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b"On today's 'BradCast':\\xa0 A jury convicted four members of the far-right, racist militia group Proud Boys on charges of seditious conspiracy and other serious crimes for their actions in Donald Trump's January 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol. A judge tossed out Trump's lawsuit against the New York Times for reporting on his tax returns, and ordered Trump to pay the paper's legal fees. New reporting reveals that rightwing Justice Clarence Thomas never disclosed that billionaire Harlan Crow paid the private school tuition of Thomas' nephew. Good news for democracy in Nebraska and Michigan, where voters resoundingly rejected far-right, billionaire-funded MAGA candidates. In Michigan, a MAGA election clerk under investigation for breaching election security was defeated in a deep red county. After losing badly in their attempts to enact abortion bans via statewide ballot initiatives in Kansas and Kentucky, GOP-controlled state legislatures are now trying to game the ballot initiative process itself, and erect new hurdles for voters. In Ohio, Republicans are pushing a scheme to raise the qualification threshold for ballot initiatives before voters can mobilize to stop them. Missouri Republicans are outright lying to voters about their anti-democracy ballot initiative. In Florida, the GOP legislature further restricted voting, criminalized non-profit groups' voter registration drives, and changed long-standing state law to allow far-right Gov. Ron DeSantis to run for President without resigning his seat. Plus Desi Doyen has our latest 'Green News Report.'"