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'When will people wake up': Elections lawyer 'sounding the alarm' about 2024 GOP lies

Elections lawyer Marc Elias of Democracy Docket desperately wants America to "wake up" and pay attention to the people working each day trying to circumvent the 2024 election.

In a shocking Thursday report, the Heritage Foundation claimed that President Joe Biden wouldn't turn over power. Further, they claimed to have walked around and asked people if they were citizens and if they were voting in the 2024 election. The information they gathered is used to justify a series of conspiracies the group is pushing. For example, Biden is using undocumented immigrants to win the election illegally and Hamas has kidnapped Barbra Streisand.

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GOP Senator Susan Collins admits she's throwing her presidential vote away

Infamously indecisive Maine Sen. Susan Collins (R) revealed to state reporters that she won't be casting a ballot for Donald Trump.

Speaking to a group, she said that instead, she'll cast a ballot for someone who has endorsed Trump: Nikki Haley. The former Trump opponent isn't on the ballot, so Collins said she'll write Haley in, WGME reported Friday.

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'Thoughts and prayers': Mockery erupts after Rudy Giuliani loses bankruptcy case

Rudy Giuliani's bankruptcy case was dismissed in court on Friday, and legal analysts can't help but laugh at the misfortune and karmic smackdown.

Giuliani faced a significant judgment against him from two election workers who said he lied and was creating some kind of 2020 election conspiracy. The women, Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, sued for defamation and were granted $148 million judgment the Giuliani must pay.

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Legal expert highlights 'most problematic' part of Supreme Court's Trump immunity ruling

Donald Trump's challenge to his criminal hush money case based on the Supreme Court's recent presidential immunity ruling has alarmed a legal expert who warns the decision's "manipulability" could imperil his conviction.

Legal analyst Lisa Rubin dissected for MSNBC Trump's filing and the argument that he and the Trump Organization could not be guilty of fraud under the new ruling.

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Trump's George Clooney fixation enters Day 3

While actor George Clooney may have expected backlash from his New York Times editorial asking President Joe Biden to drop out of the race, he likely didn't count on Donald Trump's eagerness to try to welcome him into the Republican Party.

Clooney, a longtime liberal and Democratic donor, wrote three days ago that he was no longer on board with Biden as the 2024 Democratic standard bearer, leading Trump to rush to email supporters that Clooney might join them.

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Trump could easily screw up his golden opportunity against Biden next week: GOP insider

As Republicans head into their convention Monday, the firing squad of pundits surrounding President Joe Biden may finally have their eyes diverted elsewhere.

Speaking to MSNBC, Brendan Buck, a former senior aide to two former Speakers of the House, warned that Donald Trump is sprinting into the brick wall he's been avoiding for the past year. With the cameras aimed at Trump, his far-right allies, and "Project 2025" for the next week, Buck warned that the stakes are high.

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Trump paid off his whole bond with help from his billionaire friends: report

Donald Trump was saddled with a hefty bond of more than $450 million to appeal a case he lost earlier this year about the Trump Organization's practice of improperly inflating assets.

However, it seems that he's managed to pay it off thanks to some help, Forbes reported.

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Josh Hawley touts racist theory that liberals want to 'replace Christmas with pride month'

Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) spoke to a conference of Christian nationalists on Monday, touting a fabricated version of history and the so-called "Great Replacement Theory" along with it.

According to the Bucks County Beacon, Hawley's speech to the National Conservatism Conference excited attendees by calling the United States "a Christian Nation."

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Meghan McCain says Biden is like her dad was with brain cancer

Sen. John McCain's youngest daughter isn't a brain surgeon, a neurologist, or even a doctor, but she thinks President Joe Biden is showing symptoms that remind her of her father's cancer.

McCain, a far-right partisan, spoke out on her podcast, claiming that watching her father's brain being eaten away by glioblastoma is the same thing she's seeing with Biden.

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Project 2025 contributor makes ominous promise to hackers

Mike Howell, the executive director of the Heritage Foundation's Oversight Project and a contributor to the rightwing Project 2025, is threatening to ensure that hackers who broke into the group's blog site get raped in prison for releasing information about the organizations' funders and contractors.

Hacktivist group SiegedSec apparently engaged in a conversation with Howell over Telegram, which it published online. In the discussion, Howell asked the hackers what they wanted, The New Republic reported.

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Lawsuit claiming Utah legislature illegally killed anti-gerrymandering law moves forward

Utah Supreme Court has ruled a lawsuit alleging state lawmakers illegally nullified an anti-gerrymandering initiative passed by voters in 2018 can move forward, Court documents filed Thursday show.

Proposition 4 demanded that an independent redistricting commission be created that would draw district lines non-partisanly.

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Judge gives approval for Arizona fake elector to head to Republican convention

Politico legal reporter Kyle Cheney posted a new court document showing Arizona fake Trump elector Nancy Cottle has been given a pass by the court to head to Wisconsin for the Republican National Convention.

Cottle is one of many Republicans roped into the fake electors' plot, but she still hasn't made it to trial beyond indictment. Cottle joins state Sen. Anthony Kern and state Sen. Jake Hoffman in heading to meet up with fellow Republicans who also participated as fake electors.

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Video shows Trump cheering on Heritage Foundation 'plans' he claims he didn't know about

Former President Donald Trump has been caught on video praising a think tank whose plans he now says he didn't know existed.

The right-wing Heritage Foundation brought together several MAGA thought leaders from Trump's orbit to craft their "Project 2025," a plan to radically expand the powers of the executive branch under a second Trump administration.

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