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Three takes on cancel culture, voter suppression in the primaries, and more

Efforts to make it more difficult for people to vote not only violate democratic principles, but are also illegal. The Fifteenth Amendment to the Constitution, prohibits the federal government and the states from denying a citizen the right to vote.

States can no longer deny people access to the ballot box based on unpaid court costs and fees, nor can they condition rights restoration on restitution and fines that a person cannot afford to pay.

"We will use every tool in our arsenal to block efforts aimed at discouraging participation by eligible voters this election season."

Delving into how Trump and the GOP can hijack the process, they find an untested law, procedural unknowns and few clear constitutional brakes

Abrams's impulse to reach for the lessons of history while staying fixed on the necessity of service to the future suggests she may be the singularly remarkable leader America needs in this time of unprecedented economic and social change.

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"Make America Great Again" is shorthand for "No to a Multiracial Democracy, Back to a White Republic."

A defeat to Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled Florida Legislature . . . A 2016study by The Sentencing Project estimated more than 1.4 million people living in Florida were ineligible to vote due to past felony convictions.

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