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Florida Politics reports: Gov. Ron DeSantis has officially filed for reelection to a second term as Governor. Multiple sources confirmed to Florida Politics that the Governor on Friday submitted his candidacy paperwork. He showed up in the Division of Elections list of 2022 candidates early Monday, with Nancy Watkins serving as his campaign treasurer. An official campaign kickoff is still …

The New York Times reports: The gap in Covid’s death toll between red and blue America has grown faster over the past month than at any previous point. In October, 25 out of every 100,000 residents of heavily Trump counties died from Covid, more than three times higher than the rate in heavily Biden counties (7.8 per 100,000). October was …

The Moscow Times reports: A man on the FBI’s Most Wanted List for allegedly attacking police during the Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol riot is now seeking asylum in Belarus, the ex-Soviet country’s state-run television reported Sunday. Evan Neumann, 48, is wanted in the United States on charges of violent entry and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds, as well as for …

Posted to the Christian crowdfunding site GiveSendGo: Hello, I am a woman who went to the “Stop the Steal Rally” in Washington DC on January 6th. I got caught up in the crowd and entered the Capitol for 2 minutes and 8 seconds. I was sentenced to 2 months in prison yesterday. The Judge says that everything I said at …

Axios reports: Sen. Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) told “Axios on HBO” he’ll make masculinity a signature political issue, because he claims “the left” is telling men: “You’re part of the problem. Your masculinity is inherently problematic.” “As conservatives, we’ve got to call men back to responsibility,” Hawley said. “We’ve got to say that spending your time not working, spending your time …

“Let me make one thing really clear: The only reason to affiliate with a political party, the only reason to support a political party is to win. “Nothing else matters. If you don’t win, you can’t govern. And winning campaigns are always the campaigns that look forward, not backwards. “We can no longer talk about the past and the past …

The Daily Beast reports: Of all the inane moments of Trump’s Oval Office tenure, perhaps none was more humiliating—and thus encapsulated his administration better—than the press conference held by his team on Nov. 7, 2020, four days after the presidential election. At that infamous affair, Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani spoke to the media in front of a garage door at …

Politico reports: Republican megadonor Miriam Adelson — the widow of casino mogul and longtime GOP kingmaker Sheldon Adelson — is staging a return to politics, positioning herself to be a force in the 2022 midterms and beyond. Adelson, who with her husband formed the Republican Party’s most powerful donor couple for the last decade, quietly held meetings in her Las …

The Huffington Post reports: The pillow magnate who brought the idea of “martial law” to Donald Trump’s White House in the days after the Jan. 6 assault on the U.S. Capitol and who later promised Trump’s “reinstatement” in August is now planning an election-fraud marathon over the busiest shopping days of the year. Lindell claims he will have “tons” of …

“They’ve taken my image and used my image to skewer Trump, to skewer Trump supporters, and definitely to skewer myself. I’m a big-time victim. “Like, I’ve gone through hell. They’ve gone through my phone. I was treated like a terrorist at the airport with eight TSAs searching me on the tarmac. “I cannot tell you how I’ve been treated, and …

The New York Times reports: Federal authorities on Saturday searched the home of James O’Keefe, the founder of the conservative group Project Veritas, according to witnesses and people briefed on the matter, a day after Mr. O’Keefe acknowledged that the group was under investigation by the Justice Department in connection with a diary reported to have been stolen from Ashley …

“I always say, there is nothing new under the sun, that’s a biblical proverb. There is nothing new under the sun and that is always real. “You can always look to history to see where these things come from. This is so reminiscent to me of when I studied Stalin youth programs, Hitler youth programs. “When you’re talking about schools …

The Insider reports: Roger Stone, a longtime ally of former President Donald Trump, said he will run for governor of Florida just to siphon votes away from Gov. Ron DeSantis – unless DeSantis commits to not running for president in 2024. “I believe that Gov. DeSantis, assuming he’s going to run for re-election, should pledge to the people of Florida …

Mediaite reports: Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R- GA) attacked fellow Republicans as “traitors” for helping pass the bipartisan infrastructure bill Friday night. Greene joined the vast majority of Republicans who voted against the legislation Friday night, along with 6 Democrats. 13 Republicans, however, joined the Democratic majority to pass it. Greene listed all 13 of them and repeatedly called them …

Media Matters has the transcript: We have two sets of rules, one for illegal aliens who come into this country, and we don’t know about them, and two, the rest of us law abiding American citizens who follow the laws and pay our taxes. That’s right. We’re the ones, you know, the “racists,” as the media call us. All the …

Chris Johnson reports at the Washington Blade: President Trump, whose administration was criticized for being anti-LGBTQ while supporters called him the first Republican president who was a gay rights ally, is set to be among the high-profile guests Saturday at the annual Log Cabin Republicans dinner, according to two insiders familiar with his plans. Trump’s planned attendance at the event, …

The Hill reports: Rep. Bennie Thompson (D-Miss.), the chair of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, said he would not rule out contempt charges against Jeffrey Clark, a former Trump Department of Justice official implicated in the former president’s efforts to forward his election fraud claims. “It’s under consideration, absolutely,” Thompson said. Thompson’s comments came …

CNN reports: Kari Lake, the Arizona gubernatorial candidate recently endorsed by former President Donald Trump, has embraced fringe far-right figures in her campaign events, including publicly thanking a Nazi sympathizer for his support and appearing with figures linked to the QAnon conspiracy. Lake posed for a photo and video with far-right personalities Ethan Schmidt-Crockett, the founder of the AntiMaskersClub, who …

Politico reports: A top Trump Justice Department official who aided the former president’s quest to overturn the 2020 election met Friday with congressional investigators probing the Jan. 6 Capitol attack — accompanied by a lawyer who worked on a suit aimed at overturning the Georgia election results. Jeffrey Clark was photographed heading into and out of a brief deposition with …

Newsweek reports: Representative Adam Kinzinger, an Illinois Republican, assessed that lies are “standard” under the leadership of House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, a California Republican, and former President Donald Trump. Kinzinger, a staunch Trump critic, made the remark on Twitter Thursday after McCarthy claimed that the GOP congressman had angled to become Air Force secretary under the former president’s administration. …