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Just 27 billionaires have spent $90 million to buy GOP Congress: Report
Jul 20, 2022 18:35A few dozen billionaires are spending tens of millions of dollars on the 2022 midterm elections—mostly to support Republican candidates, including many who have parroted the dangerous lie that the 2020 presidential election was stolen—in a bid to ensure that Congress is full of lawmakers willing "to make their wealthy benefactors even richer," according to a fresh analysis.
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US Capitol attack hearings: If Republicans did nothing wrong, why were pardons sought?
Jun 29, 2022 09:31Congressman Mo Brooks was one of at least a half dozen US Republican congressmen who sought pardons immediately after the Capitol attack. The Head of White House Presidential Personnel John McEntee testified it came after Trump “hinted at a blanket pardon for the Jan. 6 thing for anybody.”
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January 6 hearing: Trump was at heart of plot that led to ‘attempted coup’
Jun 11, 2022 16:45Convincing a deeply polarized American public that the January 6 Capitol riot was not a spontaneous act of violence but the culmination of a months-long plot by former US President Donald Trump and his allies to undermine the results of 2020 presidential election is no easy task for the House select committee investigating the deadly assault.
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Pelosi and other top US Democrats subpoenaed over Bannon contempt case
Jun 10, 2022 19:27Lawyers for Donald Trump’s one-time chief strategist Steve Bannon are making a multi-pronged defense to try and save him from being convicted of criminal contempt of Congress after he was referred to the Justice Department for prosecution for failing to comply with a subpoena in the congressional January 6 inquiry.
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Trump aides & organizers wanted mob march to Capitol, Jan. 6 witness says
Mar 25, 2022 17:40A former aide to one of the groups that helped organize the “Stop the Steal” rally that took place outside of the White House on January 6, 2021, says that aides to the former president wanted to use the rally to encourage Trump loyalists to march to the Capitol building.
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US Capitol attack panel in race against time as Trump allies seek to run out clock
Jan 07, 2022 21:33A barrage of delay tactics as US Republicans are expected to do well in 2022 midterms that would give them control to shut down the inquiry about the 6 January attack on the Capitol.
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Bannon may not be only Trump ally indicted over Capitol attack
Nov 16, 2021 17:52Two days after the indictment of former White House adviser Steve Bannon, Adam Schiff, a senior Democrat warned on Sunday Nov. 14 criminal charges are possible for more associates of former US President Donald Trump refusing to cooperate with the House committee investigating the 6 January Capitol attack.
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Jan. 6 was worse than we knew
Oct 06, 2021 21:26However horrifying the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol appeared in the moment, we know now that it was far worse. The country was hours away from a full-blown constitutional crisis — not primarily because of the violence and mayhem inflicted by hundreds of President Donald Trump’s supporters but because of the actions of Donald Trump himself.
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US Congress needs to force Biden to end Yemen war
Aug 01, 2021 16:51Activists say it's not enough to trust Biden's promises to end U.S. support for the ongoing war in Yemen: Congress must compel him.
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Landmark voting rights bill defeated in US Senate despite Democratic unity
Jun 24, 2021 18:37US Democrats accuse Republicans of seeking to reduce polling hours and locations and drop boxes, and tightening voter ID laws, as a direct response to former President Donald Trump’s lie that the 2020 election was stolen by voter fraud.