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Anna Merlan
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Anna Merlan was a Senior Reporter at G/O Media until September 2019. She's the author of Republic of Lies: American Conspiracy Theorists and Their Surprising Rise to Power.

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Contribute to the legal fund for the protesters here: Read more

Indiana State Senator Jack E. Sandlin also shared the “fat women” meme. He claimed he didn’t post it and has no idea how it ended up on his page (riiiiight).

Don’t forget Indiana state senator Jack Sandlin and the unrepentant Rep. Jim Lucas.
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Please add Bruce Jones, of West Chester, Ohio to your list. He posted on Facebook that women who marched were probably mentally ill, and also made reference to the “Transvestite alliance.” He has been fired from his real estate firm, but refused to step down or apologize. Read more

one of my favourite signs today was just south of Dundas and held by a man standing on the sidelines. it said in huge letters: PLEASE TELL ME WHAT I CAN DO TO HELP. My girlfriend and I just squeezed each others hands and talked about how nice it was to see the allyship. Read more

I rallied and marched in Toronto today. There were about 60,000 people. It looked like almost half of the attendees were men - groups of men, men with the women in their lives, single men who brought their children, large extended families that included children, dads, and grandfathers. It was so diverse in every way Read more

This apparently includes the DOJ’s 25 Violence Against Women grant programs.

it’s just a placeholder anna, sources tell me they are gonna replace it with a live wasp’s nest Read more

Looks like another victim of a ...

I saw similar issues in North Carolina; disorganization, turning away volunteers, no lawn signs/buttons/stickers, etc., the same few neighborhoods being canvassed repeatedly with bad voter data, while others were ignored. Lawn signs and bumper stickers might not sway other voters, but swag makes volunteers feel Read more

look how can we blame the campaign when there haven’t been any contemporary examples of extraordinarily run campaigns that leaned heavily on ground game, grassroots tactics Read more

According to the veterans we hosted on their way to and from the vets action this past weekend, particularly hurt were the IVAW affiliated folks in the Sicangu camp - they lost two barracks style tents, including the medical tent, to the blizzard. Read more

For you, being trapped in a hotel in North Dakota during a blizzard in subzero temperatures will be a story you tell for the rest of your life. For midwesterners, it was Tuesday. Read more