Nancy MacLean

@nancymaclean.bsky.social

Cassandra. Author Democracy in Chains: The Deep History of the Radical Right's Stealth Plan for America & Behind the Mask of Chivalry: The Making of the Second Ku Klux Klan (new ed. just out). Professor of History and Public Policy @ Duke. Views my own.

The Senate starts discussing this AWFUL bill today, which could knock out almost half of the electorate if it passes. Use this tool to contact your senators--especially if they are Rs and even faintly moveable? Stop the GOP’s new voter suppression legislation act.indivisible.org/sign/stop-go...

Stop the GOP’s new voter suppression legislation

Republicans are once again pushing for a series of voter suppression bills – all variations of their infamous “SAVE Act” – which would create unnecessary obstacles for millions of eligible Americans t...

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Trump was hosting a fund raiser at Mar-a-Lago on Friday, as the U.S. offensive began. The NYT reported last year that tickets for the dinner dance were $1M apiece. The optics of Trump partying while US soldiers died is partly what is behind the fact that today, #SendBarron trended on social media.

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Hillary’s opening statement was great, but it sounds like Bill Clinton went out of his way to exonerate Donald Trump as a fellow member of the Epstein class. Really vile that he volunteered absurd claims about Trump‘s innocence, not even having seen the records www.washingtonpost.com/politics/202...

Bill Clinton tells GOP-led panel he had no knowledge of Epstein’s crimes

The appearance in New York marks the first time a former president has been compelled to testify before Congress under a subpoena.

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Good morning. The President of the United States was in the middle of the most serious child sex trafficking ring of the last quarter century. He is referenced not a dozen times in the case files. Not 100 times. Not 1,000 times. He’s referenced 38,000 times.

By the way, for those of you not in MN: Homan’s strategy was to withdraw some agents, so it felt like we were in the denouement of the crisis, and then escalate hard against observers. They’re being incredibly aggressive with observers now. National media may not want to check out just yet