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The Disappearing Cheshire Cat I Found in the Rabbit Hole Where Lee Chatfield Was Hiding

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After I set off searching for Lee Chatfield's interview with Jack Smith, I also discovered 30-some pages of a Ronna McDaniel interview and a very specific ask that Michigan Republicans throw out my vote for Joe Biden.
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Ball of Thread: Zombie Mueller

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emptywheel
Bill Barr's efforts to kill the parts of the Mueller investigation that continued after he misrepresented the Report ended up laying the foundation for January 6.
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When an Older White Catholic Man Admits, "This Toxicity that Exists Is Really Embarrassing"

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emptywheel
I don't know whether Kamala Harris' campaigning on a Constitution over party pitch with Liz Cheney will work. I don't know if it'll be enough to win this election. What I do know is that neither Harris nor Cheney are mistaking the enormity of the task, of trying to break the authoritarianism of a party that has overwhelmed voters with a blanket of disinformation and dehumanization.
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So Help Me God: Lawyers, Encryption, and Insurrection

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emptywheel
Volume III of the Appendix to Jack Smith's immunity brief starts with what are likely texts obtained from Mike Roman and Boris Epshteyn's phones, both of which were seized in September 2022. There are reasons to suspect that Smith faced a delay in accessing texts from both those phones.
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Kamala Harris against Despair

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emptywheel
When Maria Shriver asked Kamala Harris how she deals with the stress of this election, Harris responded by giving a powerful speech against despair.
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How to Read the Immunity Appendix

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emptywheel
Most of the evidence in the appendix to Jack Smith's immunity filing remains sealed. But by understanding how the four volumes work, we can understand most of what appears in it.
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Trump's GOP Is Running on a Platform of Freeing Seditionists and Cop Assailants

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emptywheel
The Republican Party's candidate for President is running on a platform of freeing cop assailants and seditionists. 
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Fridays with Nicole Sandler

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emptywheel
We spoke a lot about the Univision town halls and the Bret Baier interview.
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Could This Week's Developments Change the Race?

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emptywheel
A series of events in the last ten days may finally have stripped the disinformation that would otherwise leave 8 to 13% of voters believing Trump's disinformation about himself and Kamala Harris.
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Hen in the Fox House: Jorge Velázquez and Ramiro González Better Served Democracy than Bret Baier

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emptywheel
Bret Baier's interview of Kamala Harris was probably only the third most important TV yesterday. On Univision, before a viewing audience that includes far more undecided swing voters, Trump refused to answer three questions few journalists have ever asked him, including why he did nothing as his rioters attacked the Capitol and how mass deportation will lead food prices to rise.
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Jack Smith Takes Up the Aid and Abet Theory Endorsed by Judge Amit Mehta in 2022

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emptywheel
Back in February 2022, Judge Amit Mehta ruled that it was at least plausible to hold Trump liable for the assaults of cops on January 6 via an aid and abet theory of liability. In Jack Smith's response to Trump's attempt to get his indictment thrown out based on the Fischer decision Smith adopts that theory of liability.
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325,000 People Vote in First Day of Early Voting in Georgia

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emptywheel
In the first day of early voting yesterday, over 325,000 people voted.
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Searching for Jared Wise

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emptywheel
Former FBI Supervisory Special Agent and current January 6 defendant Jared Wise believed that a CHP officer was out to get him on April 2, 2023. And actions he took as a result -- getting out of his car to film the cop -- ended up in a suppression motion.
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We Are All Don Bacon's Wife: The Threats Trump Elicits for Personal Gain

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emptywheel
The list of people against whom Trump has elicited threats is perhaps the best indication of what a second Trump term would look like.
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JD Vance Asserts that He and Trump Cannot Win Legitimately

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emptywheel
JD Vance, by claiming that the decision by Twitter and Facebook to censor Hunter Biden's dick pics in 2020 would justify the Vice President not certifying Joe Biden's win, asserts that according to his own standarda, he and Trump cannot legitimately win this election, because they in fact asked tech companies to "censor" the stolen JD dossier.
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Machine for Fascism: The Two Stephens

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emptywheel
Back in June, Stephen Miller and Steve Bannon argued that Trump had to be permitted to make false claims that stoke political violence as part of his campaign. That strategy has become painfully clear in recent days.
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The Individual In Contemporary Society

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Ed Walker
What am I doing here?
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