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“We, patriotic Americans, were born for such a time as this. We’re going to face some dark times as a nation. I genuinely believe that. “I think we have an opportunity in the next four to six years to prevent kinetic force — countryman on countryman — from ever meeting. “Although I have no doubt we would be victorious if …

The Intercept reports: “Government spending is a HUGE problem,” the conservative video site PragerU tweeted in September 2019. “We must reinvest in Americans by giving them a hand up, not handouts,” the group wrote in another tweet that November. But last year, right-wing groups that have long opposed the concept of increased government spending on “handouts” were the recipients of …

CNN reports: The House select committee investigating the deadly January 6 riot has asked GOP Rep. Scott Perry of Pennsylvania to voluntarily sit down for an interview — the first known effort by the panel to talk to a lawmaker about helping former President Donald Trump in his efforts to undermine the election. The committee is not yet issuing a …

Florida Politics reports: An email to supporters from the DeSantis campaign, entitled “Permanent Faucism,” offers the latest in a seemingly endless series of meditations about Fauci, the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and the Chief Medical Advisor to President Joe Biden. “Fauci doesn’t care about doing what’s right or using even basic common sense. He’s …

The Christian Post reports: South Dakota’s Republican Gov. Kristi Noem has introduced a bill that would allow students in public schools to pray every morning at school if they so choose despite pushback from secular groups to similar bills in other states. On Monday, Noem released the text of legislation that would “require a moment of silence in schools to …

The New York Daily News reports: Former Alaska governor and vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin swore on Sunday she would only get vaccinated against COVID-19 “over my dead body.” “Enough is enough,” the Republican firebrand said, “especially when it comes to government telling us what we have to inject in our own bodies. No.” Palin was speaking at AmericaFest, an …

Salon reports: One of the principal organizers of the Jan. 6 “Stop the Steal” rally that preceded a deadly riot at the U.S. Capitol disclosed names of several Republican lawmakers who he was in communication with prior to the attempted insurrection, according to a new report. Lawyers for Ali Alexander, who played a key role in founding the “Stop the …

Atlanta’s CBS News affiliate reports: Statesman, guardsman and even Bulldog are just a few of the titles former Senator Johnny Isakson has held throughout his life of service to our country. Isakson passed away Sunday morning at age 76 after battling Parkinson’s disease. When then-House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced in 1998 that he was resigning from the U.S. House of …

The Hill reports: Republican Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan said on Sunday that a reelection bid by former President Trump would be “bad” for the GOP and the nation. “Fox News Sunday” host Bret Baier asked Hogan if he believed that the Republican Party could win in 2024 with Trump as its nominee. “I think that’d be bad for the party …

The Orlando Sentinel reports: Florida election officials are hunting for snowbird voter fraud in the 2020 election, combing through records to uncover people who cast ballots in multiple states. So far three residents of the sprawling Villages retirement community have been charged with voting more than once in last year’s presidential election. Lake County has turned over another six possible …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Gov. Greg Abbott visited Starr County on Saturday to inaugurate the first stretch of a border wall being built by the state, calling it an “unprecedented” investment in border security. Construction crews on site said about 880 feet of barrier have been installed as of Saturday afternoon. At a news conference in front of the …

The Olympian reports: State Sen. Doug Ericksen, who represented Whatcom County with a strong conservative voice for more than two decades in the Legislature, has died, according to a Saturday afternoon press release from the Washington Senate Republican Caucus. Ericksen, 52, died after testing positive for COVID-19 while in El Salvador, according to a Nov. 11 message he sent through …

Mediaite reports: According to Mike Lindell, the date of Trump’s miraculous ascension was to be August 13. Even after that date came and went, 22 percent of Republicans still said it was either “very likely” (11%) or “somewhat likely” (11%) that Trump will be reinstated according to YouGov’s October poll. But according to a new poll from YouGov released this …

The Texas Tribune reports: Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has pledged to take his fight against a federal COVID-19 vaccine mandate for large businesses to the Supreme Court. That vow came after the 6th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled in a 2-1 vote that the mandate set by the Biden administration could go back into effect. In an opinion …

CNN reports: Members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 attack on the US Capitol believe that former Texas Governor and Trump Energy Secretary Rick Perry was the author of a text message sent to then-White House chief of staff Mark Meadows the day after the 2020 election pushing an “AGRESSIVE (sic) STRATEGY” for three state legislatures to …

The Houston Chronicle reports: Texas Republican Attorney General Ken Paxton has been one of former President Donald Trump’s most reliable allies in spreading the myth of widespread voter fraud, particularly in the 2020 election, and frequently boasts that few states are as vigilant. His office’s election integrity unit added two lawyers to the team in the last year, bringing it …

Politico reports: Former President Donald Trump has hit a wall in his efforts to oust Mitch McConnell as GOP leader. Despite months of attacks, the Trump-led campaign to depose the Senate minority leader has resulted in firm pledges from just two Republican candidates and no senators, and it has failed to turn up a formidable challenger to run against McConnell. …

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: Republican Herschel Walker’s campaign deleted a false claim that he graduated from the University of Georgia hours after it was posted on a website promoting his U.S. Senate bid. The former football star’s campaign removed the reference that he “graduated from UGA with a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice” late Thursday after The Atlanta Journal-Constitution inquired …

The Washington Post reports: The Republican Party has agreed to pay up to $1.6 million in legal bills for former president Donald Trump to help him fight investigations into his business practices in New York, according to Republican National Committee members and others briefed on the decision. The party’s executive committee overwhelmingly approved the payments at a meeting this summer …

The Daily Beast reports: New documents show Kanye West’s doomed White House campaign—styled as an “independent” third-party effort—appears to have disguised potentially millions of dollars in services it received from a secretive network of Republican Party operatives, including advisers to the GOP elite and a managing partner at one of the top conservative political firms in the country. Potentially even …