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24 May, 4 tweets, 2 min read
And yet, she declined to acknowledge that there's a link between the ongoing lies about/efforts to overturn the 2020 election and current efforts by state legislatures to curtail the powers of state and local election officials in her #AxiosOnHBO interview that aired last night
I blogged about it — Cheney is trying to thread the needle of condemning Trump's election lies without also calling out the state legislators codifying them into law in states around the country, in many provisions that are solutions in search of problems businessinsider.com/cheney-stands-…
Cheney wasn't wrong that some aspects of these laws have been misrepresented nationally. But as @jonathanvswan so masterfully pointed out, these laws are nevertheless a direct appeasement of Trump's election lies — many address Trump's specific complaints businessinsider.com/cheney-stands-…

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24 May
NEW: In 2020, 6 swing state governors endured overt attempts to overturn their election results from Trump & his allies. Those offices & dozens more governorships are up for election next year, setting the stage for voting/election showdowns in gov races:
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NEW: 5 seasoned campaign finance experts told me that the Trump campaign's 2020 "money bomb" recurring donation ploy for fast cash (as reported by @ShaneGoldmacher) is unlike anything they've ever seen before — but the legal implications are still murky businessinsider.com/campaign-finan…
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.@SenateRules is holding a hearing on #S1, the Senate version of #HR1, starting in 10 minutes. Witnesses will include @EricHolder, three secretaries of state, @Tiffany_Muller, @thetrevorpotter, @FredWertheimer, and more: rules.senate.gov/hearings/s1-th…
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after a 4+ month election hiatus, I am BACK with live election results for you with @DecisionDeskHQ for two special US House elections in Louisiana, filling vacancies in #LA02 and #LA05. Polls close at 8 pm Central and 9 pm ET – live results will be here! businessinsider.com/louisiana-2nd-…
NEW: @jbletlow will win the special election for #LA05 outright without needing to advance to a runoff, Insider and @DecisionDeskHQ project businessinsider.com/louisiana-2nd-…
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18 Mar
Dr. Fauci is currently sparring with Sen. Rand Paul in this Senate HELP hearing over studies on reinfections (Paul claims, contrary to current CDC guidance, that he doesn't need to wear a mask bc he's already had COVID)
"You're not hearing what I'm saying about variants," Fauci says, trying to explain that people who have had COVID in the US aren't necessarily immune against emerging variants
"You've been vaccinated and you parade around in two masks for show," Paul retorts
Fauci says that for ppl who have had COVID: "You get a certain level of antibody that's specific to a certain viral strain...you have some spillover immunity for sure, but it declines by a factor of 2 to 8" (I'm paraphrasing a little but that's the gist)
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17 Mar
NEW: By now, you've likely read that the stat that state lawmakers have intro'd 250+ bills to restrict voting.
At the same time, deep-blue states & Dem legislators in red states are also working to expand voting access, quietly moving the needle nationally businessinsider.com/some-states-qu…
On the other side of that stat (which comes from the @brennancenter), lawmakers have actually intro'd over 700 measures to *expand* voting access. But as @swerenbecker points not all bills have the same chance of passing, depending on the state context businessinsider.com/some-states-qu…
The experts at @voteathome said in a blog post last week that per their analysis, only 15% of all election-related bills intro'd this year would restrict mail voting specifically, arguing that we shouldn’t miss the forest for the trees voteathome.medium.com/mid-session-up…
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