Author: Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America http://amzn.to/2asHld2 Writer: @motherjones Speaking: annette@speakersforall.com
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Voter ID laws Voter purges Closing polling places Disenfranchising ex-felons Blocking voter registration I broke down all the different GOP voter suppression tactics on @nprfreshair today. Pls listen & share
I'm on vacation starting today but read my @MotherJones feature on how Trump admin rigging 2020 census to understand importance of SCOTUS case challenging citizenship question. This is one of greatest threats to democracy in US
How democracies die: Unconstitutional national "emergencies" Demonizing immigrants & minorities Attacking free press Suppressing votes Extreme gerrymandering Election interference Rigging census Lame duck coups
Mitch McConnell's record of subverting democracy: -Supports Trump's bogus national "emergency" -Stole Supreme Court seat from President Obama -Blocked bipartisan response to Russian interference -Gutted campaign finance reform -Thinks making it easier to vote is "power grab"
How democracies die: Unconstitutional national "emergencies" Demonizing immigrants & minorities Attacking free press Suppressing votes Extreme gerrymandering Election interference Rigging census Lame duck coups
Quoted @marceelias
BREAKING: In a big win for voting rights in Virginia, Federal Court has ordered Virginia to make put final state House map on web and ordered the State to "immediately implement" the map "to ensure that the 2019 Virginia House of Delegates elections will proceed as scheduled."
Despite Dem scandals, new map for VA house will give Dems great chance to take back chamber this year. Could flip 6+ seats from GOP
Quoted @NC_Governor
For the first time in our state's history, an African American woman will serve as Chief Justice of the North Carolina Supreme Court.
Elections matter
The struggle for voting rights is the “defining civil rights issue of our time” - @EricHolder https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/eric-holder-sure-sounds-like-hes-running-for-president/ … by @AriBerman @MotherJones
Quoted @voxdotcom
Utah lawmakers have officially blocked their state’s voter-approved Medicaid expansion https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2019/2/11/18220721/utah-medicaid-expansion-prop-3-sb96?utm_campaign=vox&utm_content=chorus&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter …
This is happening across country. When Republicans don't like election results, they try to nullify them. Brazenly undemocratic https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2018/12/after-voters-passed-progressive-ballot-initiatives-gop-legislatures-are-trying-to-kill-future-ones/ …
Speaking in Iowa yesterday @EricHolder called fight for voting rights "defining civil rights issue of our time." He told me last week he wanted Dem candidates for president to focus more on voting rights issues & would decide on prez run by early March
BREAKING: We're suing New Hampshire to stop HB1264, a law that unconstitutionally restricts the right to vote. The state wants students and other voters to face criminal penalties if they don’t pay to change their out-of-state licenses after voting.
Quoted @DouthatNYT
My Tuesday column: The Myths of Voter ID: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/12/opinion/voter-id-study-republicans-democrats.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage …
1000s disenfranchised by Wisconsin's voter ID law in 2016; GOP admitted passed to help them win https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2017/10/voter-suppression-wisconsin-election-2016/ … GAO found voter ID laws reduced turnout by 2-3% https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/govbeat/wp/2014/10/09/report-voter-id-laws-reduce-turnout-more-among-african-american-and-younger-voters/?utm_term=.b9538e080f34 … I could go on & on. Plenty of evidence voter ID laws suppress votes yet scant fraud
Quoted @realDonaldTrump
African Americans are very angry at the double standard on full display in Virginia!
You called white supremacists "very fine people" after they murdered a woman in Charlottesville
Quoted @tictoc
.@SenWarren vows to “overturn every single voter suppression rule” at her 2020 campaign rally in Lawrence, MA #tictocnews
In kickoff today @ewarren vows to "overturn every single voter suppression rule that racist politicians use to steal votes from people of color"
As it happens, I wrote today about how Dem implosion in VA could cost them control of post-2020 redistricting. That would be really big deal
Virginia GOP House speaker Kirk Cox, who could become gov if top 3 Dems resign, defended unconstitutional racial gerrymandering that diluted power of black voters https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2019/02/virginias-democratic-scandals-could-cost-the-party-control-of-state-politics-for-the-next-decade/ …
Big news! @prioritiesUSA is committing $30 million over the next two years to fight voter suppression and protect the right to vote. We will take our fight to the courts and ballot box.
One thing that's been overlooked in VA scandals: if GOP takes control of VA gov & oversees redistricting process post-2020 they will push through voter suppression & extreme racial gerrymandering to disenfranchise black voters
Replying to @tayari
Glad you asked. I am snowed in in MN and reading GIVE US THE BALLOT by @AriBerman . I recommend it all the time but never took the time to read it. Honestly, afraid it would make me mad . It does but it is so interesting.
Quoted @alexazura
West: "How do you define voter suppression?" Whitley: "I think it's irrelevant." West: "You're the SOS, sir. It is relevant to me if I'm going to vote for your confirmation...Easy question." #txlege
1000s could be wrongly purged based on totally inaccurate list of alleged non-citizen registrants but TX SOS says he doesn't know what voter suppression is
Quoted @MotherJones
Billionaires flooded Republicans' coffers just before the tax cuts passed http://bit.ly/2GsL2iZ
Charles and Elizabeth Koch gave $495,400 to Paul Ryan 3 weeks before tax cuts passed House