2022: TALKING POINTS MEMO (280)

JANUARY

Nunes Officially Outta Congress To Lead Trump’s Social Media Knockoff

Navarro Details How He And Bannon Lobbied Trump To Subvert Election In Run-Up To Jan. 6

Gorka Says Jan 6 Panel Has Subpoenaed His Phone Records

Biden Walks Line Between Persuasion, Fight In Jan. 6 Speech

Cyber Ninjas Says It’s Shutting Down As Judge Orders $50K Daily Fine For Records Violation

Conservative Justices Express Clear Hostility To Biden Admin’s Power

Raffensperger Rips ‘Double Minded’ Trump-Endorsed Challenger Who Boost Big Lie

Trump Blasts GOP Senator As ‘Woke’ After He Calls 2020 Election ‘Fair’

Man At Center Of ‘Fedsurrecteion’ Conspiracy Theory Says He’s Never Been An Informant

Gaetz’s Ex-Girlfriend Reportedly Testifying In Front Of Grand Jury

Oath Keepers Chief Stewart Rhodes Arrested On Jan. 6-Related Charges

‘They’re Trying To Indict Me’

Five Points On Abbott’s Disastrous National Guard Border Deployment

Clyburn: Voting Rights Bills ‘May Be On Life Support’ After Dashed Hopes For Filibuster Carveout

Did Trump Test The Boundaries Of Presidential Immunity On Jan. 6? A Judge Will Soon Decide

NRC Chair Blames Biden For Debate That Had To Go Virtual Because Of Trump

GOP Guv Says He Turned Down Senate Bid Because GOP Sens. Admitted They Don’t Do Anything

Treasury Department Sanctions Two Ukrainians Who Worked With Manafort

DOJ Task Force On Election Threats Makes First Arrest

‘No More Crazies’: Trump’s Final Days In Office, As Documented By The Jan. 6 Committee

Arizona Dems Censure Sinema For Blow To Voting Rights Legislation

Supreme Court Takes Up Affirmative Action Cases, Raising Alarms

Judge Bats Away Eastman’s Attempt To Hide Trump-Related Work Emails

Justice Stephen Breyer Will Retire

Off To The Races: Breyer Makes His Announcement, Dems Look Ahead Toward Replacement

Is This Ukraine’s Last, Best Chance At Avoiding War?

Redistricting Threatens Suburban Minority Coalitions As those Voters Flex Their Power

‘Oh My Goodness, No’

Trump Now Freely Admits He Wanted Pence To Overturn 2020 Election

FEBRUARY

Morning Memo: GOP Candidate Argues Pregnant Rape Survivors Should Be ‘Inspired’ By Situation

Vindman Sues Don Jr., Giuliani, Other Trump Allies Over First Impeachment Smear Campaign

Lewandowski Claims That He’s On Mission From Trump To Take Out Sununu

Did Trump Flush More Than Records Down The Toilet?

Judge: Trump Must Testify In NY AG Investigation

APRIL

One Federal Judge’s Primal Scream About The Dramatic Erosion Of Voting Rights

Blunt Baselessly Suggests Thomas Disagrees With Wife’s Pro-Coup Efforts

GOP Gets One More Chance To Mug For The Camera Ahead Of Jackson Vote

Oh Look, Another Former Trump Official Seems To Have Done A Voter Fraud

Roberts Joins Liberals In Opinion Criticizing Conservative Majority’s Use Of Shadow Docket

Prosecutors Seek Detention For DC Duo Who Allegedly Posed As Feds, Citing Foreign Travel

Exclusive: New Details Deepen Mystery Of The DC Fed Imposters

State Dept: Incomplete Account Of Foreign Gifts Given To Trump And Officials In 2020

Colorado Republican Party Backs 2020 Election Denier For Senate

A Tipoff By The Secret Service Blew Up The Federal Probe Of Alleged Imposter Duo

A Genocide Friendly GOP

DeSantis Has A Plan To Cram Much Of Florida Into New GOP Districts

‘This Is A Sh*tshow’

Restrictions Don’t Only Hurt Those Seeking Abortions – They Make Miscarriages Harder Too

Trump Officially Endorses JD Vance, Much To The Dismay Of Ohio GOPers And Advisers

On Tax Day, White House Knocks GOP Over Rick Scott’s Bonkers Tax Plan

Abbott: If Mexico Sends One More Immigrant, I’ll Take The Border Hostage Again

Pre-Jan 6 Oath Keeper Texts Show Terror At The Idea Of A Massive Antifa Army In DC

Ohio GOP Is Just Ignoring The State Supreme Court’s Anti-Gerrymandering Rulings

Incitement to Genocide Rising Under the Waves

Vodka, Red Bull, And Unpaid Debt: One Of The DC Imposters Led A Wild Pre-Arrest Life

Meadows Was Warned Of ‘Intel Reports’ On Possible Jan. 6 Violence, Court Filing Says

Is Outlawing Abortion Nationwide The Next Republican Frontier?

Five Points On Russia’s Threats To Expand Its War To Moldova

5 Points On How GOP Leaders Feared Their Extremist Colleagues After Jan. 6

Here Are The Big Lie Candidates Who Could Help Steal The Next Presidential Election

Morning Memo: Conservatives Keep Pretending Elon Musk Freed Them From Twitter Jail

The Blueprint for Stealing the 2024 Election

MAY

Russian Rhetoric Ominously Shifts Towards Apocalyptic World War III

Jan. 6 Committee Asks Reps. Brooks, Biggs, Jackson For Info

Draft Supreme Court Decision Charts Path For Outlawing Abortion Everywhere

20 Years Of Democratic Backsliding Got Us To The Roe Reversal

Alito Abandon First Scheduled Public Appearance Since Roe Opinion Leak

Esper: Trump Wanted To Activate Retired Four-Stars To Court-Martial Them For Disloyalty

McConnell Says National Abortion Ban ‘Possible’

Trump Has ‘No comment’ On Whether He Proposed Missile Strikes In Mexico

Days After Draft Abortion Opinion Leaked, Plan B And IUDs Already In The Crosshairs

Eastman The Mathematician

Morning Memo: Anti-Choice GOPers Insist That Overturning Roe Is NBD, Actually, So Calm Down, Okay?!

Judgment Day: Durham Finally Gets 2016 Conspiracy Theories Before Jury

Erie County DA: Buffalo Shooting Investigated As Hate Crime, May Lead To Terrorism Charge

Proponents Of Racist ‘Replacement’ Theory That Motivated Shooter Double Down

Morning Memo: Tucker Doesn’t Know What Buffalo Shooter’s Talking About With This ‘Great Replacement’ Stuff

Prognosticator Shifts Pennsylvania Governor’s Race To ‘Lean Dem’ After Mastriano’s Win

After Quitting, Election Official Has Grim Warning About A Future Of More Big Lies

Emails Show Ginni Thomas Lobbied State Lawmakers To Subvert Election

How The Fifth Circuit Used An SEC Case To Declare Open Season On The Administrative State

Pennsylvania AG Rips GOP Rival Mastriano Over ‘Dangerous’ Big Lie Rhetoric

Dems Van Hollen And Fetterman Released From Hospital After Suffering Strokes

Charges Filed In Gaetz-Linked Florida Ghost Candidate Scheme

‘F*ck You’: Dem Rep. Gallego Skewers Cruz For Whining About Gun Control After Texas School Shooting

How Abortion Clinics Are Bracing For The Day Roe Is Overturned

Five Things Republicans Pointed To After Uvalde Shooting To Avoid Gun Reform

Inside The Anti-Abortion Movement’s Uber Successful Messaging Campaign

Kinzinger Knocks GOP Calls To ‘Harden’ Schools After Texas Shooting

DOJ Will Conduct Review Of Law Enforcement Response To Uvalde Shooting

Sussmann Acquitted In Quick Defeat For Durham Investigation

JUNE

What MAGA Had Planned For Pence On Jan. 6

Big Lie Champion Mastriano Begins Cooperating With Jan. 6 Panel

Peter Navarro Indicted On Contempt Of Congress Charges

Indicted Peter Navarro Wails, Gnashes Teeth At First Court Appearance

Schiff: DOJ Refusal To Charge Meadows And Scavino May Set Up ‘Dangerous Precedent’

Morning Memo: Majority Says U.S. Has More Mass Shooting Because It Has More Guns, Per Post-Uvalde Poll

A Glimpse At Devin Nunes’ Compensation As CEO Of Trump’s TRUTH Social

Judge Orders Eastman To Turn Over Emails On Potential ‘Crime,’ Secretive Group’s Meetings

GOP Candidate Carl Paladino Gives A Shout-Out To ‘Inspirational’ Hitler

Trumpworld Lied To Your Face About The Election

What We Want To Know From The Jan. 6 Committee

Schiff: Jan. 6 Panel Will Show Evidence Of GOPers’ Requests for Pardons From Trump

Jan. 6 Public Hearings: Round Two

Rudy Giuliani: I Only Help Plan Coups Sober

A Far Right Law Enforcement Movement Is Fueling The Effort To Infiltrate Voting Machines

Exclusive: Trump Lawyer Kenneth Chesebro Talks About His Role In The Run-up to Jan. 6

Navarro Pleads Not Guilty In Contempt Case While Pushing To Delay Trial For Book Tour

Gianforte Is Cagey About Tuscan Getaway As Montana Weathers Historic Flooding

Iowa Supreme Court Reverses Its Own Recent Decision On Abortion After Only 4 Years

Trump Knocks McCarthy’s ‘Foolish’ Move To Yank GOP Picks From Jan. 6 Committee

Jan. 6 Panel Hearing, Round Four: MAGALand’s Pressure Campaign On The States

RonJohn Fakes Phone Call, Blames Intern For Effort To Send Fake Electors To Pence

Jan. 6 Hearing: Looking At Trump’s Push To Corrupt The DOJ For Election Steal Plot

The Beginning

Roberts Tries To Wash Hands Of Overturning Roe While Overturning Roe

GOP Rep Draws Backlash After Praising Overturn Of Roe As ‘Victory Of White Life’

McCarthy Urges Voters To Just Ignore Thomas’ Call To Reconsider Other Major Cases

Meadows’ Closes Aide Set To Testify During Surprise Jan. 6 Hearing

Colorado Election Deniers Had A Bad GOP Primary Night

Kagan Turns Conservative Justices’ Love Affair With History Against Them In EPA Dissent

JULY

Reports: Hutchinson Received Warning Calls Trying To Pressure Her Before Testimony

Jan. 6 Panel Members: New Witnesses Have Come Forward After Hutchinson’s Testimony

Trump Lashes Out At Cheney After She Signals Jan. 6 Panel Is Open To Criminal Referrals

Atlanta Grand Jury Issues Subpoenas To Trump Legal Team, Lindsey Graham In Big Lie Probe

Cipollone Reaches Deal With Jan. 6 Panel To Testify In Transcribed Interview Friday

Comey And McCabe Just Happened To Get Same Rare Intensive IRS Audits Under Trump Appointee

IRS Asks IG To Investigate Fishy Comey And McCabe Audits

Raskin: Jan. 6 Panel’s Next Hearing Will Focus On Infamous Dec. 18 WH Meeting

Trump And Co. Seize On Wisconsin Ruling As PROOF 2020 Election Was Rigged

Today’s Jan. 6 Hearing: How Trump Summoned The Violent Mob, Including Extremists

Laurne Boebert’s Ex-Campaign Manager Was Involved In Voting Machine Plot, Court Docs Say

Next Jan. 6 Hearing Will Detail Events In White House During Insurrection, Panel Member Says

Many People Are Saying This: Where Is The DOJ?

Once Again, Manchin Gets The Legislative Deal He Wants And Promptly Blows It Up

Cruz Attacks ‘Clearly Wrong’ SCOTUS Ruling On Marriage Equality

Your Fault! Paul And McConnell Squabble Over Implosion Of Biden’s GOP Judicial Nom

What We Know About Matthew Pottinger and Sarah Matthews, And What They Might Tell Us

They Knew All Along: GOP Elites Stomached Trump To The End

GOP NY Guv Nominee Zeldin Attacked On Stage While Campaigning

Supreme Court Quietly Greenlights Further Chipping Away Of Executive Branch Power

Cheney: Jan. 6 Panel Will ‘Contemplate Subpoena’ For Ginni Thomas If Necessary

GOP Ex-Lawmaker Sentenced For Breaching Capitol Vows To Raise ‘Absolute Hell In DC’

5 Points On Mastriano’s Relationship With An Anti-Semitic Tech Founder

CPAC Keeping Orban As Keynote Speaker Even After Nazi-Esque Rant Against ‘Race Mixing’

Jayapal Says Schumer-Manchin Reconciliation Deal Is A ‘Major Step Forward’

Garrett Zigler, The Trump Staffer Who Let The Kraken Loose In The White House

Arizona House Speaker: I’ll ‘Never Vote Again’ For Trump After Testimony Backlash

AUGUST

Michigan Sec. Of State Braces For Certification Shenanigans In Primaries

Manchin Presses Sinema A Little Harder On Reconciliation Deal

Big Liars Dominated Key Republican Primaries Tuesday

The Christian Right Fires A Warning Shot At Senate Republicans

Surprise! Indicted MAGA Clerk’s $255k Primary Recount Goes Nowhere

Now We Finally Know: Notorious Kremlin-Linked Oligarch Paid For Giuliani’s Trips

Trump Election Attorney To Testify Before Fulton County Grand Jury

FBI Raids Mar-A-Lago

Vos Trashes Election ‘Investigation’ He Started After Trump Stabs Him In Back

Antifa Hannity Declares His ‘Love’ For FBI Has Been ‘Destroyed’

Morning Memo: FBI Looking For Classified Nuclear Weapons Docs In MAL Raid, WaPo Reports

FBI Recovered ‘Sensitive Compartmented’ Docs From Mar-A-Lago

Trump Lawyer Claimed In June That No Classified Material Remained At Mar-a-Lago

Giuliani Is A Target In Fulton County Probe

Trump Org CFO Reaches Plea Deal In Criminal Fraud Probe

Morning Memo: Nearly All Pro-Impeachment GOPers Officially Purged

Who Was Going To Release What From The Trump Mar-a-Lago Records?

Boom! Trump’s Longtime Fascination With Nukes Long Preceded Mar-a-Lago Search

Book: Giuliani Associate Sought ‘General Pardon’ After Capitol Insurrection

GOP Guv Nominee Shocked That Candidate She Endorsed Publicly Called Jews Evil

Trump Got Multiple Extensions Before FBI Raid

Judge Blocks Biden Admin Guidance Requiring Physicians To Perform Abortions Amid Medical Emergencies

A Peek Into What The Next Two Years With A Split Congress Would Look Like

Right Wingers Huff And Puff After White House’s Viral Student Loan Smack Talk

Redacted Mar-A-Lago Affidavit Gives New Details On What FBI Agents Were After

Trump’s Post-Presidential Hell Of Criminal Probes And Feeble Lawyering

What Do We Know About Where The Mar-a-Lago Probe Is Headed?

Phew! Luckily, Trump Declassified All Those Docs The FBI Found, Trump Says

SEPTEMBER

Why The Content Of Key Trump Officials’ Missing Text Matters

READ: Detailed List Of Docs FBI Recovered From Mar-a-Lago

The Most Alarming Case On The Supreme Court’s Docket You Haven’t Heard Of

A Cover Up? Or Just Astounding Negligence?

Trump Rally Speaker Laments Plight Of Alleged Neo-Nazi Convicted Over J6 Role

Fake Trump Elector Brought MAGA Tech Guys To County Elections Office On Day Of Data Breach, Video Shows

Bannon Will Surrender To New York State Law Enforcement To Face New Indictment

Bannon Faces State Indictment In ‘We Build The Wall’ Scam After Trump’s Federal Pardon

Morning Memo: Report On Findings Of Roe Draft Leak Probe Is Coming, Gorsuch Says

Five Of The Biggest Landmines On The Supreme Court’s Docket This Term

What Can The Biden Administration Actually Do To Protect Elections

Trump Stops Short Of Declassification Argument In Latest Filing

A 15-Week Gestational Ban Is In No Way A ‘Late-Term’ Abortion Ban

Morning Memo: FBI Seizes MyPillow Guy’s Phone At A Hardee’s

Jan. 6 Panel Now Receiving ‘Huge’ Tranches Of Secret Service Material, Members Say

Morning Memo: New Hampshire Election-Denying Senate Nom Suddenly Sees The Light

State Legislatures Rush To Put In Place Laws to Protect Election Workers Ahead of Midterms

Why Not Me? Judge’s Credulous Mar-a-Lago Ruling Leaves Some Attorneys Wanting More

Trump To Appeals Court: I Get To Say Who The Docs Belong To

NY AG Accuses Trump Of Fraud In $250 Million Suit

Ginni Thomas Agrees To Testify In Front Of Jan. 6 Committee

Pelosi And Other Democrats Sound Off On SCOTUS Case That Could Be ‘Disastrous’

Morning Memo: Abbott’s Team Miffed DeSantis Dehumanized Migrants Without Him

The Key Ingredients Of Christian Nationalism

Morning Memo: DeSantis Appointee In Predominantly Black County Resigns After KKK Photo Surfaces

Morning Memo: Mastriano Turns To Fasting And Jesus To Rescue Drowning Campaign

Under Oath, Ginni Thomas Stuck To Big Lie Script

OCTOBER

Here’s Where Each Conservative Justice Stands On The Theory That Could Upend Democracy

Justice Delayed, Justice Denied: 11th Circuit Fails To Rule On Case For Seven Years

Supreme Court Justices Get Chance To Dismantle What’s Left Of Voting Rights Act

Herschel Walker’s Team Bet That Paid Abortion Story Wouldn’t Come Out. Oops.

Walker Faces Yet Another Bombshell In Abortion Scandal

Georgia GOP Lt Guv Blames Trump For Roping Republicans Into Herschel Walker Disaster

What Past Cases Of Mishandling Classified Info Can Tell Us About The Mar-a-Lago Scandal

After Gleefully Embracing Kanye West, Right-Wing Figures Reposition In Response To Antisemitic Posts

Morning Memo: Sasse Flees Protesters At University Of Florida

Ken Chesebro Hit With Ethics Complaint Over Big Lie Involvement

Jan. 6 Hearing To Unveil New Evidence As Committee Pushes Toward Conclusion

Get Ready: Republicans Are Flirting With Detonating The Global Economy… Again

Momentum Builds As Indiana Democrats Speak Out Against Potentially Devastating SCOTUS Case

Timeline: The Mar-a-Lago Scandal From Start To Raid

What Republicans Will Do If They Win The House, In Their Own Words

Top Republicans Keep Talking About Plans To Cut Medicare And Social Security

Rubio Argues Ballot Drop Boxes Are Dangerous Bomb Targets While Rejecting Gun Control

McCarthy Tries To Muddy Waters Around Republican Plan For Taking Debt Ceiling Hostage

Bannon Sentenced To Four Months In Prison For Contempt Of Congress

Biden Vows He ‘Will Not Yield’ To GOP’s Debt-Ceiling Extortion On Medicare And Social Security

What Kind Of Game Is Trump Playing With The Special Master?

Voter Intimidation Has Already Begun In Arizona

Debate Audience Bursts Into Laughter As DeSantis Tries To Dodge Questions About 2024

Hope Hicks Testifies In Front Of Jan. 6 Committee

Morning Memo: D’Souza’s Re-Released ‘2,000 Mules’ Big Lie Fanfic Got Quite A Makeover

Eastman Begs Judge To Reconsider Crime-Fraud Ruling

How A Conspiracy-Theorizing Documentary Fueled A Wave Of Voter Intimidation In Arizona

Musk Responds With ‘No U’ Defense After Posting And Deleting Conspiracy Theory About Pelosi Attack

NOVEMBER

John Roberts Further Delays Four-Year House Bid For Trump Tax Docs

The Chaos Is The Point: Get Ready For Legal Hell After The Midterms

Kash Patel Granted Immunity In Mar-a-Lago Probe

In Pre-Election Drop, House GOP Releases ‘Bombshell’ Report Composed Mostly Of Old Letters

The Right-Wing Plan To Bring Down The Regulators Reaches The Supreme Court

Russian Mercenary Leader Commits To More Meddling In US Elections

Pelosi Says Attack Will Affect Her Decision On Whether To Retire

Senate Control Hinges On Handful Of States That Are Too Close To Call

Battle Over Senate Is Down To The Wire In Nevada And Arizona

Trump v. DeSantis: It’s Unofficially ON

Kelly Win Brings Dems One Undecided Race Away From Retaining Senate Control

Democrats Hold The Senate, Resisting Midterm Headwinds And Defying Historical Trends

DOJ Knocks Trump ‘Shell Game’ Over Classified Docs

Morning Memo: Caught ‘Em Up, Kelli!

What Trump’s Campaign Operation Will Look Like

GOP Insists Investigations Aren’t About Hunter Biden While Talking Exclusively About Hunter Biden

Morning Memo: Elon Musk Is On The Verge Of Breaking Twitter

AG Merrick Garland Appoints Jack Smith As Special Counsel For Trump Probes

McCarthy Woos Far-Right Members By Dangling the Biggest Carrot Of All – Punishing Dems

Charges Dropped Against Another Man Swept Up In DeSantis’s Voter Fraud Stunt

McCarthy Is Still Hemorrhaging Speaker Votes Even As He Bends Over Backwards For MAGA

Is Long COVID Part Of The Historically Tight Labor Market? Signs Point to Yes.

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Is Long COVID Part Of The Historically Tight Labor Market? Signs Point to Yes.

Maricopa Officials Clarify, Again, That The Election Was Conducted Fairly In New Report

Morning Memo: GOP Senators Say The Real Problem With Trump Is His Bad Staff

Speaker-elect? Kevin McCarthy’s Website Is Getting A Little Ahead Of Itself

DECEMBER

Ex-Girlfriend Comes Forward On The Record With New Violent Allegations Against Walker

MAGA Wing Makes Noise About McCarthy Speakership With No Alternative

McCarthy Finally Pulls Slim-Majority Card To Get MAGA Holdouts In Line

4 Things To Watch On Runoff Day In Georgia

SCOTUS Gets Chance To Upend Elections With Dangerous Theory

Gosar Deleted Anti-Constitution Tweet Because ‘Low IQ People’ Were Unable To Comprehend It

Ruben Gallego Goes After Sinema For Leaving Democratic Party

Brazen: Back To The Beginning On The Mar-a-Lago Case

Cannon Officially Dismisses Trump’s Mar-a-Lago Lawsuit By Order Of Appeals Court

Rep. Rick Allen Shared ‘Wild’ Romanian YouTube Conspiracy Theories As He Challenged The 2020 Election

Mark Meadows Exchanged Texts With 34 Members Of Congress About Plans To Overturn The 2020 Election

Kari Lake’s Cameo In the Meadows Texts Shows How 2020 Election Denial Became An Enduring Movement

Meet The Diverse Cast Of Characters Who Chimed In On Efforts To Overturn The Election

January 6 Committee Convenes Publicly For Final Time

With GOP Poised To Take Over House, Ways And Means Votes On Releasing Trump’s Taxes

McCarthy Makes Impossible Promises As He Scrambles To Shore Up Conservative Votes

Cassidy Hutchinson Told J6 Committee Meadows Sought To Influence Her Testimony

Inside The Tangled Web Of George Santos

Kari Lake And Her Lawyers Try To Fend Off Sanctions For Their ‘Misuse Of The Courts’

Filling In For Tucker Carlson, Tulsi Gabbard Calls Santos A Fraud To His Face

Santos Once Boasted About Being ‘Head Guy For New York City’ At Alleged Ponzi Scheme

Ginni Thomas And Liz Cheney Spar Over 2020 Election

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