The senator from Arkansas changes his tune, says violence is not the answer.
Tom Cotton
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Republicans evict Republicans from Republican-owned building in Saline County
The Republican Party of Saline County cited a failure to insure the property and a no-confidence vote regarding Tom Cotton and others as reasons for the eviction.
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Demagoguing Tom Cotton introduces bill to eliminate birthright citizenship for children of undocumented immigrants
What is an American? “All persons born or naturalized in the United States.” It is that simple. If you think just a little bit about the modern history of the world, it is frankly beautiful.
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Sanders, Cotton leap to Trump’s defense after guilty verdict
Trump’s Arkansas cheerleading squad rallies to his defense. What else is new?
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Tom Cotton reportedly a leading contender for Donald Trump’s running mate
Cotton has the golden resumé of a rising star, but his stuffy manner and apparent discomfort with humans has led that star to dim over time.
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Students and dignitaries celebrate in Little Rock as Daisy Bates statue debuts in Washington, D.C.
Celebrations and simulcasts took place at both Central High School and Second Baptist Church in Little Rock today, as a statue commemorating civil rights leader and newspaper publisher Daisy Bates was unveiled at the U.S. Capitol’s Statuary Hall.
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Senator Sicko at it again: Bloodthirsty Tom Cotton continues calls for violence
“These students on campuses deserve our contempt,” Arkansas Sen. Tom Cotton said of college students protesting the ever-rising death count in Gaza.
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Bloodthirsty Tom Cotton is going to get someone killed
Tom Cotton calls campus protests against the war in Gaza “cesspools” full of “fanatics and freaks.” It is OK to wage war on these kids, he’s implying. If something really goes wrong, and someone gets seriously hurt or killed — well, that life wasn’t valuable. Just some “lunatic.”
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Arkansas writer on Tom Cotton’s calls for vigilante violence: “unreasonable, abnormal, and dangerous”
“I do not think the impulse to kill protesters—much less the act of following through on such a thought—is typical,” Elrod writes. “The murder of innocent people over inconvenience is neither trivial nor, one would hope, particularly relatable.”
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U.S. senators say ATF agents weren’t wearing body cameras in fatal Malinowski raid
“We will continue to press the Department to explain how this violation of its own policy could’ve happened,” the two senators said.