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On the recordMay 24, 2022
this Republican tendency to threaten to criminalize a citizen's choice to vote, a citizen's choice, right, to control their own future, which you do by voting, is in stark evidence in Florida and in other States that we have heard about over this time.
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Teresa Leger Fernandez
Democratic · New Mexico

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Criticizing Republican actions perceived as threats to voting rights.

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