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Steve Daines @SteveDaines - Video: The Working Families Tax Cut that @POTUS signed this past summer requires mandatory timber sales on BLM & Forest Service land, which increases MT logging jobs & reduces wildfire risk.
https://x.com/SteveDaines/status/2020934292625555587
Susan Collins for Senator @SenSusanCollins - GOOD NEWS! I am ALL-IN for 2026.
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/O9N0SkDFjf0
https://x.com/SenSusanCollins/status/2021214862152499378
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: .@VP discusses the nuclear agreement between the U.S. and Armenia
“Peace is not made by cautious people. Peace is not made by people who are too focused on the past. Peace is made by people who are focused on the future.”
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020929591490310250
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: .@VP @JDVance and PM Pashinyan complete historic bilateral meetings in Armenia
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020930480175219020
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - .@VP @JDVance and PM Pashinyan complete historic bilateral meetings in Armenia
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020930480175219020
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: .@VP @JDVance and PM Pashinyan signed a nuclear cooperation agreement between the United States and Armenia
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020926929524686914
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: .@VP speaks at a bilateral meeting with PM Pashinyan
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020925194328736242
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: In Yerevan, @VP shakes hands with Armenian Prime Minister Pashinyan
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020922588877422704
Taylor Van Kirk @VPPressSec - Video: The Second Family arrives in Armenia
https://x.com/VPPressSec/status/2020921467513475083
Tim Allen @ofctimallen -
https://x.com/ofctimallen/status/2019231467826803105
Terrence K. Williams @w_terrence - Video: This Grandmother was disappointed with Bad Bunny.
She didn’t enjoy the Super Bowl half time show. SHE WAS MAD!!!
https://x.com/w_terrence/status/2020750062826000476
Tim Burchett @timburchett - This should be taught in schools. It makes me proud to be a Tennessean.
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ArchaeoHistories @histories_arch
In 1946, a local election in Tennessee was run by corrupt politicians who used deputies to arrest voters and hide the ballots in the jail. World War II veterans, newly home and fed up, picked up rifles and surrounded the jail until the officials inside surrendered.
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A moment from what became known as the Battle of Athens, a rare armed uprising on American soil sparked not by foreign war but by local corruption. The scene unfolded in McMinn County, Tennessee, where a political machine led by Sheriff Paul Cantrell had controlled elections for years through intimidation, ballot stuffing, and the arrest of political opponents. On election day in August 1946, deputies openly detained voters and seized ballot boxes, locking them inside the county jail.
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Many of the men watching this unfold were World War Two veterans who had recently returned home after fighting authoritarianism overseas. Having risked their lives for democratic principles, they were unwilling to tolerate the same abuses in their own community. As tensions escalated, veterans gathered rifles and ammunition and surrounded the jail where the ballots were held. After a prolonged standoff that included gunfire and the use of dynamite to breach the jail walls, the deputies inside surrendered.
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