Several U.S. House members representing Texas are the latest voices to urge the Department of Justice to investigate corrupt Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton for any potential civil rights violations following his despicable intimidation of Latino voters, including raiding the home of 87-year-old great-grandmother Lidia Martinez. The Democratic lawmakers...
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GOP embraces replacement theory in all-out assault on American democracy Top Republicans and their right-wing allies have been peddling bigoted conspiracies about a supposed plot by elites to use non-white immigrants to undermine our democracy with masses of fraudulent votes and dilute the voting power of “real” Americans. This...
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Despite the fact that widespread non-citizen voting doesn’t exist (as highlighted by Speaker Mike Johnson himself, after being unable to show the receipts when pressed for proof), House Republicans last month passed the so-called Safeguard American Voter Eligibility (SAVE) Act. This bill purports to ensure election integrity, but in...
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Jul 11, 2024
Leer en español Far too many politicians, pundits, and online commentators are peddling bigoted conspiracies about non-citizens voting in our elections. This issue has been deeply researched, and even the most vocal proponents of the myth have failed to turn up any significant evidence of a problem. Non-citizens cannot vote in federal or state elections, and...
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Washington, DC — Following today’s House vote on the SAVE Act – part of the right-wing disinformation campaign about the integrity of our elections – Vanessa Cárdenas, Executive Director of America’s Voice, issued the following statement: “The lies about non-citizen voting and the related mainstreaming of ‘replacement’ conspiracies are...
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Access a recording of today’s virtual briefing HERE Washington, DC — Today, representatives from America’s Voice, the Brennan Center for Justice, The Leadership Conference on Civil and Human Rights, UnidosUS, and Declaration for American Democracy held a press briefing to discuss the far-right disinformation campaign around non-citizen voting. As...
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Several state legislatures are entertaining baseless election denial conspiracies, adding redundant rules against non-citizen voting to the November ballot. Dressed as democracy protections, these efforts instead seek to create a boogeyman around a problem that doesn’t exist. After a decade and millions of dollars spent searching for a problem,...
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Washington, DC — Today, House Republicans are set to mark up legislation that is nothing more than a fig leaf to provide further legitimacy to election denial conspiracies. The bill relies on the widely and repeatedly debunked bigoted conspiracies about non-citizen voting and is pushed by Speaker of the...
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Washington, DC – Below is a column by Maribel Hastings from America’s Voice en Español translated to English from Spanish. It ran in several Spanish-language media outlets earlier this week: Let’s make something clear: voting by non-citizens is generally not a problem in the United States, because a federal...
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Washington, DC — House Republicans are set to hold a committee hearing and are readying legislation to tackle the made-up problem of non-citizens voting in federal elections. As numerous fact checkers have highlighted, it’s a virtually non-existent issue with strong safeguards and penalties already in place to protect election...
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