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  Sunday Dose of Democracy: VIDEO OF THE DAY: DOJ drops bombshell midterm announcement Brian Tyler Cohen and legal expert Marc Elias of Democracy Docket break down the Trump administration's deeply alarming announcement that they will be deploying 1,000 "election monitors" to polling places around the country. They say they're to ensure compliance with the Civil Rights Act, but we all know the Trump administration couldn't care less about civil rights...and are VERY interested in tilting the midterm elections in their favor. Take Action: Stop Trump from destroying the Forestry Department! Natalie Harp is the high priestess of the Cult of Trump Jeet Heer, The Nation : "I’ll confess I was leery when Georgia Senator Jon Ossoff turned long-standing speculation about the relationship between Donald Trump and his 35-year-old aide Natalie Harp into a hot topic of national debate. It’s long been known that Harp is obsessed with Trump to the point of creepiness, and...

  Sen. Bernie Moreno says former son-in-law Max Miller should not serve in the House Ohio's Republican Senator has finally publicly condemned his wife-beating son-in-law, Rep. Max Miller, and declared that he should not serve in the House of Representatives in a public statement. In typical Republican fashion, Moreno waited until the absolute last second to weigh in on the scandal. Emily, who is Moreno’s daughter and Miller’s now ex-wife, accuses her ex of breaking her daughter's collarbone, throwing boiling water at her, and holding a gun to her head. Miller attempted to get out ahead of Moreno's statement with his own video, in which he said "My former wife has claimed that during a custody exchange at my home that day, I assaulted her…If I had assaulted her, would she have offered to cook me dinner six days later?" This is a common defense of abusers, falsely equating a traumatic response to warmth, and definitely does not help his case. On top of that, where ...