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CNN
Key Race alert: Democrats have an advantage in 52 Virginia House Delegate races

In the Virginia legislature election, Democrats currently have an advantage in the House Delegate races, leading in 52 House seats while Republicans lead in 48, according to the Virginia Department of Elections.

In order to gain control of the chamber, a party needs to win 51 seats.

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CNN
Arizona Republican consultant Barrett Marson said, in short, his party should be scared after Ohio.

“Tonight’s results in Ohio should scare every Republican in a state where an abortion question is on the ballot in 2024,” Marson told CNN. “Abortion initiatives are both driving turnout among Democrats and forcing Republicans to talk about an issue of which they are on the wrong side of the electorate.”

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MS GOP just can't help itself.

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Democrat Cherelle Parker wins the race for mayor of Philadelphia, defeating Republican opponent David Oh. 💙

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Gabe Amo (D) first person of color to win RI 1st Congressional District.

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They ran out of ballots and extended for an hour in part of Mississippi Gov race because the Democrat, Brandon Presley, who is a second cousin of Elvis, is bringing out so much of the vote. 🤞🤞

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Dahlia Lithwick
The Horse Race Has Started, but It’s Always Been Here

In the political sphere, sure, but also in another branch of government

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Laurence Tribe
83 yrs ago today the 19th amendment to the Constitution was finally certified as having been ratified by the 36th State, thereby officially recognizing the full equality of women in matters of self-government in 1920, fully 50 years after Black men won the right to vote in 1870.

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Marc E Elias
Being a poll worker is one of the best ways to help protect democracy. Sign up today and help power elections in your community. ⚡

powerthepolls.com/democracydoc

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Finally reading words I have long wondered about. The question is, will they do it?

Congress Should Pass a Law Against Election Interference

Trump is unlikely to be the last sitting president to try to overturn the people’s vote.

Counting the votes and declaring a new president isn’t just an official government function or proceeding. It’s the very basis of democracy. It deserves to be protected by its own law.

archive.ph/1nOT7

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Marc E Elias
The vote suppressors want you to think voter suppression doesn't matter and the courts can't protect voters. The election deniers want you to think their actions leading to Jan. 6 didn't matter and the court's shouldn't hold the perpetrators accountable.

Don't believe them.

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Marc E. Elias

What is happening in Alabama is part of a national, multi-state Republican strategy to deprive Black voters from having full representation in the 2024 elections. We must all pay attention and speak up.
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Heather Cox Richardson
Running ghost candidates is one of the techniques outlined in the Russian concept of "political technology," designed to capture a political system without overt violence.

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Marc E Elias

Here are key dates and case developments coming up.

July 6, 2023: Oral argument in an appeal of a state-level lawsuit that will determine whether the white, conservative chief justice of the Mississippi Supreme Court can appoint unelected judges in Jackson (the state’s majority-Black capital) under a recently enacted, anti-democratic law, House Bill 1020.

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Dahlia Lithwick
It is not Debbie Downer to worry that there is a poison pill in the Moore holding that can destabilize elections. It's a logical bet on future outcomes based on the voting rights records of several members of the majority. If the court had wanted to blow up the Independent State Legislature theory altogether it could have done so. Whether something is dicta or a promise is not knowable the day it comes down.

nytimes.com/2023/06/28/opinion

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John Roberts and Brett Kavanaugh Really Did Just Save the Voting Rights Act

"The Supreme Court’s 5–4 decision in Allen v. Milligan on Thursday, which found that Alabama’s congressional map violates the Voting Rights Act’s ban on racial vote dilution, sends two clear messages..."

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Anderson Clayton
North Carolina Democratic Party Chair
"Whoever said democracy dies in darkness hasn’t met the new North Carolina Supreme Court, whose Republican majority is proudly and systematically hacking away at our democracy in broad daylight."

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How a Fringe Legal Theory Became a Threat to Democracy

Lawyers tried to use the independent-state-legislature theory to sway the outcomes of the 2000 and 2020 . What if it were to become the law of the land?
By Andrew Marantz

archive.ph/x7xMM

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The Real Story of the Voting Rights Case

If there’s one thing the Roberts court has been consistent on, it’s this

slate.com/news-and-politics/20

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Tristan Snell
Ken Paxton suppressed 2.5 million mail-in ballots in Texas in 2020.

Donald Trump only “won” by 631,221 votes.

Stop saying Texas might turn blue “someday” — it might already be blue

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