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Republicans in Arizona are still pushing the myth that President Joe Biden stole the 2020 election — a falsehood that ultimately culminated in the Jan. 6 violent attack on the U.S. Capitol. Continue reading at The Tampa Bay Times.

Olivia Troye, who worked as a homeland security and counterterrorism advisor to Vice President Mike Pence, told the Globe editorial board that there was an expectation of officials to not talk about white nationalism when sending intelligence up the chain to the president. “We [didn’t] talk about white supremacy,” she…

Sarah Longwell, a never-Trump Republican who founded the group Republican Voters Against Trump, ties together all of these forces into what she calls the “Republican triangle of doom.” “There’s a toxic and symbiotic relationship between base voters, right-wing infotainment, and the politicians,” she tells me. Tucker Carlson, Newsmax,…

The policy is a relic of an administration that actively sought to limit immigration. Olivia Troye, a former aide to Vice President Mike Pence, called it “a Stephen Miller special” after resigning in protest of the policy. Miller was the adviser behind many of the Trump administration’s most heinous immigration…

AMERICAN POLITICS has long been characterised as an iron triangle. It consisted of interest groups with narrow concerns, an executive branch trying to keep the groups’ ambitions in check, and a Congress entangled in a constant quid pro quo with the groups. But a new Republican iron triangle…

One dissident attendee, Sarah Longwell of Republican Voters Against Trump, told the Washington Post: “There is no alternative to Trump right now because they are so afraid to challenge him in any way. There doesn’t seem to be a tremendous appetite for what Trump is selling outside the MAGA faithful.

RAP Director Bill Kristol discusses Barbara Comstock’s speaking out, the 29% of Republican voters who believe Trump will be reinstated to the presidency, and which Republican should challenge Trump in 2024.