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Republicans have not been shy about the real intent of voter id:

Mike Turzai PA House Majority Leader: "Voter ID, which is gonna allow Governor Romney to win the state of Pennsylvania, done."

http://www.politicspa.com/turzai-voter-id-law-means-romney-can-win-pa/37153/

Pete Gilbert Pasquotank County NC GOP chairman: After ruling that on-campus address cannot be used to establish residency: "I plan to take this show on the road"

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/08/17/3115208/college-students-will-have-to.html

Ken Emanuelson Dallas Tea Party Activist: “I’m going to be real honest with you, the Republican Party doesn’t want black people to vote if they’re going to vote 9-to-1 for Democrats.”

http://trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com/2013/06/texas-democratic-group-targets-dallas-tea-party-activist-and-comment-about-black-voters.html/

Don Yelton Buncombe NC GOP precinct chairman: "The law is going to kick the Democrats in the butt, If it hurts a bunch of college kids too lazy to get up off their bohonkas and go get a photo ID, so be it. If it hurts a bunch of whites, so be it. If it hurts a bunch of lazy blacks that want the government to give them everything, so be it."

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2013/10/24/north-carolina-yelton-resigns/3184993/

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Conservatives are driving obstetricians from Red states, threatening overall maternal care. Because they are authoritarians, they do not care.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/06/us/politics/abortion-obstetricians-maternity-care.html

Carol Swain would have no problem if her interpretation of Christianity drove maternal health care into the ditch. We have to encourage people to vote. Conservatives will not course correct. They have a convicted sex offender as their leader and want the ability to overturn elections. Court battles are being fought to prevent voting suppression. We have to remain hopeful.

If Conservatives win, we will remember the words of Claude McCay

If we must die, let it not be like hogs

Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot,

While round us bark the mad and hungry dogs,

Making their mock at our accursèd lot.

If we must die, O let us nobly die,

So that our precious blood may not be shed

In vain; then even the monsters we defy

Shall be constrained to honor us though dead!

O kinsmen! we must meet the common foe!

Though far outnumbered let us show us brave,

And for their thousand blows deal one death-blow!

What though before us lies the open grave?

Like men we’ll face the murderous, cowardly pack,

Pressed to the wall, dying, but fighting back!

Conservatives are not going to back down. They tell us their plans with no pushback from Conservative ranks stating violence is unacceptable

Republican Georgia state Sen. Colton Moore on Tuesday told "War Room" host Steve Bannon that he plans to push the legislature to defund Fulton District Attorney Fani Willis' prosecution of former President Donald Trump and 18 co-defendants, arguing that Trump's prosecution threatens to ignite a "civil war." Moore complained that indicted fellow state Sen. Shawn Still is going to have to spend "a million dollars" to defend himself in the case. "It's just like Nazi Germany," Moore claimed. "I mean, they want to call us the Nazis and their actions are Nazism."

https://www.salon.com/2023/08/30/i-dont-want-to-have-to-draw-my-rifle-georgia-goper-warns-of-civil-war-if-is-prosecuted/

Only other Conservatives can talk them down

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