3. Then, on February 26, the Arkansas Times-Democrat reported that Get Loud had successfully registered 358 people to vote across the state.
Following the publication of the article, Thurston flipped on his decision to accept electronic signatures and advised county clerks like the one in Camden County to refuse to accept any registrations that didn’t come with a physical, “wet” signature.
1. Eugene Ramirez, the lead anchor of @WeAreSinclair's national evening news broadcast, resigned this year over concerns about the accuracy and right-wing bias of the content he was required to present on air, three sources told Popular Information.
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2. The sources, one current and two former Sinclair employees, said one of the primary issues that prompted Ramirez's resignation was the mandate to include 3 stories produced by Sinclair's Rapid Response Team each night.
One current Sinclair employee described the RRT as "the right-wing propaganda arm of the national digital operation."
3. Through July 4, 2024, the RRT has produced 147 stories this year that portray Democrats in a negative light and just 7 stories that portray Democrats positively.
Over the same time period, the RRT has produced 57 stories that portray Republicans positively and 22 that portray Republicans negatively.
1. For months, @elonmusk's account has been the social media equivalent of 2000 Mules
Musk has bashed mail-in voting as "insane," "too risky," and a recipe for "large-scale fraud"
Now, Musk is donating $180 MILLION to a pro-Trump Super PAC focused on getting Trump supporters to vote by mail
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2. On January 8, Musk wrote that it was "insane" that you can "mail in your ballot" in the United States. The same day, he said the government should require "in-person voting" on a single day, with few exceptions, "like other countries do."
3. On February 2, Musk asserted that the Biden campaign was involved in a scheme to submit a massive number of fake absentee ballots.
On February 5, Musk said that absentee ballots are used for widespread fraud because the nature of absentee ballots made "fraud traceability impossible."
On May 9, Musk falsely claimed that "widespread voting by mail" was "not allowed before the scamdemic" and now "proving fraud [is] almost impossible."
1. Trump's aides & allies are blaming Democratic rhetoric — such as calling Trump a threat to democracy — for inciting the attempted assassination
Meanwhile, the GOP convention features many speakers who use violent & extreme rhetoric
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2. Senate candidate Kari Lake (R-AZ) suggested she and millions of other Republicans would fight Trump's criminal conviction with firearms
“If you want to get to President Trump, you’re gonna have to go through me and you’re gonna have to go through 75 million Americans just like me, and I’m going to tell you … most of us are card-carrying members of the NRA.”
She is a featured speakers at the GOP Convention
3. North Carolina Lt. Gov. Mark Robinson (R) promoted the murder of his perceived enemies. “Some folks need killing,” Robinson said. “It’s time for somebody to say it. It’s not a matter of vengeance. It’s not a matter of being mean or spiteful. It’s a matter of necessity.”
Robinson is a featured speaker at the GOP convention.
1. Trump has COMPLETELY PLAYED the media on abortion
The GOP position to ban abortion nationwide, a possibility with the repeal of ROE, is deeply unpopular
80% of Americans — including 66% of GOP voters — oppose a national abortion ban
So Trump wants to convince people that's no longer the GOP's position
2. The 2016 GOP platform, which was ratified again in 2020 says that abortion was prohibited by the Constitution's 14th Amendment and called for legislation and a Constitutional amendment to make that "clear"
3. The Trump campaign strategy for the 2024 GOP platform is to say much less about everything, including abortion. The previous GOP platform was 66 pages. The new GOP platform is 16 pages.