To recruit and train members of a civilian military force under his control, Gov. Ron DeSantis’ administration has hired a company that specializes in combat training and lists as one of its instructors a former U.S. Navy SEAL accused of war crimes.
The far right has a plan to remake America. They even wrote it down.
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Turns out there are consequences for not having any policy ideas or purpose.
To say that anyone outside of the House GOP caucus had a hand in McCarthy’s downfall requires superhuman amounts of ignorance. It assumes Democrats exists to bail out the GOP from their mistakes and provide a bulwark against their own worst instincts
In the year since Roe v. Wade was overturned, the Republican Party has tested out constantly changing talking points and messages on abortion in an attempt to make its anti-abortion policies sound less extreme.
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“Kevin McCarthy needs to look at himself in the mirror and ask if he wants to be an adult, or a Republican,” the congressman said.
Where can African Americans find this lost golden age? Do we discover it during the first centuries of the Republic when slavery was the law of the land? Do we fast forward to the Red Summer, Jim Crow laws, “strange fruit” hanging from poplar trees?
Twice re-elected and comfortable in her political skin, the Democratic congresswoman makes clear that Biden can't take progressives for granted.
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