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Mary Ellen Klas

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Don’t Let Trump Fool You. US Elections Are Fair and Secure.

Maricopa County Supervisor Bill Gates appeared before the House Committee on Oversight and Reform in 2021 and told lawmakers that “as a Republican...

02.11.2024 9

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Christians, You Can Stand Up to Trump

Vote to love your neighbor. That message on a lawn sign created by Dorothy Shank, a member of the Ridgeway Mennonite Church in Harrisonburg, Virginia,...

30.10.2024 5

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Why Do Some Black Voters Support Trump? It’s Complicated

A September poll from The Atlanta Journal-Constitution found Vice President Kamala Harris was 10 percentage points behind President Joe Biden’s 2020...

25.10.2024 10

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Don’t Let a Hurricane Take North Carolina’s Votes, Too

The North Carolina General Assembly spent the last four years passing laws that selectively suppress voter turnout. Encouraged by Donald Trump, who...

03.10.2024 10

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Brian Kemp Has Failed Georgia Voters

Georgia Governor Brian Kemp has the power to stop the partisan and likely illegal new rules created by three Donald Trump allies on the State Election...

27.09.2024 10

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Republicans Don’t Trust Voters on Abortion

Over a decade ago, when political parties didn’t treat their rivals as mortal enemies, the Republican president of the Florida Senate, Jeff Atwater,...

19.09.2024 8

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Lexington, Kentucky, Is Building Trust From the Ground Up

This column is a part of Republic of Distrust, a series about the loss of trust in American institutions and what can be done to restore it. If...

12.09.2024 10

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Trump’s Allies Are Creating More Election Chaos in Georgia

The Georgia Board of Elections — which is dominated by election deniers — approved a rule change Monday that will sow chaos into the state’s...

21.08.2024 10

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Trump and Project 2025 Are Now Inseparable

Donald Trump created a monster, and it lives. We heard last week from Trump’s campaign that reports of Project 2025’s demise “would be greatly...

04.08.2024 10

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Josh Shapiro Is a Seasoned Political Pro Who Should Be Harris’ VP

Conventional wisdom among political consultants says that a presidential candidate’s choice of a running mate has a marginal impact on the electoral...

30.07.2024 7

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Kamala Harris Has Work to Do and More Women to Convince

In the 48 hours after President Joe Biden dropped out of the presidential race and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris, she did something every...

29.07.2024 6

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Of Course Kamala Harris Should Be on the Ballot

Donald Trump is on the ballot. Joe Biden is not. That’s a simple matter of election law and timing. It’s also an inconvenient truth for right-wing...

23.07.2024 9

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MAGA Loves Immigrants — as Long as They’re the ‘Good’ Kind

The most alarming theme that emanated from the Republican National Convention last week was the party’s desire to turn its back on immigrants. The...

21.07.2024 7

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MAGA's Migrant Rants Conveniently Leave Out the Economy

During the Republican National Convention this week, the drumbeat of outrage over the flow of illegal immigrants across the southern border was...

18.07.2024 10

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What to Expect at the Republican Coronation

America isn’t a monarchy, but the Republican nomination next week of former President Donald Trump in Milwaukee will be as close to a coronation as...

12.07.2024 10

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Jill Biden Has Some Explaining To Do

As President Joe Biden continues to be almost as scarce on the campaign trail as his rival, attention is turning to the increasingly prominent role...

11.07.2024 10

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Trump Could Actually Lose Florida. Here's Why.

The Florida Democratic Party insists the state is in play in November, and that Donald Trump could lose there, delivering a fatal blow to his...

25.06.2024 10

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Texas Has a Good Thing With Its Open Primaries

The knives are out in Texas for Republican Speaker of the House Dade Phelan. That could be bad for all Texans. Phelan’s crime: He dared to work with...

12.06.2024 5

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Meet the MAGA Candidate in Sheep's Clothing Running for Governor

Mark Robinson, the North Carolina Republican candidate for governor, epitomizes the modern-day MAGA leader. Radicalized online, he transitioned his...

10.06.2024 10

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Marco Rubio Sold Out for a Chance to Be Trump’s VP

Marco Rubio was on the ascent as the next speaker of the Florida House of Representatives when he convened a 2006 policy summit in Orlando with...

30.05.2024 20

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Vets Want What Trump Refuses to Promise: a Nonviolent Election

As hundreds of North Carolina Republicans gathered over the Memorial Day weekend to elect delegates to the party’s national convention in July, a...

29.05.2024 10

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Nikki Haley Shows Us Who She Really Is: a Coward

Nikki Haley was once perceived by many Republicans as their hope for redeeming a party that had been taken over by a morally corrupt, lying and craven...

23.05.2024 10

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Exploiting Kids Isn’t the Way to Fix the Labor Shortage

School will be out soon, and for many teenagers that means it’s time to get a job. But there’s a new hitch: More teens will be recruited for adult...

19.05.2024 40

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Georgia Supreme Court Race Turns Into a Battle Over Abortion

A normally low-key nonpartisan election for the Georgia Supreme Court has turned into a fierce political fight over abortion in an important...

10.05.2024 10

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Florida Democrats Need to Get Everyone Into the Tent for 2024

Florida Democrats gathered at Walt Disney World in Orlando over the weekend to try to script a path out of the morass left in 2022 when the party lost...

07.05.2024 10

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Florida’s Abortion Ban Shows the Hypocrisy of ‘Right to Life’

Florida abortion providers began turning patients away from their clinics this week, even before the state’s six-week ban took effect Wednesday. The...

02.05.2024 30

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Tennessee’s Union Vote Is a Symbol of the New South

With a stunning victory this month, workers at the Volkswagen factory in Chattanooga, Tennessee, voted to unionize, sending another signal that the...

28.04.2024 20

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Tennessee Republicans Want to Turn Teachers into Gunslingers

Republican legislators in Tennessee have decided that the best way to protect the state’s children from school shooters is to arm their teachers....

25.04.2024 10

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Master Manipulator Mitch McConnell Isn't Done Pulling Strings

By all appearances, the Kentucky legislature’s vote on Friday seemed like a good-government attempt to let voters decide who gets to fill important...

18.04.2024 10

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What’s Happening in Tennessee Isn’t Funny

If you haven’t been watching the Tennessee Legislature, you’re missing out. Members of the Republican-controlled body, which is dominated by old...

05.04.2024 5

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Florida Voters Can Send an Abortion Message: The GOP Is Out of Touch

Florida voters will have a chance in November to tell Republicans that the party’s repressive and self-serving policies related to reproductive...

03.04.2024 9

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Trump's Big Lie Only Hurt Him. There's Data to Prove It.

Donald Trump’s takeover of the Republican Party has eviscerated the mail-in voting advantage party leaders spent two decades developing. Now, with...

01.04.2024 20

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NCAA Needs to Get Off the Bench in DEI Fight

Booker T. Washington, the founding president of Tuskegee University, once said “Ignorance is more costly to any state than education.” As Alabama...

23.03.2024 10

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Going It Alone Isn't a Covid Strategy. Just Ask Florida

As we mark the fourth anniversary of the start of the Covid-19 pandemic, it’s past time the federal government require uniform public health data...

17.03.2024 10

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MAGA Is Taking Over North Carolina — Unless Businesses Stop It

The slate of MAGA Republicans that will be on North Carolina’s ballot in November has the potential to be disastrous for the state’s economic...

14.03.2024 10

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Voters Must Finish What Nikki Haley Started

Nikki Haley announced the suspension of her campaign today. She lasted longer than everyone expected but the outcome was inevitable. She didn’t...

07.03.2024 10

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Georgia's Kemp Defied Trump in 2020. Will He Do It Again?

More than a half-century ago, stunt daredevil Karl Wallenda balanced on a 1,200-foot tightrope suspended above the rocky waterfalls of the northeast...

05.03.2024 20

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Trump’s Most Successful Deal? Selling Tribalism

In a meandering Valentine’s Day speech in North Charleston, South Carolina, former president Donald Trump did what he does regularly at these types...

22.02.2024 10

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Trump’s South Carolina Problem: Suburban Women

Nikki Haley has appeared on ballots in three states and lost to Donald Trump by double digits in all of them. She trails him by 35 percentage points...

18.02.2024 10

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The Border Crisis Is Everyone’s Problem. It’s Time to Compromise.

Republican Senator James Lankford is no moderate. The Baptist preacher from Oklahoma has been the lead Senate negotiator in the effort to update the...

01.02.2024 40

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It’s 2024 and Trump Is Still Losing on Obamacare

The iconic image of former Republican Arizona Senator John McCain giving the thumbs down in a crucial 2017 vote to repeal Obamacare still annoys...

24.01.2024 10

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DeSantis’ Flameout Should Surprise No One

Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ decision to drop out of the 2024 presidential race should surprise no one. Nor should his feckless endorsement of...

22.01.2024 10

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Haley’s Post-Iowa Push Will Be Too Little,Too Late

After her 32-point drubbing in the Iowa caucuses, former South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley stood before her supporters Monday night and boldly...

16.01.2024 5

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Free Speech on Campus Gets Snagged in Doublespeak

The opening sentence of the federal court opinion was like none other: “It was a bright cold day in April, and the clocks were striking thirteen.”...

16.01.2024 10

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A Jan. 6 Reckoning Matters Even if Outrage Has Waned

This weekend marks three years since the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol, and as Americans reflect on the shocking images and lies perpetrated from...

06.01.2024 10

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DeSantis Is Flaming Out and Blaming Trump

As Florida Governor Ron DeSantis’ presidential campaign flames out, he’s setting the table to blame everyone but himself. His argument? The dozens...

04.01.2024 10

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Moms for Liberty Flunks Its Own Morality Test

Moms for Liberty, the conservative education movement, has a hypocrisy problem. And a trust problem. It’s time they disband, or start over. The...

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