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This week, Senate Republicans in lockstep blocked key reforms of the For the People Act that would address gerrymandering and big money in politics, plus enhance ethics for federal office holders. The Act would also strengthen voting rights—on which a big battle is now underway across the country.    While Democrats in more than half the states have lowered barriers to voting, Republicans are pushing them higher, with campaigns for at least 389  restrictive voter laws in 48 states. Alread...

(Alex Wong/Getty Images) Sens. Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Josh Hawley (R-Mo.) renounced corporate PAC contributions, several months after nearly 100 corporations announced plans to sever PAC support for the pair of lawmakers following their objections to the legitimacy of November’s presidential election.  The GOP senators’ no-corporate PAC pledges are the latest manifestations of the growing rift between corporate America and the Republican party it historically supported. In early January, a...

Trump leaving office in defeat | Morning Newsletter Ashley Hoffman, The Philadelphia Inquirer © TIM TAI/The Philadelphia Inquirer/TNS Adam McNeil, founder of SistaTalkPHL, an organization that supports Black mothers, stands for a portrait at The Laundry Cafe on Girard Avenue in North Philadelphia on Thursday, Jan. 7, 2021. Good morning. First: It turns out, he alone could break it — the impeachment record that is. Trump became the first president to be impeached twice yeste...