Just submitted an amendment to Bill drafting appointing MTG as Putin’s Special Envoy to the United States Congress.

'Russia is seeking to subvert Western support for Ukraine and disrupt the domestic politics of the United States and European countries, through propaganda campaigns supporting isolationist and extremist policies...'
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'Rather than being concerned with the safety and well-being of Jewish students on campuses, the committee is leveraging antisemitism in a wider effort to caricature and demonize universities as hotbeds of “woke indoctrination.”'
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Coming up!

I wrote about how I, like Donald Trump, dozed off at court this week, and why that’s a good thing.

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A motion by Arizona Dems that would have helped them force a vote on repealing the 1864 anti-abortion law just failed.

The vote was 30-30, with one GOPer crossing over.

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🚨🚨BREAKING NEWS from me and John Bresnahan

House Republicans plan to try to pass four bills this week to send aid to Israel, Ukraine and Taiwan, according to four sources familiar with the plan. 

The fourth bill will include a ban on TikTok, a bill to sell of seized Russian…

Justices occasionally miss an oral argument. But I don’t recall any instances of this happening without some explanation—either from the Public Information Office or from the Chief Justice at the beginning of the hearing.

Today: no explanation of Justice Thomas’s absence.

'States have multiple systems in place to deter noncitizen voting. Those who violate the law face prison time and deportation.'
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Watch the full segment on YouTube here:
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Arizona Republicans are apparently not having the same freakout as national Republicans over the state's new/old Civil War-era abortion ban because Democrats called their bluff on repealing the law and the GOP blocked them (again).

. Lisa Rubin explains why you should know who Madeleine Westerhout is ahead of Donald Trump's New York criminal trial next week.

It was only a couple of weeks ago that Lara Trump told NBC News' Garrett Haake that the fixation on 2020 voter fraud claims was a thing of a past. Um... not according to the latest RNC robocall.

Charles Coleman Jr., ( Charles Coleman Jr., Jedi Knight ) co-host of 'Black Men in America,' explains why the Biden campaign's pitch to preserve democracy hits different for Black voters who have mixed feelings about how democracy has served their interests.

Attempts to gain power mostly fueled Arizona’s near-total abortion ban in 1864, as male physicians sought to dominate health care over midwives and anti-abortion advocates felt threatened by immigrants, historians say. nbcnews.com/news/us-news/a…

'Chaos erupted in the Arizona House on Wednesday as Democrats attempted to repeal the 1864 near-total abortion ban, only to be thwarted by the Republican majority.'
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Millions of Arizonans now live under an even more extreme and dangerous abortion ban. With this decision, there are now 21 state abortion bans in effect.

Alex Wagner Tonight

.@AlexWagner on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s presidential bid:

“Over the course of this campaign, Kennedy has really aligned himself with the right.”

Watch via @Wagnertonight on MSNBC.

The RFK Jr. campaign tried to walk back this answer from him on his position on banning abortion, but the video seems to speak for itself.