Axios reports Lawmakers met with Meadows on election schemes, ex-aide testifies: A former aide to ex-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows testified to the Jan. 6 Select Committee that Meadows met with several right-wing House members in December to discuss efforts to overturn the election, a new court filing reveals. The committee filed a … Read more
Above: Armed demonstrators right-wing thugs, who identified themselves as Liberty Boys, pose for fellow demonstrators’ pictures outside the Oregon State Capitol on Jan. 17, 2021, in Salem, Oregon (AP Photo/Noah Berger), eleven days after the violent insurrection in the nation’s Capitol led by Proud Boys, Three Percenters and Oath Keepers militias on January 6, 2021. Armed right-wing thugs … Read more
The Week reports, 63 Republicans vote against House resolution affirming support for NATO and its ‘democratic principles’: The House on Thursday evening passed a nonbinding resolution reaffirming its “unequivocal support for the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) as an alliance founded on democratic principles,” and calling on President Biden “to use the voice and vote … Read more
Radley Balko writes at the Washington Post, QAnon goes mainstream: There’s a common thread between attacks against Supreme Court nominee Ketanji Brown Jackson as being soft on child predators, the manufactured controversy on the right over whether teachers can mention homosexuality to students, and the anti-trans laws sweeping Republican-controlled state legislatures: We’re witnessing the mainstreaming … Read more
Paul Waldman recently wrote, The right is done retreating in the culture war. It’s time to roll back rights. Republicans revealed a great deal about themselves during the confirmation hearings for Ketanji Brown Jackson’s nomination to the Supreme Court, little of it flattering. If you were paying close attention, you might have caught the signs … Read more