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Republicans claim that the wave of GOP voter suppression laws sweeping across the nation are not a return to Jim Crow because they "apply fairly and equally" to everyone regardless of race and they don't contain explicitly racial provisions.

Major League Baseball is a conservative institution. It speaks volumes that it moved the All-Star Game from Brian Kemp’s Georgia...Baseball needed to make this move. It had to finally do more than talk a good game.

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Georgia was the first Southern state to pass a poll tax to disenfranchise newly emancipated Black voters during Reconstruction. Now it’s one of the first states to pass sweeping new voting restrictions, based on Trump’s lies about a stolen election.

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The ‘coordinated onslaught’ of bills touts the big lie of voter fraud that fueled the January 6 insurrection, says the former Georgia candidate for governor

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In his first speech as a US senator, the Rev Raphael Warnock warns Americans of a rightwing attack on voting rights. Here are his remarks.