MAGA mob attacks Republican congressman

 

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Today's Top Stories:

Rep. Dan Crenshaw ambushed by MAGA mob in his home state
The Republican congressman was ambushed at a GOP event by the same right-wing radicals that his party has been dog whistling for years.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8-zQjdgUtfI

Take Action: Demand Congress pass the bill to stop Republicans from trying to overturn ANOTHER presidential election!

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Jamie Raskin smacks Trump down over pardon promise
The Maryland Democrat called the disgraced ex-president's pledge to commit corruption if he's reelected a "gratuitous and scandalous injection of politics into the presidential pardon power."

Take Action: Expel the congressmen who tried to get Trump pardons for their role in Jan. 6th!

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Amy Weirich is one of the cruelest, Trumpiest district attorneys in the country — and she represents a Biden district!
OD Action partner: Under Weirich, crime has soared and the police get away with murder. She even pushes to execute the mentally disabled! A Harvard study of every district in the country found her to be "the worst DA in the country." Can you chip in to help civil rights lawyer Steve Mulroy flip a red seat blue?

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GOP congressional candidate says Black Americans are "held hungry and dumb"
Notorious racist Carl Paladino, who STILL has the support of Republican leadership in his upstate New York race to become a US congressman, also said African Americans are "conditioned" to vote for Democrats and "you can't teach them differently."

Take Action: Tell Congress to pass the Equal Rights Amendment NOW!

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Herschel Walker publicly admits he has four kids after damning report
The Daily Beast blew the lid off the Republican senatorial candidate's undisclosed children last week, and Saturday Walker publicly acknowledged them for the first time in the middle of a pathetically futile response.

Take Action: Demand Herschel Walker tell us if he’s our dad!

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Kentucky orthodontist roasts Mitch McConnell for his opposition to keeping kids safe in schools
Dr. Mark Perelmuter took his senior senator to task for his deadly hypocrisy on guns, reminding the world that the best dads are also clever Democrats.

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Uvalde police never attempted to open classroom doors to find shooter
San Antonio Express-News has learned of troubling surveillance video that purportedly shows cops navigating hallways inside Robb Elementary School passing door after door without trying to open any of them.

Take Action: Tell the Senate: Pass red flag laws to take guns away from potential mass shooters!

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January 6 Committee SINKS Trump with brilliant tactic
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: WOW.

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Local news airs farcical segment about cops being "exposed to fentanyl"
A so-called investigative reporter aired the shameful segment without consulting a single toxicology expert in just the latest example of the "copaganda" media accepting police narratives without scrutiny.

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Lauren Boebert wants infrastructure funds she voted against
The Colorado Trump loyalist voted to kill President Biden’s landmark Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, at the time calling the legislation "wasteful" and "garbage." Now she wants a piece for her constituents back home.

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CDC formally approves COVID-19 vaccine for children under 5
A panel of expert advisors at the Center for Disease Control and Prevention have voted unanimously to strongly recommend kids and babies as young as 6 months old receive the vaccine, which will be available as soon as Tuesday.

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Ford sued for allegedly dumping "toxic sludge" on Native American land
New Jersey state officials are investigating the iconic carmaker for contaminating hundreds of acres of land home to a large population of Ramapough Lenape people.

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Seriously?

President Biden falls off bike while approaching reporters, says he's "good"

DeSantis blinks, finally allows Florida doctors to order vaccines for kids

US Navy fires dozens of commanding officers with no explanation

Church shooting suspect was licensed gun dealer recently flagged by feds

Yes. Seriously.

North Korea reports new intestinal disease outbreak in the middle of COVID surge

Floods in India, Bangladesh leave millions homeless

Epic European heat wave fuels out-of-control wildfires in France, Spain

Louisville mayor sucker punched at downtown hot spot

Man caught peeping after accidentally recording himself setting up hidden camera

Hope...

Major bank quietly helping many Blacks and Hispanics buy homes

Apple Store workers in Maryland vote to become first in company to unionize

GoodGoodGood: How to avoid "toxic positivity" on route to happiness

Native Americans look to Lakota brethren for housing crisis solutions

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Ted Cruz humiliated on world stage

It's Our Democracy!

Today’s Action: Find a March For Our Lives event in your area June 11th!

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Today's Top Stories:

Mexican president openly mocks Ted Cruz by playing a humiliating video of him
President López Obrado accused the odious senator of being an NRA stooge and played the infamous video of Cruz fleeing from a reporter when asked about the Uvalde school shooting.

Take Action: Demand big corporations stop funneling money to anti-choice politicians!

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House 1/6 committee holds primetime public hearings
TONIGHT: The Select Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the United States Capitol is finally holding its primetime hearings on Trump's violent insurrection. Rep. Raskin has promised that these hearings will "blow the roof off the House." Brian Tyler Cohen will be live streaming this blockbuster event tonight, so click on the image above and hit "NOTIFY ME" to be reminded when the live stream begins.

Take Action: Prosecute Trump and his insurrectionist cronies for seditious conspiracy!

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Katie Porter steals the show, demolishes gun argument
The Democratic Congresswoman has had enough of the bad faith gun arguments — and made that fact abundantly clear.

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House passes sweeping gun reform package that stands little chance in the Senate
The long-overdue legislation would raise the age from 18 to 21 for buying certain guns and target bump stocks and ghost guns, among other measures.

Take Action: Tell the Senate: Pass red flag laws to take guns away from potential mass shooters!

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Supreme Court gives lawsuit immunity to Border Patrol agents who violate the Constitution
Constitutional precedence apparently has no meaning for this court, which just ruled that the Border Patrol cannot be held accountable through lawsuits for violating the rights of citizens. The case in question? Excessive force and the violation of the Fourth Amendment. Yes, the implications of this are as terrifying as they seem.

Take Action: Tell Congress to pass the Judicial Ethics and Anti-Corruption Act!

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Lawsuit alleges trans child attempted suicide over Gov. Greg Abbott’s "child abuse" directive
This is precisely the kind of harm Republicans are actively cultivating with their relentless anti-LGBTQ+ campaign.

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Colorado investigating Lauren Boebert for alleged misuse of campaign funds
Colorado officials are investigating whether the insufferable MAGA congresswoman broke any laws by cashing in on large amounts of mileage reimbursements from her own campaign.

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Republicans pull DISGUSTING stunt on gun reforms
No Lie with Brian Tyler Cohen: Unreal.

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GOP Rep. Pat Fallon blames mass shootings on "these dang smartphones"
Because it couldn't be guns causing gun violence, right?

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Rep. Louie Gohmert blames mass shootings on lack of prayer and "taking God's name in vain"
The man who has unwittingly cultivated a reputation as the stupidest member of Congress took things to a new low defending the gun lobby.

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Woman who torched Wyoming abortion clinic caught on video
She waged a war on women and lost.

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GOP candidate for Congress claims he "didn't remember" sharing Buffalo "false flag" conspiracy theory... last week
Carl Paladino, a New York co-chair of Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign and noted racist rabble-rouser, shared a preposterous conspiracy theory regarding the recent massacres in Buffalo and Uvalde but now claims he doesn't remember doing so. Voters in Buffalo should remember to vote against him in his quest to join Congress.

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Another day in America

Actor Ezra Miller accused of using violence to "hold sway" over child

Tech companies are yanking job offers to keep profits up

Feds want R. Kelly behind bars for 25 years

At least four dead after military aircraft crashes in California

Six members of Haitian Special Olympics contingent vanish in Florida

Armed man arrested near Brett Kavanaugh's home charged with attempted murder

The foreign dispatch

Microplastics found in fresh Antarctic snow for the first time

Thailand removes cannabis from narcotics list

New Zealand unveils plan to tax farmers for climate-changing cow farts

UN says that Ukraine war will cost Russia 15 years of economic gains

Mexican megachurch leader jailed for child sex abuse

Hope...

US pushes through solar panel imports while boosting production

New device helps farmers raise happier, healthier cows

GoodGoodGood: Caribou herds triple thanks to indigenous science

Family’s tortoise missing for 30 years turns up in the attic

US proposes new marine sanctuary off New York coast, home to sperm whales and sea turtles

Interior Dept. phasing out plastic water bottles at national parks

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Today’s Action: Find a March For Our Lives event in your area June 11th!

Over 450 cities around the country are hosting protests THIS SATURDAY, June 11th, demanding comprehensive gun legislation. March For Our Lives, a youth-led organization created after the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School massacre, has been fighting for comprehensive gun safety reform from recalcitrant legislators for years. Instead, legislators — overwhelmingly Republicans — have let thousands of kids die. In fact, gun violence at school has continued to reach record highs.

The June 11th marches are in response to the latest preventable school massacre, which left 19 children and two teachers dead in Uvalde, Texas. A decade after the unspeakable horrors of Sandy Hook, there are still nowhere near enough gun safety laws in place to prevent catastrophic mass shootings in American elementary schools. It’s time to band together in protest of our legislators’ abysmal, fatal inaction.

Find the nearest March For Our Lives protest and join the call for IMMEDIATE legislative action on gun safety before any other lives are lost! If you can’t attend, keep your outrage loud and alive on social media by adding your voice to the protests!

2,500 instances of school shooting threats have been logged in the K-12 School Shooting Base since just 2018 — how much mass trauma must America experience before our elected officials step up and actually do something? 

In the absence of any new, common-sense gun laws, teachers in America have spent the past decade instructing students how to build barricades, run for their lives, and fight back against active shooters — effectively embedding the reality of gun violence into everyday life. Make no mistake, obstinate legislators across the country, at every level, have blood on their hands. At the very least, we need a national red-flag law that will allow officials to intervene before any more lives are senselessly lost, and it’s up to us to demand it. 

Find the nearest March For Our Lives protest to attend and fight for comprehensive legislation that prevents gun violence!

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