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  It's  O ur  D emocracy! Today's Top Stories: Lindsey Graham told police officers they should have shot pro-Trump insurrectionists "in the head" on Jan. 6 Speaking with officers four months after the disgraced ex-president's failed insurrection, the whiplash-flip-flopping Republican said, "You guys should have shot them all in the head. We gave you guys guns, and you should have used them. I don’t understand why that didn’t happen.” Take Action:  Demand the Senate reject Lindsey Graham’s national abortion ban! VIDEO OF THE DAY:  Late-night bombshell tanks Herschel Walker’s Senate campaign Another abortion-related scandal engulfed the hypocritical Republican just days after the GOP doubled down on their laughably awful choice to take on incumbent Democratic Sen. Raphael Warnock next month. Take Action:  Demand Congress pass the Respect for Marriage Act! Richard Ojeda reacts to Dr. Oz's speech in front of Hitler's car No Dem Left Behind: This disgustin...

  October 6, 2022 Heather Cox Richardson Oct 7   The scandal involving Herschel Walker, the staunchly anti-abortion Georgia candidate for the Senate who appears to have paid for an ex-girlfriend’s abortion in 2009, got worse today. After he claimed he did not know the woman who said he paid for an abortion, the woman said she was the mother of one of his other, newly acknowledged, children, so of course he knows her. Just five years ago, Representative Tim Murphy (R-PA), who belonged to the Republican Pro-Life Caucus, resigned just hours after the story broke that he pressured a woman with whom he was having an affair to get an abortion. Now, Republicans are rallying around Walker, with former NRA spokesperson and former  Breitbart  writer Dana Loesch saying: “I don’t care if Herschel Walker paid to abort endangered baby eagles. I want control of the Senate.” In the  Philadelphia Inquirer , columnist Will Bunch pointed out that Republican leaders have not condem...

  06 October 22 Live on the homepage now! Reader Supported News RSN FOR SALE: Reader Supported News is for sale: To you, but not to corporate America. Every time one of our public donors makes the decision to make an investment in community based news reporting what they get is an ownership stake in this vital process. Invest and take control of American news reporting. For your consideration, Marc Ash • Founder, Reader Supported News Sure, I'll make a donation!   Masha Gessen | Putin's Draft Order Has Inspired a Russian Exodus Masha Gessen, The New Yorker Gessen writes: "The Russian government claimed that the draft would be 'partial,' aimed at assembling some three hundred thousand men to fight in Ukraine. But Novaya Gazeta Europe, an independent Russian-language newspaper in exile, recently reported that the actual goal is a million conscripts." READ MORE 'I Refuse to Comply,' Says Russian Journalist, Days After Escaping House Arrest Jennifer Hassan...