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  1. We welcome ’s decision to “pause” moving forward with its Disinformation Governance Board. For more context and our concerns, check out our letter with and to DHS:

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    May 19

    Today on the Daily Beans: joins to talk about her legal victory against the Trump campaign. Full episode at the link!

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  3. Happy 29th anniversary to the , also known as the Motor-Voter Law. The NVRA makes voter registration easier, outlaws discriminatory voter purges, and protects voters from being removed from lists due to inactivity alone.

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    ”These laws make it easier to manufacture distrust in elections out of thin air and will make it easier for bad actors to undermine the choice of the people,” Sara Chimene-Weiss, a counsel with , told us.

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  5. EXCLUSIVE: of covers new report which reveals in 33 states, at least 229 state bills are being considered that would undermine nonpartisan election administration. 50 bills have been enacted w/ 18 enacted or adopted so far this year.

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    The Arizona Senate’s widely discredited “audit” of the 2020 election results exemplifies why election reviews are so dangerous: its widely discredited “findings” have been used to push anti-voting legislation that disproportionately harms people of color.

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  7. NEW from , & : a look at 229 bills in 33 states that aim to meddle with elections, election officials, and our freedom to have our vote counted. It's a 5-alarm fire for democracy. Read the 2022 report ➡️

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  8. As said, these changes “will provide the public with insight into billions of dollars of Federal spending” and enable Congress to “perform its oversight work and ensure the executive branch is faithfully implementing appropriations law.”

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  9. As confirmed, apportionment documents are now available to staff on the House and Senate Approps and Budget Committees, and OMB is working to meet the mid-July deadline for posting apportionments on a public website

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  10. Big thanks to for asking at yesterday’s House Appropriations hearing about the status of OMB’s implementation of the apportionment transparency requirements passed in the FY22 omnibus:

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  12. The reforms discussed at the hearing would create a situation where the branches are working together on issues of national importance, and help create political consensus on emergencies rather than additional conflict. (4/5)

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  13. There has been bipartisan and bicameral support for this work over the last few years. This Democratic-led House passed NEA reform in 2021. And a Republican-led Senate committee endorsed NEA reform in 2019. We look forward to passage this year. (3/5)

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  14. Effective national emergency reform gives the President flexibility to act in an emergency and ensures that Congress acts in a timely manner to either ratify or reject the emergency. (2/5)

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  15. At today’s hearing, testified that simple reforms to can “ensure a proper balance of power between Congress and the president,” restoring Congress’s original intent to address exec power overreach. (1/5)

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    May 11

    An excellent piece by 's on fusion voting, which "would give voters the expanded choices they clearly want without forcing them to abandon their partisan identities."

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  17. We’re hiring! Protect Democracy is looking for an Operations Associate to join our dedicated team. Learn more and apply:

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    “The real problem,” said “is that the future of how we share and advance knowledge and debate the issues central to our democracy shouldn’t depend on whether a single person in control is a superhero or supervillain.”

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  19. ICYMI: Might fusion voting be a first step towards breaking, in the words of , our "two-party doom loop"? Check out the latest from our own in to learn more.

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