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Angry text messages show Santos feuding with a GOP operative who is cooperating with a House ethics probe.
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Republican officials are undermining citizen-led ballot initiatives that seek to protect the procedure. Ohio is the latest state to get protections on the November ballot.
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Conservative activist Leonard Leo helped elect a judge in Wisconsin. Without him, the GOP feared their agenda would be “toast,” according to an email.
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Judge Jones ordered one additional majority-Black congressional district and seven additional majority-Black legislative districts.
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A Colorado court delivered a victory this week for the push to DQ The Donald.
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Through new and expansive assertions of privilege, Republican legislatures around the country are shielding their work on allegedly discriminatory voting maps to prevent the public from finding out how and why they made their decisions.