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A leaked membership list suggests that Oath Keepers have infiltrated the Department of Homeland Security. More than 300 members of the paramilitary group describe themselves as current or former DHS employees. DHS did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Just weeks after Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy for trying to violently overturn the 2020 election, a leak of the paramilitary group's membership list has revealed that potentially hundreds of far-right extremists have infiltrated federal law enforcement, the Project on Government Oversight reported on Monday. Launched in 2009, the Oath Keepers from the start...

In 2017, the US national debt surpassed $20 trillion for the first time. Former President Donald Trump added about $7.8 trillion to the debt with spending and tax cuts. The debt ceiling needs to be raised to cover past fiscal decisions. Not many people outside the Beltway truly understand what the US's debt ceiling is or how and when it needs to be raised. And Senate Republicans are banking on that..... But the debt is also a product of Republicans' 2017 tax cut, which reduced federal revenues - corporate tax rates dropped from 35% to 21% - without a commensurate...

The largest newspaper in Arizona announced Thursday that it has filed lawsuit to obtain financial records and communications from the Republican-led state Senate and Cyber Ninjas, the private firm that has overseen a highly irregular recount of the 2020 election in Maricopa County. "Arizona law entitles the public to know how this audit is being conducted and funded," David Bodney, an attorney for The Arizona Republic, said in a statement. In a June 30 complaint, filed in Maricopa County Superior Court, the newspaper argues that it is entitled to the records under the state's public records law. The lawsuit comes...