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One of the women who had anonymously accused GOP Nebraska gubernatorial candidate Charles Herbster of groping her has now identified herself publicly: Elizabeth Todsen, a former political aide, was among eight women who originally alleged last month that Herbster groped them.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) led a delegation of House lawmakers to Kyiv, Ukraine on Saturday to meet with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky during a trip that was kept secret until she announced the visit afterward on Sunday.
On Sunday night, a Trump-appointed federal judge shot down the RNC's effort to block the House Jan. 6 Committee from accessing documents that would help the panel figure out whether the RNC fundraised off of Trump’s 2020 election lies before the Capitol attack.
MyPillow CEO Mike Lindell met the same tragic fate as fellow Twitter-banished Trump crony Roger Stone on Sunday: Believing, like Stone, that Tesla CEO Musk’s deal to buy Twitter meant his exile was over, Lindell tried to come back on Twitter and was immediately re-banned.
For nearly a year, TPM has published a weekly newsletter focused on voting rights and Republicans' attacks on the election system. It's called The Franchise. Here's why now is an *especially* good time to start following voting rights news 🧵
In Ohio, Republicans are sabotaging the redistricting process in order to get Trump-appointed federal judges to let them use district maps that the state’s Supreme Court said were illegal. And it’s working! talkingpointsmemo.com/news/ohio-repu…
In Wisconsin, Trump basically bullied a top-ranking Republican into giving even more time and money to a partisan election "investigator" who's suggested decertifying the last election - while endorsing GOP candidates and hanging with Trump at Mar-a-Lago. talkingpointsmemo.com/news/under-pre…