Trump Responds to Pro-Life Pressure

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“Pro-lifers recognize that a Harris-Walz administration would be horrific; most also recognize that if the new pro-choice GOP becomes permanent, the American pro-life movement could find itself in the same situation as pro-lifers in Canada and the U.K., where no major party is willing to defend pre-born human rights.” - First Things

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What is the Nation of Islam and why is Marjorie Taylor Greene praising it?

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“While assuring her followers that she is a Christian and is opposed to radical Islam, Greene went on to praise NOI’s current leader, Louis Farrakhan, for calling vaccine mandates a ‘declaration of war,’ and urged all groups that support religious liberty, “across the aisle,” to come together to resist them.” - RNS

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Republicans Shouldn’t Vote?

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“Democrats are inaccurately accusing Republican election reform efforts–designed to address some of Trump’s complaints–as ‘voter suppression.’ But here is an actual case of voter suppression, only Trump is suppressing his own voters!” - Veith

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Oklahoma Pastor Running For Senate, Vows to Investigate 2020 Election

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“Lead pastor of Sheridan Church in Tulsa, OK Jackson Lahmeyer told his congregation this past weekend that ‘It’s time to shout it in the halls of Congress that Jesus is King.’…Lahmeyer has said that he has signed thousands of vaccine exemption forms, a service he has offered for a one-time donation of any amount to his church.” - C.Leaders

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Pew: In the last 5 years the percentage of Republicans with at least some trust in national news organizations has been cut in half

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“Nearly eight-in-ten Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents (78%) say they have ‘a lot’ or ‘some’ trust in the information that comes from national news organizations – 43 percentage points higher than Republicans and Republican leaners (35%) – according to a new Pew Research Center survey conducted June 14-27, 2021.” - Pew

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The GOP Needs Ideas, Not Grievance Politics

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“Ohio Rep. Jim Jordan tweeted, ‘The Republican Party is no longer the ‘wine and cheese’ party. It’s the beer and blue jeans party.’ …. As it stands right now, however, the party is much more about grievance politics and retribution” - Dispatch

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The Contradictions of Paranoid Nationalism

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“many of the same folks who say that government authorities shouldn’t be trusted to make sure vaccines are safe or that elections are fairly conducted also say that we should have the government set industrial policy, regulate speech on the internet, or even engineer the size and shape of American families.

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