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November 16, 2021
Timothy Noah
Why Did
The Washington Post
Let Mark Meadows’s Lawyer Rewrite History?
The White House has allowed top aides to testify before Congress many times before.
November 2, 2021
Alex Shephard
The GOP’s Only True Purity Test Is the Delusional Belief in Election Fraud
Trump’s Big Lie is the one thing that keeps Republicans together.
October 28, 2021
Alex Shephard
Why Did
The Wall Street Journal
Publish a Letter From Donald Trump Pushing the Big Lie?
Once again, the paper’s editorial page undermines its reporters.
October 4, 2021
Matt Ford
How the GOP Is Turning the States Into the Laboratories of Oligarchy
Republicans in state legislatures all across the country are slowly gaming the system to deprive voters of their power.
July 13, 2021
Matt Ford
The Democrats’ Voting Rights Bill Is Dead
President Biden’s plan to protect the right to vote is to hope that someone else will come up with a plan to protect the right to vote.
July 13, 2021
Matt Ford
Hervis Rogers May Spend Life in Prison Because of Trump’s Big Lie
The Republican Party’s fraudulent effort to stoke fears of rampant voter fraud could claim the freedom of a man who made an honest mistake.
July 7, 2021
Matt Ford
Samuel Alito’s Boundless Contempt for Democracy
Fully unmoored from legal reasoning, the justice’s voting rights ruling is cynical and un-American.
June 25, 2021
Matt Ford
Biden’s Justice Department Is Coming for You, Georgia Republicans
Attorney General Merrick Garland is suing the state over its voter suppression law—the administration’s first major response to the Republicans’ nationwide assault on elections.
June 25, 2021
Matt Ford
The Obscure Law That Enabled Trump’s Subversion of the Electoral College
The events of January 6 have made reforming the Electoral Count Act of 1887 a vital step to protect our democracy.
June 21, 2021
Michael Tomasky
Since When Is Being an Election Official a Job to Die For?
Local election officials around the country are getting death threats. Many are quitting their jobs. The Justice Department needs to do something.
June 7, 2021
Matt Ford
Joe Manchin Inches Closer to Trump’s Big Lie
Why is the Democratic senator from West Virginia echoing Republican talking points about American elections?
May 20, 2021
Matt Ford
The Republicans Would Like You to Please Forget That January 6 Ever Happened
Party leaders, taking their cues from Donald Trump, are trying to shove the violence he instigated into the memory hole.
May 5, 2021
Alex Shephard
The Media Still Doesn’t Know How to Cover the Big Lie
Four months after the Capitol riot, Republicans continue to push wild conspiracy theories about the 2020 election.
May 4, 2021
Matt Ford
The Republican Party Is for Liars Only
Liz Cheney and Mitt Romney are discovering that there’s no room in the GOP for anyone who acknowledges that Biden beat Trump fair and square.
March 4, 2021
Matt Ford
Pence Is Still Pushing Trump’s Big Lie
The former vice president reemerges from a brief hiatus in the throes of Stockholm Syndrome.
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