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Tennessee Lawmakers Decline — Again — To Advance Measure Denouncing Neo-Nazis

The first resolution died in the state Legislature after failing to get GOP support last month. A Republican lawmaker revived a nearly identical version — but withdrew it earlier this week.
Protesters gather to condemn a Confederate monument in Knoxville, Tenn., last August. This week, the state's lawmakers abandoned — for the second time — a resolution denouncing neo-Nazis and white nationalists.

For the second time in less than a month, Tennessee's GOP state lawmakers have declined to proceed on legislation condemning white nationalist and neo-Nazi groups. On Monday, roughly three weeks after a Democratic-sponsored resolution died in committee, GOP state Rep. quietly requested that the Republican version

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