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“I’m on disability, and they yell at me for going to work, but I don’t have a choice. It’s either I go to work, or we don’t eat.”
Ohio voters sound off to MS NOW’s Will McDuffie on how high gas prices and the economy are affecting their lives.

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Amid a politically punishing backlash against Donald Trump’s flagrant $1.776 billion money grab for his criminal allies, a judge is considering whether to investigation if the “IRS settlement” on which the slush fund is based began as a legitimate court case or was a fraud on the court from the beginning. Former federal prosecutor Joyce Vance talks with Rachel Maddow about the legal guidelines the judge is considering.

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President Trump floats hosting the rally for America’s 250th anniversary celebration after artists backed out from the event. This comes as Trump faces backlash over what many believe are vanity projects. MS NOW Reporter Akayla Gardner has the latest from the White House. Bloomberg White House Correspondent Jeff Mason and Justice Department Reporter for The New York Times Glenn Thrush join Erielle Reshef to share their thoughts.

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If you feel conflicted about America’s 250th anniversary celebrations, when Black Americans are being gerrymandered out of power, and immigrants are getting locked up indefinitely in detention centers, you’re not alone. In his new book “America, U.S.A.: How Race Shadows the Nation’s Anniversaries,” Eddie Glaude Jr. calls this a “double consciousness” that’s inherent in all Americans: the feeling that “America imagines itself as a beacon of freedom and as a white republic.” 

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