Jason Kander

We were at a kibbutz, and we were at a Shabbat service, and I opened up the prayer book, and on the first page, it said that the prayer book was in thanks to the sponsorship of this family in a temple in Kansas City. For me, it was a moment when I really kind of connected in a real serious way with my personal identity as a Jew.

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To improve the standard of living for working folks, we have to raise the minimum wage and empower workers to fight for their interests in an economic and political system that's stacked against them.

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No matter how many times the court shuts them down or how many Americans speak out to defend their rights, Republican politicians who stand to gain from suppressing voters won't back down. They'll only change their tactics.

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Voter suppression anywhere hurts our democracy everywhere.

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Voter suppression is at the very core of the Trump re-election strategy.

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Since winning the election, Donald Trump has jump-started voter suppression efforts at the federal and state levels.

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Voter ID laws are the most potent form of voter suppression legislation.

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I believe there should be political consequences for politicians who commit voter suppression.

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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach has been an adviser to Trump, although he still very publicly couldn't land a job in the president's Cabinet, despite providing that counsel. And Kobach has a long history of making up facts to help him pass unfair voter suppression laws and push extreme anti-immigrant proposals.

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Voters aren't asking to be pandered to and aren't asking to be tricked.

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We have got to zero in on the fact that all of us, no matter where you live, want our kids' lives to be an upgrade over our own, and we would really like it if our kids could come back and live where we raised them.

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Curtailing voting rights by dishonestly inventing widespread fraud has been a major part of the Republican Party's political strategy for a while.

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I'll be working every day to help elect voting rights champions in Missouri and around the country.

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Let America Vote will make the case for voting rights by exposing the real motivations of those who favor voter suppression laws.

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