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State Rep. Justin Jones of Nashville speaks outside the Capitol on April 10, 2023 in Nashville, Tennessee. The Democrat was reinstated days after being expelled for leading a protest on the House floor for gun reform in the wake of a mass shooting at a Christian school in which three 9-year-old students and three adults were killed by a 28-year-old former student on March 27. (Seth Herald/Getty Images)

Koch Industries backed Tennessee Republicans who expelled Black Democrats

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik, R-N.Y., listen during a press conference on Capitol Hill on Tuesday, July 27, 2021 in Washington, DC. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

GOP finally offers response to inflation: “Hollow” 3-page bill with a “basic drafting error”

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Sen. Bernie Sanders (Win McNamee/Getty Images)

Progressives call out DNC for allowing super PACs aligned with GOP to pour money into Dem primaries

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House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif. (Jabin Botsford/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

“This is a Republican mess”: Progressives warn Democrats not to cut a speaker deal with GOP

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Rep. Byron Donalds (R-FL) talks with fellow Republicans after the new Congress failed to elect a new Speaker of the House at the U.S. Capitol Building on January 03, 2023 in Washington, DC. (Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)

“He is a prop”: Cori Bush accuses MAGA Republicans of tokenizing Black speaker nominee

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US Representative Liz Cheney speaks during a House Select Committee hearing to Investigate the January 6th Attack on the US Capitol, in the Cannon House Office Building on Capitol Hill in Washington, DC on June 9, 2022. (MANDEL NGAN/AFP via Getty Images)

Jan. 6 committee ignored “Christian nationalism” behind Capitol attack after Cheney intervention

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Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky (Caroline Brehman/CQ Roll Cal/POOLl)

Democrats trying a new tactic to pass expanded child tax credit: Threatening GOP corporate tax break

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Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) (Pete Marovich/Getty Images)

Joe Manchin voted against rail worker sick leave after getting $90,000 from rail carriers

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U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) (Jim Lo Scalzo-Pool/Getty Images)

Ro Khanna counters Joe Manchin’s pipeline bill by trying to force vote on $15 minimum wage

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