Amy Marshall

NEW YORK TIMES: “The first three hearings of the House Committee on Jan. 6 have been deeply cut, if not broken. Post-election myths are repeated endlessly by former President Donald Trump and his supporters and embraced and spread by Republicans in Congress.”

A parade of Republican witnesses – his attorney general, William Barr, his daughter Ivanka Trump and his own campaign lawyers – knew he had lost the election and told him so. Doing so is illegal. Even the most active coup plotter, conservative lawyer John C. Eastman, admitted before Jan. 6 that his plan was illegal and unconstitutional, then apologized to the president after it led to public violence. “

Yet perhaps the most striking revelation is how deeply Mr. Trump’s contempt for truth and the rule of law has penetrated the Republican Party, rooted in the fertile soil of a right-wing electorate in conspiracy theories and well-intentioned tendencies. By the media of their choice. The Republican response to the hearing – a combination of indifference, apathy and duplicity – reflects how central to the party’s identity lies in the rigged election. “

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Rui Teixeira: “Start with this: when Democrats persuade a voter to change sides, which is two votes for Democrats (one less for Republicans, another for Democrats). A voting net.

“It simply came to our notice then. In general, Democrats consider increasing the base voter base in terms of increasing the number of voters from different pro-Democratic demographic groups-young voters, black voters, Hispanic voters, college-educated whites, whatever. But not all voters in this group are Democrats, so collecting more voters from a particular group could result in less than one vote per additional voter. For example, looking at the current congressional ballot preference, Democrats can get only one-third of the vote for every additional Hispanic or young voter, six-tenths of the vote for each additional black voter, and only one-sixth for each additional college-educated white voter. “

“The math looks even more unfavorable when the following are considered: Democrats assume that non-voters in a given population are politically identical to voters in the same group … they don’t vote. But a mountain of political science evidence shows that this is not the case.”

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By MoveOn. Thursday, June 9, 2022

“What the nation will see this month, starting with the select committee hearing on January 6, is the MAGA extremism in full display. We urgently need to try to reverse intelligent gun violence prevention laws Rowe vs. Wade For new evidence of their deadly coup attempt, Republicans are showing the nation their values, their priorities and their agenda.

“When it comes to January 6, the events are irresistible and undeniable. Donald Trump, encouraged and empowered by the entire Republican Party, led a deadly coup attempt and sought to overthrow a free and fair election in a desperate move to retain power.

“And let’s be clear: the efforts of Donald Trump and the Republican Party to destroy our democracy did not begin on January 6, nor did they end that day. Threats to our democracy and our freedom from MAGA extremism continue today.

“And every day we fail to hold those responsible accountable, another day the dark forces trying to weaken our democracy become stronger.

“The GOP agenda means a complete ban on abortion; No meaningful, intelligent gun violence prevention laws; And zero accountability for attempting a deadly coup.

“I can’t imagine a greater contrast for voters this fall than we will see in June.”

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David Brooks: “Using the January 6 incident as a propaganda ploy can be short-sighted and ineffective. If you think you can find the magic moment that will ultimately disrespect Donald Trump in the eyes of voters, you haven’t paid attention in the last six years. Sorry, Boomers, but this isn’t the Watergate scandal where we need an investigation to find out who said what to the Oval Office. The horrors of January 7 have come to light. The shocking truth was that we all saw that day and since then we have learned about crude violence.

“We do not need a committee to reconsider what happened on January 6, 2021. We need a committee that will defend democracy on January 6, 2025 and January 6, 2029. We need a committee to identify vulnerabilities in our democratic system and in society and find ways to address them. “

“The main problem here is not who texted Chief of Staff Mark Meadows on January 6 last year. The key issue is the millions of Americans who have three convictions: the election that was rigged, the rules and regulations that are justified in correcting the violence and uniting our society. “

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Politico: “Over the past several months, a team of economists led by the White House has marked each day in the same way: a laborious, state-by-state examination of petrol prices and relentless market forces pushing them relentlessly. “

“Senior officials and those close to President Joe Biden see these prices as the ones that most directly affect the daily lives of voters and therefore their perceptions of the economy,” he said. For example, Biden and his top advisers set their sights on what some associates describe as obsessive. White House Chief of Staff Ron Klein has been particularly exploited by this problem, checking the average price of one gallon of gas every morning. He regrets that it is an item whose price is known to all because gas station billboards are ubiquitous across the country. “

The White House’s focus on gas prices stems from two absurd political conclusions drawn by top officials. The first is that they have no control over the issue. Gas has reached a new record high. “

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Doug Sosnik: “The recent leak of a draft Supreme Court ruling overturning Rowe v. Wade is the best, and perhaps last, hope for a change in the outcome of the mid-2022 election. If the impending court decision does not change the current political dynamics, we will look back at the events of July and early November last year as the period for determining the outcome of this election cycle. “

But the window is about to close: “In the last four midterm elections, the people have made up their minds about Washington’s leadership in June and how it is going to vote in November.” According to Gallup, Trump’s 39% job approval in early February 2018, Obama’s 41% approval in June 2014, 45% approval in June 2010 and Bush’s 38% approval in March 2006 all coincide with their job approval on election day. “

Each of these presidents has “suffered significant defeats and lost control of at least one branch of Congress.”

That’s why the stakes are so high that it’s important for Democrats to enter this deadline to overturn the pending Rowe v. Wade decision as a way to change the course of the election. If they do not succeed in rebuilding the controversy over the midterm elections in the run-up to the Supreme Court’s pending ruling in Rowe, we will look back to the failure of Biden and the Democrats as a result of their electoral defeat last summer and early fall. November. “

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David Brooks: “Over the past few decades, as Republicans have been increasingly using cultural issues to support them, Democrats have come to understand what is happening less and less. Many progressives on the other hand have developed an inability to see how good and wise people can be, a lazy tendency to assume that anyone who is not socially progressive must be a racist or a misogynist, a tendency to think of cultural wars as merely one. Confused Republican politicians kick to divert attention from real issues like economics – as if the moral health of society is some trivial side show. “

“Worse, many progressives have become blind to their own cultural power. Liberals dominate elite cultural institutions – universities, most of the mainstream media, entertainment, many big nonprofits – and many do not realize how annoyingly degrading it is when their opponents are described as rubbish and bigoted. “

“The Republican Party capitalizes on that. Some days it seems that this team is the only one working. Republican candidates, for example, are more likely to win this fall election by talking about inflation. Instead, many are doubling down on the cultural issues that helped Glenn Yankin get into the Virginia governor’s office. “

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By MoveOn. Tuesday, 17 May 2022

Moveon is mobilizing millions of voters to protect democracy from the extreme right. The program will include the main down-ballot race with the Secretary of State.

WASHINGTON, DC – Today, MoveOn Political Action announced the launch of its 2022 political program: America for All: Us vs. Maga. MoveOn is mobilizing millions of voters to protect democracy from those extreme rights that seek to overthrow our elections, silence our voices, take control of our bodies and block policies that will benefit all Americans.

MoveOn’s 30 million election campaign – the largest of all time in the medium term – will create a long-term progressive force and move the needle in the mainstream, ranging from congressional to governorate. And with the real threat of MAGA Republicans taking state and local election measures to control the election results, MoveOn members will donate an unprecedented $ 1 million, a million bucks, to support the contesting state secretary and governor candidate in Arizona. Nevada, Pennsylvania, Texas and Wisconsin.

“The choice we face in 2022 is already a terrible one among the majority who support democracy and help improve all Americans and the MAGA Republicans who so desperately tried to overthrow our government.” Says Rahna Epting, Executive Director of MoveOn Political Action. “The danger is even greater now that Trump’s hardline judges are ready to overthrow the Supreme Court. Rowe And transfer more power to states where MAGA Republican candidates are lining up to criminalize abortion and take us to forced births, even in cases of rape or incest. ”

Epting Continuing, “By attacking fundamental freedoms, our healthcare, and democracy, MoveOn members will also focus on state and local elections, including the governorate and secretary of state race.”

To achieve these goals, MoveOn will raise millions for candidates, run Midterm’s largest-in-scale relational voter outreach program, and launch a multimillion-dollar paid media program to micro-target voters.

MoveOn has already backed 14 candidates for state and national office and will announce more in the coming weeks.

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