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There’s no other way to put this: With the help of right-wing media, Karoline Leavitt is lying about the indictment and running interference for white supremacist groups to try to retroactively exonerate Trump of his “very fine people” scandal. Here’s the entirety of the indictment’s claims about the SPLC and Charlottesville: One informant, making roughly $33,750 a year for eight years, wrote racist posts to maintain his cover and helped organize transportation for the rally. That’s it. There’s no allegation that this informant played any other role in drawing hundreds of white supremacists to Charlottesville to shout hateful slogans, intimidate, assault and murder people. In return, the informant spent nearly a decade sharing info about his racist peers with the SPLC, which was known to work together with the FBI to monitor and prosecute these extremists until Kash Patel chose to end that work in October.

People who are 40 today were 25 in 2011 😳

The whining from Republicans here is just preposterous. Democrats remain willing to prohibit gerrymandering nationally. Republicans thought they were better off fighting this battle state-by-state and are sore that that wasn't true.

Congratulations, Virginia! Republicans are trying to tilt the midterm elections in their favor, but they haven’t done it yet. Thanks for showing us what it looks like to stand up for our democracy and fight back.