The battle for American democracy has just begun
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Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson writes that as partisan state lawmakers try to undermine the will of voters by enacting voter suppression laws, American citizens should not be deterred from going to the polls and they should recognize their collective responsibility to push back on every lie and every shred of misinformation.
As the death threats made against Arizona Secretary of State Katie Hobbs reminded us last week, efforts to bully election officials who are standing guard and protecting every citizen's vote continue to escalate in a reflection of the ongoing battle over the future of our democracy.The CIA has sent the White House an unclassified email listing all new hires that have been with the agency for two years or less in an effort to comply with an executive order to downsize the federal workforce, according to three sources familiar with the matter – a deeply unorthodox move that could potentially expose the identities of those officers to foreign government hackers.
Trump administration officials are hurrying to catch up to the president’s audacious and improbable plan for the United States to take ownership of Gaza and redevelop it into a “Middle Eastern Riviera,” trying to wrap their heads around an idea that some hope might be so outlandish it forces other nations to step in with their own proposals for the Palestinian enclave.