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TX-12: Kay Granger has spent the last six months living at a care facility for dementia patients. Her staff refused to answer any questions about her whereabouts. I know House members are less visible than Senators but compare and contrast Granger's disappearance to DiFi.
https://dallasexpress.com/tarrant/exclusive-where-is-congresswoman-kay-granger/
“We reached an agreement…and a tweet changed all of it? Can you imagine what the next two years are going to be like if every time Congress works its will and then there's a tweet…from an individual who has no official portfolio who threatens members on the Republican side with a primary, and they succumb?”
– Richard Neal (MA-02, Democrat)
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Elon Musk has called for Germans to vote for Alternative für Deutschland (AfD), the neo-Nazi party that has downplayed the Holocaust. In the upcoming elections, the AfD hopes to strengthen its hand in the Bundestag – and perhaps play a key role in the next government.
Members of the AfD spent Election Day at Mar-a-Lago and have underscored that they "hope to have a close relationship with the incoming Trump administration".
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"X is just a swastika, sans serif."