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Community Resource Center (CRC) will host its 26th Annual Tea on Saturday, April 24, at 3 p.m. and invites community members to join with a virtual cup of tea for a cause.

For the second year, CRCs Tea will be held virtually due to COVID, with a goal of raising $100,000 to support the 41-year-old nonprofits mission to provide neighbors in need with paths to healthy food, stable homes and safe relationships. The Tea will feature an interactive program, silent auction and more. Community members can join by purchasing Tea Party Boxes and tickets by April 15 or making a gift at CRCNCC.ORG/TEA.

The CRC Tea will raise critical funding to support CRCs wraparound programs that include a domestic violence emergency shelter, nutritious food, housing assistance, legal advocacy, counseling and more. The funding will also support CRCs programs for domestic violence prevention education and homelessness prevention.

Since the pandemic, CRC has experienced an increase in need. Compared to the previous year, during the period of April to December 2020, CRC distributed nutritious food through 45% more visits to their food center each hour and provided critical assistance during 44% more calls to their domestic violence hotline.

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The Weber Arch. Following an investigation into Ulines alleged connections to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection, the University announced it will continue doing business with the company.

After reviewing its contact with Uline, a company whose founders funded a PAC with ties to the Capitol invasion, Northwestern University announced it will continue doing business with the company, according to The Daily Beast.

The University investigated the concerns that were raised, and based on the information we have, determined that the Uline company did not play a role in the events at the Capitol, a Northwestern spokesperson wrote in a statement to The Daily Beast.

NU began an investigation into its contract with Uline in February after an NU alum emailed administrators, calling on the University to end its contract with the company. In the email to administrators and The Daily, the alum wrote, I can not in good faith give any donations to a University that will turn around and do business with anyone who supports domestic terrorism.

WBEZ reported Uline CEO Dick Uihlein contributed over $4 million to the Tea Party Patriots, which, according to the Center for Responsive Politics, makes him the single biggest donor to the Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund.

The PAC participated in the March to Save America rally that preceded the Capitol insurrection and was also part of the Stop the Steal coalition, according to WBEZ. According to The Daily Beast, the organization was among 11 groups listed on the Jan. 6 events website.

However, the PAC denies all accusations that it supported the Capitol riot. In a statement to The Daily, Tea Party Patriots Co-Founder and President Jenny Beth Martin wrote, Neither Tea Party Patriots Foundation, Tea Party Patriots Citizens Fund, nor Tea Party Patriots Action spent any money on the rally. We condemn the violence. We are shocked, outraged, and saddened at the turn of events on January 6.

They further distanced themselves from the invasion in a Feb. 12 letter to University President Morton Schapiro obtained by the Daily. The Uihleins wrote they did not contribute to any organizations that supported the attack on the Capitol and denounced the violence.

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Another righting of history can be seen in the fascinating new online exhibit, Women of the Revolutionary War, created by the Fraunces Tavern Museum.

Overlooked by historians, until a generation of feminist scholars uncovered their stories, many women beyond Betsy Ross and Abigail Adams were associated in some way with the Revolutionary War.

"The heroism of the females of the Revolution has gone from memory with the generation that witnessed it," wrote Charles Francis Adams, grandson of John and Abigail Adams, in 1840, "and nothing, absolutely nothing remains upon the ear of the young of the present day."

Ten women, including Native Americans and African Americans, and even one loyalist spy, are featured in the show.

Polly Cooper, a member of the Oneida Nation, led 40 warriors with 600 barrels of corn to a Patriot encampment. To deliver these desperately needed supplies, they traveled over 400 miles on foot in the middle of winter, from central New York to Pennsylvania.

Sarah Bradlee Fulton is credited with the idea of disguising the men of the 1773 Boston Tea Party as Native Americans, then waiting for them at her home where she removed their facepaint and disposed of their disguises.

There is also the story of Ann Bates, a Philadelphia schoolteacher who turned to spying for the British. Cunning, fearless and knowledgeable about weaponry, she was even able to penetrate Washingtons headquarters.

Included too is the more well-known story of Margaret Corbin who followed her husband to war. In a battle at Fort Washington in northern Manhattan, she took over the job of firing the cannon after he was killed.

The Maryland woman who printed the Declaration of Independence, Mary Katharine Goddard, further risked her life by including her name at the bottom. She was, in effect, the only woman to sign the document.

While you're on the museum site, take a detour to see Fighting for Freedom, about the estimated 5,000 Black people served as soldiers in the Revolutionary War.

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Conservative social media network Parler asserted in a letter to a Democratic lawmaker that the platform warned the FBI of "specific threats of violence" days ahead of the January 6 Capitol riot.

The letter, addressed to Democratic Rep. Carolyn Maloney of New York on Thursday, said the platform reported these threats to the FBI more than 50 times, the Washington Post reported.

Parler, which advertises itself as a platform for unregulated language and "free speech," said it alerted the FBI to posts containing specific references to the Capitol, according to the Post.

One post, published December 24 on the platform, was from a user who "called for the congregation of an armed force of 150,000 on the Virginia side of the Potomac River to 'react to the congressional events of January 6th.'"

Another user allegedly wrote on the platform that a planned event on January 6 was "not a rally" and "no longer a protest," lawyers wrote in the letter, according to the Washington Post.

"This is the final stand where we are drawing the red line at Capitol Hill," one user allegedly wrote, according to the letter. "I trust the American people will take back the USA with force and many are ready to die to take back #USA so remember this is not a party until they announce #Trump2020 a winner ... And don't be surprised if we take the #capitalbuilding" [sic].

The Capitol riot left at least five people, including onepolice officer, dead. Members ofthe Proud Boys, which is classified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center, were present, according to authorities.

Organizers wereemboldened by President Donald Trump's calls to protest the results of the 2020 election, despite Democrat Joe Biden's election victory. While members of Congress were meeting inside the Capitol to certify the results, supporters organized an attempted coupand stormed it.

Upon news that the riot breached the building, lawmakers began to shelter in place and many evacuated.

Parler, which has become a mainstay in alt-right communication, has been criticized and scrutinized for its alleged role in the Capitol riot.

As Insider's Jacob Shamsian reported, Parler's userbase is largely made up of far-right extremists. The Justice Department has previously said many of those extremists organized the violent events planned for January 6 using the platform.

And after former President Donald Trump's Twitter account was disabled, top conservatives began sharing their Parler accounts on the platform, encouraging their followers to gravitate there. Among them was Angela Stanton-King, a Republican QAnon supporter who ran in Novemberto represent Georgia's 5th Congressional District, the seat last held by the deceased Rep. John Lewis.

In the days following the Capitol riot, Apple and Google app stores blocked Parler for violating terms of service. Amazon Web Services also dropped it. These actions effectively took the platform offline.

In February, the company announced that site was up and running with a Tea Party co-founder serving as interim CEO. Mark Meckler, an attorney, political activist, and founder of the Tea Party Patriots, replacedformer CEO and co-founder John Matze, who was fired by the company's board.

Parler has previously shared information with the FBI during the DOJ's investigation into the Capitol riot.It's not clear whether Parler handed over information to the FBI after the Department of Justice issued a warrant or subpoena for it or whether the company gave the information over of its own accord.

Parler, Maloney's office, and the FBI did not immediately return Insider's requests for comment.

Insider's Jacob Shamsian contributed to this report.

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AUSTIN Texas House GOP leaders have set a Monday hearing in a key committee on proposals to weaken the COVID-19 safety precautions the chamber approved in January, including a face-covering edict.

The scramble is underway because top lieutenants to Republican Speaker Dade Phelan are trying to handle a tea party-style freshmans push to eliminate not just the mask requirement but allowances of virtual committee testimony and voting via laptop from just off the House floor.

Earlier this month, newly elected Rep. Bryan Slaton, R-Royse City, introduced a resolution rolling back all of the chambers public-health mitigation measures. A bipartisan work group that Phelan named in November, shortly after announcing hed secured the votes needed to become speaker, crafted the pandemic safety plan.

Slaton, who opposed the provisions, refers to them in his resolution as allegedly necessary standards.

Gov. Greg Abbotts moves this month to rescind his July statewide mask mandate and virtually disable his other COVID-19 restrictions on businesses and public gatherings should prod the House to do likewise, Slaton argued in his preamble.

In accordance with Governor Greg Abbotts Executive Order for Texas to be 100% open, the Texas House should also be open 100%, it says.

Neither House Administration Committee Chairman Will Metcalf, R-Conroe, nor committee member Tom Oliverson, R-Cypress, immediately responded Saturday to requests for comment.

On March 16, eight days after Slaton filed his repealer, Oliverson introduced a resolution that only would lift mask requirements.

Under House rules adopted Jan. 14, members, staff and visitors must wear masks in committee meeting rooms and on the House floor and in its upstairs viewing area known as the gallery.

Exceptions were made when people speak into microphones, or members are separated by plexiglass screens installed in committee rooms.

The rules also allow state representatives to participate virtually in hearings, as long as two House members are present in the hearing room. Committee chairs can invite guests to testify virtually. And to promote distancing, members can vote on legislation from the House gallery and adjoining rooms through secure laptops.

Oliverson, a physician, was chairman of Phelans pandemic work group. Another committee member, Fort Worth GOP Rep. Stephanie Klick, is a registered nurse.

If both of the Republican health care professionals on the 11-member committee join its five Democrats in opposing Slaton and Oliversons measures, they would fail to pass.

Rep. Michelle Beckley, a Carrollton Democrat who stayed away from the Capitol on the sessions opening day because she viewed the public-health precautions as inadequate, said Saturday that many of Phelans committee chairs havent enforced the mask mandate.

Half the time, people dont have masks on the floor, she said. Its been a joke.

On the floor and in committees, Beckley added, They dont even wipe off the microphones between speakers.

The Senate has required members, staff and visitors to undergo COVID-19 testing in a tent set up outside the Capitols north entrance, and receive a negative result, before entering Senate meeting and office areas, unless they can show proof of vaccination, Beckley noted.

At least a half-dozen House members have tested positive since late last year, she said, though most of the House members I know are vaccinated already.

House leaders have arranged for the chambers staff members to begin receiving coronavirus shots Monday, Beckley said.

Its just continuing the mismanagement that the governors had, she said, referring to the pandemic and the rollback proposals before House Administration.

New cases and hospitalizations and deaths have declined sharply from records set in January, according to state data. However, fewer than 3.5 million of the states nearly 29 million residents have been fully vaccinated, according to the Department of State Health Services.

They want the pandemic to be over, Beckley said. Its not over. Europes having a third wave right now. And our vaccination rates are really, really low. So its exhausting [and] I dont know what to say anymore.

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