The Republican Party is building a wall around the ballot box to stop a crime its own leaders say hasn’t happened.
Bill Barr was the United States Attorney General in 2020 and found no evidence of widespread fraud capable of changing an election. Chris Krebs ran the federal cybersecurity agency and called 2020 the most secure election in American history. Trump fired him for it. Brad Raffensperger ran Georgia’s elections and refused to find 11,780 votes when Trump called and asked. Despite their findings, Trump’s Deputy Attorney General this week endorsed sending ICE to American polling places to protect against fraud that doesn’t happen. Federal law expressly prohibits it.
Trump cast a mail ballot for a Florida special election last week, then defended it at a cabinet meeting by saying his presidency makes in-person voting impractical. He is demanding Congress pass a bill that would restrict that option for everyone else.
That bill is the SAVE Act. It requires a passport or birth certificate to register to vote or change your existing registration when you move. A driver’s license doesn’t qualify. Nearly as many Americans lack a passport as voted in the entire 2024 presidential election. And the 69 million married women who took their husband’s name do not have a birth certificate that matches their legal name. Trump’s lies about the 2020 election stirred a mob of his supporters to attack the Capitol. Don’t let his newest lies send them back. Call your representatives and tell them to vote no on the SAVE Act.
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Defense Secretary Hegseth removes rank from military chaplain uniforms and cuts Pentagon's recognized religious affiliations from over 200 to 31, dropping Wiccans, atheists and agnostics.
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Source: The Washington Post [gift link]
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: NOTUS
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Source: The New York Times [gift link]
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Source: Mediaite
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Source: The South Dakota Searchlight
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Source: Newsweek
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: KOIN Portland
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Source: The Associated Press
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Source: The Hill
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Source: The Minnesota Star Tribune
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Source: EdWeek
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Source: NOTUS
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Source: CBS News
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Source: NOTUS
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Source: The Wall Street Journal [gift link]
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Source: NBC News
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Source: Axios
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