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Black Republican Who Called Himself a ‘Nazi’ Is Another MAGA Failure

Mark Robinson is the Republican nominee for North Carolina governor because the state’s Republicans haven’t learned the most obvious lessons. He won the nomination because Donald Trump endorsed him, and even though Robinson has turned out to be the toxic drag on the ticket that his primary opponents predicted, Republicans say they are sticking with him. Robinson is the latest MAGA statistic to prove that just because Trump may like wayward candidates who parrot his extremist views, voters don’t — and that’s bad for the Republican Party.
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Lexington, Kentucky, Is Building Trust From the Ground Up

If you want confirmation about the deep pessimism Americans harbor about our divisions, look no further than the Marist National Poll released in May. Almost half of the country says the United States is likely to erupt into a second civil war in their lifetime. This column is a part of Republic of Distrust, a series about the loss of trust in American institutions and what can be done to restore it.
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Trump’s Allies Are Creating More Election Chaos in Georgia

The Georgia Board of Elections — which is dominated by election deniers — approved a rule change Monday that will sow chaos into the state’s election process and guarantee that if the November vote is close, we may not know the results of the presidential race for weeks. They’re playing with fire. By tipping the scales in the swing state to benefit former President Donald Trump, Georgia officials risk creating an election crisis even more turbulent than what we witnessed four years ago.
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Vets Want What Trump Refuses to Promise: a Nonviolent Election

As hundreds of North Carolina Republicans gathered over the Memorial Day weekend to elect delegates to the party’s national convention in July, a coalition of military veterans showed up and asked party leaders for a simple pledge: renounce violence this election. North Carolina GOP leaders instead had the group swiftly escorted out of the meeting at the Greensboro convention center, saying they had no right to be there.
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