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in2herbs

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5. Politics is not a charity. If 501(c) laws were changed and political actions removed from

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Fri Jan 3, 2025, 08:43 AM

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the shield of 501(c)s the protections afforded under these disastrous political interferences in our elections because of the CU by the USSC would stop. Congress has always had the control, not the USSC, they just have not exercised it.

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