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Adrian Fontes
@adrianfontes· AZ· Jul 28, 2022

Congress shall have the power to call for the militia, execute the laws of the Union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions.

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Adrian Fontes
@adrianfontes· AZ· Jul 28, 2022

I think there`s a lot of people who don`t understand what the Second Amendment actually means in context of the whole Constitution. Right? Right. The confusion is I can just be a militia by myself. And a well-regulated militia just means…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 24, 2022

The idea that in some states, after a child or a woman or a man, but in particular in this case of abortion, a woman or a child would have endured such an act of violence, and then to suggest that she would not have the autonomy and…

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

Election law should be made at the Statehouse, never at the courthouse.

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

We need to know things so that we can act quickly. That is the bottom line is when it comes to protecting our elections, time is of the essence.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

But isn't it true by implication that ballots cast in Wisconsin by absentee drop-box deposited ballots were illegal in the 2020 election?

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

I reject this notion and some offer this idea that somehow you have to choose from either convenient elections or secure elections.

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

For the Federal Government to start mandating the way States run elections is a bridge too far in my opinion.

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

As Thomas Jefferson put it, our Government derives its 'just powers from the consent of the governed'.

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Frank LaRose
@franklarose· OH· Jul 19, 2022

Government derives its just powers from the consent of the governed.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

Since 2020, however, lies and misinformation about how elections are run and about the people who run them have proliferated to an unprecedented degree.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

I believe both Federal and State law enforcement agencies are taking these threats seriously and diligently and we must show the public that threats against election officials will not be tolerated.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

I fear that threats coupled with the general vitriol online and in the media directed at all aspects of our elections will cause them so much stress and uncertainty that they will simply not want to do work anymore.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

Many people now believe that our entire election infrastructure is corrupted and has been weaponized to exclusively favor one political party.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jul 19, 2022

Many people now believe that our country's highest office is occupied by an illegitimate President.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 18, 2022

Kamala Harris, raising money to bail out of jail violent rioters threatening fellow citizens.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 17, 2022

And yet we must recognize there are those who are fighting to drag us backward, extremist so-called leaders, who are attempting to undermine our democracy and assault our most fundamental freedom lives.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 17, 2022

The right’s obsession with subjugating women sends the clear message that women are not to be trusted to make decisions, even about their own bodies and their lives.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 15, 2022

One of the things we need to do is pass the John Lewis Voting Rights Act and the Freedom to Vote Act. We need to elect people who will defend these rights up and down the ballot from district attorneys to state attorneys general to local…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 5, 2022

An assault weapon is designed to kill a lot of human beings quickly. There is no reason that we have weapons of war on the streets of America. We need reasonable gun safety laws. And we need to have Congress stop protecting those gun…

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 5, 2022

We got to be smarter as a country in terms of who has access to what, and, in particular, assault weapons.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jul 5, 2022

This could happen anywhere. And I know, because I`ve been covering them. They literally do happen everywhere in this country.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· Jun 27, 2022

We will do everything within our power as an administration through the executive branch to ensure that women have access to the medication they need and that they will have freedom of travel and that that travel should be unrestricted.

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