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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 14, 2022

As Democrats try to keep control of both chambers of Congress, Republicans have made it clear that their strategy across the country is to focus on the classroom culture wars.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 11, 2022

Republican candidates for statewide office are running on an explicitly pro-coup platform.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 10, 2022

The Presidential Records Act is quite clear on this. It says, whoever willfully and unlawfully conceals from news, mutilates, obliterates, or destroys... shall be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than three years or both.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 10, 2022

How are you doing, Ari? When are they going to learn that what Trump it`s one-way love, it`s only one-way love.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 9, 2022

The Postal Service is not really a private business. It’s a public service. It’s like a Fire Department except Postal Service is actually in the Constitution, Article One, Section Eight.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 9, 2022

The Post Office stands out as a kind of lone civic institution that is shared, that is a shared space that we all participate in. And there’s something really upsetting about the notion of that going away.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 9, 2022

When someone’s financial interest is over here, they’re staying over here, no matter what you say.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 9, 2022

Maybe it’s time to stop begging Manchin to do what’s right, and just start exposing what he actually stands for.

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Greg Gutfeld
@greggutfeld· Feb 8, 2022

What you`re truly seeing is a division between the power and the powerless.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 8, 2022

We need to have the legal tools in place, the law that was passed by bipartisan majorities over and over and suddenly fell out of favor with Republicans. It's time to restore the Voting Rights Act.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Feb 8, 2022

Alabama's congressional map is a flagrant violation of the Voting Rights Act as lower courts saw.

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Van Jones
@vanjones· Feb 7, 2022

I don't think it is fair to blame Pelosi or the Democrats to say that they are putting forward a partisan committee.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 7, 2022

It’s the latest hostility to voting rights from the court, which gutted the Voting Rights Act back in 2013 and is now even more right-wing.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Feb 7, 2022

The Republican Party now has an official position that the attack on the Capitol was legitimate political discourse.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 4, 2022

The man that wrote the Constitution included it specifically to remove what the British government and military had, namely the right to enter and search any Briton's home at will.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 4, 2022

It’s why elections matter. It’s why it matters how we have a conversation about what kinds of laws we need and what keeps us safe.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 4, 2022

I don’t understand how we have a Fourth Amendment if police can do what we just saw on that video.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 4, 2022

The right of the people to be secure in their person’s houses, papers and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

Everything old is new again in American history, which is why we need to know American history, whether Republicans want us to or not.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

This is essentially legalizing lynching, as Brittany said. I don’t see how it’s anything under than that.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

I hope he doesn’t think Mitch McConnell will be there for him if that happens.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

It’s really shocking, I guess, but not surprising, that he’s still treated like he’s just some normal guy that you can book to sing songs.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Feb 3, 2022

If there’s a big argument here about what we need to do on things like police reform, because there are serious changes that need to be made.

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Scott Jennings
@scottjennings· Feb 3, 2022

This phrase, 'Legitimate political discourse,' will be hung around, every candidate's neck, for the next two cycles.

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