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Trump’s 2020 crusade has led to 700 years in prison sentences

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 3:39pm
The big recent sentences in the Proud Boys cases highlight the massive toll of Trump’s quixotic quest to stay in power.
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Wisconsin’s gerrymandering rides to the rescue of its gerrymandering

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 3:19pm
The red-imbalanced state has a new idea for protecting its disproportionate power.
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Trump endorsements helped win primaries … and lose in November

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 1:02pm
New research shows that Trump’s endorsed candidates from 2018 to 2022 took an estimated 1.5-point hit in general elections.
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Mitch McConnell says there’s ‘no excuse’ not to support more Ukraine aid

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 11:32am
“Now is not the time to go wobbly,” the Senate Republican leader said Wednesday.
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Atlanta ‘Cop City’ protesters indicted under law used to target mob bosses

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 11:20am
Georgia grand jury indicts 61 people on racketeering charges connected to protests against planned police and firefighter training facility.
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Donald Trump’s eternally unrealized dream of swaying the Black vote

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 11:04am
There’s a big difference between apathy toward one candidate and enthusiasm for his opponent.
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Former GOP representative Mike Rogers launches Senate campaign in Michigan

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 8:22am
Rogers, a former FBI special agent, is seeking to give the GOP a viable path to flipping a seat held by Sen. Debbie Stabenow (D-Mich.), who is retiring at the end of her term.
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James Comer claims that Biden pseudonym email was code. That’s nonsense.

Washington Post Elections - Wed, 09/06/2023 - 2:00am
The Republican leading the Hunter Biden inquiry earns Four Pinocchios.
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Former Biden aide wins special Democratic congressional primary in Rhode Island

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 11:12pm
The Rhode Island congressional race won by a former Biden aide became a case study of factions within the Democratic Party.
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Biden awards Medal of Honor to retired Army Capt. Larry Taylor

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:28pm
Taylor, a retired Vietnam War helicopter pilot, risked his life by flying into enemy fire to rescue four soldiers in 1968.
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‘No evidence’ McConnell has seizure disorder, congressional physician says

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 8:07pm
Brian P. Monahan, the attending physician, wrote that he had examined McConnell after his second public freeze-up last week.
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Ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio sentenced to 22 years for Jan. 6

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 4:52pm
Convicted of seditious conspiracy, he recruited a group of 200 to march on the Capitol, though he wasn’t in D.C. that day.
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Rudy Giuliani’s stunning fall from grace, in one chart

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 4:29pm
A new poll punctuates his descent from the man nearly everyone could agree on post-9/11 to a starkly unpopular criminal defendant.
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Why it’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 4:29pm
It’s not surprising that 2024 polling is close. This is the new normal.
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Biden didn’t protest or fight in Vietnam. Now he’s making a crucial visit.

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 3:33pm
Biden, who largely sat out his generation’s defining conflict, could cement the U.S.-Vietnam alliance.
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Alabama congressional map struck down again for diluting Black voting power

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 3:23pm
The judges said in the order that they are “deeply troubled that the State enacted a map that the State readily admits does not provide the remedy we said federal law requires.”
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Court undoes ruling allowing DOJ access to Scott Perry’s phone

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 2:09pm
An appellate court partially overturned the order of a judge who allowed investigators to look at the Republican lawmaker’s communications around Jan. 6.
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Would Trump pardon the Proud Boys?

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 12:43pm
One convicted member of the group seems to think he would.
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Could the 14th Amendment keep Trump off the ballot in 2024?

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 12:28pm
A legal theory gaining traction argues that Donald Trump’s actions surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection disqualify him from being president.
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Truth Social investment partner extends deadline, avoiding liquidation

Washington Post Elections - Tue, 09/05/2023 - 12:00pm
The extension was granted three days before Digital World would have been required to dissolve itself and return money to investors.
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