Voting Legislation Heads To U.S. Senate, Would Expand Fed Control Over Election Rules

A New Bill To Significantly Expand Federal Power Over State Elections Is Headed To The U.S. Senate, The Latest In A Traffic Jam Of Controversial Legislation To Be Decided On By Congress.

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Blackburn Op-Ed: The Assault On One Person, One Vote

As Parents, We Tell Our Kids That Their Voice Matters. We Teach Them About The Importance Of Maintaining A Free And Open Democracy And The Inviolable Promise Of “One Person, One Vote.” But As Congressional Democrats’ Latest Attempt To Upend The American Electoral System Revealed, The Foundations Of Our Republic Are More Vulnerable Than They Seem.

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Hagerty Op-ed: Why ‘For the People Act’ Would Disenfranchise Tennessee Voters

It’s An Unprecedented, Unconstitutional, And Un-American Power Grab That Would Disenfranchise Every Tennessean. Tennessee’s State Representatives Would No Longer Set Tennessee’s Election Rules, As The Founding Fathers Envisioned. And This Partisan Legislation Would Open The Floodgates To Illegally Cast Votes, Thereby Washing Away Lawful Votes And Jeopardizing Our System Of Representative Government.

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Woke Democracy In Corporate America

As The 2020 General Election Unfolded It Was Clear That There Was No Way That Progressives, Socialists And The Media Would Allow Trump To Be Reelected. And One By One U.S. Companies Fell Prey To The Identity Politics Of The Left As They Gathered Groups Like BLM, Antifa, Professional Sports Unions And Outspoken Super Star Athletics Into Their Anti-Trump And GOP Election Camps. They Saw The Writing On The Boardroom Wall When Joe Biden Eked Out A Victory Over Donald Trump. And Today They Are Turning “Woke” Faster Than Barack Obama Can Say, “Change!”

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Arizona Republicans Push Democrat Senator To Hold Filibuster Line

An Arizona Democrat, U.S. Senator Kyrsten Sinema, Is Facing A Grueling Test: Whether She Will Buck The Progressive Wing Of Her Party And Stand By Her Vow To Uphold The Senate Filibuster Even If It Imperils Top Democratic Priorities She Supports.

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For The People Act Is A Brazen Assault On State Authority And Free Speech

H.R. 1 would implode the rights of states in administering their own elections. This is in response, of course, to the hundreds of election-related lawsuits filed in the wake of ballot irregularities and various kinds of legislation making their way through state capitols to push back against some uncertainty about the November 2020 elections. But there is also an aspect of H.R. 1 that has not been much discussed, and that’s the silencing of speech. Even the American Civil Liberties Union, itself a long-established organization that is normally aligned with the authors of H.R. 1, has said that language contained the bill assaults the First Amendment.

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Voting Rights: Deep Philosophical Divide Underpins Policy Gulf

Republican Sen. Graham said, “They (Democrats) use the racism card to advance the liberalism agenda. H.R. 1 is sick, not what they’re doing in Georgia.”

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Texas Republican Leaders Vow To Fight ‘For The People’ Election Bill

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, The Texas Public Policy Foundation And Others Have Expressed Opposition To HR1, The “For The People” Act, Which Was Narrowly Passed By House Democrats To Alter Federal And State Election Processes.

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The Consequences Of Federalized Elections

The Founders Of Our American Republic Could Not Have Anticipated The Political Chaos Or Many Of The Other Changes That Have Re-conceptualized And Redefined The Republic They Created. But They Clearly Foresaw One Challenge That Faces Us Today – The Threat Of An All-Powerful Central Government. In The 1900s, Progressives Theodore Roosevelt And Woodrow Wilson Set The Precedent That The President Set The Agenda For Congress, Not The Voters, Which Negated The Founding Principles Of The Executive Branch.

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