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MAGA rioter who scaled Capitol barricades with his teen daughter pleads guilty

A MAGA-rioting retired Marine who brought his then-16-year-old daughter with him to the January 6 Capitol insurrection has pleaded guilty.

As noted by CBS News' Scott MacFarlane, California-based MAGA rioter David Ticas agreed to a misdemeanor plea deal for his role in unlawfully entering the Capitol last year.

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'People care about what I have to say!' Marjorie Taylor Greene unloads profane rant on Karl Rove

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) lashed out at the Republican Party in a profane rant after GOP strategist Karl Rove suggested that she did not have the power to cause a "significant blip" in Washington, D.C.

Greene joined Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-FL) on his Firebrand to discuss an effort to remove her from the ballot.

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Trump slammed for 'incessant' babbling about voter fraud — after 539 days of failing to find any

On Tuesday, writing for The Washington Post, Philip Bump laid out how former President Donald Trump continues to stick to his "Big Lie" that the 2020 presidential election was stolen with voter fraud, despite 539 days of claiming the fraud exists and failing to provide any proven examples.

And he was actually held to account for this in his recent interview with right-wing British personality Piers Morgan, which ended in him storming off the set.

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GOP's David Perdue embraces Trump's election lies in bid to unseat Georgia governor

Former U.S. Sen. David Perdue is going all-in with Donald Trump as he tries to to unseat Georgia's Republican Gov. Brian Kemp in a May 24 GOP primary, WCPO reports.

Kemp is pushing Trump's debunked conspiracy theories about a "rigged" 2020 election, and has embraced the group VoterGA, which has been questioning Georgia's election systems for years. Perdue also reportedly supports a vote on a white-majority neighborhood seceding from Atlanta, according to WCPO.

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'It's weird': Columnist calls out Joe Biden's failure to fight GOP's 'massive assault on democracy'

President Joe Biden has so far resisted calling out Republicans as unfit to serve over their abandonment of democracy, and one columnist thinks it's "weird."

The former president's allies continue to push Donald Trump's election fraud lies as evidence mounts of GOP members of Congress working to overturn the 2020 election, and Washington Post columnist Jennifer Rubin wonders why the current president is failing to stand up against those efforts to undermine democracy.

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Trump spokesperson: Marjorie Taylor Greene 'should not even have to suffer' for Jan. 6

Trump spokesperson Liz Harrington defended Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) who is facing a ballot challenge over her involvement in the events leading up to the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

Harrington told OAN that Greene would survive the lawsuit because she's "incredibly strong."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene needs to 'answer one simple question' about her Jan. 6 texts: analyst

Cutting through all the levity about Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene's misspelling of martial law as "Marshall law" in her texts about trying to stop Joe Biden from being president, MSNBC's Steve Benen suggested that one text to former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows is so alarming it demands investigation.

After CNN on Monday exposed a massive treasure trove of Meadows' texts before and after the Jan. 6 insurrection, commentators were quick to pounce on the gaffe-prone Georgia Republican's misspelling -- with many recalling her "gazpacho police" comment when she meant Gestapo -- and the MSNBC analyst is claiming people are missing a more alarming element in her plea to Meadows and others.

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Conservative sounds alarm over putting Kevin McCarthy in line for the presidency

In a column for the Bulwark, longtime conservative political observer A.B. Stoddard sounded the alarm that the 2022 midterms could elevate House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) to the Speaker's chair should the Republican Party regain the majority.

Of particular note, she added, potential Speaker McCarthy would also be next in line after the vice president to become the commander in chief.

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Twitter roasts gaffe queen 'Marshall Law Marge'

United States Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Georgia) recently gave an interview with Militant Church, a Catholic right-wing non-profit media outlet, in which she blamed the press – not her own actions and frequent gaffes – for the abysmal reputation that she has earned in the eyes of the American public.

"They don't really know me. And the reason that they don't know who I truly am is the media created a character of me and that's the character that they want to present to the American people," Greene claimed to host Michael Voris.

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Sarah Palin wrote the Marjorie Taylor Greene playbook but in today's GOP she's a 'relic of the past'

Before there was Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene or Rep. Lauren Boebert — before former President Donald Trump launched the MAGA movement with his 2016 campaign — there was former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who is competing in a race to fill the U.S. House of Representatives seat once held by the late Rep. Don Young. A Palin victory in that congressional election is far from a done deal; she is facing a lot of competition. But Palin was certainly an influential figure in her party, and journalist Joanna Weiss examines that influence in an article published by Politico on April 24.

Palin hasn't run for office since the presidential election of 2008, when she was chosen as Sen. John McCain's running mate. The then-Alaska governor wasn't McCain's first choice; truth be told, McCain would have much preferred former Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Ridge — a moderate conservative who was popular in the Philadelphia suburbs. But the late Arizona Republican went along with putting Palin on the ticket, and the far right loved her even though McCain lost the election to Barack Obama.

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Video shows Alec Baldwin practicing with the gun that killed cinematographer in tragic on-set accident

New videos on the set of the movie "Rust" have been released showing actor Alec Baldwin rehearsing with the gun he was given, TMZ and the Daily Beast reported Monday.

The Santa Fe County Sheriff’s Office revealed what they say are all of the videos they obtained as part of their investigation into how cinematographer Halyna Hutchins was shot and killed on set.

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Marjorie Taylor Greene caught red-handed misrepresenting her relationship with MAGA rioter by CNN

On Monday, CNN's Andrew Kaczynski and Em Steck exposed a key false claim made by Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) in Friday's civil hearing on her eligibility to run for re-election — specifically, about her relationship with a man who participated in the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.

"Speaking at her hearing, Greene called Anthony Aguero, who CNN's KFile previously reported cheered on and justified the Capitol break-in, 'a distant friend,' and someone whom she had not spent much time with," said the report. "Greene said she was unaware Aguero called Greene one of his closest friends."

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Marjorie Taylor Greene says America's 'spiritual character' disgusts her: 'I don't know why God hasn't destroyed us'

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) this week said that she was surprised that the United States of America has not been hit with a biblical catastrophe due to its poor "spiritual character."

Right Wing Watch on Monday flagged an interview Greene conducted with Michael Voris of the right-wing Catholic group Church Militant in which she expressed revulsion at the state of many of her fellow Americans.

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