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“Peacefully” and “patriotically.” Why are these two words almost always excluded when what I view as the fake-news media quote then-President Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 speech?

A new report from the UNM Department of Political Science shows New Mexico had its largest voter turnout in recent history during the 2020 General Election. The “2020 New Mexico Election Administration, Voter Security, and Election Reform Report'' was...

The integrity of the voting process at risk, to changes in voting administration meant to diminish the authority of locally elected or not partisan election administrators. some have even suggested permitting state legislators to set aside the choice of the voters themselves. many of those enactments have been justified by unfounded claims of material vote fraud in the 2020 election. >> unfounded claims of vote fraud. attorney general merrick garland today saying that the new republican attacks ...

Substa substantially narrowed the reach of section 2 as well. since those decisions, there has been a dramatic increase in legislative enactments that make it harder for millions of eligible voters to vote and to elect representatives of their own choosing. those enactments range from practices and procedures that make voting more difficult, to redistricting maps drawn to disadvantage both minorities and citizens of opposing political parties, to abnormal post-election audits that put the integr...

News, i want to pick up on the rand paul point from the previous conversation. here is where the conservative base is on voter suppression via a tweet from a former daily caller staffer yesterday. the best way to save america is by fundamentally altering the voting process. photo i.d. doesnt go far enough. not everyone deserves political power. raise voter age, impose civic literacy testing. tied to family unit or land ownership. bases should have a tangible stake in the future. what in the 17th...

Other republicans are using in statehouses across the country to restrict elections and make it harder for people to vote. theyre using lies and conjecture to actually change the voting process. so rand paul and peter navarro might say stupid things, but that doesnt mean we shouldnt take them seriously. because heres the scary thing. maybe the peter navarros and rand pauls of the world are saying the quiet part out loud because they think they can get away with it. leading off our discussion ton...

Representative, your state senator, your governor. do not ignore these individuals in the voting process. you know, jonathan, in the issue of criminal justice reform and prison reform, they are 1.3 million people across this nation that are incarcerated in state prisons, state prisons. only 230,000 are incarcerated in federal prisons. where do the changes have to be made? at the state level as much as we do at the federal level, but passing the john lewis voting rights stat, getting that work do...

Not only are there state bodies advancing this lie, but in georgia, david purdue, running again. david purdue used to be a fairly normal republican. running on the basis he would not have certified the election and there were problems despite the secretary of state in georgia and despite the governor in georgia saying there was not voter fraud in the last election in georgia. >> absolutely. we see across all the states you named, not only are they perpetuating the lie and trying put in place per...

Right. today we are filing suit against the state of texas based on our determination that texass 2021 redistricting plans violate section two of the voting rights act. the department reached that determination after a careful assessment to the facts and the law. i want to thank the career staff of the civil rights divisions voting section for their tremendous efforts on this investigation. our complaint today alleges that the redistricting plans approved by the texas state legislature and signe...

Different situation under way in wisconsin, the republicans outright war on american democracy. the video we just showed you was that smoking gun confession from one ron johnson wherein he admits that donald trump simply got beat in wisconsin, and when you have lost ron johnson, well, that says everything. johnson thought he was confiding in that clip in a right winger about the scam to sow doubt about the 2020 result, but it happened to actually be a democratic activist. the important thing, th...