Reuters' important work on this front has, however, come with a disturbing caveat: Those who've made the threats have gone largely unpunished. From a report in November: "After Reuters reported the widespread intimidation in June, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a task force to investigate threats against election staff and said it would aggressively pursue such cases. But law enforcement agencies have made almost no arrests and won no convictions. In many cases, they didn't investigate."

That's starting to change. Reuters reported this morning:

U.S. federal agents arrested a Nevada man for threatening a state election worker last year and telling her that she was "going to f------ die" for stealing the 2020 presidential election from Donald Trump, the Justice Department said on Thursday, the second arrest in a week by its election threats task force.

In the new case, a Las Vegas man named Gjergi Luke Juncaj was taken into custody this week and appeared in a federal court yesterday. He faces four counts of making threatening phone calls and the possibility of two years in prison on each count.

This comes on the heels of separate charges, which were announced last week, against a Texas man named Chad Christopher Stark, who's been accused of making violent threats against Georgia election and government officials.

Clarence Thomas is facing calls for his recusal in the case over race-based affirmative action in college admissions that the court agreed to hear this week.

The case, which is being brought against Harvard and the University of North Carolina, is the latest potential conflict of interest involving Thomas and his wife Virginia Thomas. Ginni, as she is known, is a prominent right-wing activist who openly supports MAGA platform issues that frequently come before the Supreme Court.

Ginni Thomas founded her own lobbying company, Liberty Consulting, in 2010. By her own description, she has “battled for conservative principles in Washington” for over 35 years. Justice Thomas’s influence has soared in recent months with the rightward shift of the court following Donald Trump’s three nominations, to the extent that some pundits now dub him the unofficial chief justice of the court.
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This afternoon, Axios' Jonathan Swan reported that "Carlson was talking to U.S.-based Kremlin intermediaries about setting up an interview with Vladimir Putin shortly before the Fox News host accused the National Security Agency of spying on him." Swan added that his sources told him that "U.S. government officials learned about Carlson's efforts to secure the Putin interview. Carlson learned that the government was aware of his outreach — and that's the basis of his extraordinary accusation, followed by a rare public denial by the NSA that he had been targeted." On his show Wednesday night, Carlson confirmed he had sought an interview with Putin and that only him and his executive producer knew about the request. Before Axios' report, Carlson went on Fox Business to allege that the NSA leaked his emails to journalists. Meanwhile, a Tucker Carlson Tonight producer filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the NSA. "I am requesting any call records, texts, or emails the NSA has obtained from journalist Tucker Carlson's cell phone or email," wrote Alex Pfeiffer, investigative producer for Tucker Carlson Tonight. "I am requesting any memos or documents related to surveilling journalist Tucker Carlson. I am requesting any communication between NSA officials regarding journalist Tucker Carlson."

Former President Donald Trump will hit two big-dollar fundraisers Saturday before he takes the stage in Conroe.

In Houston at an undisclosed location, Trump is charging couples $100,000 to attend a private luncheon with him. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who lives in Montgomery County, is listed as the chairman of the event.

And later there is a reception at Lake Conroe where guests are paying $5,000 per couple to attend. Prices climb to as high as $50,000 to participate in a roundtable discussion and have a photo opportunity. Co-hosts for that event include former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Both fundraisers are for Trump’s new political action committee, called MAGA Again! When the PAC was created last year, Trump’s political team said it would be used to help candidates “who have proven to be fighters of the MAGA movement and President Trump’s many accomplishments.”

Former President Donald Trump will hit two big-dollar fundraisers Saturday before he takes the stage in Conroe.

In Houston at an undisclosed location, Trump is charging couples $100,000 to attend a private luncheon with him. Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick, who lives in Montgomery County, is listed as the chairman of the event.

And later there is a reception at Lake Conroe where guests are paying $5,000 per couple to attend. Prices climb to as high as $50,000 to participate in a roundtable discussion and have a photo opportunity. Co-hosts for that event include former Major League Baseball pitcher Roger Clemens and Attorney General Ken Paxton.

Both fundraisers are for Trump’s new political action committee, called MAGA Again! When the PAC was created last year, Trump’s political team said it would be used to help candidates “who have proven to be fighters of the MAGA movement and President Trump’s many accomplishments.”

In his quest to primary Greg Abbott, former state senator Don Huffines has relied on an intensely right-wing agenda. His campaign frequently utilizes nativist and anti-immigrant talking points. And now, when a staffer has been alleged to have direct links to white nationalism, Huffines is not backing down.

The staffer is Jake Lloyd Colglazier, who formerly worked at the conspiracy website InfoWars, and is listed on numerous websites as the deputy communications director for Huffines. The think tank Political Research Associates has extensive documentation of Colglazier’s long history of trafficking in white nationalism in the America First and the “groyper army.” The “groyper army” refers to a group of white nationalist internet trolls that rally around the alt-right figure Nick Fuentes, who was recently subpoenaed by the January 6 committee investigating the Insurrection.

According to Political Research Associates, Colglazier used his platform as a groyper to broadcast his fears of a “demographic cliff” for white Americans. Several videos Colglazier uploaded to the streaming website DLive also show him mocking Black Americans killed by police. In one video he says, “I spit on the name George Floyd.”

When the Texas Tribune asked Huffines whether he would retain Colglazier, he sent a defiant written statement. “If I were to go through the social media history of any young Texan I would find something I disagree with,” Huffines wrote. “My campaign will not participate in cancel culture.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and seven other attorneys general on Friday sued the Biden administration over an Obama-era policy aimed at reuniting parents who are living legally in the United States with their children.

President Joe Biden last year resumed the immigration cases of some 3,000 children who had been approved to travel to the U.S. before their cases were suspended when former President Donald Trump ended the Central American Minors program in 2017.

The Biden administration later expanded the program in June, extending eligibility to legal guardians and those with pending asylum cases. The program — which applies to migrants from El Salvador, Guatemala and Honduras, the home countries of many asylum-seekers fleeing gang violence and poverty — was reopened to new applicants in September.

In a lawsuit filed in the Amarillo-based U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Texas, Paxton and the other attorneys general argued that Biden, a Democrat, lacks authority to institute the program without authorization from Congress.