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    Range of polling station services keeps voting convenient in New Hampshire

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  • 'The end of politics': Donald Trump makes simple offer to voters

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  • 'The Republican Party is in terribly ill health': Schiff cites frailty of U.S. political system

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  • Special Counsel Jack Smith among spate of officials targeted by holiday hoax 'swatting': NBC News

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  • Trump's day-one dictatorship tops litany of contrasts targeted by Biden campaign

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  • ‘Not the end for Trump’s political career’: Maddow reacts to Trump's boot from Colorado ballot

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  • From Alex Jones to neo-Nazis, civil lawsuits offer a means of fighting a public menace

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  • Sex scandal, rape accusation drive Florida GOP to strip chair's power in model of self-policing 

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  • Maddow: Why does Trump keep talking like a fascist? Because it works.

    09:55
  • Texas abortion ban, Republican politics drive woman out of state for life-saving care

    09:22
  • Maddow: 'This Congress is pitiful.'; Historically weak output from a vital institution 

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  • 'The need for speed': Jack Smith adds specialist to shortcut Trump delay tactic

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  • Maddow: Alignment with polar opposite Liz Cheney shows seriousness of Trump threat

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  • 'A risk that we simply can't take': Why Trump's erratic lame duck raises red flags

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  • 'Dangerous and chilling': Cheney describes the moment she learned Trump's 2020 scheme

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  • 'He is not the lesser of two evils': Cheney emphasizes severity of Trump threat

    01:43
  • Cheney warns of Speaker Johnson's willingness 'to do things he knew to be wrong' for Trump

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  • 'Wildly unconstitutional': GOP flagged Trump's election scheme in private, Cheney book reveals

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Anecdote in NYT report paints McCarthy's leadership during 1/6 Trump riot in poor light

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Rachel Maddow shares a small detail from near the end of a lengthy New York Times story about Republican House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy in which McCarthy flees to safety ahead of rioting Trump supporters in the Capitol on January 6th, and leaves behind a Republican congressman to hide in McCarthy's bathroom with only an antique sword as defense.