PolitiFact s ruling: Mostly False
Here s why: Former President Donald Trump said that Democrats are racing to pass a bill that would destroy the integrity of elections and automatically register poor people to vote.
In a speech at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Orlando, Trump reeled off multiple objections to H.R. 1, including that it automatically registers every welfare recipient to vote.
Trump’s statement is misleading. The Democrats’ bill to expand voting rights would require multiple government agencies to help eligible people register to vote when they apply for assistance, but it doesn’t single out applicants for programs associated with welfare. And Trump omits that public assistance agencies already play a role in helping people register to vote. H.R. 1 would expand that effort.
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SANTA CLARITA, Calif. Planned protests against two Congressional Republicans from Southern California, Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (23rd C.D.) and Rep. Mike Garcia (25th C.D.) took place as scheduled on Fri., Feb. 26.
The actions took place in the cities of Santa Clarita, Lancaster, and Bakersfield, three bulwarks of the far right in California, as witnessed by their elected Congressional representatives.
The 25th C.D. has not always had ultra-conservative Congressional representation. A previous Republican representative, Steve Knight, also met with opposition from liberal and progressive organizations opposed to his past support for flying the Confederate flag over the Capitol. Those protests ushered in the 2018 election of Congresswoman Katie Hill, considered by many as a progressive Democrat. Hill was forced to resign after serving only a few months owing to a sex scandal orchestrated by her estranged husband. In subsequent elections, one
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‘A necessity, not a luxury’ Denmark students create #FullStop campaign to raise donations, awareness around period poverty Mounica Katragadda holds up a box promoting a sanitation drive that she and her best friend, Veda Nune, held at Denmark High School to collect pads and tampons for the Homeless Period Project in Atlanta. The two ended up collecting more than 400 pads and 200 tampons for homeless women and girls in the area. Photo courtesy of Veda Nune.
Denmark High School seniors Veda Nune and Mounica Katragadda walked into one of the school’s restrooms one day to find something new sitting on the counter near the sinks: a little basket that students had started to put a few pads and tampons in for others to use.