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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 26, 2022

The 14th Amendment explicitly bars lawmakers from holding office if they have engaged in insurrection or rebellion against the country.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 26, 2022

The Democrats then walked out of the hearing. But, because they're the minority on the committee, the Republicans were able to advance Ladapo's nomination.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 24, 2022

Today, in Virginia, the Trumpy new governor, Glenn Youngkin, kicked off his new anti-mask optional mandate, a mandate that seven school boards are suing to stop.

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Tucker Carlson
@tuckercarlson· Jan 24, 2022

The fact is Ukraine is strategically irrelevant to the United States. No rational person could defend a war with Russia over Ukraine.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 21, 2022

The conservative majority`s rejection of that request was, frankly, a cowardly, weaselly way to endorse the ban, which means that Texas women are still unable to exercise their legal right to choose.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 20, 2022

This is the single most important achievement of the first year of the Biden presidency.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jan 20, 2022

Joe Biden`s confirmed 42 federal judges is almost double what Donald Trump confirmed in his first year.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2022

This was a coup. Anybody that doesn`t think that it`s a coup is a kook.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2022

So far, what Trump in this group of cohorts have elected to do is to basically show the American people that you don`t have to comply with these congressional subpoenas.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 19, 2022

Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema keep saying that this would be an unprecedented thing to do, even though that’s absolutely not true.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jan 19, 2022

Democratic Senators Joe Manchin and Kirsten Sinema are adamantly opposed to making a carve-out for the voting legislation.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jan 19, 2022

You could elect five -- you want to know what would really piss Republicans off in the Senate and make Mitch McConnell mad? Put five black senators in there.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 18, 2022

But again, nobody knows Russia's real intentions, I mean, other than the fact that we definitely know they’re loving the attention, loving the uncertainty and upset that they are causing.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jan 17, 2022

DeSantis has one win on COVID, which is, he opened the schools in Florida early. And that looks like a right decision that a lot of people are going to be grateful for.

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David Frum
@davidfrum· Jan 17, 2022

This is about to be a fantastic political science experiment in figuring out who actually runs a modern American party and specifically the Republican Party.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 17, 2022

The Senate is going to consider a combination of two bills that have already passed the House, the Freedom to Vote Act and the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 17, 2022

Tomorrow, the United States Senate will finally begin debating voting rights protection.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 17, 2022

It was last month that we first learned that former President Donald Trump had been subpoenaed to testify in an investigation led by New York state Attorney General Tish James.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 13, 2022

The Oath Keepers explicitly focus on recruiting former and current law enforcement military and first responder personnel.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 13, 2022

It was a chilling sign that many at the vanguard of the mob that stormed the seat of American democracy either had military training or were trained by those who did.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 13, 2022

As President Donald Trump`s supporters massed outside the Capitol last week, a line of men wearing olive drab helmets and body armor trudged purposefully up the marble stairs in a single file line.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 13, 2022

Conservative Democrats Kyrsten Sinema and Joe Manchin reiterating again today that they plan to effectively side with Republicans and block any protections for voting rights.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jan 13, 2022

The Supreme Court just blocked the Biden administration from being allowed to require.

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