In the news today: The battle to protect voting rights is coming to a head in the Senate, where Democrats appear to be going forward with a plan to put filibuster proponents on record with their claims that a Senate rule that is, in current form, younger than the movie Jaws is more important than protecting Americans from new rules designed to keep voters from ballot boxes. Yet more subpoenas for those around Trump. And a quiet crisis in Texas continues as Abbott's largest-scale border stunt to date keeps getting worse and worse for the National Guard soldiers Abbott is using as political puppets.
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- Biden pulls no punches, says Republicans have left the Senate 'a shell of its former self'
- More subpoenas for Trump world figures, including strategists and Jan. 6 speechwriter
- Biden, Harry Reid’s ghost, and the Democratic caucus tell Manchin and Sinema to save democracy
- 'It really is a gamble when I walk in there': Students fear COVID-19 exposure in school
- Greg Abbott's response to Texas National Guard suicides is to complain about Joe Biden
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