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Election-denying lawmakers hold key election oversight roles
Read full article: Election-denying lawmakers hold key election oversight rolesRepublican lawmakers who've spread election conspiracy theories and falsely claimed that the 2020 presidential outcome was rigged are overseeing legislative committees charged with setting election policy in two major battleground states.
GOP voters told to hold onto mail ballots until Election Day
Read full article: GOP voters told to hold onto mail ballots until Election DayRepublican activists who believe the 2020 election was stolen from former President Donald Trump have crafted a plan that, in their telling, will thwart cheating in this year’s midterm elections.
Jan. 6 witness Rusty Bowers has no regrets in GOP race loss
Read full article: Jan. 6 witness Rusty Bowers has no regrets in GOP race lossArizona voters relegated House Speaker Rusty Bowers to the history books after the conservative Republican crossed former President Donald Trump and refused to back his unsupported claims that he lost in 2020 because of fraud.
Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers loses state Senate bid
Read full article: Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers loses state Senate bidRepublican Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers has lost his bid for a state Senate seat after refusing former President Donald Trump’s pleas to help overturn the 2020 election results and testifying before Congress about the efforts.
GOP’s links to extremism surface in congressional primary
Read full article: GOP’s links to extremism surface in congressional primaryA congressional candidate in Washington state whose compelling personal story of military valor and unfathomable loss helped him win former President Donald Trump’s support is connected to right-wing extremists.
Lawyer: Arizona Senate's 2020 election review out next week
Read full article: Lawyer: Arizona Senate's 2020 election review out next weekAn attorney representing the Republican-controlled Arizona Senate says the long-delayed review of 2020 election results in the state’s most populous county will be released next week.
Arizona GOP wants felony for protesters who damage statues
Read full article: Arizona GOP wants felony for protesters who damage statuesRepublicans in the Arizona Legislature are reacting to last year's wave of damage to Confederate monuments by civil rights protesters here and across the nation by working to make it a felony to damage or destroy any public or private monument or statue. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)PHOENIX – Republicans in the Arizona Legislature are reacting to last year's wave of damage to Confederate monuments by civil rights protesters here and across the nation by working to make it a felony to damage or destroy any public or private monument or statue. Rep. John Kavanagh supported his proposal at a Senate committee hearing Thursday by saying public monuments are a statement by the community that demand more protection. The proposal adds defacing a monument or statue to existing law that makes it a aggravated felony offense to deface a cemetery headstone or church. Scores of Confederate statues, monuments or markers were removed from public land across the country after Floyd’s death.