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Miami’s ABC News affiliate reports: A former Republican lawmaker is calling for a former Republican senator and Miami-Dade Commissioner to take action to remove members of the far-right group Proud Boys from the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee. Seven current or former Proud Boys are members of the Miami-Dade GOP Executive Committee. Republican Senator Marco Rubio was at a joint appearance …

Harrisburg’s ABC News affiliate reports: Two Pennsylvania lawmakers plan to introduce a bill “to address discussions of gender identity and sexual orientation in Pennsylvania schools.” State Senators Scott Martin [photo] and Ryan Aument, both Republicans representing Lancaster County, say the bill would pertain to age-inappropriate conversations in elementary schools. According to the senators, the proposal would prohibit classroom instruction on …

Mediaite reports: The former White House strategic communications director for Donald Trump ripped the Jan. 6 committee on Friday, accusing the panel of having “doctored” footage it presented in Thursday’s hearing. Appearing on Kudlow, Mercedes Schlapp said the committee, which is investigating the 2021 Capitol riot and the role Trump played in inciting it, has failed to produce a “smoking …

NBC News reports: Former Nevada Attorney General Adam Laxalt served as a fierce foot soldier in former President Donald Trump’s efforts to challenge the 2020 election results. Now, he’s getting rewarded for that loyalty. In the closing days before Tuesday’s Republican U.S. Senate primary, the Trump cavalry has arrived. Friday night, Donald Trump Jr. holds a rally for Laxalt in …

Kyle Mantyla reports at Right Wing Watch: Mark Burns, an unabashed Christian nationalist MAGA pastor who is running for Congress in South Carolina, declared that if he is elected, he will reinstate the House Un-American Activities Committee so that the government can “start executing people” guilty of treason. Who does Burns believe is guilty of treason? Republican Sens. Mitch McConnell …

Florida Playbook reports: Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to make sure he has every advantage heading into his fall reelection. And that apparently includes taking what some Republicans have called “welfare for politicians.” Take the money and run — DeSantis on Thursday filed all his campaign-related paperwork to qualify for reelection, and that included — surprise — a request to …

The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: U.S. Rep. Scott Perry (R., Pa.), one of the leading figures in the effort to throw out Pennsylvania’s votes in the 2020 presidential election, was one of several members of Congress who contacted the White House seeking a pardon from Donald Trump in the days after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the vice …

The Washington Blade reports: Republican Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin on Wednesday hosted a Pride Month reception that took place in the Capitol Rotunda in Richmond. The governor’s office invited more than 100 people to the reception, but Virginia Pride and other LGBTQ rights groups boycotted it. The reception, which Youngkin’s public schedule noted, was closed to the press. “Equality Virginia …

“Look, I’ve answered that many times. I thought everybody in the country beared some responsibility, based upon what has been going on– the riots on the streets, the others. “Having spent time and seeing what’s going forward – what happened on January 2nd when the National Guard was offered to protect this Capitol? “Prior to January 6th, we had a …

The Huffington Post reports: Republican House candidate Carl Paladino praised Nazi leader Adolf Hitler’s ability to rouse “the crowds” and declared Hitler “the kind of leader we need today” in a February 2021 interview on the radio station WBEN in Buffalo, New York. Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-N.Y.), chair of the House Republican Conference, the third-ranking position in GOP House leadership, …

“There is something terrible happening in this process and it’s called defamation of character. The 45th president of the United States’ character is being defamed. And all of his staff and his family and all Republicans. “Everyone’s reputation is being defamed as lies are being told about all of us and President Trump just for politics. And it just makes …

Politico reports: Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger is in talks with the Jan. 6 committee to testify publicly, according to multiple people familiar with the matter. Raffensperger, a Republican and Georgia’s top elections official, withstood pressure from then-President Donald Trump, in a now-infamous Jan. 2, 2021 call, to “find” enough votes to ensure the president’s victory in the state, …

“I was thinking the other day about somebody had mentioned on the radio Adolf Hitler and how he aroused the crowds. And he would get up there screaming these epithets and these people were just — they were hypnotized by him. “That’s, I guess, I guess that’s the kind of leader we need today. We need somebody inspirational. We need …

ABC News reports: Documentary filmmaker Nick Quested followed the Proud Boys through Washington as members of the extremist group marched on the Capitol on Jan. 6 and clashed with police officers. His firsthand, searing account of the riot will be a central piece of the House Jan. 6 select committee’s prime-time hearing Thursday night, which will feature both his testimony …

The Detroit News reports: FBI agents arrested Republican gubernatorial candidate Ryan Kelley on misdemeanor charges related to the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol. The arrest and search unfolding at Kelley’s home in Allendale adds more uncertainty to a chaotic race for governor that has seen several Republican candidates blocked from the ballot for submitting fraudulent nominating petition signatures. …

“If this was a real Congressional hearing, and not a kangaroo court, not a circus, not a made for TV production, and an infomercial for their political purposes, those are the questions would be asking – it would be a review of why didn’t Capitol Police or the Sergeant at Arms take advantage of these resources that were available? “That’s …

CNN has the transcript: When they started breaking into my office, myself and the staff got removed from the office. In doing so, I made a phone call to the president, telling him what was going on, asking him to tell these people to stop, to make a video and go out. And I was very intense and very loud …

Axios reports: CEOs of more than 220 U.S. companies on Thursday will release a letter calling on the Senate to “take immediate action” to reduce gun violence, Axios has learned exclusively. Why it matters: This is the latest example of corporate America delving into a hot-button issue where solutions often break down along partisan lines. The companies employ workers in …

Mediaite reports: Speaking on the House floor, Rep. Andy Biggs railed against the legislation and said Democrats “don’t care about Second Amendment rights.” The congressman said teachers should be allowed to carry firearms instead. Later, he talked about the need to “harden the schools” in terms of the physical security of the buildings. Democrats have largely panned the idea and …

The Texas Tribune reports: A new lawsuit filed Wednesday is challenging Gov. Greg Abbott’s directive to investigate parents who provide gender-affirming care to their transgender children. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union and Lambda Legal on behalf of three families, including the Briggle family, who have long been advocates for trans rights, including hosting Republican Attorney …