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The Daily Beast reports: The head of Arizona Republicans’ controversial “audit” of 2020 presidential ballots was revealed Saturday as the anonymous star of a new movie claiming the election was stolen, raising questions about how credible any upcoming report from the supposed audit could be. The revelation of Cyber Ninjas CEO Doug Logan’s involvement in the conspiracy theory movie The …

Axios reports: Nearly three-dozen corporate PACs have donated at least $5,000 to Republicans who objected to certifying the 2020 election, yet Toyota leads by a substantial margin. Toyota gave more than twice as much — and to nearly five times as many members of Congress — as the No. 2 company on the list, Cubic Corp., a San Diego-based defense …

The Intercept reports: Flynn, a retired Army lieutenant general who once oversaw military intelligence in Afghanistan and led a sprawling intelligence agency in Washington, would go on to become a central hero in QAnon’s conspiratorial narrative. But his move to trademark the term “digital soldiers” — ensuring that only he and others who obtain his express permission can profit from …

ABC News reports: GOP Sen. Rob Portman (Ohio) on Sunday said former President Trump is “definitely the leader” of the Republican Party, one day after Trump held his first post-presidential rally in Ohio. Portman, asked by ABC’s “This Week” host Jon Karl about Trump, said the ex-president remains the party leader given his “high popularity among the Republican base.” “That’s …

Fox News reports: Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis defended his record on handling the COVID-19 pandemic, remarking that if he did not stand up to the continued overreach by the federal government, the U.S. as a whole would be as severely locked down and economically depressed as Canada. “We were the leading state fighting against coronavirus lockdowns,” DeSantis recounted. “I …

Oregon Public Radio reports: Former state Rep. Mike Nearman has emerged as his party’s top choice to retake the House seat he just lost. Nearman garnered the most votes among local Republican party members who’d assembled Friday to choose nominees for the now-vacant House District 23. The four-term lawmaker was expelled from the seat earlier this month, after video footage …

Mediaite reports: Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) spoke at former President Donald Trump’s rally in Wellington, Oh. on Saturday, and used her time on stage to attack Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) as a “little communist” and “not an American.” After polling the crowd to make sure they agreed that Trump was “still their president” and falsely claiming that “Democrats stole …

Roll Call reports: “No, none whatsoever,” McCarthy said Friday of whether the select committee announcement gave him any pause on opposing an independent 9/11-style commission that one of his own colleagues helped negotiate. He did not answer a question about whom he would appoint to the select committee and said he has not been briefed by Pelosi on the panel. …

The Birmingham News reports: A Florida man has been arrested in connection to the deadly Jan. 6 riots at the U.S. Capitol. Brian Glenn Bingham, 35, of Port Charlotte, Florida is charged with federal offenses including assault, resisting or impeding officers, obstruction of law enforcement, violent entry and disorderly conduct, among other charges. Bingham, who also has ties to New …

Newsweek reports: “I asked [McCarthy] specifically for a commitment to denounce [those comments] publicly, and he said that he would address it at a personal level with some of those members,” Fanone told reporters after the meeting. “But again, I think that as a leader of the House Republican Party, it’s important to hear those denouncements publicly.” Fanone said that, …

Mediaite reports: Turning Point USA founder Charlie Kirk claimed in a Friday tweet that “several architects” believe the recent building collapse in Surfside, FL was an act of “domestic terrorism.” Authorities have yet to give an update on the reason for the collapse, but during a Thursday news conference, the county’s mayor, Daniella Levine Cava (D), said it was a …

Democracy Docket reports: On Friday, Attorney General Merrick Garland announced that the Department of Justice (DOJ) will form a criminal task force to investigate threats made against election workers across the country. The task force will put the resources of multiple DOJ divisions, including the Criminal Division, Civil Rights Division and the FBI, behind efforts to protect the workers who …

From the New York Daily News editorial board: Words have consequences, especially for attorneys — like one Rudy Giuliani, who before Thursday had been licensed to practice law in New York since this very day in 1969. With that privilege came the responsibility to abide by the rules of professional conduct, which above all else requires truthfulness, especially in formal …

The Christian Post reports: A Florida pastor, his son and a churchgoer have been charged in connection with the riot at the U.S. Capitol after authorities received tips and saw the men on security footage inside the building on Jan. 6. Seventy-two-year-old Pastor James Cusick of Global Outreach Ministries in Melbourne, Florida, and his son, Casey, who is also a …

Politico reports: Former U.N. Ambassador Nikki Haley reaffirmed her support for former President Donald Trump in a speech Thursday night, just months after flaying him for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot and predicting that his political career was finished. The potential 2024 presidential candidate lavished praise on Trump during an evening appearance before the Iowa Republican Party’s …

The Texas Tribune reports: A group of Texas House Democrats and legislative staffers is asking the Texas Supreme Court to override Gov. Greg Abbott’s recent veto of a portion of the state budget that funds the Legislature, staffers there and legislative agencies. More than 50 Democrats, a number of state employees and the Texas AFL-CIO have signed on to a …

Vice News reports: A prominent Republican congressman recently gave an extended tirade that argued Democrats are disloyal, unpatriotic, dangerous traitors to America—and twice invoked Nazis to make his point. “They are not the loyal opposition. They are the opposition to everything you love and believe in,” Pennsylvania Republican Rep. Scott Perry said of Democrats as he concluded a speech to …

The CBC reports: The federal government has added the Three Percenters movement to its list of terrorist entities, an anti-government group linked to a recent bomb plot in the U.S. with a known presence in Canada. The Three Percenters, named after a debunked theory that only three per cent of Americans took up arms and served in George Washington’s Colonial …

The Arizona Republic reports: Plea deals may be in the works for six people who the federal government says are associated with the Proud Boys and who face criminal charges related to the U.S. Capitol riot on Jan. 6. Prosecutors and defense attorneys told a federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday that they expect to have preliminary negotiations about …

Fox News reports: An Indiana grandmother told “The Ingraham Angle” on Thursday that her life has been turned upside down amid a report her court-appointed public defender coaxed her into drafting a written admission of White “guilt”, as she became the first suspect in the January 6 Capitol riot to be sentenced. Anna Morgan-Lloyd of Bloomfield was convicted of one …