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NBC News reports: Lawmakers and experts working to prevent stolen elections are sounding the alarm about a scenario they say is both worrisome and foreseeable in 2024 should Donald Trump run: swing-state governors beholden to the former president invoking arcane powers to throw the election his way. Such concerns have prompted a bipartisan group of senators to explore ways to …

Mediaite reports: Conservative filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza has a new movie out called 2000 Mules, which claims to document the vast election fraud conspiracy that former President Donald Trump has obsessed over since he lost the 2020 election. D’Souza is one of the principle proponents of the fantastical theory that the election was stolen from Trump, a theory that has been …

St. Louis’s NBC News affiliate reports: If you signed a petition to help put U.S. Rep. Mary Miller (R-Illinois) on this June’s primary ballot, there’s a chance that a man convicted of luring a child for sex was the one who asked you to sign those campaign documents. Congresswoman Mary Miller is facing new questions about her relationship with Brad …

The Daily Beast reports: The final debate in the contentious Republican Senate primary in Pennsylvania went briefly off the rails on Wednesday when Carla Sands, who served as the U.S. ambassador to Denmark under Trump, lavishly praised the idea he threw out in 2019 about buying Greenland from Denmark. Greta Van Susteren, moderating the debate for Newsmax, asked Sands of …

The BBC reports: The Covid pandemic has caused the deaths of nearly 15 million people around the world, the World Health Organization (WHO) estimates. That is 13% more deaths than normally expected over two years. The WHO believes many countries undercounted the numbers who died from Covid – only 5.4 million were reported. In India, there were 4.7 million Covid …

Fox News has the transcript: So, what he said is a lie, but here’s the line that you should never forget and we’re quoting, “This MAGA crowd,” (which is to say the tens of millions people who voted for Donald Trump) is really, we’re quoting, “the most extreme political organization that has existed in history.” In history, all human history, …

Axios reports: Elon Musk just reported some new friends — equity partners for his Twitter takeover, including some of the biggest names in Silicon Valley. Musk has raised $7 billion in funding for his $44 billion purchase of Twitter, according to a filing released by the Securities and Exchange Commission on Wednesday. Musk said in the filing that he has …

Media Matters has the transcript: SARAH PALIN: I think there are about fifty candidates in this race. It’s a real bizarre race — MARK LEVIN (HOST): Did you say fifty? PALIN: Fifty. And Mark, you’ll just really appreciate this. It’s mail-in only ballots. No hand counting to tabulate, got to go through a Dominion computer to count everything. And I …

The Austin Statesman reports: Gov. Greg Abbott said Wednesday that Texas would consider challenging a 1982 U.S. Supreme Court decision requiring states to offer free public education to all children, including those of undocumented immigrants. “Texas already long ago sued the federal government about having to incur the costs of the education program, in a case called Plyler versus Doe,” …

The Lafayette Daily Advertiser reports: A Louisiana legislative committee on Wednesday advanced a bill to make abortion a crime of homicide in which the mother or those assisting her in terminating the pregnancy can be charged. The measure cleared the House Appropriations Committee on a 7-2 vote despite at least one of the representatives voting in favor acknowledging the bill …