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Listen To Ann Coulter Say “women should not have the right to vote” – Audio

Ezra Grant — Sat, 13 Jun 2015 18:47:19 +0000

In the audio recording below, a famous Republican voice explained her position on women voters – they shouldn’t be allowed to vote at all. “If we took away women’s right to vote, we’d never have to worry about another Democrat [sic] president,” the Republican said. She then goes on to explain that taking away women’s […]

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Rand Paul Flips, Flops, Then Flips Again on Republican Voter Suppression Efforts

Ezra Grant — Wed, 14 May 2014 13:57:34 +0000

There are numerous examples where Rand Paul supported or supports – depending on the time of day – the Republicans effort to suppress the vote through voter I’D measures. That of course is not the news. What made news was an apparent effort by the senator to distance himself from his fellow Republicans when he […]

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Republicans Ramp Up Their Voter Suppression Efforts

Ezra Grant — Mon, 31 Mar 2014 12:17:32 +0000

The New York Times is reporting that pivotal swing states under Republican control are embracing significant new electoral restrictions on registering and voting that go beyond the voter identification requirements that have caused fierce partisan brawls. The bills, laws and administrative rules — some of them tried before — shake up fundamental components of state […]

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Is Hillary Clinton Running for President? Here’s The Answer

Ezra Grant — Fri, 28 Feb 2014 13:30:22 +0000

If your wife is planning a run for the presidency and the opposition has an in your face effort to suppress the vote, you would do whatever you can – legally of course – to make sure that she gets a fair shot at winning. And you wouldn’t wait until she announce her intention to […]

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Texas’ Voter Suppression Law Denied Former House Speaker the Right to Vote

Ezra Grant — Mon, 04 Nov 2013 14:04:14 +0000

Former U.S. House Speaker Jim Wright (D) was denied a Photo ID for voting purposes in Texas over the weekend by the state’s Department of Public Safety (DPS). The 90-year old Wright, who is lucky enough to have an assistant to drive him to and from the DPS office, says that while he believes he’ll […]

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GOP Official Brags – Voter ID Will “kick Democrats in the butt,” and “Hurt Lazy Blacks”

Ezra Grant — Fri, 25 Oct 2013 17:27:13 +0000

Another story in the Republicans fight to take away your voting rights. And this time, the truth about their real reason for implementing voter ID and other voting restrictions is once again told. In an interview on Comedy Central, North Carolina Republican official Don Yelton said that the changes Republicans are making would have the […]

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Rand Paul thinks that Evidence of Voter Suppression Does Not Exist

Ezra Grant — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 19:58:36 +0000

Despite the fact that he and his party are doing all they can to suppress the votes of African Americas and Latinos. Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY), a tea party senator with a long history of opposition to civil rights laws, told an audience in Louisville, Kentucky on Wednesday that there is no evidence of black […]

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Republicans Effort to Suppress The Vote Fails In Ohio – Early Voting Reinstalled

Ezra Grant — Sat, 06 Oct 2012 14:34:49 +0000

A federal appeals court ruled Friday that if soldiers from Ohio can cast ballots ahead of time, everyone else should have the same opportunity. The court said that the state had not shown compelling evidence for why only one group should be permitted to cast ballots on the three days before Election Day. The decision, […]

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Republican Voter Suppression Efforts Stopped In Ohio

Ezra Grant — Fri, 07 Sep 2012 19:35:17 +0000

After previously trying to restrict early voting, Ohio Secretary of State Jon Husted (R) today reversed course on his decision to block county boards of elections from setting their own early voting hours in the days leading up to the November election. Last month, Husted and Ohio Republicans led an effort to limit early voting hours in […]

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Federal Judges Strikes Down Voter Suppression Law in Texas

Ezra Grant — Fri, 31 Aug 2012 01:40:45 +0000

Voter ID laws have become a hot-button issue leading up to the November presidential election, pitting state legislatures proposing and sometimes passing such laws against civil rights advocacy organizations who argue the laws are designed to keep minorities from the ballots. In issuing their 56-page opinion Thursday, the judges wrote that the Texas law likely […]

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Pennsylvania Judge Okays Republican Voter Suppression Law

Ezra Grant — Wed, 15 Aug 2012 16:56:31 +0000

The Republican push to suppress American votes and kill democracy received the go ahead in Pennsylvania today, as a judge refused to stop the new voter ID law. Although lawyers for the Republicans provided no evidence of a voter fraud problem in the state, the law will now be enacted. Commonwealth Court Judge Robert Simpson […]

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Nikki Haley Plans To Sue Obama Administration To Implement Voter I.D Laws

Ezra Grant — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 00:33:55 +0000

Their attempt to suppress the vote in South Carolina with the implementation of voter ID laws, was stopped by the Obama administration, but this is not derailing the Republican governor, Nikki Hailey, as she and her administration promises to take the case to court in the form of a law suit. “The will of the […]

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Judge Slams Break On Nikki Haley’s Voter Suppression Law

Ezra Grant — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 20:03:25 +0000

Since winning the House of Representatives in November 2010, Republicans have been on a rampage trying all they could to suppress the votes of minorities throughout the United States. Republicans would have you believe that voter fraud is crippling our political process, and they are the only ones with the willingness and ability to fix it. If […]

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Voter Suppression – The Case Of 96 Year Old Dorothy Cooper

Ezra Grant — Thu, 06 Oct 2011 16:25:47 +0000

In all her years of voting, 96-year-old Dorothy Cooper from Chattanooga Tennessee never had any issues, in fact, she admits to only missing one election in the last 70 years – the vote for John F. Kennedy in the 60’s, because she moved and couldn’t register in time. But now we have Republicans who have […]

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Maryland Republicans Indicted For Voter Suppression

Ezra Grant — Wed, 22 Jun 2011 15:53:43 +0000

Two aides to Maryland’s former Republican Governor Robert L. Ehrlich Jr, were indicted on voter suppression charges last Friday. The two aides, Julius Henson and Paul Schurick conducted over 100,000 robo calls last mid-term elections, telling a predominantly black voting block in Maryland to stay home, because President Obama and the Democratic contender for governor Mr. O’Malley, had […]

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In Your Face Hate – G,O.P tells Latinos “Don’t Vote!”- Video

Ezra Grant — Tue, 19 Oct 2010 09:38:13 +0000

The Land of the Free and The Home of the Brave. These are the last few words of The Star-Spangled Banner, our National Anthem. They represent the core of what America is – a nation where freedom reigns due to the ultimate sacrifice of the men and women who died to make this freedom possible. Don’t […]

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