In the news today: As a conservative conference in Texas welcomes a stream of January 6 seditionists, Trump and Fox News continue to paint those violent would-be topplers of government as patriots while attacking law enforcement officers who defended lawmakers that day. Texas Republicans, meanwhile, are again pushing forward with new voting restrictions.
Here's some of what you may have missed:
• Fascism: Fox News, Trump again boost violent January 6 seditionists as supposed heroes and patriots
• Black man arrested on $100K bond for voting, and Texas GOP advances bill making it harder to vote
• John Dean: Trump has set quite the trap for himself with lawsuit against Facebook and Twitter
• CPAC has become the place Republicans go to sit around the campfire and scare themselves sillier
• Eviction tsunami is looming despite Congress passing $46 billion in rental relief
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• A trans, disabled election judge in Texas dismantled the GOP's voter suppression bill in two minutes