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Wagner

Ann Wagner: a hypocrite in her own words

January 20, 2021 Lori Kesler Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

I recently took a look at Rep. Ann Wagner’s website to see what she thought of President Trump’s incendiary words at his rally Jan.

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Trumpsters

A Conversation with Trump Supporters on Election Fraud

December 10, 2020 Reece Ellis 2020 Election, Democracy, Joe Biden, Politics, Republicans, Trump voters Leave a comment

Can I ask you a serious question? If there was fraud to benefit Joe Biden, why did Democrats lose seats in the House and not win the Senate outright? These allegedly fake results to benefit Democrats, would’ve had to have been Biden up top and GOP down ballot. Does that make sense to you?

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LIncoln project

Lincoln Project: “We are Republicans, and we want Trump defeated”

December 27, 2019 Renee Shur 2020 Election, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

One day before the impeachment of Donald Trump in the U.S. House of Representatives, it became apparent that this decidedly strange time in America’s

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Trump is Grover Norquist’s fantasy president: an idiot with a pen

October 11, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, Republicans, Trump 2 comments

In 2012, Republican strategist Grover Norquist described his ideal president. In 2017, he got his wish: a president with enough “working digits to be

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resolution

Resolution condemning Trump’s hate speech: Full text

July 16, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik Congress, Racial issues, Republicans Leave a comment

The resolution passed today in the U.S. House of Representatives, condemning Trump’s racist comments directed at Members of Congress is an amazing piece of

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Mueller

Liberals Put Too Many Eggs in the Mueller Basket

April 9, 2019 Reece Ellis 2016 Election, Republicans, Trump Leave a comment

The Mueller report is out: No further indictments have been recommended. The full contents of the report aren’t yet known, but we know at

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Mitch-McConnell

McConnell As Much at Blame as Trump

January 12, 2019 Arthur Lieber Congress, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Senate Leave a comment

Somehow, I was led to believe that voting was a fundamental part of democracy. And when a majority exists, and not vote can take place – well, that more than just a shame; it’s not democracy.

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reverse

Reverse the vote: Undoing the will of the people is now official Republican policy

January 6, 2019 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2016 Election, 2018 Election, Democracy, Missouri region, Republicans, States Leave a comment

Republican governors, state legislators and secretaries of state have become shameless in their attempts to reverse the results of legitimately passed ballot initiatives. What

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anti-gerrymandering

MO GOP’s overt / covert plots to undermine new anti-gerrymandering law

December 8, 2018 Gloria Shur Bilchik 2018 Election, Good government, Missouri region, Republicans Leave a comment

After the November 2018 midterm election, Missouri voters could congratulate themselves on being ahead of the curve in the nationwide drive for anti-gerrymandering laws.

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Christian Post

The Superstructure Triumphant

December 4, 2018 Adam Levin 2018 Election, 2020 Election, Activism, Community/Common good, Politics, Republican Brain, Republicans, Uncategorized Leave a comment

One of the crucial trends in the 2016 election was the 80-plus percent of white evangelicals who voted for Trump.

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