#Cornel West bid prompts worries from progressives: ‘I just wish he wasn’t doing it’

#Cornel West bid prompts worries from progressives: ‘I just wish he wasn’t doing it’

Progressive lawmakers are voicing concerns over Cornel West’s third-party bid, worried that a figure they respect could cripple President Biden’s prospects in 2024. West launched a Green Party campaign earlier this year to inject more leftism into the election cycle. He’s challenging both the Democratic and Republican establishments, raging against them in equal measure and…

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#Devon Archer debate focuses on Hunter Biden ‘illusion of access’

#Devon Archer debate focuses on Hunter Biden ‘illusion of access’

Democrats and Republicans are offering clashing interpretations of the significance of former Hunter Biden business associate Devon Archer’s closed-door testimony, which lawmakers said included assertions that Hunter Biden was selling the “illusion of access” to his father and that Hunter Biden sometimes put President Biden on speakerphone to talk to his business associates. The revelations…

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#Texas AG Ken Paxton seeks to halt his impeachment

#Texas AG Ken Paxton seeks to halt his impeachment

Attorneys for Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) are seeking for all but one of the 20 articles of impeachment against him to be dismissed to “preserve” the “people’s will,” they say.  In a Monday filing, Paxton’s lawyers asked if 19 of the articles could be dismissed, arguing they took place before Paxton’s most recent…

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#Harris: ‘Ridiculous’ to have to say slavery had no benefits

#Harris: ‘Ridiculous’ to have to say slavery had no benefits

Vice President Kamala Harris is doubling down on her rebuke of new Florida education guidelines that call for the teaching of how enslaved people benefited from slavery.  In an interview Monday with ABC News’s Linsey Davis, Harris dismissed allegations that her response to these guidelines is “ideological posturing.” “I think that this is just a matter of…

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