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Weekly US politics news and updates thread - week of March 18

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This thread is posted weekly - please try to post all relevant US political content in here, such as news, updates, opinion articles, etc. Extremely significant events may warrant a separate topic, but almost all should be posted in here.

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  1. spit-evil-olive-tips
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    December 2023: Michigan recording further reveals Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election today: NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge...

    December 2023: Michigan recording further reveals Trump’s efforts to overturn 2020 election

    A report from Michigan further peels back the curtain on Trump’s efforts to nullify the results of the 2020 election. The Detroit News listened to a partial recording of Trump and RNC chair Ronna McDaniel reportedly pressuring the Republican chair and another member of the Wayne County Board of Canvassers not to certify the results there despite no evidence of fraud.

    ...

    One former prosecutor that I talked to today did suggest that Ronna McDaniel could become a co-conspirator in the federal case in one count of that case if it could be proven that she knew that there was, in fact, no voter fraud, but yet was urging these elections officials to not certify alleging that fraud existed, so still waiting to see on that.

    today: NBC hires former RNC chair Ronna McDaniel, who has demonized the press and refused to acknowledge Biden was fairly elected

    “It couldn’t be a more important moment to have a voice like Ronna’s on the team,” Carrie Budoff Brown, senior vice president of politics at NBC News, said in a memo to staff.

    for some historical parallels, from Robert Evans in March 2023: Why legacy media institutions, like the New York Times and the Washington Post, fail historically at confronting fascism

    This thing you’re about to read was written by me, initially, for a speech I was asked to give at the Oxford Union over in England. The broad topic they asked me to speak on was ‘how fascist movements arise within democratic society’. That is a broad topic, and given my limited time I chose to focus on the response of legacy liberal newspapers to fascist movements in history.

    NBC, which gets dismissed as "liberal" news by people on the right-wing, is now employing someone who was actively involved in Trump's attempt to steal the 2020 election.

    those who forget history are condemned to...something something.

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  2. Omnicrola
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    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene files motion to oust House Speaker Mike Johnson

    Greene's motion is not privileged, meaning it's unclear if or when it will be brought to the floor for a vote. Greene told reporters after the vote that she has "started the process" of electing a new speaker, but she will not force a vote imminently.

    Under current House rules, it only takes one lawmaker to bring up a vote to oust the speaker. But it takes a majority of the House for that vote to pass.

    5 votes