"The evidence proves that less than a week after issuing Directive 2020-16 the Secretary held a conference call with people from around the state addressing additional drop boxes...."
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"...State Representative Paula Hicks Hudson from Toledo participated. So too did Andre Washington, President of the A. Philip Randolph Institute in Ohio and a member of the Secretary’s own Diversity and Empowerment Council...."
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"...Both gave affidavits admitted by agreement in this case. Both testified that on August 19 the Secretary “stated that if a judicial order made it clear that the Ohio Secretary of State has the authority to allow county boards of elections to install secure drop boxes..."
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"...at locations other than the boards’ offices, then he would allow the boards of elections to do so.”...Although both affidavits have been part of the record since this case was filed three weeks ago, the Secretary has offered no response contradicting their testimony."
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The order he wanted to see has now come.
It's time for the Secretary of State to do what he has told the public and officials that he would do.
No more delays. No more appeals. No more wasted time.
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Yesterday was an exciting day! And an important one.
We just launched the @amyactonoh -Pepper ticket to take on Vivek Ramaswamy as he seeks to buy Ohio and keep giving everything away to those at the top.
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And folks, we need your help.
Here's why:
While Dr. Acton and I are working to tackle Ohio's affordability crisis and clean up the most corrupt statehouse in America, our opponent is flying around in his private jet, moving his business to Texas,
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is backed by unlimited personal wealth, special interests, and fellow billionaires.
This is the fundamental difference in this race. Vivek Ramaswamy can write himself a check whenever he wants. We're counting on you.
To fight back, we must be driven by people power.
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Few authors have more informed (and reshaped) my understanding of American history than Isabel Wilkerson.
I had the honor and thrill of hearing her speak the other night, and she shared a story and lesson I will never forget.
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I couldn’t take notes as she told it, but I will capture it as best I can, having done a little research to fill it out.
In the early to mid-1900s, millions of Black Americans migrated north, escaping the punishing life and crushing poverty of the Jim Crow south.
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As Wilkerson describes, these families were basically defectors: “American citizens [who] had to flee the place of their birth just to be recognized as the citizens they had always been. It was the seeking of political asylum from within the borders of one’s own country.”
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According to Strength in Numbers, “search interest for “Cancel Disney+” has hit an all-time high — even higher than the boycott movements from when Disney “went woke” in 2020-2022.
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The current Disney boycott is now 4x as large as any over the last 5 years, gauged by search interest.”
And those searches were just the beginning:
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And yesterday, we saw the result of that fierce consumer backlash:
A few weeks ago, when discussing the raid of John Bolton’s home, Vance kept describing the investigation with the words “we” and “our.”
It showed that Project 2025’s goal of erasing any independence of the FBI has happened.
And the true danger of that red line…
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…being crossed is playing out right now, amid the Kirk investigation.
“We.”
“Our.”
Trump. Vance. Miller. Bondi. Patel.
When it comes to an FBI investigation, they are all now one and the same.
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Which of course means that those who have already decided and announced who’s to blame and who should be punished are also the ones overseeing the investigation and, according to Trump yesterday, charges that follow.
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