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  1. 14/14 Read more about Attorney General Letitia James’ lawsuit here:

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  2. 13/ The NRA has spent decades warning about police crackdowns. But when militarized police and unknown federal agents flooded cities across the country to shut down largely peaceful mass demonstrations, the NRA was silent.

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  3. 12/ During the pandemic, the NRA used coronavirus fears to drive up gun sales.

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  4. 11/ Mother Jones and uncovered documents that point to illegal campaign coordination between Trump and the NRA.

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  5. 10/ In 2016, the NRA’s political arm set a fundraising record, taking in a staggering $366 million—and spent tens of millions of dollars to get Trump elected.

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  6. 9/ Take a look at their history of advertising, and you’ll see the NRA’s shift to a group closely allied with the gun industry and the conservative establishment whose only solution to gun violence is even more guns.

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  7. 8/ A 2015 Mother Jones investigation found the average cost to taxpayers for a single gun homicide in America is nearly $400,000. And we pay for 32 of them every single day.

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  8. 7/ And the NRA’s plan to “harden schools” was terrifying.

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  9. 6/ After Sandy Hook, the NRA made big promises about a new school safety program. It didn’t do much.

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  10. 5/ After each mass shooting, the organization’s Twitter account goes silent, followed by a prompt defense of the Second Amendment. But, here’s the thing:

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  11. 4/ And their membership numbers are nowhere what they claim.

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  12. 3/ The NRA has historically lobbied for laws that fail Black gun owners.

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  13. 2/ First up, the NRA's top lawyer for decades once was arrested for murder, then freed over bad police work.

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  14. 1/ New York state Attorney General Letitia James just sued to dissolve the NRA for financial misconduct. We've been covering the group's operations for years. Here’s what we’ve dug up.

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  15. A new study undercuts the core GOP argument in the stimulus negotiations

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  16. “Support Mother Jones! It's a phenomenal media outlet.” — 😊 You can support our work—and live events like this one—here:

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  17. "Kamala should be president." asked about Joe Biden's potential running mates. Her answer was 🔥🔥🔥

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  18. On reparations, says, "You've got to repair the damage. The wealth gap is just too great." Watch the full conversation:

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  19. "Over 40 countries have put forth truth and reconciliation commissions after crimes against humanity…This is something standard that governments do after they have perpetrated crimes on minority populations. The US has never done this." —

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  20. Cosmo once asked Donald Trump to do a nude shoot. Really.

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