“Giddy” is not a word people use to describe Jon Tester. The towering senior U.S. senator from Montana is blunt and pragmatic. In the halls of Congress, he’s one of the last surviving rural Democrats. When he’s not in Washington, D.C., Tester runs a dirt farm in Montana that’s been …
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On the day President Joe Biden delivered a speech in Georgia advocating for amend Senate filibuster rules in order to pass voting rights legislation, Republicans argued against ensuring every American is able to participate in free and fair elections, preferring to keep laws that suppress the vote on the books. …
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UPDATE:Mitch McConnell and Senate Republicans on Wednesday blocked the Freedom to Vote Act from advancing, as expected. The vote fell along party lines, with all 50 Republicans upholding a filibuster to stop the measure, which is aimed at safeguarding the right to vote. Original story below. *** WASHINGTON — It’s …
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There’s a vintage Texas phrase that perfectly sums up President Joe Biden’s career-long record on voting rights: “all hat and no cattle.” It’s a way to describe a dude who’s all talk and no action —and it evokes the image of a fake cowboy strutting around in a Stetson hat …
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Republicans in the state of Georgia muscled through a sweeping new law that will dramatically roll back access to the ballot box in the nation’s most hotly contested battleground state. The new law, passed by both chambers of the state legislature and signed by Gov. Brian Kemp on Thursday, is …
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