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Saturday Dose of Democracy:

Biden team rips Trump for channeling "role model" Hitler with anti-immigrant "poisoning the blood" attacks
You almost have to hear to believe it, *almost* because the serially indicted, nakedly racist ex-president has put his hate-filled, xenophobic bona fides on public display so regularly that nearly nothing's shocking at this point. At his most recently pep rally, the right-wing grievance generator quoted despotic world leaders Vladimir Putin and Viktor Orban and doubled down on his gee-that-sounds-a-lot-like-a-Nazi claims that immigrants are "poisoning the blood of our country." Trump went on to casually tell MAGA rally-goers that immigrants are "coming into our country from Africa, from Asia, all over the world" in a downright Orwellian "Us vs. Them" performance, prompting a swift rebuke from the Biden team, which correctly called out the GOP frontrunner for parroting Adolf Hitler.

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VIDEO OF THE DAY: Ted Cruz runs away from reporter over simple question
Republicans like Ted Cruz aren't willing to publicly defend the extreme — and extremely dangerous — positions they support, because they're fully aware just how unpopular they are. In his latest display of whatever the opposite of courage is, Fleein' Ted ran away from a MSNBC reporter attempting to get the senator to comment on the record about the tragic case of Kate Cox, a 31-year-old Dallas mother of two currently carrying an unviable fetus who was forced to flee the state to get the emergency abortion care she so clearly needs. Ted bravely waved off the question, ducked into a car, and ignored repeated requests for any statement whatsoever. For FaMiLy VaLuEs Republicans who are so eager and willing to pontificate in the halls of Congress about the "sanctity of life," they sure do seem to have hard time defending those positions in real life.

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Republicans salivate at the thought of stealing a battleground Senate seat
Bob Casey for Senate: Stung from their humiliating defeat in 2022, McConnell and his cronies have now set their sights on defeating Bob Casey and flipping the Senate back to red. Can you chip in to help re-elect Sen. Casey and protect our critical Senate majority?

OPINION: Academic freedom is the loser when big donors hound US university presidents — Robert Reich
"The leaders of Harvard, Penn, and MIT should have clearly condemned calls for genocide but the response has been almost as repugnant."

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Mike Johnson’s dad sought his help to stop a toxic burn pit close to home. Johnson refused
Future House Speaker Mike Johnson was a few months away from assuming elected office in late 2014 when he was confronted with an impassioned appeal by the man he would later pay tribute to in his first speech as House speaker: his late father, Patrick. The elder Johnson, a former firefighter in the Louisiana city of Shreveport, had survived a near fatal industrial explosion when Mike was 12 years old and had just joined a local community environmental group working to fight against US government plans to burn — in the open air — over 15 million pounds of toxic munitions. According to Patrick's future wife Janis Gabriel, the elder Johnson "basically begged him to say something, to someone, somewhere.” Mike Johnson refused. A denier of climate science, the Republican House Speaker has spoken about how his evangelical faith has shaped his political worldview. According to a broad examination of his past statements, Johnson’s anti-climate advocacy often bears the hallmarks of a Christian fundamentalism linked to creationism. And now, in 2023, he is second in line to the US presidency. What a world.