Matt Gaetz Wails About His Free Speech Rights, Then Rips ‘Loser’ Protesters Sounding Off

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Matt Gaetz Wails About His Free Speech Rights, Then Rips ‘Loser’ Protesters Sounding Off

Rep. Matt Gaetz (R-Fla.) touted a last-minute self-promotional appearance in California as support for First Amendment rights — then bashed protesters speaking out against him for exercising their First Amendment…

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Kamala Harris pushes voting rights as congressional bills stall

Vice President Kamala Harris held her highest-profile event since grabbing the helm of the White House’s voting rights efforts earlier this month, meeting with a group of Democratic state lawmakers…

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Texas Dems amp up voting rights pressure with D.C. blitz

The Democratic state lawmakers are set to hold meetings with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi; Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.), who chairs the Senate committee with jurisdiction over the “For the People…

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Abrams’s Voting Rights Group Unveils Effort To Mobilize Millions Of Young Voters Of Color

Stacey Abrams’s voting rights group will begin a monthlong effort to mobilize young Americans of color to support the For the People Act, a landmark piece of legislation that would…

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Manchin Vows to Block Democratic Voting Rights Bill and Preserve Filibuster

WASHINGTON — Senator Joe Manchin III of West Virginia said on Sunday in no uncertain terms that he would not vote for the Democrats’ far-reaching bill to combat voter suppression,…

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Manchin declares opposition to voting rights bill

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer is planning to put the bill on the floor the last week of June. Many Democrats view passing the legislation as a necessary response to…

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Tulsa Massacre Anniversary Sees Civil Rights Tourism, No Reparations

Brandon Bell / Getty Images Nehemiah Frank (left), teaches his cousin David McIntye II of the Tulsa massacre, in the Greenwood district, on May 28, 2021 in Tulsa, Oklahoma. TULSA,…

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Texas Governor Threatens to Slash the Pay of Lawmakers Standing Up for Voting Rights

In the wake of Donald Trump’s 2020 loss to Joe Biden, Republicans across the country, repeating the ex-president’s baseless bullshit, began insisting that the process had been plagued by fraud…

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Biden expected to use budget to strengthen abortion rights bona fides

“Biden is the leader of the party. He needs to send the message that he supports abortion rights,” said Destiny Lopez with the abortion rights group All* Above All, which…

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Why African countries back China against the West on human rights

African countries have not signed up to UN rebukes of China’s human rights violations in Xinjiang, Hong Kong or Tibet African countries are not among those calling out China for…

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