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Some of the Donald Trump supporters who marched on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, joined him at Mar-a-Lago for his announcement that he would again seek a second term in the White House.

Politico reviewed the social media posts of guests at last week's announcement and at least six had shared photos of themselves in Washington on the day of the insurrection, and some of them shared images and videos of themselves marching to the Capitol after Trump's "Stop the Steal" rally.

A jury began deliberations on Tuesday in the trial of Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, charged with sedition for his role in the 2021 attack on the US Capitol.

The 57-year-old Rhodes and four other members of the group are accused of plotting to overturn the results of the November 2020 presidential election won by Democrat Joe Biden.

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) called on his colleagues in Congress to "defund" special counsel Jack Smith's investigation into former President Donald Trump.

While speaking to podcaster Steve Bannon on Tuesday, Gaetz suggested that Smith should not have been appointed special counsel because his wife made a film about Michelle Obama and contributed to President Joe Biden's 2020 presidential campaign.

On Tuesday, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch editorial board shredded Republicans for clinging to a pro-tax cut political theory of economics pushed by former President Ronald Reagan decades ago — despite it having repeatedly failed.

The "Laffer curve," famously first scrawled on the back of a napkin at a restaurant by right-wing economist and GOP adviser Arthur Laffer, is the notion that tax cuts actually raise revenue for the government because the investment spurred by more money in the hands of businesses and millionaires grows the tax base more than the marginal revenue lost.

A federal judge on Monday wasted no time incarcerating Riley Williams, ordering U.S. Marshals to take into custody the Pennsylvania woman immediately after the jury handed down guilty verdicts in six of the eight charges in her January 6 Capitol riot trial.

Politico reports jurors convicted Williams, who was 22 on the day of the insurrection, on charges related to "participating in a civil disorder, impeding officers who tried to clear the Capitol Rotunda and disorderly conduct on Capitol grounds."

Joe Biden on Monday used his powers as US president to pardon two turkeys, sparing them from winding up as the main course during an upcoming Thanksgiving dinner later this week.

"I hereby pardon Chocolate and Chip," Biden said at the pardoning ceremony on the South Lawn, a lighthearted autumn event that has become something of a White House tradition.

On Monday, Democratic voting rights attorney Marc Elias announced that a Georgia appeals court has denied a motion by Republican officials in Georgia to reverse a lower court decision ordering the state to allow counties to hold Saturday early voting for the upcoming Senate runoff in December.

Republicans had originally claimed ahead of the election that early voting on Saturday would be allowed. However, they subsequently reversed this position and claimed it would not be allowed, because it would conflict with a November state holiday.

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The largest railroad workers union in the United States announced Monday that its members voted to reject a contract negotiated with the help of the Biden White House, once again raising the prospect of a major strike or lockout as employees revolt over profitable rail giants' refusal to provide adequate paid sick leave.

Republicans are on the verge of declaring "total war" on an issue voters care little about, and one conservative predicted disastrous results.

The GOP majority intends to plunge into deep-dive investigations of President Joe Biden and his family, especially son Hunter Biden, and conservative David Frum wrote a column for The Atlantic detailing his sense of déja vu.

Republicans won back the House of Representatives earlier this month with a narrow majority that could inhibit the party's ambitions to launch aggressive investigations against President Joe Biden.

Politico reports that while House Freedom Caucus stalwarts such as Rep. Jim Jordan are raring to go with investigations into Hunter Biden, other Republicans who won in swing districts this fall are worried about blowback.

Contrary to the expectations of many observers, the “red wave” stopped at the House of Representatives and only delivered the Republican Party a small majority. The Senate, though, will remain under Democrat control. So the US Congress will be divided until the 2024 election and the Biden administration no longer has the numbers to get its legislative program through without a fight – or at least, negotiation “across the aisle.”

And that can be a problem for US governance – sustainable solutions to major policy issues need both congressional and presidential approval. A failure to provide answers for pressing issues will further depress public opinion about the government and democratic institutions.

It increasingly seems that projections of election results based on public polling are unreliable. The 2022 midterm elections in the United States are a prime example.

Americans appeared set to vote Republican en masse — in a so-called “Red Wave” — on the morning of Nov. 8.