in Nevada's GOP Senate primary surges, rattling Trump's pick  —  An underdog candidate in the Nevada GOP Senate primary has unexpectedly tightened the race just two weeks before the election, powered by an enthusiastic grassroots base that appears increasingly inclined to turn away from longtime polling favorite Adam Laxalt.
Alexander Sammon / American Prospect:
The RNC's Ground Game of Inches  —  Inside the secretive, dubious, and extremely offline attempt to convert minorities into Republicans … In some sense, it was predictable that my search for any information about one of the Republican National Committee's two dozen community centers would lead me back to Facebook.
Charlie Sykes / Morning Shots:
What the AR-15 Does to a Child's Body  —  Plus: Durham face-plants  —  What if we saw the pictures?  —  At the moment, the question is academic, since no one can really bear the thought of seeing them.  But what if we saw the pictures of children blown apart by America's most popular gun?
New York Times:
Racist and Violent Ideas Jump From Web's Fringes to Mainstream Sites  —  Despite some efforts by the largest tech companies to limit the spread of hateful content, it often remains only a click or two away.  — Give this article- - - Read in app  —  On March 30, the young man accused …
Ally Mutnick / Politico:
Dems sweat GOP surge in South Texas special election  —  Democrats already had a South Texas problem — and it's on the verge of getting worse.  —  Republicans are well-positioned to flip former Rep. Filemon Vela's (D-Texas) seat in a special election this summer, a victory …
Discussion: HotAir
Adam Liptak / New York Times:
Supreme Court Blocks Texas Law Regulating Social Media Platforms  —  The law, prompted by conservative complaints about censorship, prohibits big technology companies like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the views they express.  — Give this article- - - Read in app
Alec MacGillis / ProPublica:
Trial Diary: A Journalist Sits on a Baltimore Jury  —  Could 12 strangers agree on justice in Baltimore, a city riddled with killings and distrust of the police, in a shooting case where the victim was an actor on the legendary drama “The Wire”? … By the end of our first afternoon …
Justin McCarthy / Gallup:
Same-Sex Marriage Support Inches Up to New High of 71%  —  WASHINGTON, D.C. — Seventy-one percent of Americans say they support legal same-sex marriage, which exceeds the previous high of 70% recorded in 2021 by one percentage point.  —  These data are from Gallup's annual Values and Beliefs poll, conducted May 2-22.
Jake Kanter / The Times:
BBC ‘altered gender in trans rape claim’  —  The BBC changed the testimony of a rape victim after a debate over the pronouns of her transgender attacker, The Times has learnt.  —  The woman referred to her alleged rapist as “him” but insiders said that her words were changed to avoid …
Cameron Joseph / VICE:
Two-Thirds of Republicans Believe Great Replacement Theory, New Poll Shows  —  A new poll shows that two-thirds of Republicans believe in a conspiracy theory similar to one that inspired the Buffalo shooter.  —  Cameron Joseph  —  WASHINGTON, US  —  Two-thirds of Republicans surveyed agreed …
 
 
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Jerry Dunleavy / Washington Examiner:
Grassley raises alarm over ‘partisan’ social media posts linked to FBI official
Discussion: National Review
Craig Mauger / Detroit News:
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Discussion: Washington Examiner
Ed Morrissey / HotAir:
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Discussion: Politico, Breitbart and CNN
Lahav Harkov / Jerusalem Post:
Negev Summit countries to reconvene in Bahrain next month
Jonathan Turley / The Hill:
Biden's inner Trudeau: On guns, he seems to be operating under the wrong Constitution
Discussion: Fox News and JONATHAN TURLEY
 Earlier Items: 
Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
The Jolt: Stacey Abrams puts guns and abortion in first attack on Brian Kemp
NBC News:
Democrats can make midterms about the ‘angry moms,’ one party strategist argues
Paul Bedard / Washington Examiner:
Illegal immigrant population soars to 11.6 million
Discussion: CIS.org and TheBlaze
David Ignatius / Washington Post:
Opinion MBS stands on the verge of getting what he wants