Legacy media paints Harmeet Dhillon as plucky underdog fighting ‘woke ideology’
To the legacy media, Harmeet Dhillon has spent her career as an underdog — bravely swimming against the liberal tide
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Trump: ‘I WILL NEVER (EVER!) ENDORSE’ any senator who votes against SAVE
Republicans will bring the bill — deemed the most restrictive election legislation in U.S. history — to the Senate floor for debate today.
Even red states are defiantly rejecting DOJ’s demands for private voter data
At least eight states led by GOP election chiefs have so far refused the DOJ’s demands to hand over its unredacted voter rolls.
Voting is still not accessible for the disability community. The GOP’s SAVE America Act would magnify suppression
The disability community has been fighting for the right to vote for decades. The GOP’s SAVE America Act, the most restrictive voting bill in U.S. history, threatens to roll back this progress with new draconian restrictions.
Amid new GOP-led restrictions, North Carolina students lead a fight to vote during the midterm primary
Thousands of North Carolina students do not have easy access to on-campus voting sites this primary season because of a state election board decision. But students are still rallying to get out the vote.
Right-wing influencers are going viral claiming voter fraud. The problem? They’re wrong
Far-right figures and conservative influencers are pushing out false narratives of widespread voter fraud with videos highlighting decrepit and abandoned buildings or empty lots, where they claim people are illegally registered to vote.
‘We want to take over’: All the (recent) times Trump has talked about controlling elections
Over the past month, President Trump has gone on the attack against democratic elections, again denying that he lost the 2020 presidential race and expressing his desire to seize ballots, cancel votes and strip the states of control over elections.
Leading election denier claimed DHS ‘wants to partner with us’ on voter roll checks. Now he’s a top official there
The comments raise new questions about how closely DHS worked with right-wing groups seeking to challenge state election systems, and underscore concerns about some of those same groups now having access to government databases.
Vote centers have made it easier to vote. Cleta Mitchell is coming for them
The battle over vote centers is currently playing out in Arizona, where Gov. Katie Hobbs (D) last year vetoed a GOP bill to abolish the use of them.
Republicans are desperate to crack down on direct democracy
Across the country, a growing number of Republican-led state legislatures are moving to gut the direct democracy process — stripping voters of their power to use ballot measures to pass laws when elected officials refuse to act.
