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  Democrats have a golden opportunity. They're fighting each other instead

  Salon - Brian Karem

  This year’s election season has already been entertaining and promises to be more so — provided we don’t burn the country to the ground in the process. It will stop becoming entertaining when every survivor has to wear SPF sunscreen rated at least 1,000 just to take out the trash. Until then? Hell, …

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  Talarico floods Texas airwaves in U.S. Senate race as Paxton, GOP stay quiet

  Salon - Gabby Birenbaum

  WASHINGTON — With under nine weeks to go until early voting begins in Texas’ U.S. Senate race, both Ken Paxton and James Talarico have been campaigning around the state, meeting voters everywhere from restaurants to music halls as they’ve pitched their political visions. But on television, Texans …

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  Experts question new Trump admin analysis claiming noncitizens voted in 2020

  Salon - Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat

  This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the …

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  Mike Lindell refuses to accept he’s an election loser

  Salon - Troy Farah

  Businessman and conspiracy theorist Mike Lindell, best known as the founder of My Pillow and a prominent advisor to Donald Trump, refuses to accept his loss in the Republican primary for governor of Minnesota on Aug. 11. Lindell lost by 11 points to the Minnesota house speaker, Lisa Demuth, but did …

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  "I don’t trust you": Tensions reach boiling point on election security call for state leaders

  Salon - Dion Nissenbaum, Votebeat

  This article was originally published by Votebeat, a nonprofit news organization covering local election administration and voting access. Votebeat is a nonprofit news organization reporting on voting access and election administration across the U.S. Sign up for our free weekly newsletter to get the …

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  How Trump’s unprecedented effort to prosecute noncitizen voters fell apart

  Salon - Peter Elkind

  It was late March when Joe Teirab, the second-in-command at Minnesota’s U.S. attorney’s office, received an urgent email from Washington. The federal government was scrambling to find criminal cases to back up President Donald Trump’s claims that illegal voting by noncitizens was tipping the scales …