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  1. 10 hours ago

    Who ever could be making these threats?

    NEW: Due to "credible threats of violence," the Michigan legislature's office buildings will be closed on Monday as the state’s 16 electors meet.
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  2. 11 hours ago

    Longtime neo-Nazi Chester Doles got access to other GOP candidates in Georgia earlier this year -- a scandal that made national news -- but Kelly Loeffler claims she had no idea who Doles was after Doles posted a photo of them together. Republicans...

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    19 hours ago

    An antifa militant shamelessly attacked an innocent bullet by being in its way. Thanks for your brave reporting amid the chaos that must have just randomly happened, Andy Ngo.

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  4. 20 hours ago

    Mike Cernovich has failed to condemn alleged hate crimes against Black churches committed by Proud Boys in DC last night. According to his oft-deployed logic, that means Cernovich supports violent neo-fascist anti-democratic gang members rioting. Cernovich is also responsible.

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    21 hours ago

    BREAKING: DC MPD tells me they are now investigating the church Black Lives Matter sign burnings and destructions by people said to be Proud Boys as possible hate crimes. Story here:

    The pastor of Asbury United Methodist Church in DC responds to the burning of the church’s Black Lives Matter sign last night by people who appeared to be affiliated with Proud Boys. “For me it was reminiscent of cross burnings.”
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    23 hours ago

    I'm calling on the Justice Dep. to immediately open a federal civil rights investigation into the 2 Black churches in DC targeted by Proud Boys and white supremacists. The burning of signs and acts of violence likely violate the Church Arson Prevention Act.

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    Dec 12

    Pro-Trump Proud Boys are ripping BLM flags *off of churches* in DC.

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  8. Dec 12

    Cop negligence/complicity has likely allowed the gang's numbers to swell into the 1000s. Trump loves the PBs. They are his blackshirts -- in DC this wknd to attack democracy as much as humanity. Thanks to LE, MAGA, the GOP, we'll be dealing with this problem for years to come.

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  9. Dec 12

    Demonstrators say the police have sided with the Proud Boys. Well, yeah. PBs are far-right and 'Murican. Imagine what cops (and prosecutors) would do if 100s of gang members of a different persuasion traveled to DC to beat and stab residents.

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  10. Dec 12

    The Proud Boys are extremely violent. They travel to cities hoping to attack people opposing fascism and Trump. For years, cops have let this happen. Worse, some police departments seem just fine with it. The result? Lots more violence. Today in DC:

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    Another fight breaks out between Proud Boys and Antifa in D.C. Police move in and pepper spray everyone.
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  11. Dec 12

    Sometimes cops join the gang, which also offers a radicalization pathway to neo-Nazi terrorism.

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  12. Dec 12

    Sometimes they fist bump the gang members when they come into town to brawl with residents the police are supposed to protect.

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  13. Dec 12

    Sometimes the cops drink with the gang members.

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  14. Dec 12

    One big reason hundreds of members of a neo-fascist pro-Trump heavily white gang (Proud Boys) are marauding through DC tonight is because for years local police around the U.S. allowed the gang (lots of drugs and guns) to travel across state lines to commit violence.

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  15. Dec 12

    Here's Witzke retweeting propaganda created by neo-Nazi Unite the Right participant Joseph Jordan aka Eric Striker. Dorsey also gives Jordan the run of the place. Why does Dorsey help neo-Nazis and far-right extremists incite violence and insurrection? We need an answer.

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  16. Dec 12

    This must be the "conservative speech" wants on his website. Jack Dorsey lets organizers of a seditious movement organize on Twitter. Witzke is advocating for dictatorship with her blue check. Ostensibly, there are laws about this.

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  17. Dec 12

    Lauren Witzke, the GOP's Senate nominee for Delaware, isn't even pretending not to be a racist and a fascist anymore.

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  18. Dec 11

    "Were students or their parents ever asked to give any kind of meaningful consent, or even notified of the phone searches in the first place? What is done with the data afterward? Can officials retain it for use in future investigations?"

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  19. Dec 11

    Baked Alaska should move back to Russia.

    NEW: Alt-Right Troll Baked Alaska spent the night in Scottsdale jail after macing a bouncer. He's facing charges of assault, disorderly conduct and trespassing. We have the video here:
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  20. Dec 11

    How scared really is Jack Dorsey of being yelled at by anti-democratic Republicans? Is there possibly another reason why for years Dorsey has let known neo-Nazis spread neo-Nazi hate on his site?

    State Department official Matt Gebert is back on Twitter. 👇🏽 To be clear, Gebert is suspended from work. His colleagues express revulsion over him. But he may still be getting your tax dollars as State will not answer basic questions about his status.
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