compromise joe manchin is proposing? this is progress. this is a step in the right direction. you mentioned it protects mail-in voting. it protects early voting for two weeks. and gerrymandering. it would make election day a national holiday. those are four major pieces of the original for the people act proposal. so i m pleased to see senator manchin agreed to do this and i think we may have an agreement the senate can move forward on. the new york times frames at the growing support for mentions proposal reflects a goal for democrats uniting the party about what it has built as its highest priority in showing that were not for republican opposition and filibuster the elections overall would become law. would become law. remember when i said i heard the faint sound of hope? here s why it s so faint.
congress posed for the annual seersucker daily photo. but these symbolic displays mean little when democrats are dealing with an opposing party that will only make the performative gestures. discarding substantive action. case in point, republican senate leader mitch mcconnell dismissing senator manchin s efforts to gain bipartisan support on voting rights legislation. i ve taken a look at all these new state laws and none of them are designed to suppress the vote. there s no rational basis for the federal government trying to take over all of america elections. in what is an extraordinarily w. dubious constitutionality that would remove redistricting from state legislatures at hand it over to computers. equally unacceptable, totally inappropriate. all republicans, i think, will oppose that. senate democrats have to decide.
elections and right now we are gearing up for an ugly redistricting cry or we know republicans will take more power away from our voters. honestly we understand time is of the essence and we made that very clear today in the meeting with the vice president and to our senators but we also know in georgia we are used to these fights and we will continue to fight and make sure we can protect our right to vote. not just next year but we have some very important municipal elections coming up this fall and so we are running up against the clock but i know that our community organizers organizations our activists and our voters are ready for the fight. that s a good attitude and when you look at it. what does it look like in texas? what happens next with the standoff you re in? i will add that is one thing the vice president did recognize is the broad coalition of us as democrats are able to bring together to really put texas and we thank
Dark money groups are shutting down now that the FEC can enforce the law again
Matt Corley
In late December last year, two entities known for their role as part of a dark money network responsible for tens of millions of dollars in anonymously-sourced election funds quietly filed paperwork in Ohio terminating their corporate existence. The dissolution of these dark money groups coincided with the imminent return of the Federal Election Commission’s (FEC) ability to enforce campaign finance law after being unable to conduct official business during most of the 2020 election cycle due to repeatedly lacking a quorum.
The timing might not be a chance occurrence. The entities, LZP, LLC and Independence and Freedom Network, are the subject of a complaint CREW filed with the FEC that is still awaiting resolution. The complaint alleged LZP, LLC, which is a nonprofit limited liability company and a subsidiary of Independence and Freedom Network, acted as a conduit for
Raffensperger recounted the moment where he said things took a turn, leaning into dangerous rhetoric. When President Trump put pressure on the two U.S. senators, Republicans, to ask for my resignation, that’s when the death threats started coming in. I got a few, but then my wife started getting those and then it just degenerated even further and then she started getting sexualized threats and that continued for weeks, he said. What really brought it to a head is then we had an election county who was threatened and his family threatened and that’s when Gabriel Sterling, our elections implementation manger, went ballistic at a press conference, saying this needs to end, someone is going to get killed, and low and behold, look what happened last week at the Capitol, he said.