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Al Schmidt
@alschmidt· PA· Jun 12, 2022

After the president tweeted at me by name, calling me out the way that he did, the threats became much more specific, much more graphic, and included not just me by name, but included members of my family by name, their ages, our address…

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· Jun 7, 2022

There is no evidence. We have full confidence in the results of our elections.

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· Jun 6, 2022

The fact that so many of us are being threatened with replacement by the exact opposite individuals who would put party first, over protecting our democracy is truly a five-alarm fire for the future of our elections and democracy.

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· Jun 6, 2022

Voters have everywhere an opportunity to choose to elect secretaries of state from either side of the political spectrum, who will do their jobs with integrity, from a nonpartisan standpoint.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jun 3, 2022

Waiting until November cannot be an answer. That will cost us at least 25,000 more victims.

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jun 3, 2022

I think that it`s time for us to create that, to create that difference. We need to move away from our comfort zone, that allows us to stay home, and watch TV, and just see how things move by themselves. That is not going to solve the…

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Maggie Toulouse Oliver
@maggietoulouseoliver· NM· Jun 3, 2022

Well, this is exactly the right moment and the right time to wake up as a nation, to be disruptive, to be very offended, and to understand that we should not rely on ten votes from Republicans, and the whole nation should not be afraid…

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· Jun 1, 2022

What’s problematic here is that these individuals are being fed misinformation and potentially being prepared to interfere with the elections processes themselves.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 30, 2022

We are not sitting around waiting to figure out what the solution looks like. We`re not looking for a vaccine. We know what works on this. It includes let`s have an assault weapons ban. An assault weapon is a weapon of war, with no place…

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

Vice President Kamala Harris and the Second Gentleman will travel to Buffalo, New York on Saturday to join the family of 86-year-old Ruth Whitfield who was one of 10 people murdered by a white-supremacist extremist at her local supermarket…

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

Enough is enough. Enough is enough. As a nation, we have to have the courage to take action and understand the nexus between what makes for reasonable and sensible public policy to ensure something like this never happens again.

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

Our hearts keep getting broken. Every time a tragedy like this happens, our hearts break.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 23, 2022

Our hearts keep getting broken. Enough is enough.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 23, 2022

Our administration is working around the clock to ensure that there is enough safe baby formula available for who all who need it, and it is truly one of our highest priorities.

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Brad Raffensperger
@bradraffensperger· GA· May 22, 2022

As you recall when we pass the Election Integrity Act of 2021, everyone said it was going to make it hard for people to vote. Well, the numbers prove them wrong, doesn't it?

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 19, 2022

The strength of our country has always been that we fight to move forward. That we believe in the expansion of rights not the restriction of rights. So this, when and if it happens, will be an extreme step backward.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 19, 2022

Think about that for a second. From the moment of fertilization -- it`s outrageous, and it`s just the latest in a series of extreme laws around the country.

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Katherine Harris
@katherineharris· Republican · FL· May 19, 2022

Just half an hour ago, in Oklahoma, the state legislature passed one of the most extreme abortion bans in the country. It’s outrageous and it’s just the latest in a series of extreme laws around the country.

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Jocelyn Benson
@jocelynbenson· MI· May 18, 2022

Even the president himself had called on me to be arrested and tried for treason, potentially executed.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· May 13, 2022

Democracy and our fundamental freedoms are on the ballot and I am so confident Americans are going to rise to the challenge to save them.

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Jena Griswold
@jenagriswold· CO· May 13, 2022

Democracy is in peril. Americans could lose the freedom to choose their elected officials.

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