Tag: Voting Rights

The Republicans Succeeded in Defending Filibuster Shut Down

Tom Patriot

IMG_7333 / Matt Johnson / Flickr / July 17, 2019 / CC BY 2.0 / The liberals’ attempt to remove the filibuster was shut down by our patriot leaders. The hearing ended with a 52-48 vote.  The filibuster is a useful political tool that the parties will enact when they want to block a bill from passing or approve another. Democrat senators Joe Manchin and Kyrsten Sinema joined 50 Republicans in the battle to defend the filibuster… Manchin shared his thoughts about the dems agenda to get rid of the…

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Progressive Dems Continue Their Crusade To Rig The Midterms

Tom Patriot

 Photo by Eric Haynes/Creative Commons The two most controversial voting bills up for debate by the Senate currently are the John Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act and the Freedom to Vote Act, which was approved by the House and since haven’t gotten the passing votes they need to move forward. NY Republican representative Claudia Tenney is bewildered by the dems’ push for a Senate vote on this new voting legislation.  “The Democrats are just doing all of this because their policies are failing,” Tenney said on “National Report.” “People realize…

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The Dems Want to Diminish The Power of Our Voting Rights

Tom Patriot

Voters along Brooklyn’s Church Avenue during the 2008 presidential election. Photo by April Sikorski via Wikipedia A Controversial guest essay was published in the NY Times with the headline “There Is No Good Reason” a person should be required to become an American Citizen in order to vote in the US elections.   The journalist in question Atossa Araxia Abrahamian (a Swiss immigrant) argued that because non-citizens live legally in the US and “contribute as much” to American life as natural-born Americans, they should also have a say in “matters of…

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