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Texas Republicans Advance New Voter Suppression Bill

The New York Times reports: After an extraordinary all-night hearing, a Republican-backed bill to overhaul the state’s voting system cleared a key House committee in the Texas Legislature on Sunday morning, advancing the measure on an accelerated path toward a vote in the full 150-member chamber. The vote by the House committee, which was conducted at about 7:30 a.m. after …

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Harris Unveils $25M DNC Get Out The Vote Project

Axios reports: Vice President Kamala Harris announced Thursday that the Democratic National Committee will invest an additional $25 million to expand its voter access initiatives ahead of the 2022 midterm elections. According to the DNC, the $25 million investment will go to efforts aimed at registering millions of new voters, assembling a voter protection team to use the courts to …

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SCOTUS Sides With AZ GOP On Voter Suppression Laws

CBNC reports: The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled 6-3 to uphold Arizona voting rules supported by Republicans that Democrats alleged unlawfully discriminated against the state’s Native American, Hispanic and Black voters. The case concerned two Arizona voting rules that a federal appeals court found to be in violation of the Voting Rights Act, citing their disproportionate impact on minorities. One …

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GA Gov Rages: The Far-Left Has Weaponized The DOJ

Via press release from GOP Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp: This lawsuit is born out of the lies and misinformation the Biden administration has pushed against Georgia’s Election Integrity Act from the start. Joe Biden, Stacey Abrams, and their allies tried to force an unconstitutional elections power grab through Congress – and failed. Now, they are weaponizing the U.S. Department of …

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DOJ To Sue Georgia Over GOP Voter Suppression Law

The Washington Post reports: The Justice Department will file a federal lawsuit Friday against the state of Georgia for its efforts to enact new voting restrictions that federal authorities allege discriminate against Black Americans, according to people familiar with the matter. The legal challenge takes aim at Georgia’s Election Integrity Act, which was passed in March by the Republican-led state …

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All Republican Senators Vote To Block Voting Rights Bill

The New York Times reports: Senate Republicans on Tuesday blocked the most ambitious voting rights legislation to come before Congress in a generation, using the filibuster to deal a blow to a bid by President Biden and Democrats to counter a wave of state-level ballot restrictions and fueling a political battle that promises to shape the 2022 elections. All 50 …

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McConnell: Voting Rights Bill Is “Rotten Power Grab”

CNN reports: Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell spoke out against the Democrats’ voting legislation that faces a key test vote at 5:30 p.m. ET today. He described it as a “transparent plan to tilt every election in America permanently in their favor,” saying that it would let Democrats “take a red pen to election laws in each of the 50 …

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Graham Opposes Dem Voting Rights Bill In Any Form

“In my view, SR-1 is the biggest power grab in the history of the country. It mandates ballot harvesting, no voter ID. It does away with the states being able to redistrict when you have population shifts. “It’s just a bad idea, and it’s a problem that most Republicans are not going to sign – they’re trying to fix a …

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Georgia To Purge 100K Voters From Registration Rolls

CNN reports: More than 100,000 names will be removed from Georgia’s voter registration rolls in an attempt to keep the state’s voter files “up to date,” Georgia’s secretary of state announced Friday. “Making sure Georgia’s voter rolls are up to date is key to ensuring the integrity of our elections,” Republican Brad Raffensperger said in a statement. “There is no …

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Texas Gov Defunds State Legislature To Punish Dems For Walking Out To Block GOP Voter Suppression Bill

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott on Friday followed through on a threat to veto a section of the state budget that funds the Texas Legislature, its staffers and legislative agencies. The governor’s move targeting lawmaker pay comes after House Democrats walked out in the final days of the regular legislative session, breaking quorum, to block passage of Senate …

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Cultists File $1B Suit Over Moving Of All-Star Game

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports: A 21-page lawsuit by conservative small-business advocacy organization Job Creators Network, filed Monday in federal court in New York, demands the immediate return of the game to Atlanta and $100 million in damages to local and state small businesses. The suit also seeks $1 billion in punitive damages. MLB, the MLB Players Association, Commissioner of Baseball …

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TX Gov Vows To Defund Legislature Over Dem Walkout

The Texas Tribune reports: Gov. Greg Abbott said Monday he would veto the section of the state budget that funds the Legislature hours after a Democratic walkout killed his priority elections bill. “No pay for those who abandon their responsibilities,” Abbott said in a tweet. “Stay tuned.” Late Sunday night, enough Democrats left the House to break a quorum and …

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Texas Dems Stage Midnight Walkout In Attempt To Stop Voter Suppression Bill, Governor Vows Special Session

The Texas Tribune reports: The sweeping overhaul of Texas elections and voter access was poised from the beginning of the session to pass into law. It had the backing of Republican leaders in both chambers of the Legislature. It had support from the governor. Democrats who opposed the bill, chiding it as a naked attempt of voter suppression, were simply …

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Texas Senate Pushes Through Voting Restrictions Bill

The Texas Tribune reports: In the course of several hours Saturday and early Sunday, Senate Republicans hurtled to move forward on a sweeping voting bill negotiated behind closed doors where it doubled in length and grew to include voting law changes that weren’t previously considered. Over Democrats’ objections, they suspended the chamber’s own rules to narrow the window lawmakers had …

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Texas Poised To Approve Sprawling Voting Restrictions

The New York Times reports: Texas lawmakers on Saturday finished drafting a bill that would impose a raft of new voting restrictions, setting up the likely passage of what would be among the most far-reaching laws in Republicans’ nationwide drive to overhaul elections systems and limit voting. The bill would tighten what are already some of the country’s strictest voting …

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Cheney Defends GOP Voter Suppression Bills [VIDEO]

Axios reports: Rep. Liz Cheney (R-Wyo.) told “Axios on HBO” that she won’t support Democrats in their fight against the GOP’s push for more restrictive voting laws — a sign that she’ll be no hero to the resistance. Ten days after losing her House Republican post, Cheney is trying to put former President Trump’s Big Lie about the election in …

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Texas Bill Would Cut Polling Places In Urban Areas

The Texas Tribune reports: The number of Election Day polling places in largely Democratic parts of major Texas counties would fall dramatically under a Republican proposal to change how Texas polling sites are distributed, a Texas Tribune analysis shows. Voting options would be curtailed most in areas with higher shares of voters of color. Relocating polling sites is part of …

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Leaked Video Shows Right Wing Group Boasting They Wrote Voter Suppression Bills: “Nobody Even Noticed”

Mother Jones reports: In a private meeting last month with big-money donors, the head of a top conservative group boasted that her outfit had crafted the new voter suppression law in Georgia and was doing the same with similar bills for Republican state legislators across the country. “In some cases, we actually draft them for them,” she said, “or we …

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GOP Arizona Gov Signs Bill Allowing Purge Of Voter Rolls

Phoenix’s ABC News affiliate reports: Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey has signed a bill making it easier to purge infrequent voters from a list of those who automatically get a ballot each election. The Republican governor acted hours after state Senate Republicans approved the measure Tuesday over protests from Democrats and prominent business leaders who said the measure would suppress the …

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TODAY: Senate Begins Battle On Voting Rights Bill

CBS News reports: The Senate Rules Committee will consider amendments on Tuesday to S.1, the For the People Act, a massive voting and elections bill that Democrats claim is necessary to counter new voting restrictions being considered by multiple states. Committee Chair Amy Klobuchar announced last month that the committee would hold a “markup” session on the bill on May …

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