{"id":231375,"date":"2021-03-16T17:31:48","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:31:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=231375"},"modified":"2021-03-16T17:32:10","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T21:32:10","slug":"meckler-h-r-1-marks-end-of-u-s-democracy-states-must-stand-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/meckler-h-r-1-marks-end-of-u-s-democracy-states-must-stand-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Meckler: H.R. 1 marks end of U.S. democracy, states must stand up"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmeckler-h-r-1-marks-end-of-u-s-democracy-states-must-stand-up%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=231375&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"attachment_2387669\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2387669\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WASHINGTON \u2013 JULY 21: Mark Meckler spoke to the media as Jenny Beth Martin looked on after the first meeting of the newly formed Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill July 21, 2010 in Washington, D.C.&nbsp; (Photo by Alex Wong\/Getty Images)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<h5>OAN Newsroom<br \/>UPDATED 2:18 PM PT \u2013 Tuesday, March 16, 2021<\/h5>\n<p>A prominent political analyst warned the Democrat-proposed election reform bill is signaling the end of democracy in the U.S. In an Epoch Times interview, Mark Meckler of the Convention of States Project said the Democrat Party wants to cement its political dominance with the H.R. 1 bill.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2387671\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2387671\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-large wp-image-2387671\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1403.jpeg\" alt=\"Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., and the Democratic Caucus gather to address reporters on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. House Democrats are expected to pass a sweeping elections and ethics bill, offering it up as a powerful counterweight to voting rights restrictions advancing in Republican-controlled statehouses. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)\" width=\"674\" height=\"437\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1403.jpeg 674w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1404.jpeg 324w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1405.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1406.jpeg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 674px) 100vw, 674px\" \/><\/p>\n<p id=\"caption-attachment-2387671\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi and the Democratic Caucus gathered to address reporters on H.R. 1, the For the People Act of 2021, at the Capitol in Washington, Wednesday, March 3, 2021. (AP Photo\/J. Scott Applewhite)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meckler emphasized the bill would mark a federal takeover of state and local elections, adding H.R. 1 would normalize illegal voting and fraud to elect Democrat candidates with universal mail-in ballots.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">The \u201cFor the People Act\u201d should be called the \u201cFor the Politicians Act.\u201d H.R. 1 is a power grab that threatens our fair and free elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Mike Pompeo (@mikepompeo) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mikepompeo\/status\/1371803686117257219?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 16, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The political analyst is urging states to stand up to this federal overreach and secure the integrity of their elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cArticle V of the Constitution gives us the power to call a Convention of States when 34 states ask for it, to get together to literally impose new restrictions on the federal government through constitutional amendments,\u201d Meckler stated. \u201cSo far 15 states have proposed calling that convention, again it takes 34 states to do it. We have over 5 million volunteers in supporters and activists around the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Meckler argued the federal government will never stop trying to erode states\u2019 rights, including through voter fraud, until individual states stand up to ongoing power grabs.<\/p>\n<h4>MORE NEWS: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.oann.com\/texas-unveils-bills-to-prevent-election-fraud\/\">Texas Unveils Bills To Prevent Election Fraud<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON \u2013 JULY 21: Mark Meckler spoke to the media as Jenny Beth Martin looked on after the first meeting of the newly formed Tea Party Caucus on Capitol Hill &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2310626,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1403.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Meckler: H.R. 1 marks end of U.S. democracy, states must stand up","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231375","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/fb_image-1403.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"Meckler: H.R. 1 marks end of U.S. democracy, states must stand up","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=231375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2310626"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}