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It's the poll tax, stupid

Via theprovocation.net Regular readers know how often I fume about voter suppression, especially in light of the appalling Voter I.D. laws (scroll) popping up all over the country: Again, new voter...

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Pennsylvania stipulates that there's no in-person voter fraud

Attempts by Republican-run states to suppress the vote is getting so bad that it has even become a story arc in the comic strip Doonesbury. As you know, I write about Voter I.D. laws all the time,...

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Pennsylvania Voter I.D. opponents: “We think this should be a slam dunk...

Here is Pennsylvania’s legal stipulation that there is no voter fraud. Voter I.D. laws are a huge issue that needs more attention, which is why I post the following repeatedly: New voter registration...

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VIDEO-- Republican consultant: Voter ID laws, long lines "help our side."

  Former Florida GOP leaders, including Charlie Crist, recently said that voter suppression was the reason for new state election laws. In fact, former Florida Republican Party chairman Jim Greer came...

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VIDEO: "If you're an American citizen and the president is going to kill you,...

The L.A. Times: The administration's legal justification for drone strikes, outlined in a Justice Department paper that became public Monday night, states that an "informed, high-level official" can...

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Elizabeth Warren: "When banks are too big to fail, too big to jail, too big...

http://warren.senate.govSenator Elizabeth Warren's Q&A at the March 7, 2013 Banking Committee hearing entitled "Patterns of Abuse: Assessing Bank Secrecy Act Compliance and Enforcement." Witnesses...

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VIDEO: Bernie Sanders Writes Law to Break Them Up: 10 Largest Banks Bigger...

Your Daily Dose of BuzzFlash at Truthout, via my pal Mark Karlin: As Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vermont)  charges in a news release issued from his Senate office: The 10 largest banks in the United States...

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VIDEO: A.G. Holder speaks. Justice Dep't. opens criminal inquiry into I.R.S....

Just the facts, ma'am... Via a New York Times email alert: Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said on Tuesday that he had ordered the Justice Department and the F.B.I. to open an investigation into...

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VIDEO-- Jay Carney: "Imagine the story on Fox" if President Obama checked...

Jay Carney on why President Obama hadn't called Attorney General Eric Holder regarding the AP phone records probe: "A great deal prevents the president from doing that, it would be wholly...

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VIDEO: Holder to Issa (who voted against media shield Law): Your conduct "is...

So many stories to report, so little time. Here's something that's been eating at me for awhile now, and someone whose work I respect and admire feels the same way. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Apparently it...

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"Blame Congress" for IRS procedures. "But don't look to Congress to fix...

Today's L.A. Times letters to the editor, because our voices matter: Re "Anger widens as IRS details emerge," May 14 While members of Congress want to know more about the IRS targeting of conservative...

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VIDEO-- Arianna Huffington: Karl Rove is the "Michael Jordan of politicizing...

My frustration with the Sunday political talk shows is through the roof. The guests rarely, if ever, include Progressives, and if they do, they are outnumbered by ConservaDems, conservative...

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Video- Fox's Kilmeade Uses Testimony Under Scrutiny As Evidence That AG...

That's right up there with Bill Frist diagnosing Terry Shiavo over the television waves. Ugh. Via MM. The post Video- Fox's Kilmeade Uses Testimony Under Scrutiny As Evidence That AG Holder May Have...

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A.G. Eric Holder on SCOTUS VRA ruling: "These problems have not been...

The Voting Rights Act ruling by the Supreme Court has many of us boiling mad. Hopefully, that anger and frustration, that feeling in the pit of our stomachs, that reaction to the assault on our rights...

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VIDEO: Atty. Gen. Holder to challenge states on voting rights

THANK you: Visit NBCNews.com for breaking news, world news, and news about the economy As Pete Williams just said on MSNBC, the cop is still on the beat, and you don't get a free pass now, despite the...

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Justice Dep't. files lawsuit against Texas voter ID law

The Voter I.D. laws (AKA poll taxes) that GOP-run states are implementing are completely unnecessary, because voter fraud is nearly non-existent. But they do prevent voters from voting. Especially...

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Elizabeth Warren Reads Riot Act to Holder for Not Prosecuting Big Bank...

Today the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the Texas voter ID law. That is welcome news, and it's great to see Attorney General Holder step up like that. However, he needs to be equally...

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VIDEO: Speeches by A.G. Holder, Asean Johnson, Rep. John Lewis, Rev. Al...

The following speeches were some of the best of the best (There were so many!) at today's March On Washington's 5oth anniversary. The videos show four incredible speeches in full made by a very...

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Finally: Dep't. of Justice suing North Carolina over voting restrictions

MSNBC is now reporting that Attorney General Holder has announced the lawsuit against North Carolina. This is about Voter I.D. laws (scroll), voter registration, early voting, and casting ballots in...

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We can't handle a shackled guy in federal court, for Christiangodsake, don't...

Remember back in 2009 how Republicans were screaming and panicking over the possibility of holding 9/11 trials in a downtown Manhattan, USA federal court? OH MY GOD! TERRISTS ON U.S. SOIL! Right there...

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