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White House Counselor to the President Kellyanne Conway (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

Harsh reviews for new Conway memoir

Tom Boggioni - Raw Story
Dozens of people attend a vigil remembering the 58 people killed in Sunday's shooting in Las Vegas and calling for action against guns on October 4, 2017 in Newtown, Connecticut. The vigil, organized by the Newtown Action Alliance, was held outside the National Shooting Sport Foundation and looked to draw attention to gun violence in America. Twenty school children were killed at the Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting in Newtown on December 14, 2012. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images)

The truth about guns and capitalism

Jim Sleeper
American labor leader, US Presidential candidate, and prominent socialist Eugene V. Debs (1855 - 1926) waves to supporters following his release from prison on Christmas Day, December 25, 1921. (PhotoQuest/Getty Images)

Snowflakes, meet a real free speech hero

Matthew Rozsa
Former President Donald speaks to a crowd during a rally in Texas on Jan. 29, 2022. (Sergio Flores/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Trump does weird dance at NRA convention

Andrea Germanos - Common Dreams
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Manager Gabe Kapler #19 of the San Francisco Giants (Mitchell Layton/Getty Images)

Giants manager: No anthem after shooting

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
Gender Nonconforming (Getty Images/Salon)

New York IDs now offer 'X' as a gender

Kelly McClure
Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity's images displayed on the side of the Fox News building in midtown Manhattan. (Getty Images)

Franz Kafka warned us about Fox News

Ronald H. Davidson
Law enforcement work the scene after a mass shooting at Robb Elementary School on May 24, 2022 in Uvalde, Texas. (Photo by Jordan Vonderhaar/Getty Images)

So where were the "good guys with guns"?

Lucian K. Truscott IV
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Former head of the Detroit Police Department, James Craig (Gordon Chibroski/Portland Press Herald via Getty Images)

GOP defends candidates busted for fraud

Igor Derysh
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott (Photo by Brandon Bell/Getty Images)

TX slashed mental health money, gun laws

Jon Skolnik
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (Getty/Mandel Ngan)

AOC: "Student debt plan could be better"

Julia Conley - Common Dreams
A man with an assault rifle reacts while joining demonstrators outside the Pennsylvania Capitol Building to protest the continued closure of businesses due to the coronavirus pandemic on May 15, 2020 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Pennsylvania Governor Tom Wolf has introduced a color tiered strategy to reopen the state with most areas not easing restrictions until June 4. (Mark Makela/Getty Images)

Republican excuses for mass shootings

Meaghan Ellis - Alternet
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Texas Governor Greg Abbott (Drew Anthony Smith/Getty Images)

Texas gun age limits "make no sense"

Kiah Collier, Jeremy Schwartz - ProPublica
Governor Greg Abbott (Erich Schlegel/Getty Images)

Texas hardened schools. It didn't help

Jolie McCullough, Kate McGee - The Texas Tribune
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick speaks to a crowd at a rally for former President Trump at the Montgomery County Fairgrounds on Saturday, Jan. 29, 2022 in Conroe, TX. (Sergio Flores/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

Patrick cancels NRA convention speech

Jon Skolnik
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (Getty Images)

Teachers fume over GOP calls to arm them

Brett Wilkins - Common Dreams
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Director and Colonel of the Texas Department of Public Safety Steven C. McCraw listens during a press conference outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 27, 2022. (Photo by CHANDAN KHANNA/AFP via Getty Images)

Uvalde student begged for police to come

Joshua Fechter, Reese Oxner - The Texas Tribune
Scene outside Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, Texas, on May 24. (ALLISON DINNER/AFP via Getty Images)

Uvalde's ugly truth: Cops won't help you

Amanda Marcotte
Lauren Boebert poses for a portrait at Shooters Grill in Rifle, Colorado on April 24, 2018 (EMILY KASK/AFP via Getty Images)

Boebert on guns: No plane ban after 9/11

Bob Brigham - Raw Story
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) (Getty Images/ Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool)

Ted: Russian sanctions are "gun control"

Matthew Chapman - Raw Story
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Sen. Ron Johnson, R-Wisc. (Bill Clark/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images)

Ron Johnson tweets then deletes

Jon Skolnik
Police on scene at a Tops Friendly Market on May 14 in Buffalo, New York. At least 10 people were killed after a mass shooting at the store. The shooter is in police custody. (John Normile/Getty Images)

Ex-fed may have known about Buffalo plan

Brad Reed - Raw Story
Texas Governor Greg Abbott (SAUL LOEB/AFP via Getty Images)

Greg Abbott will address NRA — by video

Jake Johnson - Common Dreams
(Getty/Jim Watson)

NRA goes to Texas to celebrate gun power

Heather Digby Parton
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