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Fanciful. but that misses the point completely. the fact is, the attempt in 2020 was completely slap dash. there was the riot, there was the pressure on the legislators to ask mike pence to fail to certify the election, so on. the whole thing was thrown together in a series of weeks. this, what we're seeing now, is much more methodical. with two-thirds of the republican party believing the election was stolen, and therefore steps must be taken to rectify that in the form of removing secretaries of state who didn't -- who don't accept the big lie. giving more power to republican state legislatu...

One we haven't seen in this form since, i don't know, arguably the civil war. to help me answer that, still with me, mehdi hasson, mona cheren, david plouffe. i really don't like -- there's a lot of invocations of the civil war, on the right particularly for a long time, the next civil war, when do we get to use the guns, fantasizing about it that i find really gruesome and nuts. you've got marjorie teller green. a ridiculous figure, but a u.s. congressperson who i think is in some ways the vanguard of what more republican congresspeople will be like saying -- basically saying someone's compla...

Meaning this would have set monthly records in november, january, february, march as well. it is not a fluke, of course. according to the fourth national climate assessment, alaska has been warming twice as quickly as the global average since the middle of the 20th century. it's warming faster than any u.s. state. and of course climate change is not just a problem in alaska. 2019 analysis by the ap found new global high temperature records were outpacing new low records by a ratio of 2-1, a finding corroborated by the epa. in a statement on climate you would expect to find an equal number of r...

State's electors to him, despite the fact that georgian voters went to the polls and voted for joe biden. then on top of that, all the new restrictive voting laws, many aimed at taking power away from urban areas where republicans do not want democrats in control of elections. in georgia, one of these new laws is being used to launch a review of operations in solidly democratic fulton county, home to hove atlanta, which could lead to a state takeover. this is a really important piece of reporting by nicholas ricardi at ap, it's well done, you should read it. it puts together the full picture o...

Hordes! marjorie taylor greene comes from a state that tried a divorce in the 1860s because georgia wanted to keep the institution of slavery. let's be clear about why the republican party wants to hold power and who it wants to hold power on behalf of. marjorie taylor greene, as you pointed out, is a troll. but it's not either or. she can be a troll, and she can be a threat to democracy. she's in touch with the republican base, more than most of her quote, unquote mainstream republican colleagues in the house. she is a dangerous figure. you pointed out tweets about national divorce. she talks...