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Kelly Loeffler’s Campaign Claims She ‘Had No Idea’ the Man She Posed With in a Photo Is a Former KKK Leader
It must be terribly inconvenient for Republicans trying to convince America that their party isn’t racist, that racists keep gravitating towards the Republican Party. Sen. Kelly Loeffler (R-Ga.) posed for a photo with a former KKK leader during a campaign rally in Dawsonville, Ga., Friday, and now her campaign is claiming she had “no idea”…
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The Republican Party Goes All In Against Democracy, Files Brief to Supreme Court Asking to Void Millions of Votes [Update: SCOTUS Rejects Texas' Lawsuit]
Though it may be easy and somewhat comforting to hold onto the idea that President-elect Biden’s win and soon-coming inauguration will fix the problems in America’s democracy exposed by Donald Trump, the reality of today’s Republican Party upends that notion. This week, 126 out of the 196 Republicans in the House signed onto an amicus…
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Georgia Republicans Vow to Suppress the Vote After Twice Confirming Trump’s L in the State
Despite there being no evidence of widespread voter fraud, Georgia Republicans are vowing to craft legislation that will make voting harder in the state. According to NBC News, Republican officials in the state announced plans on Tuesday to limit access to mail-in voting and to dismantle election laws that contributed to the state’s record turnout.…
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Republicans Invite Vaccine Skeptic to Senate Committee Hearing, Signaling Potential Partisan Showdown Over COVID-19 Treatment
As we get closer to the rollout of a number of vaccines developed to protect against COVID-19, the next political and cultural battle around how to best respond to the disease is also shaping up. Republicans have invited a doctor who is a vaccine skeptic and hydroxychloroquine advocate to speak before the Senate Homeland Security…
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Florida Attorney Under Investigation for Allegedly Registering to Vote in Georgia and Telling Florida Republicans to Do the Same
A Republican Florida attorney is under investigation for allegedly registering to vote in Georgia while being a Florida resident and instructing other voters to do the same. A reporter for WSB-TV 2, Nicole Carr, recorded a nearly hourlong video that showed attorney Bill Price speaking to Bay County GOP members in Florida on Nov. 7.…
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We See You, COVID-19. We See You
There are really only two kinds of people in this world: Those of us who wear masks, practice social distancing and stay inside as much as possible, and assholes. Or Republicans. Same thing, really. As such, Republican states and Republican operatives are basically breeding grounds for COVID-19. So it is with a heavy heart that…
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GTFOH Trump Watch: So Y’all Just Going to Steal the Election Right in Front of Us?
President Trump lost the election. Full stop. Since losing the election, which he lost, the president has baselessly claimed massive voter fraud and then failed to provide any evidence. His lawyers have filed lawsuits that have been thrown out almost as soon as they arrive in the courts. Now, the president is just openly courting…
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Rep.-Elect Cori Bush Wore a 'Breonna Taylor' Mask to Congress and Republicans Thought it Was Her Name
Whenever I think I can no longer be surprised by the GOP’s utter lack of anything resembling humanity, another piece of evidence jumps out to remind me. Cori Bush, a first term congresswoman recently elected to the House to represent Missouri’s 1st district, showed up to Congress on Friday wearing a mask bearing the name…
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Vote Challengers Chant 'Stop the Count' at a Detroit Vote-Counting Facility
Vote challengers erupted in a chant of “stop the count” outside of a vote counting facility in Detroit on Wednesday. The Detroit Free Press reports that police officers had to push back crowds who were demanding they should be allowed in the vote tallying room at the TCF Center. Republicans whined and shouted that they…