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This week three Republican-controlled states announced that they’re pulling out of the Electronic Registration Information Center, also known as ERIC. ERIC is a multi-state partnership that experts of both parties say is the only reliable, secure way...
by RickElia
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on Wed Mar 08, 2023 at 06:41 AM PST
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The Federalist Society pushes their agenda and showed up in downtown Orlando Tuesday. (Citrus Club December 6) They are flush with their success rigging our country by messing with the US Supreme Court. They use a gang approach to the law and push...
by CAHettinger
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on Thu Dec 08, 2022 at 07:40 PM PST
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It’s 2022 and we are once again seeing long lines, broken machines, voter intimidation etc etc. This crap does not have to happen anymore we (and I mean the Dems) have to move this country into the 21st century and make every state like Oregon. Oregon...
by jibjoob
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on Tue Nov 08, 2022 at 02:49 PM PST
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When Florida Republican Gov. Ron DeSantis signed a bill in April to launch what had all the makings of being a dark election-fraud special police, it was difficult to imagine it actually coming to fruition. And yet it has. In August, deputies from the...
by Rebekah Sager
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on Mon Nov 07, 2022 at 01:33 PM PST
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www.theguardian.com/… DeSantis signed an executive order on Thursday that eases voting rules for about 1 million voters in Lee, Charlotte and Sarasota counties, all areas that Hurricane Ian hit hard and that all reliably vote Republican. Meanwhile,...
by alkatt
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on Sat Oct 15, 2022 at 01:18 PM PDT
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Well, eat my wedgie, Batman—it’s obvious Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey isn’t about to let Florida Gov. DeSantis steal the limelight with his hating on the LGBTQ community, Texas isn’t going to upstage him with more severe abortion laws, he’s not about to let...
by Mother Mags
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on Thu Mar 31, 2022 at 12:27 AM PDT
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On Wednesday around 6:30 PM ET, the Democratic Party’s senators will attempt to break the filibuster in order pass essential voting rights legislation. So far, Sens. Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema continue to remain the only Democrats willing to join...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Wed Jan 19, 2022 at 03:55 PM PST
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This is not really a story but a short commentary on the continuing hypocrisy of the Republican party and antivaxxers, around the issue of “freedom” to do what they want with their bodies to have a vaccination or not— and some are refusing just...
by Cometblaze
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on Fri Dec 03, 2021 at 01:01 PM PST
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Welcome back to the weekly � Nuts & Bolts Guide � to small campaigns. Every week I try to tackle issues I’ve been asked about. With the help of other campaign workers and notes, we address how to ...
by Christopher Reeves
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on Sun Oct 17, 2021 at 04:00 PM PDT
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On Tuesday, Texas House Republicans were able to push through a final version of their new voting restrictions. The bill, created during Gov. Greg Abbott’s “emergency” session, took three legislative sessions to pass. While the state faces real...
by Walter Einenkel
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on Tue Aug 31, 2021 at 03:20 PM PDT
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Hopefully it isn’t against the rules of the road to use a diary in this manner, my apologies in advance. Where I live, voting lines are unheard of. So when the topic of long lines in Democratic stronghold areas came up in a discussion with a family...
by RiddleOfTheUniverse
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on Tue Jun 08, 2021 at 02:29 PM PDT
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The Big Lie is now the Republican Party’s only platform. They have zero policy ideas. They have proven over decades that they cannot run a government competently. In fact, one of the things that the COVID-19 pandemic makes clear is how deep the...
by Walter Einenkel
136 comments
on Fri May 14, 2021 at 09:32 AM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
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on Thu May 13, 2021 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Let’s face it. According to the polls, Democrats have generally outnumbered Republicans by a good four to five percent in recent years. But, because of gerrymandering and the fact that we tend to congregate in blue states and cities, our voting power...
by CTReformedRep
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on Thu Apr 08, 2021 at 04:35 AM PDT
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by Nick Anderson
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on Mon Mar 29, 2021 at 02:50 PM PDT
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Arizona GOP sued because they won't turn over ballots after they sued the County for *their* ballots Remember when Chewbacca Shaman (challenge: get 5 minutes into one of his YouTube sermons without brain cells wilting) and other Stop-the-Steal Poobahs at the Maricopa County elections building in Phoenix started protesting, even on...
by Mother Mags
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on Sun Mar 14, 2021 at 12:45 AM PST
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But of course, it’s about “election integrity,” right? So now the Arizona Senate has the November ballots that they demanded, but they don’t know what to do with them. For a group who says their actions are intended to inspire confidence in the...
by Mother Mags
272 comments
on Wed Mar 03, 2021 at 05:03 PM PST
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My son and I infiltrated Georgia for the Senate runoff races, and we experienced a bit of an eye opener, to say the least. Soon after the November 3rd elections, Lucas and I knew what we had to do. We wanted to be part of the important moment in U.S....
by JenMerrill
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on Thu Jan 14, 2021 at 03:21 PM PST
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In the gloomy funk and angst of the West Wing after the disastrous Rudy Giuliani press conference, everyone remembered when those momentous words landed when the President said: "So, it all comes down to Black people voting against me in Detroit,...
by theAngrySwamy
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on Sat Nov 21, 2020 at 07:03 PM PST
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In 2000, Democratic candidate Al Gore received a plurality of the vote in the state of Florida. Instead of President Al Gore, however, we got eight years of the worst President in our nation’s modern history (and I say that in full cognizance of the...
by LatteLibertarian
18 comments
on Wed Nov 04, 2020 at 08:31 AM PST
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