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And Biden tells progressives they’ll have to shrink the reconciliation bill.

Opinion Columnist If this phony “debate” over the obscure concept of critical race theory caught you off guard and unaware, you are not alone. But it is apparently part of a Republican political strategy to make race — or more precisely, the denial of American racism — a central (and winning) political issue for Republicans. As David Siders reported Wednesday in Politico, the mantra “America is not a racist country” is emerging as “an early plank of the 2024 G.O.P. contest.” As Siders put it: Top Democrats, including President Joe Biden and Vice Preside...

Sen. Mitch McConnell, top left, former Vice President Pence, top right, and former Attorney General William Barr . Photos, top right and left, by Gage Skidmore (CC Attribution-Share Alike 2.0). Photo, bottom, by the Justice Department (Public Domain) Reprinted with permission from Alternet No matter how much a Republican has done for Donald Trump, the former president can easily turn against them if he feels they have let him down in some way — and that includes former Vice President Mike Pence, former U.S. Attorney General William Barr and Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnel...

And DOJ steps up its voting rights efforts.

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