What's Changed in 4 Battleground States' Voting Rules Since 2020

Plus: How America's Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths

August 23 2022   Good morning from Washington, where liberals keep getting in the way of making it easier to vote, but harder to cheat, in American elections. Four critical states in the 2020 presidential contest are doing it differently this year, Fred Lucas reports. Wonder how deadly and pervasive the fentanyl crisis is? Virginia Allen has answers. On the podcast, we explore how Texas may hold the key to reforming and securing our elections. Plus:  the left infiltrates Dungeons and Dragons, and, on  "Problematic Women," meet a former Miss Venezuela who's glad to be an American. On this date in 1945, President Harry Truman awards the Medal of Honor to Army Staff Sgt. Marcario García for single-handedly clearing two German machine-gun nests, making him the first Mexican national to receive the military's highest honor.      NEWS What's Changed in 4 Battleground States' Voting Rules Since 2020 By Fred Lucas The most narrow margins of the last presidential election were in Arizona, Georgia, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania. More NEWS How America's Unsecured Border Contributes to Fentanyl Crisis, Deaths By Virginia Allen "What you don't hear from the Biden administration is that 95% of the fentanyl killing Americans comes from the wide-open southwest border," says former Trump official Mark Morgan. More ANALYSIS America's Elections Are at Stake. Texas Shows They Can Be Fixed. By Douglas Blair Chad Ennis, director of the Forensic Audit Division with the Texas Secretary of State's office, was instrumental in getting his state to take steps toward securing the election process. More COMMENTARY Rushdie Stabbing Reminds Us That Iran Is Still World's Leading Terror State By David Harsanyi As author Kenan Malik notes, the legacy of the Islamic fatwa targeting novelist Salman Rushdie was that Western Europe had "internalized" censorship. More COMMENTARY Dungeons and Dragons Players Face the Scariest Monster of All: The Radical Left By Douglas Blair Radical leftist activists want to inject the same woke and racist nonsense into the game that infects everything else these days, and it will spoil the spirit of what makes the game unique. More ANALYSIS Miss Venezuela 1984, Now a US Conservative, Reflects on Her Country's Decline By Virginia Allen "I was born in paradise," Carmen Maria Montiel says of her home country of Venezuela. But "bureaucracy and corruption" turned her homeland into a nation she hardly recognized. More COMMENTARY ICYMI: Court Rules Man Who Identifies as Woman Must Be Allowed in Women's Jail By Joshua Arnold A three-judge panel of the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules that a male identifying as a female should be housed with female inmates, even though he retains male body parts. More           Donate to The Daily Signal Find us on Facebook Follow us on Twitter How are we doing? We welcome your comments, suggestions, and story tips. Please reply to this email or send us a note at letters@dailysignal.com. The Daily Signal 214 Massachusetts Avenue, NE Washington, DC 20002 (800) 546-2843     Add morningbell@heritage.org to your address book to ensure that you receive emails from us. You are subscribed to this newsletter as johnmhames1.diogenes--light@blogger.com. If you want to receive other Heritage Foundation newsletters, or opt out of this newsletter, please click here to update your subscription.