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January 29, 2021
RAP Kicks Off $1 Million Billboard Campaign Targeting Congressional Republicans
Today, the Republican Accountability Project (RAP) kicked off a $1 million billboard campaign across the country calling for prominent members of Congress to resign for inciting the January 6 Capitol attack. Billboards depicting Senator Cruz (R-TX) will run in major markets across Texas, including Dallas-Forth Worth, Austin, Corpus Christi, and…
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January 29, 2021
RAP Co-Director Olivia Troye on MSNBC: “[Rep. Greene’s] Republican enablers need to be held accountable”
Eugene Robinson and Olivia Troye join Ali Velshi to discuss how Republican leadership has ignored its most controversial members in the past, and what it could mean for Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA). Troye, a former adviser to former Vice President Mike Pence, says Rep. Greene’s rhetoric is “dangerous”…
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January 26, 2021
USA Today: How we’re holding Republicans responsible for cleaning up the Trump mess
Republican Accountability Project co-Directors Elizabeth Neumann and Olivia Troye contributed an option article to USA Today: Now that President Biden and Vice President Harris have been sworn in, it’s time for damage assessments and planning the recovery. We need to clean up the mess Trumpism made. In his inaugural address,…
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January 21, 2021
MSNBC: Elizabeth Neumann says Republicans need to hold themselves accountable for their roles in the Jan 6th siege
Elizabeth Neumann, former Assistant Secretary of counterterrorism and threat prevention at DHS, calls out the roles Republicans played in the insurrection and says that it is incumbent upon them to debunk the lies. She notes it is very difficult to stop radicalization without acknowledgement from within. Continue at…
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January 18, 2021
CBS News: Some Republicans urge party to reject conspiracy theories in wake of deadly assault on U.S. Capitol
Some Republicans are urging members of their own party to reject conspiracy theories and call out extremism ahead of Inauguration Day. Elizabeth Neumann, co-director of the Republican Accountability Project and former assistant secretary of counterterrorism and threat prevention at the Department of Homeland Security under the Trump administration, joins…
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January 13, 2021
Washington Post: How to help pro-democracy Republicans dump the seditionists
Jennifer Rubin I have written before about the messed-up incentives on the right that reward politicians who play to the MAGA base, a portion of which stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6. Those who align themselves with authoritarian forces, promote the Big Lie that the election was stolen and refuse…
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January 12, 2021
POLITICO: Anti-Trump group pledges $50 million effort to defend Republican impeachment supporters
A Republican group has pledged to amass a $50 million war chest to help GOP lawmakers who vote to impeach President Donald Trump ward off potential primary challenges. The effort is led by Defending Democracy Together, an umbrella organization that includes Republicans for the Rule of Law and Republican Voters…
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January 12, 2021
New York Times: Group pledges up to $50 million to defend Republicans who support impeaching Trump.
A group of former administration officials and anti-Trump Republicans said they would make a $50 million commitment to support the re-election of Republican lawmakers who join Democrats in supporting impeachment of the president. The financial commitment by the group, the Republican Accountability Project, is designed to incentivize Republicans who have…
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