There was no voter fraud. Barr, Wray, and Krebbs, all said it, and they're all republicans. So did every Sec'y State in America. Yet the Heritage Foundation has helped 47 states write, and some pass, almost 400 voter suppression laws based on a lie.
And their accomplices , the GQP, is doing everything possible to obstruct. The republicans are dead wrong about the lie, but they are dead serious about what they're doing.
Meanwhile, democrats are negotiating with themselves to pass just two as if they have all of the time in the world - and they're still at an impasse with themselves. For some, there is no sense of urgency. No crisis of Democracy.
I have my own ideas about who's at fault here, but the bottom line is the democrats had better wake up and recognize that they're in a war - and act like it. Otherwise the war will be over, we will have lost, and the democrats will never have fired a shot.
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PERSPECTIVE:

For as brave as Liz Cheney has been in standing up against her own party, we can't lose sight of the fact that for the entire previous 4 years, she supported everything about Trump and the GQP.
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