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Fact-Check: Hegseth's Pastor and the Pentagon Pulpit

The viral Wilson/NPR claim is substantially accurate but overstates in three ways: "all women" misrepresents household voting, Wilson is not technically Hegseth's pastor, and the Pentagon sermon was…

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Jeffries on the Mail-Ballot Ruling: Seven Claims, Checked

After the Supreme Court upheld state grace periods for mail ballots, House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries indicted Trump's whole record. The facts mostly hold; the framing is partisan.

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The Weight of the Evidence: Minority Voter Disenfranchisement in Republican-Controlled States

Federal courts, the GAO, and peer-reviewed studies document barriers to voting that fall hardest on Black and minority Americans, concentrated in states that tightened the rules after 2013.

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The Purcell Principle: How SCOTUS Turned Election Timing Into a Partisan Weapon

SCOTUS invokes Purcell to block voting rights months early for Democrats, then ignores it to allow last-minute GOP gerrymanders — documented with the Court's own rulings.

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