NY Times: “Amazon, BlackRock, Google, Warren Buffett and hundreds of other companies and executives signed on to a new statement released on Wednesday opposing “any discriminatory legislation” that would make it harder for people to vote. It was the biggest show of solidarity so far by the business community as companies around the country try…

The Charlotte Observer: “McCrory, a Republican who served one term as the state’s chief executive and 14 years as Charlotte’s mayor, has launched a campaign website announcing his run for North Carolina’s open U.S. Senate seat in 2022. McCrory made the official announcement on his popular WBT radio show Wednesday morning. He is leaving the show. “I’m…

The Post and Courier: “Chaos erupted at the Charleston County GOP meeting when attorney Lin Wood pushed conspiracy theories that Donald Trump won the 2020 election. It was part of Wood’s pitch to replace S.C. Republican Party Chairman Drew McKissick next month. Guests packed a ballroom at the Double Tree Hotel on April 12 to…

Politico: “House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn thinks Congress can pass bipartisan legislation on stricter gun background checks rules and federal guidelines on “red flag” laws despite staunch Republican opposition, he said Saturday. In March, the House passed a Clyburn-sponsored bill increasing the waiting time required for background checks from three business days to 10. “Why is it…

CNN: “Nikki Haley sent a clear message to Donald Trump on Monday: If you run for president, I’m out.”I would not run if President Trump ran, and I would talk to him about it,” Haley said in response to a question from The Associated Press during a news conference at South Carolina State University when asked if she would…

NY Times: “Long before the F.B.I. began to scrutinize a tax collector in Florida named Joel Greenberg — and long before his trail led them to Representative Matt Gaetz — he amassed an outlandish record in the mundane local public office he had turned into a personal fief of power. Records and interviews detailed a litany of accusations: Mr….

Off the Kuff: “… In the video, leaked by government accountability nonprofit Common Cause Texas, a county precinct chair giving a presentation describes the need for an “election integrity brigade” of 10,000 Republicans in Houston’s predominantly white suburbs to volunteer in the city’s racially diverse urban core. “We’ve got to get folks in these suburbs out…

AL Political Reporter: “Marshall heads the Rule of Law Defense Fund, the dark money fundraising arm of the Republican Attorneys General Association, which paid for robocalls detailing when and where citizens should meet at the Jan. 6 rally, which was first reported by the watchdog investigative journalism group Documented.  “We will march to the Capitol building and call…

NPR: “Amazon warehouse workers in Alabama will not be forming a union. The vast majority of votes cast by Amazon’s workers in Bessemer, Ala., were against joining the Retail, Wholesale and Department Store Union in a stinging defeat of the union drive. The final tally showed 1,798 votes against unionizing and 738 votes in favor…

NY Times: “Kentucky on Wednesday became the only state in the country with a Republican-controlled legislature to expand voting rights after a bitter presidential election that tested the country’s democratic institutions and elevated ballot access as an animating issue for both parties. In a signing ceremony on Wednesday, Gov. Andy Beshear, a Democrat, hailed the…