Harris County Unions today condemned the failure of GOP candidates and officeholders to speak out against the effort by local Republicans to throw out 127,000 Harris County votes, as well as the decision by some local Republicans to campaign with one of the candidates leading the lawsuit on Sunday. On Sunday, just four days after Texas Republicans Steven Hotze, Wendell Champion, State Rep. Steve Toth, and Sharon Hemphill filed a lawsuit to invalidate 127,000 drive-thru […]
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Federal Judge Rejects GOP Efforts to Disenfranchise Harris County Voters
In a victory for democracy, U.S. District Judge Andrew Hanen rejected an effort by GOP activists and candidates to nullify over 127,000 ballots cast by Harris County voters using drive-thru voting. The three GOP candidates who filed the lawsuit waited until voters had already cast their ballots in good faith, months after Texas’s Republican Secretary of State had approved Harris County’s drive-thru voting plan, to challenge this process. Texas Gulf Coast Area Labor Federation Executive […]
Sens. Cruz, Graham Announce Judiciary Committee Will Subpoena Twitter Ceo Jack Dorsey In Light Of Latest Politically Motivated Censorship
U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Texas), who has long warned that Big Tech poses the single greatest threat to U.S. democracy and the First Amendment, today along with Judiciary Committee Chairman Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced the committee will subpoena Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey following the Big Tech giant’s censorship of the New York Post’s reporting on the Bidens in the final weeks before the 2020 presidential election. “We have seen Big Tech – we’ve seen Twitter and Facebook – actively interfering in […]