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PAF in Slate: The Most Important Vote for Abortion Rights in the U.S. So Far This Year

A ballot initiative about the rules of ballot initiatives might sound mundane at first, but it’s actually Ohio Republicans’ not-so-secret weapon to keep abortion rights out of the state constitution. And next week, the measure is coming before voters in a late-summer special election that state Republicans pushed through at the eleventh hour—despite recently swearing […]

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PAF on MSNBC: Ohio Republicans’ plan to trick voters may backfire spectacularly

Republicans worked for decades to get Roe v. Wade overturned, saying all the while that the issue of abortion should be “returned to the states.” But what if voters in a Republican-leaning state reject the GOP’s position? Then they’ve got a different problem: democracy. Now Ohio Republicans are trying to duck the will of the voters

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PAF in the Independent: Elon Musk’s Twitter bans ad showing Republican interrupting couple in bedroom

An ad launched by Progress Action Fund launched, showing an elderly Republican congressman interrupting a couple in the bedroom, has now been banned on X, formerly known as Twitter. According to the Progress Action Fund, which aims to defeat Republicans in red states, the platform “has censored” its account as well as the ad, called “Keep Republicans Out Of Your Bedroom.”

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PAF in The AP: Abortion messaging roils debate over Ohio ballot initiative. Backers said it wasn’t about that

COLUMBUS, Ohio — The fraught politics of abortion have helped turn an August ballot question in Ohio that would make it harder to change the state constitution into a cauldron of misinformation and fear-mongering. State Issue 1, the sole question on the ballot, calls for raising the threshold for passing future changes to the Ohio Constitution

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PAF in The Advocate: GOP’s New MAGA: Make America Go Ass-BackwardPAF in The Advocate:

If you have not seen misogynist Senator Tom Cotton’s interview on Fox News Sunday last week, be prepared to seethe. Cotton had the audacity to say that women in the military who need an abortion and can’t legally get one in the state they are in, should pay out of their own pocket to travel to another

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PAF in MaddowBlog: Campaign Roundup

Today’s installment of campaign-related news items from across the country. * Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose launched a Republican U.S. Senate campaign this morning, complicating a race that’s likely to get messy. LaRose joins a GOP field that already includes businessman Bernie Moreno — who’s received Donald Trump’s encouragement — and state Sen. Matt Dolan, who

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PAF in The Independent: Democratic PAC unveils ‘steamy and horrifying’ ad with GOP lawmaker interrupting couple in bedroom

Progress Action Fund launched a new ad attacking crackdowns on reproductive rights ahead of an Ohio ballot measure, featuring an elderly Republican congressman in a couple’s bedroom. The ad begins with a sex scene in which a woman asks, “Do you have a condom?” The man reaches for the condom in a bedside table drawer, and another suit-covered arm

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PAF in The Daily Beast: Democratic Group Roasts Ohio Republicans With Risqué Political Ad

Nothing ruins the mood more than an elderly Republican congressman in your bedroom as you’re trying to get it on—at least, according to this Democratic lobby group’s racy political ad. Progress Action Fund is using a steamy sex scene to urge Ohioans to vote against the passage of State Issue 1, which would “require that any

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