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Republicans are pushing American democracy to its breaking point

Al Jazeera

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“In 2016, Christian nationalist activists launched ‘Project Blitz’ – later rebranded [politicalresearch.org] as ‘Freedom for All’ – to offer effective blueprints to Republicans looking to pass local and state-level laws to achieve their political goals, such as carving out religious exceptions in anti-LGBTQ The act of favoring members of one community/social identity over another, impacting health, prosperity, and political participation. Learn more laws or scaling back abortion services. Later, a number of states copied one another in enacting legislation banning examinations of racial injustice such as the 1619 Project and the so-called Critical Race Theory (CRT). Meanwhile, a few Republican-dominated states, like Florida under Ron DeSantis and Texas under Greg Abbott, have become productive laboratories for repressive conservative legislation.”

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