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Political commentator and author Mercedes Schlapp along with her husband, Conservative Political Action Coalition (CPAC) Chairman Matt Schlapp, are frequent guests on right-wing media outlets such as Real America's Voice.

On Sunday, the couple appeared on Steven Bannon's War Room and claimed to the show's namesake host that President Joe Biden's signature aviator sunglasses are left-wing "propaganda" props designed to make Biden seem tough.

President Joe Biden spoke on Thursday, encouraging Americans to stand up against violence, threats, and attempts to bring down democracy coming from MAGA Republicans. After calling Trumpism "semi-fascist," many of those on the right responded by threatening violence of their own.

In a panel discussion Sunday evening, MSNBC host Mehdi Hasan played a clip of far-right commentator Ben Shapiro, saying that by calling out violence and fascism, Biden was going to cause more violence from fascists.

MAGA Republicans have spent the last two years going after teachers and librarians for teaching about slavery or highlighting Black leaders like Martin Luther King, Jr. and Harriet Tubman.

Speaking to MSNBC's Mehdi Hasan, reporter Brandy Zadrozny explained that the recent bomb threats called into Boston Children's Hospital are just more of the same from the right-wing that has been going after anyone helping to treat transgender children. The Washington Post reported that a right-wing digital group is behind attacks on a Washington, D.C. children's hospital. To make matters worse, social media sites are allowing it to continue.

In a rare moment of frankness, fringe commentator Tomi Lahren admitted that mainstream Republicans don't support Donald Trump.

Appearing on the Fox network Sunday, Lahren twisted herself in knots trying to explain why President Joe Biden's speech on Thursday was actually a good thing for MAGA world.

Republican pundit Rick Tyler was shot down on MSNBC Sunday after claiming that Donald Trump's speech in Pennsylvania on Saturday was the same as President Joe Biden's pitch for Americans to help save democracy.

Biden spoke out on Thursday, saying that the MAGA philosophy is an attempt to eliminate the votes of Americans, the attempt to restrict the votes of Americans and the attempt to obliterate the liberty and freedoms of Americans. Over and over in his speech, he talked about his work with Republicans and long-time friendship with patriotic Republicans who continue to believe in the Constitution and the rule of law.

Appearing on CNN on Sunday morning, former Rep. Charlie Dent (R-PA) forcefully explained that Donald Trump handed Democrats a "major gift" with his 2-hour diatribe against the government on Saturday night at a Pennsylvania rally.

Hours after Trump attacked the FBI and called President Joe Biden an "enemy of the state," Dent said the former president didn't do himself or the Republican party any favors by airing his multiple grievances.

A voter who supported former President Donald Trump told CBS News on Sunday that Democrats focus too much on democracy and "it's getting really old."

On Sunday's edition of Face the Nation, correspondent Major Garrett hosted a panel of Trump supporters in response to President Joe Biden's warning that the Make America Great Again (MAGA) movement is "semi-fascist."

A fairly congenial interview with the Republican Party's nominee for a U.S. Senate seat representing Washington ended on an awkward note when CNN's Dana Bash asked Tiffany Smiley if she would welcome Donald Trump coming to help her campaign.

Appearing on CNN's "State of the Union," Smiley repeatedly attempted to call out her opponent, Sen. Patty Murray (D), when Bash brought up the former president, who Smiley admitted lost to President Joe Biden -- although she ducked using the word "legitimately" when asked multiple times.

Advocates on Saturday urged Congress to pass immigration reforms after at least nine migrants drowned while attempting to cross the swollen Rio Grande from Mexico into Texas earlier this week.

"Our border policies continue to kill."

Future historians may well remember 2022 as the year when the U.S. Supreme Court permanently went off the rails. This goes well beyond the tormented, quasi-religious reasoning used by the court's conservative majority in Dobbs v. Jackson, the case that officially reversed the nationwide abortion rights established in 1973 by Roe v. Wade. In the course of revoking women's reproductive rights, the justices also hinted they might reverse the right to same-sex marriage, and perhaps even the right to contraception. Perhaps even more consequential, the court also decided it would hear Moore v. Harper, a North Carolina case about whether state courts may strike down gerrymandered congressional maps. If the conservative majority buys into the dubious legal theory known as the independent state legislature doctrine, it will effectively empower Republican-dominated state legislatures to overturn the popular vote in future presidential elections.

Roosevelt told the nation the Supreme Court had "improperly set itself up as a third House of the Congress — a super-legislature, as one of the justices has called it — reading into the Constitution words and implications which are not there."

From 2016 to 2020, 63,857 people were naturalized in the state, according to a report released by the National Partnership for New Americans, a coalition of immigrant and refugee rights groups. While this represents a slight drop from the more than 73,000 naturalized between 2010 and 2014, NPNA maintains that it still outperforms the 10,457 vote margin by which President Joe Biden won his election in the state.

This influx of newly naturalized voters promises to throw a wrench into the plans of anti-immigrant politicians, advocates say. Studies indicate that newly anointed Americans from minority groups — which comprise the bulk of new citizens — have a higher rate of political participation than their native-born counterparts. Latino and Asian immigrants, especially, have higher rates of political participation than native-born Latinos and Asian Americans. And among Latinos, immigration is a top concern, with 82% of them in favor of pro-immigrant policies.

Trump spoke for nearly two hours at the rally outside Wilkes-Barre in Luzerne County, at the heart of a region Trump carried handily over President Joe Biden in 2020.

In his rambling and invective-studded style, Trump cataloged what he said were Biden’s failures that reversed the gains of his administration, and repeated his baseless claim that he won reelection.

Donald Trump lashed out at Senate GOP Leader Mitch McConnell as he campaigned in Pennsylvania for Senate hopeful Dr. Mehmet Oz and candidate for governor Doug Mastriano.

"Trump is about 35 minutes into his PA rally and has hardly mentioned Oz or Mastriano, other than a brief nod at the top," Philadelphia Inquirer correspondent Jonathan Tamari reported.