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Natalie Adona has announced that she will run for Nevada County clerk-recorder in the upcoming June 7 statewide direct primary election.

May 20, 2021 - 9:09am Republican state legislators, including dozens tied to the corporate-funded American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), are pushing to loosen restrictions on poll watching, which has historically been aimed at preventing Black Americans from voting. These poll watching initiatives are part of a broader movement to suppress voting in the wake of a presidential election and violent insurrection that didn't achieve what these lawmakers wanted. The Republican Party's use of poll watching as an intimidation tactic has a particularly notorious history, and was essentially pr...

Rand Paul and ALEC Are Working Together to Suppress the Vote Sen. Rand Paul walks through the Senate subway without a face covering on February 13, 2021, in Washington, D.C. Samuel Corum / Getty Images U.S. Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) last month said he has spoken with state legislators through the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) about passing state bills that restrict voting rights and impose greater legislative control over how elections are run. In a live-streamed video on April 19, Paul told Kevin Roberts, executive director of the Texas Public Policy Foundation, an affiliate ...

In a video with the right-wing Texas Public Policy Foundation, the Kentucky senator made it clear that he’s teaming up with the American Legislative Exchange Council to back Trumpian voter suppression efforts this year.

Congressman Lloyd Doggett’s video in which he condemned the U.S. Capitol insurrection was not played at Texas State’s virtual Inauguration Day ceremony due to a lack of time to receive approval, according to the faculty member who made the decision. Doggett (D-TX) was originally invited to provide remarks at the university’s virtual program on Jan. 20, a non-partisan affair, after it was switched from an in-person format due to COVID-19 protocols. While attending President Joe Biden’s inauguration, he was notified that his pre-recorded video, which includes quoted remarks ...