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Read President Biden’s speech marking the anniversary of the January 6th attack

Excerpt: Access the complete transcripts of the speeches delivered by Vice President Kamala Harris and President Joe Biden at the United States Capitol on January 6th, 2022.
Published at:12:00 PM on Thursday, January 6th, 2022
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Appreciations & Remembrances, National Defense, Policy Topics
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The two faces of Sean Hannity: Fox host privately advised Trump to go back to Florida while publicly attacking our democracy

Excerpt: Unbelievable as it may seem, Hannity briefly offered Trump sensible advice in closing days of his scandal-ridden presidency, according to a treasure trove of emails obtained by the House Selection Committee to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Published at:11:30 PM on Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
Written by:Joel Connelly
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Despite publicly fantasizing about killing a colleague, Arizona’s Paul Gosar is unlikely to face discipline from House Republicans

Excerpt: The House Republican Caucus in Washington, D.C., which once enforced behavioral standards, is increasingly a place where shows of violent fantasy and the fomenting of real-life violence are condoned, excused and even endorsed.
Published at:8:30 AM on Thursday, November 11th, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
Categories:Open Government, Policy Topics
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Jaime Herrera Beutler votes to hold Steve Bannon in criminal contempt of Congress

Excerpt: Just nine Republicans were among the two hundred and twenty-nine representatives who voted to hold Bannon in contempt, and one of them was the Pacific Northwest's own Jaime Herrera Beutler.
Published at:2:09 PM on Thursday, October 21st, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Legislative Advocacy, National Defense, Policy Topics
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Netroots Nation featured panel delves into the lasting effects of the January 6th, 2021 attack on the United States Capitol

Excerpt: Sarah Groh, Ted Lieu, Sarah Iddrissu, and Matthew Fuller joined Melissa Ryan for a conversation about the aftermath of the attack that Donald Trump and his Republican allies in Congress incited and directed against the nation's temple of democracy.
Published at:1:55 PM on Thursday, October 7th, 2021
Written by:Caya Berndt
Categories:Events, National Defense, Party Politics, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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The Taliban’s reascendance is regrettable, but there were no good options for concluding the U.S. military intervention in Afghanistan

Excerpt: We can all wish that our withdrawal had been smoother, better executed, and not so inconsiderate of the Afghans who risked so much to help us. But again, there's no such thing as a war that ends well, and all wars are messy.
Published at:8:01 PM on Sunday, August 15th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:National Defense, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Select committee on January 6th attack gets to work, hears testimony from police officers

Excerpt: Over the course of three and a half hours, four officers told their horrifying stories, describing the violence abuse they suffered at the hands of Trump's terrorist mob.
Published at:12:12 PM on Tuesday, July 27th, 2021
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:National Defense, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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From chaos to coherence: President Joe Biden’s worldview comes into focus

Excerpt: When he says that he is fighting to save our democracy against all threats, foreign and domestic, natural or manmade, believe him. This is a politician who means what he says and says what he means. That’s what coherence sounds like.
Published at:3:00 PM on Sunday, June 20th, 2021
Written by:Gael Tarleton
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In seeking to block a commission to probe the attack on the U.S. Capitol, top Republicans in Congress remind us their work is never done

Excerpt: The leadership of Republicans in Congress, prompted by Donald Trump, spent Wednesday, May 19th, 2021 hanging out to dry those House Republicans who want a September 11th style commission to investigate the January 6th insurrection at the Capitol.
Published at:8:30 AM on Thursday, May 20th, 2021
Written by:Joel Connelly
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More right wing terrorism: Refugee hating extremist attacks Pittsburgh synagogue

Excerpt: The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette reported that an individual matching the name of the shooter had threatened to attack the synagogue on the right wing social media platform Gab.
Published at:11:47 AM on Saturday, October 27th, 2018
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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America wakes up to a nightmare: Horrific attack on Orlando nightclub leaves fifty dead

Excerpt: This morn­ing, hun­dreds of mil­lions of Amer­i­cans woke up to the news that a man armed with an AR-15 assault rifle who had called 911 to announce that he was about to com­mit a heinous act in the name of the Islam­ic state group had bru­tal­ly slaugh­tered over fifty peo­ple at a gay night­club in […]
Published at:12:30 PM on Sunday, June 12th, 2016
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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White supremacist guns down nine at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church

Excerpt: Hor­ri­fy­ing and repul­sive does­n’t even begin to describe how awful this news is: A white gun­man killed nine peo­ple dur­ing a prayer meet­ing at one of Charleston’s old­est and best-known black church­es Wednes­day night in one of the worst mass shoot­ings in South Car­oli­na history. Heav­i­ly armed law enforce­ment offi­cers scoured the area into the […]
Published at:7:22 AM on Thursday, June 18th, 2015
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Civil Liberties, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Canadian authorities lock down the heart of Ottawa after shootings on Parliament Hill

Excerpt: Author­i­ties in Cana­da have locked down Par­lia­ment Hill, the heart of the coun­try’s nation­al cap­i­tal, Ottawa, after a yet-to-be-pub­licly-iden­ti­fied assailant fatal­ly shot a sol­dier guard­ing Canada’s War Memo­r­i­al, then entered Cen­tre Block and began fir­ing at peo­ple there before being killed by secu­ri­ty. Fit­ting­ly, the man who took the gun­man down was said to be […]
Published at:2:02 PM on Wednesday, October 22nd, 2014
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:National Defense, Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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Tragedy in Norway: Explosions, shootings injure or take lives of dozens

Excerpt: Inex­plic­a­ble, unex­pect­ed tragedy has struck again, this time in Nor­way: Nor­way suf­fered dual attacks on Fri­day when pow­er­ful explo­sions shook the gov­ern­ment cen­ter here and, short­ly after, a gun­man stalked youths at an island sum­mer camp for young mem­bers of the gov­ern­ing Labor Par­ty. The police arrest­ed a Nor­we­gian in con­nec­tion with both attacks, which […]
Published at:5:40 PM on Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Written by:Andrew Villeneuve
Categories:Policy Topics, World Commmunity
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