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U.S. Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Georgia, speaks at press conference Dec. 7, 2021, in Washington, D.C. She is joined by (left to right): Republican Reps. Paul Gosar of Arizona, Matt Gaetz of Florida and Louie Gohmert of Texas.

Four House Republicans - including Paul Gosar of Arizona - held a Tuesday press conference to complain about the poor conditions at a District of Columbia jail housing inmates charged with violence in connection with the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Read more»

Jacob Chansley, shown at a Maricopa County election protest in November, was sentenced to prison during a federal court hearing in D.C. on Wednesday.

Jacob Chansley, who called himself the "QAnon Shaman," was sentenced to 41 months in prison Wednesday for his involvement in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. Read more»

Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman addresses the board of supervisors during the 2020 passing of the gavel ceremony; the beginning of a year that would see the county dealing with a pandemic and contentious election. A year after the election, Hickman said he and county election workers still get threats.

It’s been a year since the 2020 elections, but Maricopa County Supervisor Clint Hickman said he continues to get threats for his part in certifying the election - the anger began election night and escalated after Jan. 6, when he arrived home to find police guarding his house. Read more»

The Biden administration and Congress are embroiled in haggling over what priorities will make it into the spending bill, but for the pharmaceutical industry there is one agenda: Heading off Medicare drug price negotiation, which it considers an threat to its business model. Read more»

An analysis found more than 400 people who signed up for membership or newsletters using government, military or political campaign email addresses.

48 Republican state and local government officials appear on a list of more than 35,000 members of the Oath Keepers - a right-wing militant organization who embrace Trump’s lies about election fraud and promoted Jan. 6 as a last chance to make a stand for the republic. Read more»

The government used this photo of Paul Johnson pushing over police barricades in their case against him for his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

A federal judge acknowledged on Tuesday that there could be constitutional problems with the length of time that Capitol rioters have to wait for their trial, as the mass of discovery from the Jan. 6 insurrection is enormous and growing by the day. Read more»

Trump says that executive privilege, which is a president’s right to shield certain documents from the public’s view, still applies to him though he is out of office.

Former President Donald Trump sued the Jan. 6 select committee and the National Archives on Monday, claiming that the committee’s request for records surrounding the failed insurrection is overly broad and illegal. Read more»

Senate liaison Ken Bennett watches as Maricopa County ballots from the 2020 general election are examined and recounted by contractors hired by the Arizona Senate on June 12, 2021, at the Veterans Memorial Coliseum.

A group that has organized rallies across the country to support “political prisoners” of the January 6 insurrection will be holding a series of town halls across Arizona to discuss the so-called “audit” of the 2020 election, featuring former Secretary of State Ken Bennett. Read more»

Trump supporters gather outside the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington.

Since March of this year, Republican support for investigating the individuals who committed the attack on the Capitol has decreased and they're now concerned the rioters' punishments are too harsh, according to a recently released survey. Read more»

Those with very high incomes, specifically the less than 1% of Americans making over $1 million per year, would bear the majority of the tax increases. Those people could, on average, see tax increases in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Ads from the conservative Club for Growth targeting nine vulnerable Democrats and one Republican in the House distort the impact of the Biden plan on taxpayers, warning that the plan “could cost your family” thousands or even tens of thousands of dollars. It could, but it probably won’t. Read more»

An attendee at the 'Justice for J6' rally at the Arizona Capitol flies an upside down American flag, a signal of distress.

Only a few dozen people, many of them members of a violent extremist organization, showed up at the Arizona Capitol on Saturday for a rally claiming that Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 did nothing wrong and were being held as “political prisoners.” Read more»

Former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows.

The U.S. House of Representatives select committee investigating the events of Jan. 6 issued subpoenas on Thursday to former White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows and three other allies of former President Donald Trump. Read more»

No one is currently leading the secretary of state's office because former Texas Secretary of State Ruth Ruggero Hughs resigned in May and Gov. Abbott has yet to replace her.

In a move Texas Democrats called “pitiful yet predictable” and “pure pandering” to backers of Donald Trump’s claims that the 2020 presidential election was fraudulent, the Texas Secretary of State announced Thursday it is auditing the election results of the state’s four largest counties. Read more»

Protesters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building to protest a joint session of Congress to ratify President-elect Joe Biden’s 306-232 Electoral College win over President Donald Trump.

A rally planned for Saturday at the Arizona Capitol that aims to support “political prisoners” of the January 6 insurrection will feature speakers who are white nationalists, have endorsed Nazi ideology and are facing charges for storming the U.S. Capitol alongside GOP legislators. Read more»

State and local election officials have struggled to combat disinformation about the voting process since last year’s presidential election.

The lies about election fraud, which range from false claims about the winner of the 2020 presidential race to accusations about this month’s California recall process, have state and local election officials worried about the future. Read more»

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