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A right-wing activist is calling for Virginia to be broken in half. Not to be confused with West Virginia.

The concept was flirted with by Mark Meckler, a right-wing activist and president of the Convention of States Foundation, following the GOP setbacks at the ballot box in the Commonwealth. He was disheartened by what he sees as “Washington D.C. spilling out all over northern Virginia."

MSNBC's Rachel Maddow reported on Monday about Pope Francis' decision to fire Joseph Strickland, a far-right Texas bishop who spent months attacking him as illegitimate — and suggested that there might be another reason, beyond his public insubordination, that the Vatican might want to be rid of him.

"You might remember that just before the January 6th attack on Congress, like three weeks before that, in mid-Dec. 2020, there was another day of crazy right-wing pro-Trump violence in the streets of Washington, D.C.," said Maddow. "Dec. 12, 2020. A number of people were stabbed. There were brawls in the streets of Washington, running, fistfights and battles. This was the day when a Black Lives Matter banner was stolen and burned from a D.C. church ... The largest event pro-Trump forces had organized was something called the Jericho March. This was a Mike Flynn thing, where Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the pro-Trump right-wing paramilitary group the Oath Keepers, who is now in jail on sedition charges — this is where Stewart Rhodes, at this event, called for Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to use the military in American streets to keep Trump in power."

Trump's social media guru might be forced to spill the beans on his boss, if Jenna Ellis' testimony is any indication.

Dan Scavino, the former president's deputy chief of staff who rose to power from picking golf clubs as a caddy, may be forced to disclose confidential conversations or directives as part of the fact-gathering efforts by prosecutors.

Gregory Yetman, a New Jersey man who allegedly participated in the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, has been denied bail after his arrest that followed a dramatic multi-day manhunt, reported News 12 on Monday.

"Yetman’s attorney had tried to convince the judge to release him into the custody of his mother and brother," reported Chris Keating. "Yetman’s mother was in the courtroom, along with one of her other sons. She did not offer any comment."

A Donald Trump loyalist came forward for the first time to bash him in Jonathan Karl's new book.

In an interview with MSNBC's Jen Psaki, the ABC News reporter revealed that in his book "Tired of Winning," someone who has previously not come out publicly against Trump dropped a bomb on the former president.

A furious Donald Trump ripped up a note about top Army leaders who said the military could not involve itself in the election. Then he tweeted that would "change the course of history," calling supporters to Washington on Jan. 6, 2021: "Be there. Will be wild."

The note — written by a Trump staffer affirming the president's intention to fire army leaders should they publish another public statement — appears in Jonathan Karl's widely anticipated new book "Tired of Winning" set to be released at midnight.

For weeks, former President Donald Trump has refused to tip his hand about whether he will invoke an advice-of-counsel defense in the federal 2020 election interference case brought by special counsel Jack Smith. It is a move that would potentially be his only decent defense, but it would also come with substantial caveats.

Now, Judge Tanya Chutkan has ordered him to clarify whether he will use the defense — and, former federal prosecutor Harry Litman wrote for the Los Angeles Times, that strategy has significant implications.

ABC News revealed clips of the proffer session from Fulton County with Jenna Ellis and Sidney Powell on Monday, revealing previously unknown details about the aftermath of the 2020 election.

In Ellis' case, a White House aide told the former Donald Trump lawyer that they weren't leaving. They would hole up in the White House and refuse to leave. That ultimately didn't happen, and it's unclear why.

Former President Donald Trump and his two adult sons seem to have little strategy at their civil fraud trial in New York beyond making Judge Arthur Engoron sick listening to their false claims.

That's the view of Trump's former attorney and fixer, Michael Cohen, who also gave testimony in the trial and appeared on CNN to weigh in on Donald Trump Jr.'s latest claims on the stand.

A Republican member of Congress "close to Donald Trump" relayed a story to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl for his new book Tired of Winning in which Trump was compared to Adolf Hitler by the German chancellor — and took it as a point of pride.

Reading the clip of the story, MSNBC's Nicolle Wallace recalled that it was always assumed Trump was simply too stupid to know or understand the language he was using was echoing that of Hitler. But Karl's book makes it clear he knows exactly what he's doing, and he loves the idea of being a "big, strong leader," she said.

Donald Trump actively wants his fans to enact violence on his behalf, a writer revealed in a new book.

ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's new book Tired of Winning will be released at midnight, and among the bombshells is a conversation he reveals about Trump's supporters — and the effect the former president wants his violent rhetoric to have on them.

Rep. Sean Duffy (R-WI) may have left Congress in 2019, but as far as his wife, Rachel Campos-Duffy, is concerned, he's still there.

The Fox host was ridiculed by HBO host John Oliver in a short segment on "Last Week Tonight," Sunday where it showed her citing "my husband in Congress," or "my husband, who was in Congress" dozens of times.

Far-right conspiracy theorist and host Wayne Allyn Root told Roger Stone in a discussion Sunday that he thinks minority voters will ultimately come out more for Donald Trump if he's convicted of a crime.

"Well, I, I'm with you that Black votes are the key or minority votes are the key here — Black and Latino votes," Root told Stone. "And every time they indict him and if they convict him — God forbid, but you and I both know those juries and those judges are all biased and against us. If he's convicted before the election — which I'd say is probably almost a certainty. Now, in one of these cases — maybe more than one — I think Black voters who believe the system is rigged against them come to Trump even more."