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'Weapons to win': Lauren Boebert fires up extremists at CPAC

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) vowed to defund “woke” federal agencies, and insisted right-wing Republicans have the "weapons to win this battle against actual evil" on the other side of the aisle, she said in a chilling speech Saturday at CPAC.

Boebert, pacing the stage at the conservative conference before a rowdy crowd, peppered her address with biblical quotations that indicated God is on her side as she railed against the "woke left [that] wants to silence your speech."

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Lauren Boebert still eager to 'blow to smithereens' House metal detectors

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) on Thursday hailed Republicans' removal of metal detectors from outside the House chamber, and bragged of her vow last year to blow them up.

"Was that a problem?" she asked sarcastically in an interview with right-winger Benny Johnson on "The Benny Show" podcast.

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Florida Republican wants any blogger writing about Ron DeSantis to 'register with the state'

A new bill proposed by a Republican state senator in Florida would require bloggers to register with the state if they write about Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-FL) and other members of the government.

NBC's News Channel 8 wrote that Sen. Jason Brodeur's (R-Lake Mary) bill would impose fines on anyone who refuses to register to a maximum of $2,500. There would be an additional $25 each day the fee isn't paid.

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Trump supporters barred from owning guns after bringing firearms to 2020 Philly vote count

Two men convicted last year of carrying firearms in the area of the Philadelphia Convention Center during the city’s 2020 vote count were granted immediate parole, The Philadelphia Inquirer reports.

Joshua Macias, 44, and Antonio Lamotta, 63, (both of Virginia) were convicted last fall on weapons charges, the report said.

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Lauren Boebert explains her 'heated debate' with Marjorie Taylor Greene after ladies room spat

Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) declined on Thursday to say if her disagreements with Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) had been resolved.

Earlier this year it was reported that Greene and Boebert exchanged words in a Capitol ladies room over support for Speaker Kevin McCarthy (R-CA). Greene was said to have accused Boebert of being disloyal.

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Four found dead after child's FaceTime call leads authorities to Florida home

A Florida man has been charged with murdering his daughter, mother, and two other people inside a home on Wednesday, NBC South Florida reported.

Police say Mae Terwilliger, 63; Michael Andrew Watson, 36; Constance Marie Terwilliger, 35; and Kiarrra Terwilliger, 15, were found with gunshot wounds inside a home. Two children, ages 6 and 9, were found unharmed inside the home.

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'How confident your stupidity is': Lauren Boebert lampooned for posting crudely-cropped US map

United States Representative Lauren Boebert (R-Colorado) attempted to be clever on Twitter early Wednesday evening but instead was met with derision and ridicule.

Boebert, an outspoken right-wing conservative, posted a picture of Earth containing only a crudely-cropped image of the lower forty-eight states surrounded by water along with a caption that reads: "map showing the only place my taxes should go."

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Watch: Jamie Raskin thanks Lauren Boebert for playing into his hands with her latest self-own

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Wednesday couldn't help but give a shoutout to colleague Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) one day after she insisted on being referred to as an "ultra-MAGA" Republican.

Speaking shortly after House Democratic leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) delivered remarks denouncing "extreme MAGA" Republicans' attacks on American democracy, Raskin stood up and issued a light-hearted correction to Jeffries' statement.

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George Santos supports AR-15s because the gun 'creates jobs in America'

WASHINGTON — Embattled Rep. George Santos (R-NY) is among the Republican officials co-sponsoring a bill that would make the AR-15 the "national gun of the United States."

Rep. Barry Moore (R-AL), who introduced the bill, said in a statement that the bill protects the Second Amendment, which is part of the Bill of Rights and the Constitution and can't be removed without a Constitutional Convention or a joint resolution passed by a two-thirds vote.

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Watch: Jamie Raskin turns tables on GOP by reading Trump's statements gushing over China

Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) on Tuesday turned the tables on his Republican colleagues by reminding them of former President Donald Trump's repeated past statements heaping praise on the leadership of the Chinese Communist Party.

During a House Oversight Committee hearing, Raskin responded to accusations by Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) that accused the media of trying to silence questions about the Chinese government's potential coverup of the origins of COVID-19.

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Arizona Republicans slammed for broadcasting 'parade of ever-more dubious conspiracy theorists'

Arizona Mirror reporter Caitlin Seivers shredded Republicans in the Arizona State Legislature on Friday, taking them to task for holding committee hearings with a "parade of ever-more dubious election conspiracy theorists" continuing to baselessly claim elections in the state are being stolen or rigged.

"Since early January, the Republican-controlled elections committees in both the state House of Representatives and Senate, headed by Rep. Jacqueline Parker of Mesa and Sen. Wendy Rogers of Flagstaff, respectively, have forwarded a slew of election reform bills that would make using any kind of technology to vote illegal, force hand counts of all ballots, severely restrict voting by mail and early voting, and dump everyone from the voters rolls once per decade, among many other proposed changes to the state’s election system," wrote Sievers. "But in addition to approving sometimes conflicting election bills, the committees have also sought to legitimize numerous election conspiracy theorists and purveyors of the Big Lie that the 2020 election was stolen from Donald Trump by scheduling time for them to brief lawmakers on their election theories."

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Tasty Karma: Lauren Boebert's gun-theme restaurant replaced by Mexican eatery

A now out-of-business gun-themed restaurant that used to be run by right-wing Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-Colo.) is being replaced by the Mexican eatery Tapatios, reports The Denver Post.

Boebert's controversial, now-dead Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado, encouraged wait staff to pack heat as they served “Shotgun” burritos, “Locked N’ Loaded Nachos" and “Swiss & Wesson” burgers. The restaurant closed down the summer of 2022 when the building was sold to new owners who decided not to renew Shooters' business license. Boebert insisted at the time there was no "political motivation" behind the denial.

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Colorado senators think Lauren Boebert could be voted out in 2024

WASHINGTON — Rep. Lauren Boebert (R-CO) was in the news again this week after she attacked President Joe Biden for getting his information from MSNBC host Rachel Maddow.

She quickly drew criticism for it taking her multiple attempts to pass her GED when Maddow got her bachelors from Stanford and doctorate from Oxford. It was Boebert's clumsy way of harkening back to an age-old argument by Republicans that Democrats are elitists because they support and promote education.

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