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Stacey Abrams: “These bills are nothing more than a pretext for returning to Jim Crow and stopping voters they don`t want to hear from.…”

On the recordMarch 15, 2021
These bills are nothing more than a pretext for returning to Jim Crow and stopping voters they don`t want to hear from. And my belief is that voters across this country when they see that their right to vote is being thwarted, we`ll do what they can to push back, but they shouldn`t have to fight on their own.
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Stacey Abrams
Democratic · Georgia
Source
msnbc.com

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Stacey Abrams criticizes voter suppression bills as a return to Jim Crow and calls for collective action to defend voting rights.

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