Matt Cohen, senior reporter

Anti-voting activists are doing their damndest to pressure senators to pledge their support for the SAVE America Act, which would mandate documentary proof of citizenship for registration and impose a photo ID requirement for voters. 

• Cleta Mitchell used an appearance on Steve Bannon’s War Room this week to confirm that anti-voting activists want to make it harder for opponents of the SAVE America Act — which experts have said would disenfranchise millions by requiring proof of citizenship — to filibuster it by requiring a “talking filibuster.”
  
  
• “Make them come, make them work, make them speak,” Mitchell told Bannon. “Every Senator who opposes the bill, The Save America Act, should be forced to come to the floor and talk as to why they oppose Voter ID and why they oppose documentary proof of citizenship.”
  
  
• Meanwhile, the far-right activist Scott Presler wants you to know he didn’t watch the Super Bowl Sunday because he’s just so focused on passing the bill. In fact, in not-at-all worrying comments, Presler seemed to suggest that a failure to get the voter suppression measure into law could lead to “war.”
  
  

• And Tea Party Patriots leader Jenny Beth Martin is extremely mad that Chuck Schumer called the SAVE Act “Jim Crow 2.0.” “It isn’t about race,” Martin told NewsMax viewers, calling the Democratic Senate leader’s comments “absurd.”

You know what else definitely has nothing to do with race? The Trump administration’s seizure of 2020 election materials from Fulton County, Georgia.

• There’s growing evidence that the FBI’s raid was spurred by “research” from a discredited election conspiracy theorist — and promoted again last week by Mitchell. That evidence looks even more solid after the Department of Justice (DOJ) on Tuesday released the affidavit it filed to get a warrant for the action.
  
  
• We’re not going to unpack all of Mitchell’s frenzied claims about how there were more ballots counted than absentee voters recorded or something. The line “Brad Raffensperger has NEVER explained that” probably tells you everything you need to know.
  
  
• Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right militant group Oath Keepers, is also watching Fulton County closely. Filling in for Alex Jones on InfoWars this week, Rhodes said he wouldn’t have trusted the raid if it weren’t for the presence there of Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard.
  
  
• “I was glad to see Tulsi there, because otherwise, I would’ve been like a lot of other black pill MAGA people,” Rhodes said. “Like, we don’t believe anything we see out of the DOJ or the, or the FBI — would think it’s this window dressing,” Rhodes said, adding, “But I think Tulsi being in there … sends a different message.”
  
  
• Gabbard, by the way, was on the scene because she reportedly has been probing whether Venezuela helped steal the 2020 election using Dominion voting machines. And the veteran dirty trickster Roger Stone added his voice to that conspiracy theory this week. “He who controls the count controls the country,” Stone warned. 
  
  

• Oh and the right-wing commentator John Solomon thinks/predicts/desperately hopes that a similar FBI operation is coming to Arizona.