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Fact-Checking 3 Claims From Senate Hearing on Voting
Voting rights and election integrity have become significant issues in 2021 as Democrats in Congress attempt to pass a sweeping federal election overhaul bill at the same time as many states pursue election integrity laws. On Tuesday, the Senate Judiciary Committee, controlled by Democrats, held a hearing on state election integrity laws provocatively titled “Jim… -
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South America Has an Opportunity to Choose Freedom Instead of More Failed Socialist Regimes
The world witnessed two presidential elections in South America on April 11. One of them gave the victory to Guillermo Lasso, now president-elect of Ecuador. In Peru, an election that featured a total of 18 candidates is now going into a runoff election between Keiko Fujimori and Pedro Castillo. Both of these elections will have… -
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Senate Hearing Pushes Odious ‘Jim Crow’ Comparisons to Cement Liberal Power
Having been caught exaggerating and misrepresenting Georgia’s new election integrity law, Democrats have decided to double down and throw the weight of the U.S. Senate behind their dishonest and offensive propaganda campaign. In a hearing hyperbolically titled “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” the Senate Judiciary Committee on Tuesday became… -
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71% of Amazon Workers Reject Union, but Liberals’ PRO Act Would Undercut That Right to Choose
Amazon warehouse workers in Bessemer, Alabama, have voted 1,798 to 738 against unionizing under the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union. Even amid an outpouring of celebrity and politician visits to Bessemer to promote the union’s message, workers at Amazon overwhelmingly decided that it was better for them, their families, and the Bessemer community to… -
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Read Rep. Burgess Owens’ Explanation of Why Georgia Law Isn’t at All Like Jim Crow Laws
Rep. Burgess Owens, R-Utah, speaking during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing Tuesday, condemned recent attacks on Georgia’s election law that characterized it as a “Jim Crow” measure. Read the lightly edited transcript, below, or watch the video above. Thank you, Chairman [Dick] Durbin, Ranking Member [Chuck] Grassley, and the members of the committee for the… -
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Pelosi Defends Maxine Waters’ Call for Protesters to ‘Get More Confrontational’
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi defended the call by Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif., for protesters to “get more confrontational” if former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin is acquitted of killing George Floyd. Pelosi added that Waters’ comments, made Saturday in Brooklyn Center, Minnesota, did not amount to inciting violence and that Waters should not apologize for them…. -
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EXCLUSIVE: 21 Black Leaders Denounce the Left’s Lies About Georgia Election Law
Twenty-one civil rights leaders and prominent black conservatives defended Georgia’s new election law in a letter to the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, rejecting opponents’ comparisons to Jim Crow laws. “It has become clear that even well-intentioned critics of the law simply have no idea what the law is,” the black leaders write in the letter,… -
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What to Expect at Senate Panel’s Hearing on Election Integrity Law Cast as ‘Jim Crow’
The Senate Judiciary Committee will hold a hearing Tuesday to discuss a purported “assault on the right to vote.” The hearing, dubbed “Jim Crow 2021: The Latest Assault on the Right to Vote,” comes as the far left continues to criticize Georgia’s new election integrity law. Stacey Abrams, the Democrat who lost the 2018 governor’s… -
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Woke Corporations Adopt Hypocritical Playbook on China
It appears that much of corporate America has picked up the fine and proper art of virtue signaling that is so fundamental to the modern woke elite. Much has been said about how many corporations have stepped in to publicly denounce Georgia’s voter integrity law and have become “woke” on many other issues. A Yale… -
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The Death of Law and Order Is Destroying America
Unfortunately, history is repeating itself. Last summer, many of us watched in horror as rioting and looting took place in cities across the country. We saw police in Seattle abandon one of their precincts to a mob. We saw looters shoot dead a retired police officer trying to protect his friend’s store. And we saw nightly attacks on federal buildings in… -
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The Truth About Biden’s Infrastructure Legislation
While President Joe Biden’s administration doesn’t seem to need an excuse to spend money, two recurring arguments for his gigantic $2.3 trillion infrastructure proposal are that our roads and bridges are “crumbling” and that modernization would generate economic growth and jobs—hence its name, the American Jobs Plan. But none of this clever marketing makes any… -
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Planned Parenthood’s Denunciation of Founder Rings ‘Hollow’ to These Black Pro-Life Leaders
Black pro-life leaders condemned Planned Parenthood’s “hollow” denunciation of Margaret Sanger after Planned Parenthood President Alexis McGill Johnson distanced the organization from Sanger’s “association with white supremacist groups and eugenics.” Human Coalition vice president Benjamin Watson, a former NFL athlete, said Sunday that Planned Parenthood’s denunciation of its founder rang “hollow” in light of the organization’s current work…. -
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As a Boy, He Lived in Cuba. Here’s What Communism Was Like.
Rafael Diaz has experienced firsthand the oppression of a communist regime. Until the age of 9, he lived in Cuba under the rule of dictator Fidel Castro. From surprise searches of his home in the wee hours to an education laced with Marxist ideology, Diaz offers a vivid glimpse of the actual manifestations of an… -
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I Was a Black Teen in the ’60s. Don’t Believe Left’s Lies About ‘Jim Crow’ Election Reforms.
The right to vote is one of the most sacred rights that we as free citizens can exercise. Yet today, far too many Americans have lost trust in the fairness of our elections. That’s why we’ve made a commitment at The Heritage Foundation to work with state lawmakers across the country to make needed reforms… -
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Wisconsin City Clerks Weigh in on Green Bay Colleague Who Quit Job Over Outside Election Help
MADISON, Wis.—Former Green Bay City Clerk Kris Teske has been called a “superhero” for standing up against the pressures of city officials and outside election activists interfering in her office. Teske’s fellow municipal clerks also see the long-time public servant as a cautionary tale. “Before what happened in Green Bay, this wasn’t even a thought…. -
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Biden Administration Wants Schools to Teach Prejudice. Here’s What Parents Should Know.
President Joe Biden’s administration wants you to know your children are biased, and Washington has a plan to fix them. This week, the U.S. Department of Education announced that officials are preparing to use taxpayer money for K-12 schools to advocate the idea that America is systemically racist, and anyone who thinks differently, children included,… -
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Debunking the Left’s Big Lie on Election Integrity
It’s a sad, but inescapable fact: Today’s American left is incapable of honesty about elections. The lies are obvious, but the left’s control over all of the most powerful political, corporate, and cultural institutions provides a thick fabulist fog that obscures the truth Americans deserve to know. Perhaps the most abominable lie is the nationally… -
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Biden Team Reverses Trump’s Ban on Using Aborted Fetal Tissue for Taxpayer-Funded Research
President Joe Biden’s administration has reversed former President Donald Trump’s ban on using aborted fetal tissue for taxpayer-funded research. The National Institutes of Health announced Friday that “[the Department of Health and Human Services] is reversing its 2019 decision that all research applications for NIH grants and contracts proposing the use of human fetal tissue from… -
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Top US Nature Society Considers Renaming Birds Named After Slave Owners, Colonialists
A leading nature organization hosted a virtual roundtable discussion with several birding experts who proposed renaming birds named after slave owners and colonialists. The experts agreed that North American birds named after slave owners and colonialists should be renamed to make the U.S. and global bird watching community more inclusive during the event hosted by the American… -
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Why the Media Deserves a Failing Grade During Biden’s First 100 Days
President Joe Biden waited longer to hold his first press conference than any other president in the past 100 years. After waiting 64 days, the media had a chance on March 25 to ask the president about his agenda. Tim Murtaugh, communications director for President Donald Trump’s 2020 reelection campaign, was disappointed by what he…