Fight Is on To Stop Trump Loyalist From Burrowing Into NSA

By Spencer Ackerman

Michael Ellis was picked to run the surveillance giant’s legal shop in the final days of Trump’s presidency. But there’s maneuvering to stop him before he gets to Ft. Meade.

By @TrumpEmail

The president is counting on YOUR $5 (sorry, I meant $55) to save the republic. Spoiler alert: That’s not what your money is going toward, and that’s not what’s going to happen.

By Sam Brodey

“You misrepresent the truth enough and you might as well call it for what it is: lies,” Brad Raffensperger told The Daily Beast of Trump’s unfounded election fraud claims.

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By Maxwell Tani

Nearly three years after sexual misconduct allegations got him pushed out of the Senate, Al Franken has quietly made his return to cable and radio airwaves.

By Erin Banco

In a call with the nation’s governors on Monday, FEMA acknowledged that it has been asked to help with staffing shortages at health care facilities.

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Matt Braynard previously started the right’s version of ACORN before getting in trouble with the IRS for nondisclosure. Now, he’s back for Round Two.

Dems got crushed, again, in 2020 among rural voters. If they want to fix that, and win back the chamber, they need to go full anti-monopoly, Open Markets argues.

He joins several other governors from virus-slammed states who have ordered new restrictions but not the one public-health experts want.

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 YESTERDAY’S MAN

Republican incumbent Sen. David Perdue reportedly said that, while he supports Trump, he had confronted an “anti-Trump vote in Georgia” in the first round of voting.

 NOT MY PLACE

He’s said to have privately told advisers that he fears such probes would allow Trump to continue to dominate headlines during his presidency.

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