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Details of Iran's response were not immediately clear. Secretary of State Marco Rubio said recently that he hoped the response would be a "serious offer."
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Electing such candidates for governor would give deniers key oversight of the 2028 presidential election in swing states like Arizona, Wisconsin and Pennsylvania.
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Gov. Abigail Spanberger had initially been skeptical of the push for new maps, but as the state's leading Democrat she had a political stake in its fate.
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"The country's most important civil rights law no longer effectively exists, and that's going to have ramifications on American democracy for a very long time." Mother Jones correspondent Ari Berman reacts to the Supreme Court's recent 6-3 decision rejecting key principles of the 1965 Voting Rights Act. Since the court issued its ruling last week, Republican-controlled states have begun to redraw their voting maps in a "gerrymandering arms race" that "could lead to the largest drop in Black representation since the Jim Crow era," explains Berman. "We're returning to the days of literacy tests and poll taxes — not through those devices, but through specifically trying to eliminate Black office holders. And Southern legislators are very clear they are going to do this. They feel unshackled by the Supreme Court ruling. They are being pressured by President Trump to do it, and they feel like all the guardrails are off right now."
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The House minority leader, Hakeem Jeffries, sent a familiar emissary to the New York State Capitol to convey the party's urgency to draw more favorable maps.
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