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On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy (R-CA) pushed back against President Joe Biden’s voting legislation.

Psaki admitted that Biden’s speech “clearly struck a nerve” but pointed to Republican support for election integrity laws as evidence that they were opposed to voting rights.

Wednesday, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) criticized President Joe Biden’s voting rights legislation that would federalize elections.

CNN anchor Jake Tapper pointed out Tuesday on his show “The Lead” that Democrats were only complaining about voting restrictions in red states, while blue states like New Jersey and Delaware did not allow ballot harvesting.

Host Whoopi Goldberg said Tuesday on ABC’s “The View” that black people were “where we were under the Emancipation Proclamation” while discussing voting rights with Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY).

Tuesday on FNC’s “Fox & Friends,” Sen. Marco Rubio (R-FL) weighed in on the Democrats’ push to pass voting rights legislation that would federalize elections.

President Joe Biden plans to deliver an angry speech condemning Georgia’s election integrity laws on Tuesday, describing Republicans as a domestic threat to the right to vote and democracy itself.

The New York State Republican Party, naturalized American citizens, and a Democrat city councilman have filed a lawsuit against New York City Mayor Eric Adams (D) over a new policy that gives voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals.

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said on this week’s broadcast of MSNBC “The Sunday Show” that Republicans voting legislation in several states was motivated by racism.

Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that Republicans across the county are continuing “what they did on January 6, which is to undermine our democracy” with voting legislation.

House Majority Whip James Clyburn (D-SC) said Friday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that if Sen. Joe Manchin (D-WV) blocked the Democrats from changing the filibuster rules to pass voting rights, he should be condemned and likened to former Sen. Strom Thurmond, an opponent of the Civil Rights Movement.

U.S. Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) attacked Republican “opponents of democracy,” in a speech on the Senate floor on the eve of the January 6 Capitol riot anniversary.

U.S. Attorney General Merrick Garland said, “there is no higher priority” for the U.S. Justice Department (DOJ) than charging and prosecuting those involved in the January 6 Capitol riot.

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) Monday on MSNBC’s “The ReidOut” that the “new” Republican Party under former President Donald Trump was “viciously against voting rights.”

Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) is using the January 6 protest to advance “systemic reforms” in Congress — namely, pursuing far-left voting legislation — deeming it necessary to “repair our democracy.”

Democrats are hoping to use the anniversary of the January 6 protests at the Capitol to jumpstart stalled efforts on voting legislation.

Wednesday on CNN’s “New Day,” Sen. Dick Durbin (D-IL) pushed for changes to be made to the filibuster and the passage of voting rights legislation.

Democratic Georgia gubernatorial candidate Stacey Abrams on Wednesday sounded off on the push to pass voting rights legislation.

Senator Chris Van Hollen (D-MD) said Tuesday on CNN’s “Inside Politics” that the slim Democratic majority in the Senate is “looking at different ways to reform the filibuster.”

Vice President Kamala Harris said Sunday on CBS’s “Face the Nation” that passing federal voting legislation was about keeping the United States “standing in the world.”

Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-AZ) has wrecked President Biden’s hopes of destroying federal election integrity laws, causing Democrats to panic heading into the 2022 midterms.

Musashino, a city in western Tokyo, approved a plan that would allow foreign residents to vote in local referendums.

Allowing noncitizens to vote is “legally sound,” a “smart policy,” “good for democracy,” and even “rooted in both American tradition and ideals,” according to a USA Today columnist.

President Joe Biden has opted for a “diplomatic” boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing, but not a full boycott that would affect the athletes. Yet he backed a boycott of Atlanta by Major League Baseball, which withdrew the All-Star Game.

Democrats on the New York City Council voted with a veto-proof majority to give nearly a million foreign nationals the right to vote in local elections on Thursday evening.

More Republicans in New York are vowing to fight a proposed plan by the New York City Council to give voting rights in local elections to nearly a million foreign nationals.

MSNBC’s Jason Johnson said Tuesday on “The ReidOut” that the Biden administration should deploy a “federal takeover” of elections in Texas while discussing the Justice Department suing Texas over their new redistricting map.

A Democrat plan to give non-citizens the right to vote in New York City local elections has the potential to dilute hundreds of thousands of American citizen votes while ensuring that foreign nationals decide such elections. 

New York City Councilman Rev. Ruben Diaz, a lifelong Democrat representing the Bronx, is warning against a plan by the city’s powerful Democrat political establishment to give voting rights in local elections to nearly a million non-citizens. 

Democrats on the New York City Council are preparing to give voting rights in local elections to nearly one million non-citizens across the city. 

Representative Maxine Waters (D-CA) said Sunday on MSNBC’s “Alex Witt Reports” that she believed former President Donald Trump was leading the effort of Republicans to undo the voting rights for “people of color.”

The Polk County election saw a much higher voter turnout than in 2019, results which are contrary to “voter suppression” cries from Democrats.

Friday on CNN’s “The Lead,” Democratic strategist Paul Begala said Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) made a “huge mistake” by not letting any Republicans vote for Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) compromised voting bill.

During a town hall on CNN on Thursday, President Joe Biden said that he was open to reforming or abolishing the Senate filibuster.

Former Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) said Wednesday on MSNBC’s “Deadline ” that no Republicans in the Senate voting for Sen. Joe Manchin’s (D-WV) negotiated voting bill means the needle moved toward more Democratic Senators being willing to ditch the filibuster rule for a “carve-out” on voting rights.

New York City mayoral candidate Eric Adams, a Democrat, has thrown his support behind a plan to give nearly one million non-citizens the right to vote in citywide elections.