Why are Republicans quicker to steal our votes than to take our guns?

If a state wants to take away your gun, they must first go to court and prove there's a clear and legally defensible justification for that extreme action. You can appeal their move all the way up to the US Supreme Court.

On the other hand, if a Republican governor, Secretary of State or local official wants to take away your voter registration or refuse to count your ballot,

they don't even have to tell you they've done it.

Thomas Payne in his 1795 dissertation on first principles of government proclaimed,

the right of voting for representatives is the primary right by which other rights are protected.

To take away this right is to reduce a man to slavery,

for slavery consists in being subject to the will of another,

and he that has not a vote in the election of representatives is in this case."

End quote.

One of the ugliest legacies of slavery today is voter suppression, a tool widely

used in red states to keep Republicans in power against the will of the majority of the

state citizens.

BBC and Guardian reporter, Greg Pallist, recently noted on my program that, quote,

both Texas and Georgia are actually blue states.

The only reason Republicans have as

much power as they do in each is because of massive voting voter roll purges and

other voter suppression laws." End quote. Republicans embraced this.

this. While the media focuses on so-called issues like critical race theory,

immigration, and trans people using public bathrooms, the GOP knows well that they only hang on to power and

swing states because they've succeeded in preventing Democratic

constituencies from voting or because they can reject minority student and

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