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Ash was formed in 1992 by Tim Wheeler (vocals and guitar), Mark Hamilton (bass guitar), and Rick McMurray (drums). The band first gained attention while the members were still in school, initially performing under the name “Vietnam.” Ash’s sound is characterized by a blend of punk rock vigor and melodic pop, with Wheeler’s distinct songwriting leading the charge. The band’s first full studio album, 1977, was released in 1996 and was a significant success, named after the year two of the members were born and the release year of Star Wars, which Wheeler is a fan of. The album charted The post Complete List Of Ash Albums And Songs appeared first on ClassicRockHistory.com.

The post Why Does My Cat Smell Like Rotten Eggs? Our Vet Discusses Reasons & Tips by Dr. Stacie Grannum DVM (Veterinarian) appeared first on Catster. Copying over entire articles infringes on copyright laws. You may not be aware of it, but all of these articles were assigned, contracted and paid for, so they aren't considered public domain. However, we appreciate that you like the article and would love it if you continued sharing just the first paragraph of an article, then linking out to the rest of the piece on Catster.com. Click to Skip Ahead Reasons Your Cat Smells Like Rotten Eggs Tips for a Healthy & Happy Cat It’s important to pay attention to any unusual odors coming from your pet. If your cat smells like sulfur or rotten eggs, it’s crucial to determine the cause, as it could be periodontal disease, an infection, or something to do with their diet. Schedule an appointment with your veterinarian for a thorough check-up to identify the reason for your kitty’s stinky smell. The 7 Reasons That Your Cat May Smell Like Rotten Eggs 1. Periodontal Disease An oral infection can lead to foul mouth odors and is typically the cause of the issue. That said, other abnormal mouth odors may be caused by stomatitis, mouth cancer, upper respiratory infection, diabetes, an intestinal blockage, or diseases affecting different organs, such as the liver and kidneys. Image Credit: Ermolaev Alexander, Shutterstock 2. Type of Food (Diet) Feeding certain foods to your cat can lead to bad odors coming from their mouth and poop, including raw foods or ones rich in fish. A sudden change in your cat’s diet can lead to gastrointestinal upset, gas, or diarrhea that can have a sulfur smell. 3. Ear Infection Fungal and bacterial infections can cause your cat’s ears to smell bad. Ear mite infections can also contribute to foul odors. Image Credit: Try_my_best, Shutterstock 4. Anal Glands Soft stools may not express the anal glands completely, which may cause a stinky rear end. Infected anal glands can also be smelly themselves. A frightened cat may also intentionally express their anal glands, which have a similar pungent smell. You are free to use this image but we do require you to link back to Catster.com for credit 5. Lack of Grooming Cats with arthritis, obesity, urinary tract infections, diarrhea, or widespread disease may not be able to effectively groom themselves, leading to poor hygiene. Image Credit: Wirestock Creators, Shutterstock 6. Skin Infection Anything that disrupts the skin’s normal protective barrier, such as wounds, parasites, allergies, and cancer, may cause a bad odor. 7. Dirty Litter Box Infrequent litter box cleaning can lead to the odors building up, so clean your cat’s litter box daily to prevent a stinky kitty! Cleaning up after our pets is not the most enjoyable part of owning them. Despite keeping a clean litterbox, cat odors and stains may still exist around the house. 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Schedule regular veterinary visits to detect problems early. Conclusion If you notice that your cat has a strong smell of sulfur or rotten eggs, it could be gas or expressed anal glands. But the smell could also indicate various underlying issues. Oral infections, cancer, skin infections, lack of grooming, and even the type of food or the cleanliness of the litter box can all be contributing factors. If you detect a sudden onset of this odor, it’s important to promptly schedule a veterinary check-up to identify and address the root cause. Sources https://www.sunvetanimalwellness.com/2019/09/smelly-cat-ashevilles-holistic-vet-reveals-common-causes-of-feline-odor/ https://www.petmd.com/cat/general-health/causes-bad-odors-cats https://www.greenies.com/blogs/what-were-barking-about-greenies/bad-cat-breath   Featured Image Credit: Stanislaw Mikulski, Shutterstock The post Why Does My Cat Smell Like Rotten Eggs? 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It’s always eye-opening when The Washington Post is so liberally biased that you’ll find it in their Food section! Writer Emily Heil – who used to gush over Michelle Obama as a Post gossip columnist – penned this sugary piece: “Kamala Harris’s cooking wisdom: 7 tips from her kitchen videos.” This is a bit odd, since Harris hasn’t made a cooking video in four years. But any opportunity for fawning can’t be missed. Heil starts off with “chef and humanitarian Jose Andres,” a Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton donor. Heil began: “I’m just a home cook,” Vice President Harris says in one of the videos posted on her YouTube page in which she prepares food with famous chefs and regular folks alike. That line, from a 2020 video, came in response to chef and humanitarian José Andrés telling her that she has a “big reputation ... as a chef,” a designation she first earned for a viral pandemic-era video in which she schooled Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) on the finer points of tuna-sandwich making (after her colleague’s chaotic and sloppy sandwich horrified the internet). Harris, now the likely Democratic presidential nominee, long ago proved that politics and cooking can mix. And despite her modesty, the culinary prowess that Harris displays in the videos — including an impressive one-handed egg-crack and deft knife skills — says otherwise. Liberal journalists really prove their utility by touting a national politician's modesty as genuine. One can guess that Emily Heil is not a cook, because she’s dazzled that Kamala uses bacon “as a flavor” and puts mayonnaise on the outside of grilled cheese sandwiches, which is not a mysterious cooking hack at all. Heil touts her as a Woman of the People because she professes to like Miracle Whip and fried bologna. “Harris’s cooking videos are more than political stunts,” Heil proclaimed, which is humorous, since the cooking videos are clearly meant to “humanize” her for voters. But her point was she also chats about policy on the cooking videos with her favorite Democrat chefs (there’s always Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio for celebrity vibes). Against the backdrop of their kitchens, Harris dove into pandemic restaurant relief with Tom Colicchio, and hunger and food-insecurity policies with Andrés. She talked about her own Indian heritage with [actress Mindy] Kaling as the two chopped and sauteed. “People have these ... misconceptions about who Indians are,” she said. She bonded with a supporter over a butter-stained family cookie recipe. And she discussed breaking gender barriers after preparing flapjacks. “I eat ‘no’ for breakfast,” she said in the latter video, as she dug into the meal she had just made. “And apple pancakes with some bacon.” Don't get me wrong, knowing how to cook is a cool skill, and it beats feminists like Hillary Clinton exposing themselves of thinking that's a skill for housewives, not career women. But everything about these videos is political, which is why the Post is trying to reintroduce them as one of many, many puff pieces for the general-election campaign.  PS: Jazz Shaw at Hot Air has thoughts about mocking Kamala's cooking.

It’s always eye-opening when The Washington Post is so liberally biased that you’ll find it in their Food section! Writer Emily Heil – who used to gush over Michelle Obama as a Post gossip columnist – penned this sugary piece: “Kamala Harris’s cooking wisdom: 7 tips from her kitchen videos.” This is a bit odd, since Harris hasn’t made a cooking video in four years. But any opportunity for fawning can’t be missed. Heil starts off with “chef and humanitarian Jose Andres,” a Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton donor. Heil began: “I’m just a home cook,” Vice President Harris says in one of the videos posted on her YouTube page in which she prepares food with famous chefs and regular folks alike. That line, from a 2020 video, came in response to chef and humanitarian José Andrés telling her that she has a “big reputation ... as a chef,” a designation she first earned for a viral pandemic-era video in which she schooled Sen. Mark R. Warner (D-Va.) on the finer points of tuna-sandwich making (after her colleague’s chaotic and sloppy sandwich horrified the internet). Harris, now the likely Democratic presidential nominee, long ago proved that politics and cooking can mix. And despite her modesty, the culinary prowess that Harris displays in the videos — including an impressive one-handed egg-crack and deft knife skills — says otherwise. Liberal journalists really prove their utility by touting a national politician's modesty as genuine. One can guess that Emily Heil is not a cook, because she’s dazzled that Kamala uses bacon “as a flavor” and puts mayonnaise on the outside of grilled cheese sandwiches, which is not a mysterious cooking hack at all. Heil touts her as a Woman of the People because she professes to like Miracle Whip and fried bologna. “Harris’s cooking videos are more than political stunts,” Heil proclaimed, which is humorous, since the cooking videos are clearly meant to “humanize” her for voters. But her point was she also chats about policy on the cooking videos with her favorite Democrat chefs (there’s always Top Chef judge Tom Colicchio for celebrity vibes). Against the backdrop of their kitchens, Harris dove into pandemic restaurant relief with Tom Colicchio, and hunger and food-insecurity policies with Andrés. She talked about her own Indian heritage with [actress Mindy] Kaling as the two chopped and sauteed. “People have these ... misconceptions about who Indians are,” she said. She bonded with a supporter over a butter-stained family cookie recipe. And she discussed breaking gender barriers after preparing flapjacks. “I eat ‘no’ for breakfast,” she said in the latter video, as she dug into the meal she had just made. “And apple pancakes with some bacon.” Don't get me wrong, knowing how to cook is a cool skill, and it beats feminists like Hillary Clinton exposing themselves of thinking that's a skill for housewives, not career women. But everything about these videos is political, which is why the Post is trying to reintroduce them as one of many, many puff pieces for the general-election campaign.  PS: Jazz Shaw at Hot Air has thoughts about mocking Kamala's cooking.

Almost a month ago, President Donald Trump miraculously escaped an assassination attempt during a campaign rally in Butler, Pennsylvania. Yet, within days, this horrific event was overshadowed by two others: Joe Biden dropping out of the presidential race and Kamala Harris being elevated, with much media fanfare, to the top of the Democratic Party ticket.The corporate media now focuses on three main objectives: canonizing Harris, glossing over Biden’s obvious inability to continue as president, and keeping the intricately orchestrated attempt to execute a former president on the back burner.As we learn from scripture, “The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God.” We can express our displeasure passionately but peacefully within the scope of the law.Had the assassination of Trump succeeded, the entire country would have been thrown into turmoil. The deep state would have undoubtedly emerged from the shadows to crush any demonstrations against this unspeakable act, making its actions against the January 6 protesters seem mild by comparison.Are the media mouthpieces of deep-state Democrats succeeding?With each passing day, it seems more Americans are accepting the idea that since Trump wasn’t seriously hurt, it’s no big deal — never mind that two rally participants were seriously injured and one died heroically protecting his wife and daughter. People are dismissing the incident as politics as usual, assuming the Secret Service has learned its lesson and will at least try to do better in the future.Letting our guard downNot so fast. Remember, this was not the first time Trump was denied adequate security, and the result was death and destruction. Before the events of January 6, the president offered the National Guard to protect the Capitol. Then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi turned him down, and four patriots lost their lives that day. Even though Trump has been blamed for leading an insurrection on January 6, isn’t it odd that he wanted the Capitol to be protected by armed guards so that his “troops” could attack them with prayer books and rosaries and cardboard signs?We have been asked to accept an awful lot these past four years, haven’t we?But what if there had been a different version of events? What if it had been the Trump administration’s responsibility to protect a candidate challenging the president for election? If any candidate running against Trump was not able to receive adequate protection and an assassin even came close to killing him or her, would the press have simply fluffed it off? Would the media not rightly have exposed the dangerous actions posed by willful dereliction to safeguard his opponent or, worse, complicity in such a treasonous act?Again, if the roles had been reversed, it is not hard to imagine that the media, politicians, and cultural elites led by hordes of Hollywood heavyweights, would not have labeled the Republican Party “a threat to democracy.” And anyone voting for Trump (who has already been tarred as a “literal Hitler”) would be considered an enemy of the state.Instead, the very person second in command of the Democratic Party, Kamala Harris, has now been elevated as the party’s savior — and we are being told that she well-deserves that sacred mantle.But where are the people who voted for Harris? Where is the Democratic Party’s democratic process?Perhaps it is fitting that pundits are saying the Democrats enacted a coup to remove Joe Biden from the 2024 presidential race. After all, it was a coup in the 2020 election that got him installed in the White House in the first place.Besides the commandment stating “Thou shalt not murder,” the eighth commandment must also apply here, not only to individuals but to nations. “Thou shalt not steal” means our election process should be squeaky clean, with polling places and ballot boxes devoid of tampering.American society, whether Christian or Jewish, has abided by the Ten Commandments in the past and must adhere to those basic tenets today. When one political party decides to break two of those rules to remain in power, every patriot must be willing to rise and end the tyranny.Will we do it?'Fight! Fight! Fight!' in a joyful wayAs Howard Beale (played by Peter Finch) blurts out in that prophetic 1976 film “Network”: “First you’ve got to get mad!” Will we finally get mad enough as a country this election season to say along with Beale: “I’m as mad as hell, and I’m not going to take this anymore!”Of course, we need not and should not be violent in this conflict. As we learn from scripture, “The anger of man does not achieve the righteousness of God” (James 1:20). We can express our displeasure passionately but peacefully within the scope of the law.Or will we sit back and let stealing an election — or even potentially looking the other way while a political rival is murdered — be the new norm in our once-great constitutional republic?

President Joe Biden's parting gift to his replacement is a March 2021 executive order that effectively compels federal agencies to mobilize and register elements of historically Democratic voting blocs along with potentially ineligible voters. With President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris now in a surprisingly tight race, this scheme — which critics have suggested will play out as "election interference" — could potentially hand the election over to the Democrats. After all, the leftist think tank whose recommendations ostensibly inspired Executive Order 14019 indicated that the scheme could net as many as 3 million new voter registrations a year. That Democrats swapped out Biden for Harris makes little difference. While Democrat-controlled states like Michigan appear keen to take EO 14019 as far as it can, Republican-run states and states with Republican election officials have an opportunity to limit its impact. Most Republican secretaries of state and attorneys general have spoken out about EO 14019. Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, for instance, blasted the EO in October 2022, stating, "It’s difficult to see how this is anything but a grotesque insult to election integrity, on top of being unconstitutional." Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft stated, "This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections." In terms of concrete action taken by Republican AGs, however, the record is thus far somewhat mixed. While some have taken concrete steps, as we will outline below, others thus far seem to be content to rest on having issued a strongly worded letter. There are a number of outstanding questions, even though the country goes to the polls in about three months: What have states with Republican trifectas done about the EO? In cases of states that have yet to take meaningful action, what are they planning on doing, if anything? Is it too late now to act? Blaze News recently reached out to the relevant officials in Republican trifecta states as well as in select swing states for answers. While some responses may be heartening for those keen on a fair election, it appears that the fight over EO 14019 is just getting started. Background According to Biden’s Executive Order 14019, minorities, blacks in particular, are disproportionately met today with “significant obstacles” to voting — "burdened by voter identification laws and limited opportunities to vote by mail." To accommodate the constituents of those historically Democratic voting blocs supposedly incapable of using IDs and mailboxes, and to "protect the right to vote," Biden called upon federal agencies to "consider ways to expand citizens' opportunities to register to vote and to obtain information about, and participate in, the electoral process." 'Not only is it unconstitutional, it is outrageously wrong.' The Heritage Foundation's government watchdog Oversight Project, which has waged a campaign to expose and kneecap the initiative, revealed earlier this year that under the EO, federal agencies that regularly engage with the American public must: "use their resources, connections, and relationships with their clientele to facilitate registrations and mass mail-in ballot applications"; "use federal resources to assist in completing those registrations and applications"; and "provide space on 'agency premises' and resources to 'approved' non-governmental organizations ('NGO') and 'state officials' to accomplish these directives." The Foundation for Government Accountability, another watchdog group that has been tracking the implementation of EO 14019, summarized the problem thusly: At the minimum, what’s become known as ‘Bidenbucks’ is a clear abuse of power. Political appointees ... are being deputized to register and mobilize voters and submit their plans directly to the White House.It is an unconstitutional and undemocratic way for the incumbent to intentionally put his or her finger on the scale to affect the outcome of an election — and use your tax dollars to do so. Some scholars have alternatively suggested that watchdogs and critics have made a mountain out of a mole hill. Nicholas Stephanopoulos, a professor of law at Harvard Law School whose research largely concerns empirical political science and the American electoral system, told Blaze News, "I don't think there's a serious constitutional issue here." "The federal government has authority to regulate the 'manner' of congressional elections, and the Supreme Court has held that the 'manner' of elections includes voter registration,” said Stephanopoulos. "So an executive order addressing voter registration raises no genuine constitutional problem." While Stephanopoulos indicated the executive order "addressing voter registration raises no genuine constitutional problem," he acknowledged that it would be problematic for federal agencies that have not been appropriately designated by states as "voter registration agencies" under the National Voter Registration Act to engage in voter registration efforts. The trouble is that federal agencies have reportedly been working toward the satisfaction of Biden’s order without authorization in various states of strategic importance. Here is a brief overview of where Republican states stand on EO 14019 and what they have done thus far to date to combat the problem. Letters, lawsuits, and lines in the sandLouisiana In September 2022, Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry led a coalition of Republican attorney generals — from Indiana, South Carolina, Kentucky, Texas, Mississippi, Utah, Arkansas, Oklahoma, Arizona, Nebraska, Montana, and Alabama — in demanding that Biden rescind his EO. Their joint letter noted that the EO "appears to be a get-out-the-vote effort designed by the Left, to benefit the Left, all paid for by federal taxpayers. It is illegal, unethical, and unconstitutional." After the Biden administration failed to respond, Louisiana Secretary of State Nancy Landry penned a follow-up letter to the Democratic president on March 4, highlighting how he had ignored the multi-state imploration as well as her colleagues' concerns "about the overreach, intrusion in state election administration, interference in the election process, and possible intimidation of individuals applying for federal benefits at federal agencies that this executive order represents." Secretary Landry emphasized that Biden’s initiatives "would do nothing but undermine the states and the voters." When pressed on actions taken and planned by Louisiana regarding EO 14019, Joel Watson, deputy secretary of state for communications, told Blaze News that Landry "believes that said EO is a violation of the Constitution’s Election Clause." Watson indicated that "[f]uture actions are pending" but that he was not presently at liberty to go into detail on them. Tennessee Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett was one of 15 Republican secretaries of state who signed an Aug. 3, 2022, letter to Biden requesting that he rescind EO 14019. "Executive Order 14019 was issued without Constitutional authority nor Congressional approval," said the letter. "Involving Federal agencies in the registration process will produce duplicate registrations, confuse citizens, and complicate the jobs of our county clerks and election officials. If implemented, the Executive Order would also erode the responsibility and duties of the state legislatures to their situational duty within the Election Clause." Hargett said in a statement to Blaze News, "The Biden Administration's implementation of Presidential Executive Order 14019, which allows ineligible voters to be provided with voter registration services, has made it more difficult to keep voter rolls clean of ineligible voters." "We will continue to ensure the votes of eligible voters are not diluted by ineligible voters," added Hargett. Wyoming Wyoming Secretary of State Chuck Gray told Blaze News that "Executive Order No. 14019 is blatantly unconstitutional, and violates the authority of the states to administer elections under the United States Constitution. Not only is it unconstitutional, it is outrageously wrong." Gray noted that Wyoming joined a coalition of eight other states — West Virginia, Arkansas, Indiana, Louisiana, Mississippi, Montana, New Hampshire, Tennessee, and Wyoming — in filing an Amici curiae brief with the U.S. Supreme Court on May 28 "asking the Court to rule that Executive Order No. 14019 is unconstitutional, and violates the authority granted to the states to administer elections by the United States Constitution." The corresponding case, Keefer v. Biden, was first brought by 26 Pennsylvania state representatives and one state senator challenging Biden's EO as well as Gov. Josh Shapiro’s enactment of automatic voter registration. The plaintiffs claimed that the EO and Shapiro's registration schemes violated the Constitution's Electors and Elections Clauses and that the president "does not have the power to regulate the time, place, and manner of Presidential or Congressional elections in Pennsylvania." They also argued that the "President of the United States does not have the power to usurp the authority of Pennsylvania legislators with regard to the registration of Pennsylvania voters, as Article VII, Section 1 of the Pennsylvania Constitution clearly places the duty of 'regulating the registration of electors' on the General Assembly." After proving unsuccessful in lesser courts, the plaintiffs asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take up their case in April with an appeal still pending in the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals. Indiana Blaze News previously reported that in late June, Indiana Secretary of State Diego Morales (R) put federal agencies operating inside his state on notice that they are not permitted to engage in voter registration or other election activity without state authorization. Extra to the National Voter Registration Act, Indiana Code 3-7-17 requires that such agencies are specifically designated by the state as "voter registration agencies" to lawfully provide or offer voter registration services and the like. Morales noted in his June 28 letters, "To my knowledge, your agency is not a designated voter registration agency." "If your agency has been distributing voter registration forms or assisting the public with voter registration or absentee voting forms, you are requested to discontinue such action immediately, as the unauthorized conduct of such activity is likely violative of Indiana and federal law," added Morales. Unfortunately, it appears as though elements of the Biden administration have disregarded Morales' notices. Lindsey Eaton, communications director for Morales, told Blaze News this week that the "Indiana Secretary of State's Office has received a very low number of responses to the letters. It’s concerning as these letters were sent more than a month ago." "This is beginning to become a pattern of the Biden Administration continuing to hide information related to the implementation of his executive order," continued Eaton. "Secretary of State Diego Morales is currently looking at other avenues that could force federal agencies to discontinue covering up actions under the Biden administration. Secretary Morales is committed to protecting Indiana's elections." Missouri JoDonn Chaney, director of communications for Missouri Secretary of State Jay Ashcroft, told Blaze News that his state has been ranked very high in election integrity assessments, adding "we run elections just fine." "Any interference from the federal government would just make our elections worse," said Chaney. 'This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections.' Chaney alluded to EO 14019 as a prime example of a federal initiative that would do just that. In the interest of protecting the integrity of elections in Missouri as well as to preclude the Biden-Harris administration from infringing on the state’s rights to manage its own election procedures, Ashcroft filed a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri on July 31 challenging EO 14019. "Missouri has a robust and effective election system in place, and it is the responsibility of the states, not the federal government, to manage voter registration and election procedures," Ashcroft said in a statement. Ashcroft added, "This executive order undermines state sovereignty and threatens the integrity of our elections. This legal action is not about partisan politics; it is about maintaining the balance of power between the states and the federal government as intended by our Founding Fathers." Extra to Biden, the lawsuit names the heads of the Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Defense, Education, Energy, Health and Human Services, Homeland Security, Transportation, and several others as defendants. The complaint raises various concerns but emphasizes Missouri’s interest "is in the need to maintain a current accurate vote roll that includes only the names of citizens eligible to cast a ballot and to assure that the ballots actually cast and counted are those cast by citizens eligible to cast a ballot." According to the suit, the implementation of EO 14019 will "undermine this interest and the Plaintiffs' ability to fulfill their responsibility to oversee fair, just, and honest elections." Chaney stressed to Blaze News, "We will strongly oppose any federal interference in Missouri elections." Georgia In Georgia, President Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris are presently polling within a point of one another. Biden narrowly won the state in 2020 — by a margin of 0.23% and 11,779 votes. Kara Murray, spokeswoman for Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr, told Blaze News in a statement that Carr "has continued to defend Georgia's commonsense election law, which strengthens security, expands access and ensures transparency for all Georgians." Regarding EO 14019, Murray said, "We agree that President Biden's Executive Order is unconstitutional, and we will continue to fulfill our duty and ensure that Georgia is protected from any illegal actions by the federal government." Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger was among the 15 top election officials who previously denounced Biden’s EO and raised alarm about the scheme. Alabama Republican leaders and election officials in Alabama have been particularly vocal about EO 14019 and the threat they believe it poses to the integrity of elections in the state. Earlier this summer, Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen raised the alarm about federal policies that provide voter registration forms to foreign nationals as well as to the dead. The secretary claimed that the Biden-Harris administration is "knowingly and purposefully enacting policies that result in supplying non-citizens with a mechanism to register to vote in our state and all 49 other states." Allen further noted that his office has attempted on several occasions to gain "clarification from the White House regarding the Biden Administration’s efforts to expand the NVRA through the implementation of Presidential Executive Order 14019" — attempts that have apparently been in vain. "It is obvious to me that this EO is an attempt to federalize an expansion of voter registration policies originally established by the NVRA. I have requested access to public records and information related to those plans and their implementation within our state," Allen said in a statement. "Those requests have been ignored." Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall's office indicated in a statement to Blaze News that the Biden-Harris administration has also "rebuffed requests from Secretary Allen to cooperate with him to remove noncitizens who may be registered to vote in Alabama." 'A ton of damage has been done already.' "The States have primary responsibility for registering voters, determining their eligibility, and conducting elections. But through EO 14019, the Biden-Harris Administration has forced federal agencies to flood every State with voter registration forms. Many of the recipients are not eligible to vote," said Marshall’s office. Whilst pushing this scheme, the White House has "opposed efforts like the SAVE Act that would ensure those voting in our elections have the documents to prove their citizenship." The Alabama AG's office noted that it is "working with Secretary Allen on additional ways to safeguard our elections this November." Virginia In response to questions about what the Old Dominion is doing about EO 14019, a spokesman for Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin told Blaze News that the governor "believes we need to continually invest in our election system to improve the process, restore faith in elections and address any concerns." "Election security isn't a Democrat or Republican issue, it's an American and Virginian issue — we must ensure we are adequately maintaining voter lists, abiding by election security procedures and taking election crimes seriously," continued the spokesman. "In Virginia, Governor Youngkin is taking critical steps to improve the election process and ensure it's resilient." The spokesman referenced various actions Youngkin has taken to bolster election security, including ratifying legislation to ax outside interference in elections; to provide absentee results by precinct so voters can see who is voting absentee in person and by mail and where they’re coming from; and to remove dead voters from voter rolls every week. Oklahoma Oklahoma Attorney General John O’Connor was among those who called for the repeal of EO 14019 in 2022. However, the public information officer for the Oklahoma State Election Board — the elections administrator for the state — told Blaze News, "We are not very familiar with that EO." While apparently not overly familiar with the EO, the election board’s information officer noted that "it is a crime for someone to knowingly cause an unqualified person to become a registered voter or to knowingly submit a voter registration application containing false or fraudulent information. Any evidence of such would be referred to the appropriate district attorney for investigation." West Virginia West Virginia Secretary of State Mac Warner’s office did not respond to Blaze News' request for comment. It is, however, clear that Warner takes the "federal overreach" seriously. Months before signing the Aug. 3, 2022, letter with his Republican peers demanding that Biden rescind EO 14019, Secretary Warner called out the order solo, telling Biden "it is not necessary or appropriate for voter registration services to be mandated or offered at every federal government agency without a state requesting such assistance under its own authority," stressing that the order constituted an "improper federal overreach." Warner also led the nine-state delegation asking the Supreme Court in June to strike down the order. While other states with Republican trifectas as well as swing states with Republican election officials have ostensibly moved the needle on countering EO 14019, Blaze News did not hear back from relevant officials in Nebraska, Montana, Arkansas, Texas, New Hampshire, South Dakota, North Dakota, Ohio, Nevada, and Idaho by the deadline. Not too late to act Blaze News circled back to Mike Howell, executive director of the Oversight Project, for additional insights into what actions have been taken by states to-date and the value in stepping up this late in the game. When asked which have been the most effective actions taken by states to-date in the way of kneecapping EO 14019 and its execution, Howell said, "The Indiana Secretary of State took overt action to kick the Feds out for the purposes of using tax-payer dollars and government authority to act as Kamala Harris' get-out-the-vote operation." "We're at the stage now where more states should be stepping up and taking overt action instead of just asking questions and complaining," added Howell. Howell indicated it is not too late for state officials with gumption to make a meaningful difference. "A ton of damage has been done already, but it's not too late to at least mitigate this constitutional disaster where the incumbent administration is using their power and our money to ensure their own re-election," said Howell. "This is an assault on 'democracy' that the United States hasn’t seen before." This sense of urgency has evidently caught on in recent weeks and months. In July, the America First Policy Institute, Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose (R), Republican Texas Reps. Ronny Jackson and Beth Van Duyne, and others filed a lawsuit against Biden, Attorney General Merrick Garland, and several other big names in the Democratic administration over the EO, claiming Biden and his cabinet officials "have usurped States' role in registering voters and redirected federal resources to partisan voter mobilization efforts, in violation of federal law." The Trump campaign, the Michigan Republican Party, and the Republican National Convention also sued the Biden administration, Whitmer, and Benson last month over the "BidenBucks" scheme. That Democrats swapped out Biden for Harris makes little difference, suggested Howell. "The left has reconstructed the election system in the United States as a competition between machines to collect ballots as opposed to votes. It doesn't really matter who the candidate is for that machine to work," said Howell. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. 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For the sake of American security and prosperity, China must be pushed out of key supply chains.