How we missed this Huffington Post piece yesterday ... well, no idea. Anyway, any story that begins ...

... at recent hearings before a House Judiciary subcommittee, new revelations emerged about how the Justice Department failed to investigate illegal mailers sent to African-Americans in Dallas threatening criminal punishment if they registered to vote through a community reform group called ACORN ...

... is one we probably ought to read. For background, there's also this in 2006. And this, from last October. --Robert Wilonsky

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