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FreedomWorks / For the People Act

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FreedomWorks / For the People Act

Director of Policy Sarah Anderson with FreedomWorks, America’s largest conservative grassroots community speaks to The WGAN Morning News.  With the latest COVID-19 relief bill and Biden cabinet confirmations dominating the news cycle, it’s almost too easy to forget that Congress has other big plans for the coming weeks. Chief among them is a vote on H.R.1, or the For the People Act. This bill seeks to entirely reconstruct the electoral system as we know it by stripping states of their right to make election rules, overhauling campaign finance law, and changing how political organizations operate. The result is a bill that, if passed, would violate the Constitution, mount a chilling threat to free speech and

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