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Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.), set to be the ranking Republican on the House Oversight and Government Reform committee in January, penned a confidential document detailing his plans to fight back against Democratic-led investigations of President Trump and his administration. In a 28-page document obtained by Bloomberg News, which had been watermarked "confidential" on every page, Meadows explains how Republicans on the oversight committee can paint Democrats as pursuing partisan, costly investigations while not passing major legislation. "We will need a larger team of experienced investigators who will be able to handle the heavy volume and intellectual challenges presented by the Democrats’ attacks," Meadows wrote, adding that Republicans need a consistent line of attack.

Meadows penned 'confidential' plan to fight back against Dem probes into Trump: report | TheHill

Democrats won upset gubernatorial elections in Wisconsin and Michigan last month, while Republicans managed to hold on to control of both chambers of the states' legislatures. During the lame-duck session, Republican state lawmakers introduced legislation that would limit the power of the executive branch in both states. Democrats are outraged by the moves, calling them partisan power grabs.

Republicans are stripping power from incoming Democrats in Wisconsin and Michigan - Business Insider

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A longtime Republican operative urged Trump administration officials to add a question to the 2020 census form that hasn’t been asked since the Jim Crow era, knowing full well that including this question “would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” and “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic Whites,” according to a document filed in federal court on Thursday. The Trump administration did add the question, which asks whether census respondents are U.S. citizens, at the urging of Dr. Thomas Hofeller, a Republican master in the dark arts of political mapmaking who passed away last summer. It also produced documents which falsely claimed that the question would “ensure that the Latino community achieves full representation in redistricting.”

A dead man just revealed the Trump administration’s plans to rig elections for white Republicans – ThinkProgress

They denied it for ages, but the truth came out eventually, no surprise really..