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Republican strategist and conservative commentator Alice Stewart joined Don Lemon Tonight Thursday, where she spoke about former President Trumps fundraising efforts since losing the 2020 election. Trump raised hundreds of millions of dollars falsely claiming that the election was stolen.

Money is being raised from people that dont have expendable incomes, or people on fixed incomes that are giving their hard-earned money to Donald Trump to help in this process. The problem is, its all based on lies, Stewart said. It is based on his ill-conceived notion that there was widespread election fraud, and he actually won the election. That is the travesty here, is that were still, a year and a half later, still litigating the 2020 election.

Money from those fundraising efforts is reportedly being used to pay legal fees for some witnesses testifying before the January 6 Committee, raising questions about witness tampering.

We do need to find out what happened and led up to January 6th. We need to hold people accountable to that, Stewart said. But the fact that good people with good intentions that are strong Republicans are still buying into this ill-conceived notion of widespread election fraud.

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ALICE STEWART: Money is being raised from people that don't have expendable incomes-- or people on fixed income-- that are giving their hard-earned money to Donald Trump to help in this process. The problem is it's all based on lies.

- On "Don Lemon Tonight" Thursday, conservative commentator and Republican strategist Alice Stewart spoke about former President Trump and his political organizations covering legal costs for the witnesses testifying before the January 6 committee. The money used is reportedly from funds the former President raised while pushing the false narrative that the 2020 election was stolen.

ALICE STEWART: It is based on his ill-conceived notion that there was widespread election fraud and he actually won the election. That is the travesty here, is that we're still-- a year and a half later, still litigating the 2020 election.

- Former White House aide Cassidy Hutchinson was originally represented by lawyers allegedly paid for with fundraising money before she got independent counsel and delivered a bombshell testimony to the January 6 committee earlier in the week.

ALICE STEWART: We do need to find out what happened [? and ?] led up to January 6. We need to hold people accountable to that. But the fact that good people, with good intentions, that are strong Republicans, are still buying into this ill-conceived notion of widespread election fraud.

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The first half of the twentieth century began with the demise of Chinas last imperial dynasty, the Great Qing, and ended with the foundation of the Peoples Republic of China in October 1949. Following the 1912 establishment of Chinas first post-imperial government, the Republic of China, the country experienced both industrial and social revolution, a civil war during which communist and nationalist forces battled to shape the countrys future, and looming external threats during both world wars.

The Late Qing and Republican-Era Chinese Newspapers collection provides invaluable perspective on this critical period. The press of more than twenty cities is represented, spanning the Chinese mainland and the entire half century. The collection provides researchers a richly comprehensive perspective on Chinese life, culture, and politics throughout the collapse of the Qing Dynasty, the years of provisional government and civil war, and the birth of the Peoples Republic.

Open Access to this collection is made possible through the generous support of the Center for Research Libraries and its member institutions.

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Outright racism has long been a major plank of the Republican Party. But it appears that the Supreme Courts decision to overturn Roe v. Wade and take away a constitutional right of millions of Americansa move that will disproportionately affect Black and brown womenhas emboldened GOP officials to drop whatever lingering apprehension they had about going full white supremacist and just go for it.

At a Saturday rally held by Donald Trumpi.e., a guy who kicked off his first bid for the White House by calling Mexicans rapists and criminals and whose entire brand is racismRep. Mary Miller said into the microphone: President Trump, on behalf of all the MAGA patriots in America, I want to thank you for the historic victory for white life in the Supreme Court yesterday. Then she clapped her hands as the audience cheered.

After an onslaught of condemnation, Millers spokesman insisted to the Associated Press that the congresswoman from Illinois had misread her remarks and meant to say the ruling was a victory for the right to life. Yet that explanation would be a lot more believable if Miller didnt have a history of embracing the views of people who are famously about white life. At a Moms for America event last year, the lawmaker told the crowd that Hitler was right on one thing. He said, Whoever has the youth has the future. (She later issued a statement claiming she was sincerely sorry for any harm her words caused.) So youll have to forgive us if we find it hard to believe this was simply a slip of the tongue.

Whats more, Miller undoubtedly knew she was speaking before a group of people who would be receptive to such a point of view, given that Trump was headlining the event. While examples of the ex-president being an unabashed racist could fill several books (or Twitter timelines), a small representative sampling includes starting an entire movement around the lie that the countrys first Black presidentwasnt born here; calling for theexecutionof five Black and Latino teenagers; telling four congresswomen of color to go back to the totally broken and crime infested places from which they came, despite the fact that three quarters of those women came from the U.S.; banningtravelers from seven predominantly Muslim nations from entering the U.S.; pardoning a guy who the Justice Department saidoversaw theworst pattern of racial profilingby a law enforcement agency in U.S. history; throwing atotal shit fitover the removal of a statue of a Confederate general who thought Black people should be white peoples property; and reportedly calling white supremacists my people. As Ahmed Baba, a columnist for The Independent, tweeted on Saturday, Whether it was a slip or not, the audience heard white life and didnt flinch. They applauded.

Meanwhile, Miller wasnt the only Republican lawmaker to put racism on full display this weekend. Also on Saturday, Republican Texas senator John Cornynin the view of manycalled for the Supreme Court to reverse the ruling deeming racial segregation in public schools unconstitutional. After Barack Obama tweeted that the Supreme Court not only reversed nearly 50 years of precedent, it relegated the most intensely personal decision someone can make to the whims of politicians and ideologuesattacking the essential freedoms of millions of Americans, Cornyn quote-tweeted him and wrote: Now do Plessy vs Ferguson/Brown vs Board of Education. (Cornyn has since suggested he was merely noting the importance of long-standing precedent being overturned.)

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Chris Jacobs, a congressman from New York, uttered the unthinkable on national television the other day: Im now the only Republican thats come out and said Im in favor of an assault weapon ban.

Wow.

Except there is a caveat: Jacobs is NOT seeking re-election. He is from the Buffalo area, the site of a mass shooting last month by an avowed White supremacist.

As Jacobs said, Im here for seven months. I think these could be a pivotal seven months for gun-control activity and legislation.

For most conservative Republicans, staunch supporters of the National Rifle Association and ultimate believers in gun rights, the Second Amendment is the imprimatur for weapons.

Jacobs supports the assault weapon ban on the way out of the door. Head for the hills. Why not stay and lead the fight for the ban since assault weapons shouldnt be on the streets anyway?

Because Jacobs brethren will roast him mercilessly for being a moderate Republican on the gun issue. Conservatives repeatedly say assault weapons are used by farmers and ranchers to kill varmints. Which is comical.

By the way, whatever happened to the term moderate Republican. More specifically, what about Rockefeller Republicans?

Iconic Black bandleader Count Basie once said of his friend then-New York governor Nelson Rockefeller that Rockefeller was rich enough to air-condition a cotton field.

The family riches were derived from the oil business, thanks to patriarch John D. Rockefeller founding Standard Oil Co. in the 1800s. By todays values, analysts figure he was worth $400 billion, or two to three times more than Amazon founder Jeff Bezos.

A Rockefeller Republican means fiscal prudence can coexist with a social conscience. To many right-wing conservatives, especially today, that phrase is an oxymoron.

Rockefeller, Gerald Fords vice president, supported civil rights for Black Americans, rejected conservative Barry Goldwater, supported cultural liberalism, and advocated investment in national health care, higher education and labor unions.

Even Richard Nixon adopted some of the principles of Rockefeller Republicans, such as creating the Environmental Protection Agency and signing Title IX in the 1970s.

In fiscal policy, Rockefeller Republicans believed in balanced budgets. Auto mogul George W. Romney Mitts father was a Rockefeller Republican, as was New York senator Jacob Javits, baseball pioneer Jackie Robinson, former EPA director and ex-New Jersey governor Christine Todd Whitman and style icon Kim Kardashian possibly.

Dr. Martin Luther King once said in the segregated 1960s,If we had one or two governors in the Deep South like Nelson Rockefeller, many of our problems could be readily solved.

Now, the term Rockefeller Republican is taboo in the conservative Republican party. Pure profanity. No centrists are allowed in the club.

The Rockefeller Institute of Government, a think tank in Albany, N.Y., reported that only five states experienced a decline in firearm deaths between 2019 and 2020, with New Hampshire having the largest decrease at2.10 fewer deaths per 100,000 residents.

Perhaps, Jacobs would have been better off serving in the 1960s and 1970s during the height of Rockefeller Republicans instead of the 2020s, when the powerful right-wing rules the GOP.

Said Jacobs, And, again, its about that level of trust and, look, right now, Im seeing this in our party that you cant concede anything: Since I said Im receptive to gun control, Im not really a Republican and Im ostracized.

But there was a time when Senate Republicans and Democrats during Watergate voted 77-0to create the Select Committee on Presidential Campaign Activities. As for Goldwater, he led the charge for Republicans against culpable Richard Nixon during Watergate.

On Aug. 7, 1974, Goldwater and fellow Republicans Hugh Scott and John Rhodes visited Nixon at the White House. As former Washington Post writer Carl Bernstein, one of the lead Watergate reporters at the time, recalled on CNN remembrances of the 50th anniversary of the 1972 scandal, Goldwater pulled out this diary and started reading to us (Bernstein and Bob Woodward) how he and the leadership went to the Oval Office, sat across from Nixon, and Nixon asked him, Barry, how many votes do I have in the Senate for acquittal in a Senate trial because Nixon knew he was going to be impeached by the full House.

And Nixon really expected that he could be acquitted. And Goldwater looked at the president, directly across from him, and said, Mr. President, you may have four to six votes for acquittal, and you DONT have mine. And the next day, Richard Nixon announced his resignation from the presidency.

So there is precedent for doing whats right even for Republicans.

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For the first time in nearly a quarter century, Illinois will elect a new secretary of state, with two Republicans among the candidates battling to replace Jesse White in the position.

First elected in 1998, White -- the longest serving secretary of state in Illinois history -- announced in 2019 that he planned to retire at the end of his sixth term. White has been the top vote-getter in four of the last five election cycles in which he was on the ballot, handily winning each race by roughly 30 points or more.

The secretary of states office is tasked with tracking millions of drivers and vehicles, registering corporations and lobbyists, as well as overseeing the state archive, library and Capitol, among other responsibilities generating billions in revenue and employing thousands of state workers.

Illinois Secretary of State's Race: Key Endorsements Among the Primary Candidates

Four Democrats and two Republicans have lined up to try and succeed White, most touting plans to modernize the technology of the office and strengthen ethical oversight.

Rep. Dan Brady:

Brady, of Bloomington, is a licensed funeral director and embalmer who has represented the 105th District in central Illinois since 2001. He was appointed to Republican leadership in the chamber in 2003, rising to Deputy Minority Leader in 2017. Prior to his time in the legislature, he was elected McLean County Coroner in 1992.

Key Issues

On Bradys website, he highlights several key issues in his campaign, including wanting to lower the age of consent for Illinois residents to become organ donors from 18 to 16.

He also has pledged to streamline processes at Department of Motor Vehicles offices, and is seeking legislation that would help older Illinois residents access those services. Finally, he says that prioritizing and investing in libraries is a key part of his platform.

You can find his full platform here.

Endorsements

Reps. Darin LaHood, Mike Bost and Rodney Davis

House Republican Leader Rep. Jim Durkin

Illinois Fraternal Order of Police

The Daily Herald

The Chicago Tribune

A full list of his endorsements can be found here.

John Milhiser:

Milhiser, of Springfield, served as the U.S. Attorney for the Central District of Illinois from 2018 to 2021 and prior to that, was a prosecutor in the Sangamon County States Attorneys Office.

Key Issues

Milhisers primary focus will be using the Secretary of States role in ethics oversight to help end years of corruption, according to his campaign website.

Aside from combating corruption, Milhiser has also pledged to invest in programs to improve driver safety and to improve efficiency at DMV offices.

He also says that he plans to communicate more often with officials at the county level to help ensure equitable access to SOS services.

You can read more on Milhisers platform on his website.

Endorsements

Milhiser has received backing from GOP megadonor Ken Griffin, who is also supporting gubernatorial candidate Richard Irvin among a large slate of candidates.

The candidate does not have a list of endorsements on his website.

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