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Leaked chats show neo-Nazi leader encouraging followers to attack infrastructure: report

The Southern Poverty Law Center has obtained leaked chat messages purportedly showing avowed neo-Nazi leader Brandon Russell encouraging his followers to attack critical pieces of American infrastructure with the hopes of sparking a race war.

The SPLC says the chats show that Russell, who was indicted earlier this year for a plot to attack a series of substations that serve the city of Baltimore, saw the attacks as crucial for his goal of creating racial Armageddon in the United States.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene trashes Matt Gaetz for backing 'filthy' liberals against 'national divorce'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at Republican Rep. Matt Gaetz (FL) after he disagreed with her proposal for a "national divorce" between red states and blue states.

During a Wednesday night appearance on Fox News, Gaetz explained why he disagreed with the idea.

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Fox News host: Marjorie Taylor Greene is 'giving up on America' with 'national divorce' talk

Fox News' Laura Ingraham was one of those speaking out against Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) call for red states to separate from blue states, saying it's the "last thing we need."

In a Twitter post Monday, the right-wing member of Congress said, "We need a national divorce. We need to separate by red states and blue states and shrink the federal government."

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National divorce would be 'devastating' for red states — here's why

A so-called "national divorce" would work out poorly for red states, which a new analysis shows depend heavily on blue states.

MSNBC economic analyst Steve Rattner presented data on "Morning Joe" showing that states won by Donald Trump contribute far less to the federal budget than states won by President Biden, which Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) and some other Republicans said should be separated from one another.

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Republicans are in 'intellectual collapse' as they push bans on everything that scares them

Republicans are facing an "intellectual collapse" — and their turn to increasingly anti-democracy and anti-free speech policies is the result of that, argued MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday.

Her argument came during a discussion with political stategists Cornell Belcher and Matthew Dowd of the demand by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) to enact a "national divorce" — a euphemism for Republican-controlled states seceding from the United States.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene shredded for saying Black people should be 'proud' to see Confederate monuments

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was slammed by MSNBC's Joy Reid on Wednesday for her remark earlier this week that Black people in America should be "proud" to see statues of the people who enslaved them.

This comes after the far-right congresswoman drew national outrage for advocating Republican-controlled states and Democratic-controlled states should secede from one another.

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Steve Bannon’s former attorney is suing him for 'a whopping $480,487': report

In 2018, veteran broadcast journalist Dan Rather used the words "flock of felons" to describe the many Donald Trump associates who have faced major criminal charges. And the list has only grown since then.

It’s a list that includes, among others, veteran GOP operative Roger Stone, Paul Manafort (one of Trump’s 2016 campaign managers), Michael Flynn (former national security adviser in the Trump Administration), Michael Cohen (Trump’s former personal attorney and now a scathing Trump critic); and long-time Trump Organization CFO Allen Weisselberg (who was sentenced to five months in jail in 2022 after pleading guilty to multiple tax crimes). Another is Steve Bannon, who served as White House chief strategist under Trump and now hosts the "War Room" podcast.

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'Freak show' Marjorie Taylor Greene is too powerful to be ignored: conservative author

Peter Wehner, a former speechwriter for President George W. Bush, is warning that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's (R-GA) statements about enacting a "national divorce" should not be written off as a mere "freak show."

In his latest essay at The Atlantic, Wehner argues that Greene is now too influential within the House Republican Party to be written off or ignored as a crank.

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The View suspects something fishy going on with Kevin McCarthy and Jan. 6 footage

"The View" co-host Sunny Hostin wondered if House speaker Kevin McCarthy handed over a trove of Capitol surveillance video footage to Tucker Carlson as part of the concessions he made to win his leadership battle.

The California Republican gave the Fox News host exclusive access to 41,000 hours of footage recorded during the Jan. 6 insurrection, and Hostin's suspicions were raised by the fact that McCarthy didn't give access to the material to any other news outlet.

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'Treason': Robert E. Lee relative slams Marjorie Taylor Greene's 'national divorce'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) was criticized by a relative of Confederate General Robert E. Lee after she repeatedly called for a "national divorce."

Reverend Robert W. Lee IV told TMZ that Greene was "acting no better" than the generals who fought to secede from the Union in the U.S. Civil War.

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Fox News' Doocy disses Biden’s Warsaw speech before he gives it

Fox News' Peter Doocy was not impressed with President Joe Biden's speech in Warsaw, even before he delivered it. The President, after traveling to Kyiv and becoming the first sitting President to enter a war zone without a U.S. military presence, headed to the capital of Poland to deliver remarks just ahead of the one-year anniversary of Russian President Vladimir Putin's illegal war against Ukraine.

"It's not the solemn set of remarks that we were kind of told to expect, based on the existential threats that he sees," Doocy said before President Biden began speaking. "It has almost a campaign rally feel, like if they were having a campaign rally for democracy."

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Trump attacks US for offending Kim Jong Un with training exercises: 'He feels threatened'

Former President Donald Trump early on Wednesday morning attacked the governments of the United States and South Korea for holding joint military training exercises that he said would offend North Korean dictator Kim Jong-un.

Writing on his Truth Social platform, Trump decried the exercises as an expensive provocation of North Korea.

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Romney slams 'loony' Marjorie Taylor Greene's proposal to partition the United States

Sen. Mitt Romney (R-UT) tore into Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) for suggesting the United States undergo a "national divorce" — a euphemism for Republican-controlled states seceding from the country, akin to the South in during the Civil War.

Romney gave the comments to Utah reporters in Salt Lake City, according to Deseret.

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