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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signs 11 executive actions on first day in office
Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s newly sworn-in Republican governor, signed 11 executive actions on his first day in office, including an end to the use of Critical Race Theory in schools, an investigation into alleged wrongdoing by officials in Loudoun County, and allowing parents to decide whether their children wear masks to school. Youngkin announced the executive…
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Marjorie Taylor Greene calls on all conservatives and Republicans to abandon big tech
Rep. Majorie Taylor Greene, a feisty freshman Republican congressman from Georgia, is not taking her Twitter ban lying down, and has issued a call to action. Greene is now urging all conservatives and Republicans to forsake legacy major tech platforms in favor of developing companies that do not block them systematically. “Twitter and the Silicon…
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Attorneys general in 10 states join fight against Biden’s vaccine mandate
Ten attorneys general from states with Republican governors have joined the fight to oppose the Biden administration’s vaccine mandate for federal contractors, calling it “unconstitutional, unlawful, and unwise.” The lawsuit filed by the attorneys general from the states of Missouri, Nebraska, Alaska, Arkansas, Iowa, Montana, New Hampshire, North Dakota, South Dakota and Wyoming called a vaccine mandate…
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GOP Rep. Adam Kinzinger, who voted to impeach Trump, retires from Congress
Rep. Adam Kinzinger of Illinois, one of the critics of former President Donald Trump in the House Republican Conference, announced Friday he won’t seek reelection next year. His decision came just hours after the Illinois state legislature passed a new congressional map that drew Kinzinger into the same district with another GOP incumbent, Rep. Darin…
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Twitter suspends Rep. Jim Banks for a post about trans official Rachel Levine
Rep. Jim Banks (R-Ind.) announced Saturday that his official Twitter account had been suspended due to a post he made about Health and Human Services assistant secretary for health Rachel Levine, who is transgender. According to a screenshot posted of the tweet, Banks said “the title of first female four-star officer gets taken by a man,” a…
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9 House Republicans vote to hold Bannon in contempt of Congress
On Thursday, nine House Republicans voted with the entire Democratic House membership to hold former White House strategist Steve Bannon in contempt of Congress for supporting Donald Trump’s claim of executive privilege in the January 6 conversations. This includes two Republicans who voted against impeaching the former president after he left office for alleged incitement…
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Marjorie Taylor Green and Lin Wood are in argument in public
Attorney Lin Wood and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican, are clashing in public after Wood accused Greene of being “a communist.” “In my opinion, Marjorie Taylor Greene is a communist,” Wood said in Friday remarks. “If Marjorie Taylor Greene is running around saying ‘impeach Biden,’ that says that Biden won—he didn’t,” the attorney said. “And…
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Steve Bannon predicts ‘sweeping victory’ for MAGA movement in next elections
Former White House adviser Steve Bannon predicted a “sweeping victory” for MAGA policies in the 2022 midterms that will lead to former President Donald Trump winning a second term in 2024. “We’re going to have a sweeping victory in 2022, and that’s just the preamble to a sweeping victory in 2024, and this time we’re…
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Senate not passes GOP amendment to block Biden vaccine mandate
The Senate on Thursday did not pass a Republican amendment seeking to block President Biden’s vaccine-or-test mandate for businesses with 100 or more workers. Republicans and Democrats were split down the middle on the vote, 50-50 in the upper chamber, falling short of the 60 votes needed to pass the measure, The Hill reported. Senator…
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Democrats blocked from including 8 million ‘Dreamers’ in spending bill
The Senate’s parliamentarian declared late Sunday that Democrats can’t use their $3.5 trillion proposal to enhance social and climate programs in order to offer millions of immigrants a chance to become citizens, the Associated Press reported. Senate parliamentarian Elizabeth MacDonough blew to Democrats’ plan to provide 8 million greencards as part of a sweeping spending…
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