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How red-state politics are shaving years off American lives
Along Lake Erie, three states show how Republican lawmakers’ decisions over decades on cigarettes and seat belts are shortening life spans.
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Roger Stone-linked group urges voters to write in Trump in Georgia runoffs as revenge against GOP
Asuper PAC linked to longtime Trump adviser Roger Stone is calling for Republicans to write-in the president's name in the upcoming Senate runoff elections in Georgia as retaliation after his re-election bid failed in the once red state.
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Republicans Are Planning to Use Coronavirus to Gut Renewable Energy
Conservative groups aligned with the oil industry hope to block any aid for the solar and wind industries, which have been decimated by the pandemic. In late March, the Texas Public Policy Foundation ran an advertisement warning of a supposed power grab about to take place in Washington. “Some congressional Democrats want to use the coronavirus aid bill to enact their climate change agenda,” reads a sponsored Facebook post from the Austin-based conservative think tank, which has received donations from major fossil fuel companies.
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To Limit Abortions, Kansas Lawmakers Target State Constitution
After the state Supreme Court ruled that the state constitution protected abortion, Republican lawmakers proposed amending it to give them more leeway to regulate the procedure.
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The Simple, Odious Reason Mitch McConnell Opposes Election Integrity
The sinister influence on the Senate majority leader is not the Kremlin, but a Republican Party that seeks to keep certain Americans from voting.
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How the Trump Era Is Molding the Next Generation of Voters
Jaden Rams used to be on fire for Donald Trump. Shortly before the 2016 presidential election, when he was 13, he put on a red MAGA hat and matching tie and yelled his support at a rally in his hometown, Grand Junction, Colo. “I was getting politically charged around that time,” he said. “I was pretty passionate about a lot of the causes he was advocating for.”
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Supervillains React to Betsy DeVos’s Proposal to Gut Funding For the Special Olympics
FFS. By Ilana Gordon.
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Republicans Keep Admitting Everything They Said About Obama Was a Lie
White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney confesses the GOP Congress refused to give Obama any successes.
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Why the G.O.P. Condemned Representative Steve King but Not Donald Trump
After Steve King’s comments about white supremacy sparked controversy, Mitch McConnell said that if King didn’t understand the meaning of his words then he “should find another line of work.” By John Cassidy.
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The Corruption of the Republican Party
Why has the Republican Party become so thoroughly corrupt? The reason is historical—it goes back many decades—and, in a way, philosophical. The party is best understood as an insurgency that carried the seeds of its own corruption from the start. I don’t mean the kind of corruption that regularly sends lowlifes like Rod Blagojevich, the Democratic former governor of Illinois, to prison.
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The Great National Circus: Punch-Ups in the Senate
Eric Foner reviews "The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to Civil War" by Joanne Freeman.
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Grand Old Paranoia
How Republican conspiracy theories have warped Washington. By Colin Dickey.
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'GOP Jesus' Rewrites The Bible For Hypocritical Evangelicals Who Support Trump
What would Jesus think about the Trump administration? The YouTube comedy group Friend Dog Studios created an updated version of Jesus to share a new take on biblical quotes just for modern Republicans. GOP Jesus also shares some thoughts on healing the sick, turning the other cheek and the War on Christmas.
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The ugly truth about voting security: States won’t fix it
Georgia, Texas cases show states whistling past voting security graveyard. By Sean Gallagher.
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Feel the love, feel the hate – my week in the cauldron of Trump's wild rallies
On the eve of the midterms, the most powerful man on earth corrals his troops around two visions of America – one full of hope, the other one much darker – and tests the ground for 2020. By Ed Pilkington.
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Trump’s Interior Secretary Plans to Destroy Department Records
Throughout his time as the Trump administration’s Interior Secretary, Zinke has been at odds with conservationists on the Endangered Species Act. By Stephan Cho.
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Residents alarmed after local man mails political post card to thousands
A postcard mailed to 15,000 Democrats and Independents is stirring up controversy. Don Krahel, the 86-year-old man who mailed the signs said he's passionate about his country and his religion and his intention was not to offend, but rather inform. "I got to tell you, I’ve been there and done that, the only thing that works is a government that brings God back,” Krahel said. “We actually need a spiritual revolution in this country and that's exactly why I did that.
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Republican Candidates Ignore the Biggest Climate-Change Warning Yet
What if an international panel of climate change scientists issued a nearly 900-page five-alarm report, warning of looming droughts, floods, famine and tens of millions displaced by rising waves in the coming decades—and no one listened? That’s pretty much the state of the Republican Party as it heads into the 2018 midterm elections. Few have even mentioned the issue of climate change at all, and those that have are almost entirely skeptical that climate change exists at all.
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The Cruelty Is the Point
The Museum of African-American History and Culture is in part a catalogue of cruelty. Amid all the stories of perseverance, tragedy, and unlikely triumph, there are the artifacts of inhumanity and barbarism: the child-size slave shackles, the bright red robes of the wizards of the Ku Klux Klan, the recordings of civil rights protesters being brutalized by police.
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Medicaid rolls set to be slashed under Trump-approved work rules
The thousands of people who lost Medicaid coverage this month in Arkansas for not following newly implemented work requirements may be a sign of what’s to come in other GOP-led states. By Jessie Hellmann. (Sept. 13, 2018)
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