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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) is publicly offering to abandon his U.S. Senate campaign if Senate Republicans agree to change the filibuster rules and pass the SAVE America Act, a sweeping anti-voting bill.
As the MAGA base fractures over the decision to attack Iran, GOP Senators excoriate some cabinet officials in hearings, and House Republicans subpoena others, Trump and his allies appear increasingly desperate to pass the SAVE America Act.
The Republican-led House Oversight Committee voted to subpoena Attorney General Pam Bondi to testify about her role in the Justice Department’s incomplete release of its files on convicted sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein.
Kansans are fighting back in court to block a new state law that invalidated transgender residents’ driver’s licenses and birth certificates, depriving them of their required voter ID just a few months before the state’s 2026 primary election.
President Donald Trump and his MAGA allies are not letting a little thing like a shooting war in the Middle East distract them from their social media campaign for passage of the SAVE America Act.
The most restrictive voting bill ever passed by a chamber of Congress. The Department of Justice’s grab for state voter rolls. And a potential executive order giving President Donald Trump the power to take over elections — the Constitution be damned.
Both measures would effectively ban, or significantly hinder, voter registration drives run by schools, colleges, unions, and other civic groups that aim to reach unregistered voters and get them on the rolls.
Speaking with reporters Wednesday, Thune poured cold water on far-right activists’ hopes that he would quickly change the filibuster rules — the only realistic path to getting the bill passed a Democratic blockade.
The Florida House of Representatives voted 83-31 Wednesday to move forward with a sweeping voter suppression bill that could disenfranchise tens of thousands of Floridians, at least, by creating new requirements for citizenship checks.
Voting rights advocates and Democratic officials blasted President Donald Trump after he used his State of the Union address to promote the SAVE America Act — the most restrictive anti-voting bill in U.S. history — and repeat false claims of widespread election fraud.