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Rep. Rick Allen Shared ‘Wild’ Romanian YouTube Conspiracy Theories As He...
Rep. Rick Allen (R-GA) is not one of the better-known figures in the extended universe of former President Trump’s political allies. However, based on text messages obtained by TPM, Allen is one of...
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Inside Team Trump’s Chaotic Attempts To Overturn The 2020 Vote In Georgia
It was Nov. 5, 2020. Votes were still being counted in the presidential race, but it was looking increasingly grim for President Donald Trump. Mark Meadows, Trump’s White House chief of staff, had an...
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Texts Reveal Four Trump Allies Mixed Requests For Pardons With Big Lie...
The text messages Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack show how frantically former President Trump and his allies worked to reverse the results in the...
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Texts Show How Members Of Congress Advanced ‘Antifa’ Conspiracy Theories In...
Within two hours of protesters breaking the first barricades at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, right-wing politicians and media figures were already texting President Trump’s Chief of Staff Mark...
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Texts Expose Giuliani Legal Team’s Divisive Election ‘Circus’ And Requests...
It was just shy of six weeks after the 2020 election and Jason Miller, a top campaign adviser to former President Trump, had a problem.
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Kari Lake’s Cameo In The Meadows Texts Shows How 2020 Election Denial Became...
Failed Arizona gubernatorial candidate Kari Lake makes only one appearance in the 2,319 text messages former President Trump’s last chief of staff Mark Meadows provided to the House select committee...
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‘Potus Is Going To Need Some Warriors:’ Texts Show Former Cabinet Secretary’s...
The log of 2,319 text messages that Mark Meadows turned over to the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack serves to document an expansive plot to reverse former President Trump’s loss...
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Scenes From The Meadows Texts Show The Diverse Cast Of Characters Who Chimed...
When businessman Marty Davis made his way into the Oval Office in mid-December 2020, he brought a blanket for former First Lady Melania Trump. Davis, the CEO of a quartz countertop company, also...
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What Mark Meadows’ Phone Taught Us
It’s been quite a week. On Monday, we began publishing a series of stories based on the 2,319 text messages former President Trump’s last chief of staff, Mark Meadows, provided to the House select...
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Inside George Santos’ Madcap Campaign: ‘Things Were Not On The Up And Up’
Profligate spending. A pile of inquiries from federal regulators about campaign finance improprieties. And a “Holocaust painter” in Florida who feels betrayed.
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How Bernie Sanders And Joe Biden Lost (And Won) The 2020 Iowa Caucus
This behind the scenes account of the pivotal 2020 Iowa caucus is adapted from one chapter of the new book The Truce: Progressives, Centrists and the Future of the Democratic Party, by Hunter Walker...
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The Legal Coup
In late 2020, a group of conservative movement attorneys set out to build a legal pathway by which Donald Trump could stay in power, having lost the election. We’ve known about the outcome of their...
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Two Weeks of Chaos
Donald Trump’s months-long effort to overturn his defeat in the 2020 election culminated on a single, now-infamous day: Jan. 6. But there was an alternate scenario gamed out by Trump’s lawyers — one...
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The Ideas Man
Some of the most radical legal theories which animated Donald Trump’s 2020 coup attempt filtered in from a once-obscure Wisconsin attorney. Ken Chesebro, an appellate lawyer and former acolyte of...
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The Supreme Pressure Campaign
Donald Trump’s attorneys in 2020 thought that they had one advantage which nobody — not the Democrats, not lower-court judges, not Congress — could outmatch: the Supreme Court. At their most feverish,...
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