GOP's 'Stop the Steal' Becomes 'Stop the Citizen Voting'
While mainstream media dutifully covers the latest push by Trump allies to demand 'proof of citizenship' for voting, they gloss over the long, sordid history of such tactics. Stephen Miller's America First Legal, leading this charge, claims it's about 'integrity.' Yet, the same figures pushing this were champions of the "stop the steal" movement, conveniently overturning election results when they
didn't like them. Non-citizen voting is already illegal and vanishingly rare, as even the AP grudgingly admits. This isn't about securing elections; it's about making voting harder, particularly for vulnerable populations who often lack easy access to these specific documents. This isn't 'simple, common-sense reform' any more than poll taxes were. It's a transparent effort to disenfranchise voters
under the guise of 'election integrity,' a dog-whistle for making sure only the 'right' people vote. When courts repeatedly block such measures and Congress refuses, bypassing through 'little-known federal agencies' reveals the true intent: a desperate end-run around legal and democratic processes to reshape the electorate. One might wonder why a party that claims to champion freedom finds so many
ways to restrict the most fundamental freedom of all.