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The Week reports: After former President Donald Trump announced Monday that FBI agents had searched his Mar-a-Lago residence, apparently seeking classified documents he failed to hand back to the government, “supporters of the former president reacted in the kind of calm, measured tone we’ve come to expect from the MAGA movement,” Rex Huppke deadpanned at USA Today. “The FBI must …

The New York Times reports: The conservative group Project Veritas has for years sought to embarrass political opponents and members of media organizations by surreptitiously recording them and publicizing their private communications. But two lawsuits filed in federal court late Sunday by the organization’s former employees purported to expose its own inner workings, portraying a “highly sexualized” work culture where …

The Arizona Daily Star reports: The Republican Governors Association is going to put at least $11 million into commercials to ensure that Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey’s successor is of the same political party. But don’t look for that money to be spent extolling the virtues of Kari Lake, the GOP nominee for governor. Instead, given the organization’s record, the commercials …

Media Matters has the transcript: Democrats are not afraid of new IRS agents because they look at themselves as exempt from the wrath of the regime. That’s their team members. The IRS agent, they wear the same jersey. No, no. This will be used against dissidents. This is not the Inflation Reduction Act, this is the dissident imprisonment act. This …

Mediaite reports: The anti-Trump group The Republican Accountability Project ran an ad on Monday showing Georgia GOP Senate nominee Herschel Walker’s ex-wife accusing him of domestic violence, including holding her at gunpoint. The video shows a highlight of Walker, a former football player, scoring a touchdown in college, while a narrator says, “Do you think you know Herschel Walker? Well, …

The Hill reports: An organization allied with Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.) launched a new, nonpartisan training program on Monday aimed at recruiting “pro-democracy” and “pro-freedom” candidates across the U.S. Keep Country First Policy Action, an Illinois political action committee (PAC) created by Kinzinger, said in a press release its Country First Academy will “identify and train” election workers and candidates …

Fox News reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis is hitting the campaign trail this month to headline Turning Point Action’s “Unite and Win” rallies in support of Trump-endorsed candidates. DeSantis will travel to New Mexico, Arizona, Pennsylvania and Ohio this month in support of GOP candidates, including Ohio Republican candidate for Senate JD Vance, Pennsylvania’s GOP gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, Arizona …

The New York Times reports: Since January, judges in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana and Ohio have found that Republican legislators illegally drew those states’ congressional maps along racial or partisan lines, or that a trial very likely would conclude that they did. But a shift in election law philosophy at the Supreme Court, combined with a new aggressiveness among Republicans who …

Via press release from Sen. Mitch McConnell: The last time Senate Democrats tried to remake the economy on party lines, they shoved American families into the worst inflation in 40 years. Democrats got all-you-can-eat liberal spending and working families got stuck with the bill. In President Biden’s America, the average family is either paying thousands of dollars extra per year …

Mediaite reports: After an eventful weekend at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Texas, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) appeared on MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell’s show rehashing her experience during the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, maintaining the false claim that Antifa perpetrated the riots. On Lindell-TV, Greene discussed the events of January 6th saying that she …

Mediaite reports: Senator Rick Scott (R-FL) completely cowered when asked if he would personally hire Herschel Walker and Blake Masters to work for him, despite the controversy surrounding both Republican Senate candidates. CBS’ Margaret Brennan interviewed Scott on Sunday for Face the Nation, and she brought up a recent radio hit in which Scott called for voters to elect candidates …

The Washington Post reports: Republican lawmakers on Sunday successfully stripped a $35 price cap on the cost of insulin for many patients from the ambitious legislative package Democrats are moving through Congress this weekend, invoking arcane Senate rules to jettison the measure. The insulin cap is a long-running ambition of Democrats, who want it to apply to patients on Medicare …

Cleveland.com reports: Federal agents on Friday arrested a Mogadore man and accused him of sending more than three dozen feces-laden letters to Republican politicians in Ohio, including U.S. Rep. Jim Jordan, and those in other states. Richard John Steinle, a 77-year-old former Portage County Common Pleas Court mediator, is charged in federal court in Akron with injurious articles as nonmailable, …

Yahoo News reports: A Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll conducted in Dallas on Saturday found that attendees favored former president Donald Trump — who garnered the support of 69 percent of the audience — to be the GOP’s 2024 presidential nominee. At a February CPAC event held in Orlando, 59 percent of voters said they hoped Trump would reprise …

Axios reports: Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said he will “wait and see” if former President Trump decides to run before making his own decision about running for president in 2024. GOP presidential hopefuls aren’t opening up about their 2024 plans so far given that Trump has yet to announce his plans. Cruz told Fox News at the Conservative Political Action …

The Richmond Dispatch reports: On Wednesday evening, favor-seeking business people, lobbyists and activists, having stroked checks for four and five figures to Glenn Youngkin’s political action committee, streamed into the former  Foundry of the Confederacy — for up-close-and-personal time with a newbie governor eyeing another job: the presidency. Youngkin, in a dark suit rather than trademark fleece vest, worked the …

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott has appointed an indicted Austin police officer accused of using excessive force during 2020 protests to Texas’ regulatory law enforcement agency. Justin Berry was among 19 Austin police officers indicted earlier this year in the protests spurred by the murder of George Floyd by a Minneapolis police officer. Berry is charged with two …

The Indianapolis Star reports: Indiana’s near-total ban on abortion will take effect Sept. 15. Gov. Eric Holcomb announced late Friday that he had signed Senate Bill 1 within an hour of its passage, capping a marathon day that saw both chambers pass the bill outlawing abortion except for several narrow exceptions. “Following the overturning of Roe, I stated clearly that …

The Washington Post reports: Washington state Rep. Dan Newhouse, one of 10 House Republicans who voted to impeach then-President Donald Trump in the wake of the Capitol insurrection, has advanced to the general election in the state’s 4th Congressional District, according to a race call by The Associated Press. Newhouse will face Democrat Doug White in November’s general election in …

NBC News reports: A southwest Florida school district added warning labels to more than 100 books, many of which touch on issues related to race or the LGBTQ community. Collier County Public Schools, a district that includes part of Naples, added the labels both on physical copies of the books and in Destiny, the district’s online catalog, according to the …