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Madison Cawthorn mocked for claim Founding Fathers would be 'horrified' by US today: 'You'd be at the gallows'

Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) took to Twitter on New Year's Day to speak on behalf of the long-dead Founding Fathers.

According to the far-right Republican, those who shaped the United States government would be "horrified" by today's America.

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Don Trump Jr. is stoking people's 'worst instincts’ in desperate bid for father's 'affection': MSNBC analyst

Former President Donald Trump's evangelical supporters have "subordinated faith to politics" and "proof-texted the Bible" to fit their agenda, according to Peter Wehner, a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center.

Wehner appeared on MSNBC on Tuesday to discuss his recent piece in the Atlantic, "The Gospel of Donald Trump Jr.," about a fire-and-brimstone speech by the former president's son at a recent Turning Point USA gathering.

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Swing voters are angry with GOP critics of the Jan. 6 riot committee

New data from two online focus groups spearheaded by the Swing Voter Project revealed that Republicans who disrespected the January 6 committee were not winning over swing voters. The two online focus groups on Dec. 14 consisted of four Republicans, three Independents and six Democrats, according to The Bulwark.

Key takeaways from the group of 13 Trump-to-Biden voters in key swing states included the need for accountability and an understanding of how and why the U.S. Capitol riots commenced - and how to stop it from happening again.

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This dark money group has spent millions trying to help GOP regain relevance in Colorado after 'years of defeat': report

Although Colorado was once a red state, it has becoming increasingly Democrat-friendly in recent years. Colorado has a Democratic governor (Jared Polis) and two Democratic U.S. senators (John Hickenlooper and Michael Bennet), and Republicans haven’t won Colorado in a presidential election since George W. Bush in 2004. But some parts of Colorado still have their share of wingnuts — for example, the district that elected far-right Rep. Lauren Boebert, a QAnon supporter, to the U.S. House of Representatives in 2020. And according to Colorado Sun reporters Sandra Fish and Jesse Paul, tens of millions in right-wing “dark money” are still being spent in the state.

In an article published by the Sun on December 22, Fish and Paul take a close look at the GOP nonprofit Unite for Colorado.

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'Foghorn for political violence': Morning Joe nails 'ominous' new gun trend for GOP candidates

A parade of Republican lawmakers and candidates have recently posed for Christmas photos holding military-style rifles, and MSNBC's Joe Scarborough revealed a disturbing truth about the displays.

North Carolina Republican candidate Bo Hines joined Rep. Thomas Massie (R-KY) and Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) in posing for a Christmas card holding a military-style rifle, and also a shirt with a reference to a profane insult against President Joe Biden, and the "Morning Joe" host described the trend as a plainly violent threat.

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The new intra-party war pits MAGA candidates against Republicans — and not Democrats

A Washington Post report walked through how the far-right Trump-wing of the Republican Party are running against their own party and intend to make life very difficult for GOP members if they get elected.

The story cited former Army Green Beret Joe Kent, who is running for a Congressional seat in Washington state against a Republican who voted to impeach Donald Trump, Rep. Jaime Herrera Beutler.

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Lauren Boebert buried on MSNBC for the GOP's 'worst moment' of 2021

Controversial first-term Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was roasted on MSNBC on Christmas Day for the "worst moment" the GOP suffered in 2021.

The comments came as Rev. Al Sharpton was awarding his "Revvie Awards" at the end of the year.

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'I'd rather have a grown-up in the room': Former NC GOP lawmaker rails against Madison Cawthorn

In an interview with North Carolina Public Radio WUNC, a former Republican lawmaker who served in the North Carolina General Assembly until 2016, said he would rather vote for a Democrat and see House Speaker Nancy Pelosi remain in place than vote for Rep. Madison Cawthorn (R).

According to the report from WUNC's Rusty Jacobs, the controversial Cawthorn has set off a firestorm among Republican Party members in his home state by running for re-election to Congress in a newly-created district designed to be the U.S. congressional home of State Rep. Tim Moore (R).

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'Unfit to serve': Columnist makes case for expelling all pro-Trump coup members from Congress

Writing for USA Today, Jill Lawrence argued that congressional Trump supporters who planned to stop the certification of the 2020 election deserve to be expelled from Congress.

Writing Monday, Lawrence recalled the recent revelation that Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) was among those who text messaged White House chief of staff Mark Meadows on Jan. 5 on ways to overthrow the 2020 election.

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'Ambitious cowardice at its worst': North Carolina Republicans are furious with Madison Cawthorn

According to a report from the Citizen Times, Rep. Madison Cawthorn's (R-NC) decision to switch districts -- and derail a popular Republican Party lawmaker's plan to run for that seat -- has rankled GOP insiders in the state who are growing tired of his act.

Cawthorn -- who has allied himself with attention-seeking GOP lawmakers like Reps. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) and Marjorie Taylor Green (R-GA) -- decided to abandon North Carolina’s 11th Congressional District for another, the 13th, that has been made even more Republican-friendly which led to Tim Moore of Cleveland County to step aside after Cawthron launched a broadside at him.

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‘Won’t be any surprises’: Jan. 6 Committee Chair Thompson teases out which lawmakers sent texts to Meadows

Chairman Bennie Thompson on Wednesday teased out which lawmakers sent texts to Mark Meadows during the January 6 insurrection.

In addition to Monday's bombshells of Fox News hosts and Donald Trump, Jr. sending texts to Mark Meadows begging him to get the President to call off his supports' attack on the Capitol, Vice Chair Liz Cheney noted the Committee has texts sent to Meadows by members of Congress.

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Mark Meadows' Signal messages might have escaped subpoena — but GOPers he communicated with haven't

Legal analyst Marcy Wheeler noted that White House chief of staff Mark Meadows got a new cell phone after he finished his time in Donald Trump's administration.

One of the text messages revealed by Congress sent to Meadows on Jan.5 encouraged him to check his Signal account. Nothing else was said via text message.

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Boebert sends out a QAnon ‘dog whistle’ after whining about being linked to the conspiracy cult

Controversial Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) is once again in the news for spreading misinformation. On Monday, Vice News accused the congresswoman of helping to push a central claim of the QAnon conspiracy movement.

"On Sunday, Colorado Rep. Lauren Boebert falsely claimed that hundreds of thousands of children went missing last year and that the media was ignoring the story completely. She concluded the tweet by saying: 'There enlies the problem.' Rather than focusing on the obvious disinformation in the tweet, which is a dog whistle to the QAnon conspiracy movement, Twitter users focused instead on the error in the tweet," David Gilbert reported for Vice News.

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