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Ezra Klein
@ezraklein· Jul 6, 2021

You’re seeing Joe Biden and the Democrats try and pass bills, to expand and deepen democracy in this country.

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Lawrence O'Donnell
@lawrenceodonnell· Jul 6, 2021

Republicans are going to try to steal a presidential election again. That is what they are basically telling us they`re going to do. That is what they are publicly planning to do with new election laws in some states that make it easier…

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jul 5, 2021

I don`t think there`s an actual line of moral transgression that can be crossed at this point that people would blanch at.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jul 5, 2021

If Donald Trump decided tomorrow to wage a campaign to make hang Mike Pence the litmus test for the Republican Party, the vast majority of Republican officeholders would get behind hanging Mike Pence.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 5, 2021

It looks directly like fascism. It looks like Mussolini`s Italy, the brown shirts, the violence against our Capitol, the attempts to overthrow the government.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jul 4, 2021

The First Amendment is supposed to prevent government from pressuring Americans on the basis of their speech, or intervening in the use of free speech.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jul 2, 2021

Acta Non Verba, that`s what it says. It`s the official crust of a fancy private school in the Las Vegas, Nevada area.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Jul 1, 2021

Stephen Breyer should have announced his retirement today, but he didn`t because he thinks retiring now would politicize the court. It`s already politicized. Get on with it. Fix the court.

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Mehdi Hasan
@mehdihasan· Jul 1, 2021

This ridiculous Democratic Party desire to will the ends but not the means -- we want to protect democracy but we want to -- we won`t take on the forces that are threatening democracy.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 30, 2021

I did not even know, I will confess, it was possible or legal to privately fund the movement of American troops.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 30, 2021

Joe Biden had one key primary job, right, to suppress the Coronavirus.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 30, 2021

It started out with far-right Republican candidate Mark Harris appearing to defeat Democrat Dan McCready in initial tallies by less than 1000 votes out of more than 280,000 cast.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jun 29, 2021

Maybe, we`ll -- we will stop that ongoing honor at the United States Capitol for him see if somebody else might now get a turn in that place of honor?

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 28, 2021

Weeks before January 6, Ali Alexander, one of the organizers of Stop the Steal, said clearly that Congressman Gosar and other lawmakers helped him plan the events that would turn into a full-on insurrection.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 24, 2021

I can’t actually tell if this is a huge win for the Democrats or if they just got rolled by Republicans.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 24, 2021

Joe Biden does not inspire rage and contempt the way that Obama and Hillary Clinton did.

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Chris Hayes
@chrishayes· Jun 24, 2021

The same Voting Rights Act which was last reauthorized in 2006 with a massive bipartisan majority in the House and a unanimous vote in the Senate.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jun 24, 2021

I think that’s a bigger deal than having five Republican senators standing on the White House driveway today.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 21, 2021

It did, however, meet its 70 percent goal for people 30 -- age 30 and older and is on track to reach the target for those 27 and older by July 4.

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Rachel Maddow
@rachelmaddow· Jun 21, 2021

That is not a 'Washington Post' editorial board kind of position, but they feel like they’re up against the wall.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 21, 2021

And, in this country, we can’t do what in the Philippines -- Rodrigo Duterte, the leader there, the autocrat there, said he’s going to jail those who refuse their shots.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 21, 2021

This is also one of the few races this year where the candidates represent a microcosm of America, from the moderate front runner, Eric Adams, to more progressive candidates like Kathryn Garcia and Maya Wiley to Andrew Yang.

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Joy Reid
@joyreid· Jun 20, 2021

He vetoed part of the state`s budget funding the state legislature as punishment for Texas Democrats.

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