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Suppressing and controlling the vote has become the Republican Party's most urgent and most defining political issue, putting Washington reporters in the uncomfortable position of having to choose between covering it like any other partisan squabble — or as the grotesque, racist, anti-democratic sequel to Trump's Big Lie that it is.
This really shouldn't be a hard one.
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Reporters should be covering the battle over voting as a
civil rights issue. They should be putting it in the context of the urgent need to