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Triggered by Beethoven: The Cultural Politics of Racial Resentment

Brenton Sanderson •ï¿½December 31, 2020

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2020 was meant to be a year of celebration for Beethoven who was baptized 250 years ago (his exact date of birth is unknown) in Bonn on December 17, 1770. COVID-19 prompted the cancelation of commemorative concerts of Beethovenâ€™s music, but the pandemic didnâ€™t quell efforts by anti-White activists to attack the composerâ€™s reputation and... Read More

How West, Central and South Asia Are Interconnecting

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½December 31, 2020

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Itâ€™s one of those quintessential journeys that make people dream: Istanbul-Tehran-Islamabad by train. Letâ€™s call it ITI. Soon, in early 2021, ITI will become a reality. But, initially, just as a freight train. The deal was recently sealed at the 10th meeting of the transport and communication ministers of ECO (Economic Cooperation Organization) in Istanbul.... Read More

A New War in the New Year? Trump Again Takes Aim at Iran

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 31, 2020

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One of the most perplexing narratives presented during the waning days of the administration of President Donald J. Trump is his apparent disengagement from dealing seriously or providing leadership regarding the surging Coronavirus while at the same time continuing an activist foreign policy that in no way benefits any American. Ironically, the new administration of... Read More

Michael Kelloggâ€™s The Russian Roots of Nazism

Spencer J. Quinn •ï¿½December 30, 2020

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With the near-universal demonization of the Third Reich, historians have developed a blind spot for the genesis of German anti-Semitism. Michael Kellogg, in his 2005 work The Russian Roots of Nazism, sheds a sharp light on this topic and points our attention eastward. He reveals how the post-World War I atrocities of the Soviet Union... Read More

Where Did Covid Come from?

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 30, 2020

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The focus of the worldwide publicâ€™s attention on masks, lockdowns, infection rates, and vaccines serves to prevent any investigation of Covidâ€™s origin. Did a disease of bats or some other creature mutate so that humans became susceptible? If so, why was research on how to make pathogens more infectious going on at the University of... Read More

A Couple of Recent Podcasts

Ron Unz •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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I've been mostly preoccupied with various things, but here are a couple of recent podcasts I had done in the wake of the election that I should have highlighted much earlier. First, here's a very long two and a half hour discussion I had in November with Danish Nationalist FrÃ³Ã°i Midjord on his Guide to... Read More

Russia vs the Biden Administration

The Saker •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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It sure looks like Biden will take over the White House one way or another, and while Trump and his supporters might still try a few things, the political correlation of forces inside the US ruling classes is clearly against Trump. As for the â€œdeplorablesâ€ - they have been neutralized by stealing the election. Which... Read More

Why I Support Direct Stimulus Payments

Gregory Hood •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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Last night, President Trump signed a $2.3 trillion spending package that combined COVID-19 relief with funding to keep the government running. Earlier that day, President Trump had reposted the speech in which he warned Congress to â€œincrease payments to the people, get rid of the â€˜pork.â€™â€ He folded hours later. This is a pattern. In... Read More

China: Ten Predictions for 2021

Youâ€™ve Come a Long Way, Baby

Godfree Roberts •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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2021, the centennial of Maoâ€™s founding of the Communist Party, was long planned to be a breakout year. When the Party took power in 1949, China was the poorest country on earth, which makes these achievements the more remarkable: GDP will expand by 10%. Western experts predict 8% and, since their predictions are always low,... Read More

When People Trust in Men and Not in God

Yvonne Lorenzo •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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One can have two approaches to viewing the world; if one is a materialist, he believes that the world, our world, was a consequence of natural processes, and that it is governed by the success of those, both animals and men, who are â€œdominantâ€ and that any considerations of a higher nature, of spirituality, of... Read More

A Pardoning Time of Year

Will the president do the right thing?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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The resistance to the apparent election of Joe Biden as President of the United States is continuing to play out. Current President Donald Trump is continuing to fight against the presumed results of the November national election with his final card appearing to be a vote in Congress when it reconvenes on January 6th to... Read More

2020: America's Wake-Up Call

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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Who could have predicted how dreadful a year 2020 would be. By this New Year's Eve, 19 million to 20 million Americans will have contracted a deadly virus in a pandemic that exploded out of China to carry off 333,000 Americans, one of every 1,000 of us. As 2021 begins, Americans will be dying at... Read More

Rock Against the System

An Interview With The American Defense Skinheads

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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National Justice recently had the opportunity to interview the American Defense Skinheads (ADS), a group of musicians based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania who are keeping the spirit of white rock alive. In contrast to media perceptions of skinheads, ADS members are patriotic family men focused on creating dissident art, work physically demanding jobs, and are model... Read More

Julien Langellaâ€™s Catholic and Identitarian

Andrew Joyce •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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Catholic & Identitarian: From Protest to Reconquest Julien Langella Arktos, 2020. For better or worse, Iâ€™m fairly certain there hasnâ€™t been a Catholic in my family tree since the Reformation, and I remain unsure about a strict definition of â€œIdentitarianism.â€ It was with an ambivalent but open mind, then, that I recently read Julien Langellaâ€™s... Read More

The Nashville Bombing vs. the Oklahoma City Bombing

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 29, 2020

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The Nashville bombing raises questions about the Oklahoma City bombing. In 1995 the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City was blown up. Allegedly, the building was destroyed by a fertilizer bomb in a Ryder rental truck parked on the street. The Murrah building had massive reinforced concrete columns, some being 2 feet by 3 feet... Read More

Lest We Forget: Codename Zebra, the Anti-White Murders of the â€œDeath Angelsâ€

Sinclair Jenkins •ï¿½December 28, 2020

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170 days of racial terrorism struck the White residents of San Francisco from October 20, 1973 until April 16, 1974. Known as the Zebra murders or Zebra killings, four Black menâ€”Jessie Lee Cooks, Larry Craig Green, Manuel Moore, and J.C.X. Simon murdered 15 Whites. 13 victims were shot to death, while the killers hacked the... Read More

Review: Fanny & Alexander

Trevor Lynch •ï¿½December 28, 2020

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Ingmar Bergmanâ€™s Fanny and Alexander (1982) is one of his finest works. Fanny and Alexander runs 312 minutesâ€”more than five hours. Bergman cut it down to a 188-minute version for theatrical release. The full version was shown as a miniseries on Swedish television but was also released in theaters, making it one of the longest... Read More

The Real Scandal of the Spending Bill

Ron Paul •ï¿½December 28, 2020

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Last week Congress passed a massive coronavirus relief and omnibus spending bill. President Trump threatened to veto the bill, saying he wants an increase in the amount for â€œstimulusâ€ checks authorized by the bill from 600 dollars to 2,000 dollars. The checks are designed to help those harmed by the lockdowns. President Trump also demanded... Read More

2020: Accelerating Towards the European Superstate

Will Hungary and Poland be bribed into submission?

Guillaume Durocher •ï¿½December 27, 2020

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The year 2020 has seen signification changes and further centralization of power in the European Union. There appear to be three major causes for this: British withdrawal from the EU which occurred on February 1, 2020. The coronavirus crisis, whose lockdowns have inflicted tremendous damage on the European economy, particularly in southern Europe, annihilating in... Read More

We Are Paying for the Mistakes of Boris Johnson and His Government

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½December 27, 2020

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Fear is at a high point in Britain at the moment and with very good reason. There is much to be frightened of as it turns out that Covid-19 has been quicker to learn from experience than bumbling Boris Johnson and his third-eleven team during a calamitous year in which they have zig-zagged between panic... Read More

Minneapolis FBI Protects Anarchists, Claims They Had Nothing to Do with George Floyd Riots

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 27, 2020

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Following a summer of violence that inflicted billions of dollars in property damage and led to 25 deaths, the FBI has finally come up with a response for one of the worst intelligence failures in history: the violent riots that simultaneously engulfed the major cities in America were "random" and have no organizational culprit. This... Read More

Trump's Latest Pardons: Jewish Gangsters and Murderous Mercenaries Win Out Over Prisoners of Conscience

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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As the Trump administration winds down, the growing movement calling for a pardon of physically ill incarcerated Australian journalist Julian Assange has been snubbed once again in favor of thugs and fraudsters connected to the Chabad-Lubavitch sect. The latest clemency proposal granted to the Aleph Institute, which is controlled by members of Chabad-Lubavitch, is Philip... Read More

"Systemic Racism," the Patriarchy, and Rushton's Rule of Three.

John Derbyshire •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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[Excerpted from the latest Radio Derb, now available exclusively through VDARE.com] Earlier by Steve Sailer: Biden Vows To Rip Out Roots Of Systemic Racism, i.e. Seize The Equity In Your Home You have surely heard the phrase "Systemic Racism" recently. What is it, though? A friend has directed my attention to a speech by Derrick... Read More

Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! A Year of a Good Old Enemy!

Russia is the Enemy Number One

Israel Shamir •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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St Petersburg, the Tsarsâ€™ seat and still the most civilised city, the culture capital of Russia, enjoys its wonderful Yuletide. Fluffy snow had covered the streets, decorated hills and seashore, softened the air, and turned this fascinating city into a fairy winter tale. Christmas trees adorn the city squares and private dwellings. The magnificent imperial... Read More

The Fascist Scale Revisited

Gilad Atzmon •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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Revisiting Theodore W. Adornoâ€™s work on the â€˜authoritarian personalityâ€™ and the â€˜F Scaleâ€™ reveals that in 2020, it is actually liberals, progressives and the so called â€˜Leftâ€™ that manifest 8 out of the 9 most problematic, antidemocratic and authoritarian attitudes. The theory of an authoritarian personality was introduced in the 1930s in an attempt to... Read More

Goodbye, Lebanon

Linh Dinh •ï¿½December 26, 2020

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Itâ€™s cold yet sunny on this Christmas morning. Standing outside, Iâ€™m surrounded by a squadron of winged insects. Dots of light, they hover and meander in air tirelessly. Like drunk pinballs, they jerk, dance and bounce down invisible grooves, and around unseen obstacles. No, theyâ€™re more like ponderous thoughts. (Your jumped-up synapses are but flying... Read More

Voices of a White Awakening

Patrick McDermott •ï¿½December 25, 2020

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What will it take for most white people to wake up to the growing threat of dispossession in our homelands? It is a central question facing our movement. Some answers to that question can be found in a series of first-person accounts written for American Renaissance (organized here by perspective and available here in book... Read More

How Yahweh Conquered Rome

Christianity and the Big Lie

Laurent GuyÃ©not •ï¿½December 25, 2020

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Primo Levi, Italian author of If this is a man (1947) â€” â€œa pillar of Holocaust literatureâ€ according to Wikipedia â€”, wrote a short fictional story titled â€œun testamentoâ€, consisting of the last recommendation of a member of the guild of the â€œtooth-pullersâ€ to his son. Its ends with these words: There is no literary... Read More

In a Crisis, a Compromise Solution Is Worse Than No Solution At All

Ted Rall •ï¿½December 25, 2020

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The raging argument on the left between progressives who argue for radical change and centrists who advocate for incrementalism is hardly new. Nearly a century ago, progressive titan and Wisconsin Gov. Robert La Follette and then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt were often at loggerheads over the same question. Roosevelt, La Follette complained, was too quick to... Read More

Joyeux NoÑ‘l: The Beginnings of WWI and the Christmas Truce of 1914

F. Roger Devlin •ï¿½December 25, 2020

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With the hindsight offered by ninety-nine years, it is obvious that the outbreak of the World War I marked not merely the beginning of the most destructive war in history up to that time, but a fundamental civilizational watershed. While the fighting was going on, nearly all participants assumed they had been forced into the... Read More

Christmas 2020

James Thompson •ï¿½December 24, 2020

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I do not know how many times since 1210 there have been interruptions in the village celebration of Christmas. Few, I would imagine. The present church was built on or near a previous one, and not completed till 1230. There are records a former Lord of the Manor collected and placed in a filing cabinet,... Read More

Polarization, Then a Crash: Michael Hudson on the Rentier Economy

Michael Hudson •ï¿½December 24, 2020

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Allied with landlords and monopolists, the finance sector is extracting economic rents from the economy thatâ€™s impoverishing US government, industry and labor says Michael Hudson discussing the chokehold of pro-finance, pro-rentier capitalism reaching into the present COVID-19 crisis. TRANSCRIPT LYNN FRIES: Hello and welcome. Iâ€™m Lynn Fries producer of Global Political Economy or GPEnewsdocs. I... Read More

Turkey Pivots to the Center of the New Great Game

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½December 24, 2020

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When it comes to sowing â€“ and profiting â€“ from division, Erdoganâ€™s Turkey is quite the superstar. Under the delightfully named Countering Americaâ€™s Adversaries Through Sanctions Act (CAATSA), the Trump administration duly slapped sanctions on Ankara for daring to buy Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile defence systems. The sanctions focused on Turkeyâ€™s defence procurement agency, the... Read More

Democracies Donâ€™t Start Wars. But Democrats Do

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 24, 2020

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It may have been President Bill Clinton who once justified his wrecking of the Balkans by observing that liberal interventionism to bring about regime change is a good thing because â€œDemocracies donâ€™t start wars with other democracies.â€ Or it might have been George W. Bush talking about Iraq or even Barack Obama justifying his destruction... Read More

Christmas Column 2020

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 24, 2020

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Thank you for your support in 2020. Although you have kept me working yet another year, I find it encouraging that there are still some Americans who can think independently and who want to know. As Margaret Mead said, it only takes a few determined people to change the world. Perhaps some of you will... Read More

The War on Christmas Updated

Edmund Connelly •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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A dozen years ago I wrote two essays showing that the War on Christmas in recent times has in fact been conducted by Jews out of their historic hatred of Christ, Christians, and European Whites. Recently, I was a guest on Guide to Kultur, hosted by Frodi Midjord, and we talked about my 2008 essays... Read More

The Tories Are Too Incompetent to Deliver Radical Change Post Brexit

Patrick Cockburn •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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The departure of Britain from the European Union should be the moment when the country would at last be free to determine its own future and start to transform itself for the better. The damaging rupture with the worldâ€™s largest trading bloc â€“ and the political traumas within the UK â€“ can only be justified... Read More

Political Jesus

Pepe Escobar •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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Letâ€™s hit the road in the search for the real Jesus. Galilee, Year 27: baptized by an itinerant preacher, John the Baptist. Thatâ€™s when the story really begins. We know virtually nothing of his life till then. Galilee is ruled by shabby client kings of the Roman empire â€“ first Herod, then his son Herod... Read More

The Great Replacement: Los Angeles

Gregory Hood •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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This is the ninth in a series about the continuing disappearance of whites from American cities (see our earlier entries for Birmingham, Washington, D.C., New York City, Chicago, Richmond, Milwaukee, Baltimore, and Philadelphia). Many people still pretend that The Great Replacement is a myth or a conspiracy theory, but the graphs that accompany each article... Read More

Are 'Never Trumpers' the Future of the GOP?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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Denouncing the $900 billion COVID-19 relief bill as a parsimonious "disgrace" and hinting at an Alamo-style finish on Jan. 6, when Congress votes to declare Joe Biden the next president, Donald Trump is not going to go quietly. The anti-Trumpers and "Never Trumpers" celebrating at Christmas 2020, in this "dark winter" of Joe Biden's depiction,... Read More

On Truth

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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The Western Worldâ€™s concept of objective truth was challenged by Karl Marx, who declared truth to be class truth. The capitalists had their truth, and the workers had their truth. The workersâ€™ truth had more validity, because they were oppressed, whereas the capitalistsâ€™ truth was self-serving. This assault on objective truth did not succeed except... Read More

Libertarian Congressman Proposes Bill to Decriminalize Illegal Immigration

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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A pair of new bills put forth in the House of Representatives will move the United States towards open borders if it gains traction. The Protect Asylum Seekers Act and Practical Alternatives to Detention Act, both authored by Libertarian Party congressman Justin Amash, would decriminalize unauthorized entry by illegal aliens to the United States and... Read More

Christmas Charity Seeks Donations for Persecuted Serbian Children In Kosovo

Eric Striker •ï¿½December 23, 2020

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American political dissident Robert Rundo is teaming up with Serbian solidarity group Fondacija Junak (Heroes Foundation) for a relief effort to bring gifts to hundreds of Serbian children living as persecuted minorities in Kosovo. Kosovo, the historic heartland of the Serbian people, was taken over by an Albanian criminal organization, the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA),... Read More

The Bitter Tiers of Mutant England

James Thompson •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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This has been the year of counting the days. On Saturday morning people in England were preparing for a family Christmas. By 5 pm that afternoon they were phoning their regrets, in sadness and sometimes rage. All this may be good news. Opinions differ. The story so far is that the United Kingdom has not... Read More

Donâ€™t Blame the Soviets for the War in Nagorno-Karabakh

Max Parry •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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In the final week of September, an Azerbaijani offensive renewed hostilities in the perennial armed conflict and territorial dispute in the South Caucasus between Armenia and its neighbor over the Nagorno-Karabakh (â€œMountainous Karabakhâ€) region. By October, the clashes had escalated past the state border between Azerbaijan and the internationally-unrecognized Republic of Artsakh which suffered heavy... Read More

The Revenge Agenda

Is it really a dish best served cold?

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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The upcoming year should be interesting. The Establishment â€œDeep Stateâ€ has won a major victory in the United States with the election of Joe Biden as president. What remains to be seen is whether or not there will be significant bloodletting as a consequence, revenge for the presumed misdeeds that constituted the core legacy of... Read More

Can Democracy Hold Us Together?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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If America were a company and not a country, we would have long ago dissolved the corporation, split the blanket, and gone our separate ways. What still holds this disputatious and divided people together? Consider. In announcing the $900 billion stimulus bill to deal with the pandemic, Speaker Nancy Pelosi did not mention that the... Read More

Our Country Has Been Stolen and Republicans Did Not Prevent the Theft

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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Other than President Trump, no one cares enough about America to protect it. So why are we spending $1,000 billion annually to defend ourselves from alleged foreign threats when there is no defense against our countryâ€™s theft by the ruling Establishment and woke Democrat identity politics ideologues? Why vote Republican when the party does not... Read More

The Affirmative Action Vaccine

Gregory Hood •ï¿½December 22, 2020

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No one wants white privilege. Being white can cost you a job, a raise, or admission to an Ivy League college. Now, it might even kill you. The Centers for Disease Control advised states to consider non-whites a critical group for vaccine distribution. About half the states, including â€œred statesâ€ such as Idaho, Utah, and... Read More

Requiem for Donald Trump

Paul Craig Roberts •ï¿½December 21, 2020

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Attorney General Bill Barr, another of Trumpâ€™s mistakes, has sold out not only President Trump but also American democracy, thus proving that it is pointless to vote for Republicans. Barr has again repeated in the face of conclusive evidence that the November presidential election was organized to be stolen and successfully was stolen that the... Read More

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