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The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists, the people involved say. More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of “principled conservatism,” including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law – ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump. The plan would be to run candidates in some races but also to endorse center-ri...

Heather Cox Richardson Offers a Break From the Media Maelstrom. It’s Working. She is the breakout star of the newsletter platform Substack, doing the opposite of most media as she calmly situates the news of the day in the long sweep of American history. Heather Cox Richardson, a history professor at Boston College, is more or less by accident the most successful independent journalist in America.Credit...Tristan Spinski for The New York Times Published Dec. 27, 2020Updated Dec. 30, 2020 Last Wednesday, I broke the news to Heather Cox Richardson that she was the most successful individual a...

Letters: Protest fireworks, nanny state, vaccine hope and HB6 Letters to the editor Article's claims need more investigation Wednesday's online article "Man indicted for rioting, shooting fireworks at police during Columbus protests", stated that a homeless man “is accused of firing commercial-grade fireworks at police officers during a protest in May.” First, let me correct The Dispatch:  it was a riot, not a protest.  Second, I must ask where a homeless man got “commercial-grade” fireworks.  I have many resources, and don’t know where or how to get any offhand.  If The Dispa...

All Americans need to recognize racism When The Dispatch launched “Black Out” – a nine-part series looking at the impact of racism in central Ohio as described by Black people who have lived with it – a reader questioned why. Why talk about those long-ago issues of the 1960s? Why dredge up old problems? The question answers itself. The reader’s question demonstrates why we need more discussion and understanding of racism. The Black Out series, which began last Sunday and concludes on Monday, starts to fill the need – precisely because people who don’t experience racism personall...

What? he calls nonemergency and he says knowing full well, given the benefit of the history the state wants you to use to convict him. knows he was being recorded. he's done it before. so he says in the call -- i'm not going to play it for you again. you've heard it more times than most people. and he called him an asshole. he didn't call him an asshole. but he said these assholes. that group of people who in the past have gotten away. so he called. and he spoke ton t the dispatch. and he went through it. so looking at the question of whether or not my client is completely innocent, provably i...