With Democrats in control of the national government, Republicans are retreating to the states to launch their bid to take back national power.[Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
Having cemented their control of Republican-dominated states with new election laws that suppress Democratic voting or give control of certifying elections to Republican boards,[Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
Republicans are much more concerned about challenges from the right than they are about having to moderate their stands. [Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
This[challenges from the right] has made them [Republicans]increasingly radical. Today, on the day that CNN reported that official deaths from coronavirus have reached 715,000,[Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
Ohio Republican representative Jim Jordan tweeted that Ohio should end all vaccine mandates.[Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by Heather Cox Richardson (TDPR) @HC_Richardson via @SubstackInc]
[Ohio Republican representative Jim Jordan tweeted] That[end all vaccine mandates] would include vaccines against diphtheria, tetanus, whooping cough, polio, measles, mumps, and rubella, among other diseases.Read more at bit.ly/30oFnXf by @HC_Richardson]

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