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voters with disabilities Voting 

Barriers for 40.2 Million Voters with Disabilities

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New laws to protect the 2024 presidential are creating barriers for Americans with disabilities, disability rights advocates have told CBS News and others. More than 20 states now restrict mail-in ballots. This includes limiting the kinds of assistance a voter can ask for which restrict the ability of caregivers to help prepare a ballot for the people they care for. Some laws threaten criminal charges for aides who help the disabled vote. Many new laws are the aftereffect of the 2020 elections when former President Donald Trump questioned the security…

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Wisconsin Voters Voting 

Wisconsin: The RNC’s Voter Intimidation Efforts

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Through lawsuits designed to purge voter rolls, bills to increase voter ID requirements and appeals to peel back mail-in voting, Republicans are using tactics to make it harder to vote. Swing states have become a key target of voter suppression legislation. The Republican National Committee’s “Protect the Vote Tour” is recruiting volunteer poll watchers and lawyers across the country that can best be described as a “Deter the Vote Tour.” Its strategy is to stoke unfounded panic about alleged voter fraud and intensify barriers to vote for any voters they…

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Politics 

Kamala Harris accepts the Democrats’ nomination to be president

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On Thursday night Kamala Harris accepted the Democrats’ nomination to be president. Just over a month after Joe Biden exited the race and passed her the baton, this was the most important speech of Kamala Harris’s career. Harris emerged on the blue carpeted stage at 9:31 pm to thunderous cheers. She is the first Black woman and person of South Asian descent to be a major party nominee for U.S. President. Harris told her story on the historic night. Harris was in control, shared her values, told the country where…

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What Mitt Romney Saw in the Senate

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Photographs by Yael Malka This article was featured in One Story to Read Today, a newsletter in which our editors recommend a single must-read from The Atlantic, Monday through Friday. For most of his life, Mitt Romney has nursed a morbid fascination with his own death, suspecting that it might assert itself one day suddenly and violently. He controls what he can, of course. He wears his seat belt, and diligently applies sunscreen, and stays away from secondhand smoke. For decades, he’s followed his doctor’s recipe for longevity with monastic…

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Will Rollins for Congress by Congressman Adam Schiff

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I’ve spent years holding Donald Trump and the GOP accountable for their attacks on our democracy. That work continues, but if we’re going to protect the right to vote, prevent more abuses of power, and combat misinformation, we cannot let Republicans retake control of Congress. We just can’t. The good news is that in California’s 41st District, a Will Rollins victory gives us a chance to both keep the House blue and elect a representative who understands the very real and ongoing danger that extremism poses to our democracy. As…

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Pelosi home break in Congress 

Conspiracy theory on Pelosi home break-in proven to be baseless

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Conspiracy theories and disinformation spread extensively by prominent conservatives based on innuendo and falsehoods have been shown to be baseless by mounds of evidence, including statements by the attacker. Posted 11/2/2021 and last updated 11/3/2022. The break-in conspiracy theory centers around images showing some broken glass on the outside of the rear door of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s San Francisco home. The suspect assaulted her husband Paul Pelosi with a hammer. It resulted in injuries requiring surgery to repair a skull fracture and serious injuries to Mr. Pelosi’s right arm…

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