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Steve Bannon Just Might Be Accidentally Saving America

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His contempt for Congress could be what finally forces Democratic lawmakers to stand up for themselves and reassert their powers.

The rusty gears driving our current constitutional crisis ratcheted another step forward on Tuesday night as the House select committee investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection finally cracked down on (one) GOP official flagrantly defying its demands for documents and testimony.

A bipartisan majority of committee lawmakers agreed that former Trump administration...

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