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California Governor Gavin Newsom speaks during a news conference at Gemperle Orchard on April 16, 2025 in Ceres, California. (Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)

Newsom calls for election to redraw maps

Garrett Owen
People line up for early voting at a polling station at the Black Mountain Public Library in Black Mountain, North Carolina on October 21, 2024. (JIM WATSON/AFP via Getty Images)

Dems rail against GOP attacks on voting

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz speaks during the South Carolina Democratic Party State Convention on Saturday, May 31, 2025 in Columbia, SC. (Sam Wolfe/For The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Walz is sick of "sternly worded" letters

Tatyana Tandanpolie
Senator Alex Padilla, Democrat from California, is removed from the room after interrupting a news conference with Department of Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem at the Wilshire Federal Building in Los Angeles on June 12, 2025. (PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)

Padilla removal signals dangerous shift

Charlie Hunt - The Conversation
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U.S. President Donald Trump speaks to the media during a meeting with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, in the Oval Office on May 13, 2019 in Washington, DC. (Mark Wilson/Getty Images)

Trump is worse than Orbán

Heather Digby Parton
Sen. Alex Padilla. (Photo by David Crane/Getty Images)

Sen. Padilla dragged from Noem presser

Garrett Owen
U.S. Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) (Erin Schaff-Pool/Getty Images)

Lee throws a fit in Alito's defense

Alex Henderson - Alternet
An elections worker sorts unopened ballots at the King County Elections headquarters on August 4, 2020 in Renton, Washington. (David Ryder/Getty Images)

CA GOP won't remove "illegal" drop boxes

Igor Derysh
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A woman places her ballot paper in the box during early voting (Getty Images/Mark Ralston)

Fake GOP ballot boxes may be illegal

Igor Derysh
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