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1. In Ohio, GOP officials are abusing their power to smear @HillaryMueri, a promising Congressional candidate.

And the local and national media spread their lies without doing basic verification.

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@HillaryMueri 2. The Ohio GOP filed a complaint with the state Attorney General, claiming that Mueri had voted in the 2008 primary in Ohio and California, suggesting she committed a felony.

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@HillaryMueri 3. The Ohio Secretary of State (@FrankLaRose), without doing any investigation, immediately released a statement saying it was "the exact type of violation I would refer to the Attorney General."

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@HillaryMueri @FrankLaRose 4. The local media, without checking the facts or doing any independent reporting, then jumped on the story.

Then national outlets like @politico promoted the local report.

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5. All of this happened without anyone calling Mueri's local election board to check the facts.

Mueri's campaign manager did and the Lake County Election Board released a statement: Mueri did not vote in the 2008 Ohio primary

IT WAS ALL A LIE

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6. It's now FOUR DAYS LATER and @politico still has not corrected its report.

It's outrageously irresponsible.

This kind of thing is one reason I started my newsletter, Popular Information

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7. Ohio Secretary of State @FrankLerose's conduct has been shameful. He has remained silent as the accusation fell apart

He's found time to criticize Jane Fonda for disrespecting troops in the 1970s

But he continues to smear Mueri, a combat veteran

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8. Even after the Ohio Republican Party's accusation against Mueri was definitively debunked its STANDING BY ITS COMPLAINT

"We look forward to the results of the Attorney General’s investigation into this matter," the party said in a statement

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9. Mueri asked her Republican opponent, Congressman David Joyce (@RepDaveJoyce) to disavow the smear. But he's also remained silent. And his silence speaks volumes.

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10. UPDATE: Politico has updated its newsletter

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1. MIKE PENCE is now in charge of coronavirus response & is vetting statements by scientists and experts.

This is incredibly dangerous.

Protecting hundreds of millions of Americans requires policy based on science.

Pence has consistently shown contempt for scientific facts.
2. On the House floor in 2002, Pence described it as an unproven theory that is not supported by the fossil record. He said scientists would eventually come around to intelligent design.

Asked in 2008 if he believed in evolution, Pence responded: "I can't say."
3. In 2000, Pence questioned whether smoking cigarettes was deadly: "Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill."

The link between cigarettes and cancer was established decades before.
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1. Twitter and Facebook have made a big show about cracking down on coronavirus misinformation but a dangerous conspiracy theory about the CDC is spreading rapidly on both platforms.

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2. Right-wing media is suggesting Americans ignore warnings from the CDC because a top expert, Dr. Nancy Messonnier, is the sister of Rod Rosenstein. Supposedly she is part of a deep state plot to take down Trump

Messonnier has worked at CDC for 25 years

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3. An article about the Messonnier conspiracy theory on Gateway Pundit, a propaganda site that has been credentialed by the White House, has been shared over 1400 times on Facebook and 12K times on Twitter

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Trump fired the actual experts in pandemic response two years ago and doesn't trust anyone with actual expertise so now Mike Pence, who wrote columns doubting that cigarettes caused cancer, is in charge of the coronavirus.
"Time for a quick reality check. Despite the hysteria from the political class and the media, smoking doesn't kill" -- Mike Pence, 2000

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In a debate during Pence's campaign for Congress in 2000, Pence reportedly claimed, "there was no causal link medically identifying smoking as causing lung cancer."

That link was established in 1964.

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