Republicans’ SAVE Act claims to protect elections, but its real effect is to block eligible Americans from registering to vote. By requiring in-person proof like birth certificates or passports, the bill would erase millions of lawful voters, especially women, seniors, military members, and people whose paperwork doesn’t fit a fantasy version of citizenship.
Illustration from the Unseat Ciscomani Team — Carol Braddick A year ago, Congressional Republicans, including Southern Arizona’s very own Juan Ciscomani, booked passage on the S.S. Trump, a luxury liner (with, reportedly, gold toilets), headed for a victory cruise on the placid waters of MAGA-dominated public opinion. Something, however, has gone very wrong on … Read more
Earlier in the week, Donald Trump raised another stink in his ever-ending pursuit, fueled by lying disinformation and public denialism, to create election infrastructure in his MAGA image by suggesting, on the recently departed F.B.I. Deputy Director Dan Bongino’s podcast, that Republicans should nationalize and control elections in 15 areas. Trump repeated his suggestions, backed … Read more
With Donald Trump, no basic freedom enshrined in the Bill of Rights is safe. That includes the Freedom of the Press. Days after the courts refused to grant an arrest warrant, the Trump Fascist Injustice Department went ahead and arrested local writer Georgia Fort and former CNN journalist Don Lemon under the ludicrous charge that … Read more
Arizona Legislative Republicans are back at it at the State Capitol, playing the same old MAGA-White Nationalist-Religious Extremist broken records of voting suppression and taking away reproductive freedom, sponsoring measures designed to take people’s rights away in both areas. In both chambers, Arizona Republicans want to circumvent a probable Gubernatorial veto by sending a ballot … Read more