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Jim Crow 2.0: SAVE America Act Is a Poll Tax, Plain & Simple

Mar 16, 2026Center Right

Donald Trump, Elon Musk, and MAGA Republicans in and out of Congress are putting on a full court press to get Senate Majority Leader John Thune to blow up the Senate's filibuster rule to jam through their SAVE America Act, which they regularly talk about as a "voter ID bill," one to stop the voter fraud they claim, with straight faces, is rampant when even…

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