David Pepper
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“one of the best political-thriller writers on the scene" — latest is non-fiction (“Saving Democracy: A User’s Manual”)
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Gonna try something different.
Call it my TED-style talk on democracy. Longer than a typical whiteboard, so be patient, but frames what’s happening in politics in a way that, I hope, makes sense of what we’re seeing and how it fits together, and also….
Part 1:
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Schiff’s remains the most prescient speech in recent history: “He has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again…You cannot constrain him. He is who he is. Truth matters little to him. What's right matters even less, and decency matters not at all."
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“The only seats where the Republicans are making gains right now is when the seats were drawn to give them gains.”
Thank you
@SteveKornacki
for making it plain.
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I distinctly remember Donald Trump standing near the Brent Spence Bridge and promising to get it done.
But nothing ever happened.
Now I just watched Air Force One circle and land at Cincinnati’s airport (CVG).
Why?
Because
@POTUS
got it done.
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Fetterman agreeing to a debate w those stakes, knowing an entire country would watch, in this cynical age of cheap commentary and social media chatter, while he was recovering from a stroke from just months ago, is one of the most personally courageous acts we will ever witness.
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All of these people could’ve come forward during the impeachment hearing.
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“The screams of children have been edited out” sums up the GOP policy on guns for decades.
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Schiff called it all: “The short, plain, sad, incontestable answer is no, you can't. You can't trust this president to do the right thing. Not for one minute, not for one election, not for the sake of our country. You just can't. He will not change and you know it."
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Shirley Chisolm said: "if they don't give you a seat at the table, bring a folding chair."
In her incredible campaign for Cincy City Council,
@tamayaforcincy
always repeated that quote.
Today, at her swearing in, she brought the chair.
#mainstreet
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WHITEBOARD
DeSantis’s banning of AP African American Studies is disturbing and dangerous.
In my most watched whiteboard, I explain how censoring our history of its worst moments is a tool designed to obscure CURRENT attacks on a diverse democracy.
WATCH and RT:
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Drew Westen, on how a Dem candidate should debate a GOP opponent who supports abortion bans, no exceptions: “I believe every woman has the right to choose the father of her child. You believe that every rapist has the chance to choose the mother of his.”
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An American state of almost 12 million people—Ohio—is weeks away from holding an election for Congress on a map of districts that its own (bipartisan) court has ruled are unconstitutional.
No court has ruled otherwise.
But that election is about to begin, because…
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Mike Johnson and Democracy.
A 🧵
A few years ago, now-Speaker Mike Johnson said we do not live in a democracy. It’s a common right-wing refrain.
But the truth is, in HIS political career, he has not participated in a democracy
He is actually the perfect example of how..
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THREAD on the extreme lawlessness taking place in Ohio
I'm on a flight, which gives me an opportunity to do something I've wanted to do for a while: review just how lawless the Ohio GOP behavior has become, and the risk it poses to the rule of law in Ohio long-term.
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So…our scientists can predict a total eclipse to the second. To the exact latitudes & longitudes.
We trust them so so much that people are traveling to the exact places the scientists tell us.
Question: so why do so many ignore scientists’ predictions about climate change?!!
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Just ran into a very talented friend.
She & her husband are accomplished professionals. Very civic minded.
They’re selling their home. Moving to Mass. for a good job there.
The driver?
“Ohio’s just gotten too crazy. I don’t want to raise my boys here”
Meet your future, Ohio
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SUNDAY refresher whiteboard, because they continue to censor history.
See why…both the danger (and purpose) of this censorship, in under 2 minutes.
WATCH and RT:
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BREAKING: Court rules that Ohio's Sec of State "acted arbitrarily in directing “Boards of elections are prohibited from installing a box at any other location other than the board of elections.” [He] lacked a legitimate basis in evidence...It was unreasonable and unlawful."
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VIDEO: nothing better than speaking truth to power.
Here’s my testimony today explaining how the Ohio GOP’s proposed 13-2 Congressional map egregiously violates the Constitution—and represents THEIR fear of democracy.
(They weren’t pleased)
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THREAD
I was so disturbed by Trump’s treatment of Michigan I had to go back and re-watch
@RepAdamSchiff
speech.
You should too...not only was it brilliant as he presented it, it absolutely predicted these moments. It will go down in history for its prescience.
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Donald Trump must be convicted and removed from office.
Because he will always choose his own personal interest over our national interest.
Because in America, right matters. Truth matters.
If not, no Constitution can protect us.
If not, we are lost.
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Yes!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
You did this Ohio voters. Your work and commitment to what is right are vindicated.
BREAKING: Ohio Supreme Court votes 4-3 to strike down GOP-drawn legislative maps.
@jbalmert
has the details.
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Remember: Jordan tried to gaslight the 10-year old OH rape victim forced to go to Indiana to get an abortion.
He called it a lie, then it turned out to be 100% true.
Then he refused to apologize.
That’s the kind of person we’re talking about:
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Ohio. Voters. Know. Their. Power.
10 minutes after the early vote polls opened in Hamilton County.
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Front page. Every newspaper.
Trump stood in front of West Point graduates while knowing that Russia had bounties out on American soldiers.
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VIDEO: the lesson of history couldn’t be more clear. If you don’t fight for democracy when it’s under attack, you can lose it almost overnight.
In “Laboratories of Autocracy,” I walk through the risk to democracy now, and how can all fight back:
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VIDEO:
Lots of people voting early in BLUE Hamilton County/Cincinnati today.
And line is moving fast.
Get in line by 4 wherever you are in Ohio.
WATCH:
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VIDEO
Four days.
For many, the most important four days for Ohio’s democracy of our lifetimes.
Bring the passion. Bring the noise.
Crush Issue 1.
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…those overseeing the map-drawing process chose to violate the law & court orders for so long, they forced that illegal map onto the ballot
There is no minimizing this. There is no sugarcoating this. There is no “both sidesing” this.
It is utterly lawless. And illegitimate
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THREAD
I don't talk much about it, but
@AOC
's brave comments brought home my own experience, decades ago, when I was abducted at gun point for an hour.
The feeling that your life may end, that your fate is wholly in someone else's hands, that you have no control...
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I think Vivek is failing the test of whether you’d want to see him on your TV for four years.
10 seconds is about the max.
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It’s a strange analogy to what’s happening in politics, but I keep thinking about airline baggage fees.
But hear me out.
Those of us who are old enough remember when you didn’t pay anything to check bags on a plane.
It was part of the ticket.
And we remember…
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Never Be Surprised.
Instead, go on offense!
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Did you see the latest outrage out of Ohio Republicans?
After this week’s shellacking at the ballot box over reproductive freedom, several dozen signed the statement below, essentially pledging to 1) defy the new law…
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We’ve had three Wednesdays in 2021:
1. Insurrection
2. Impeachment
3. Inauguration
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Major. Early. Voting. Today!!
But lines are moving fast.
Vote Yes on 1!! Get it done this weekend.
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Here’s what Youngstown’s Ed O’Neill (“Al Bundy”) has to say about TFG, who just had that horrific rally in Youngstown the other day
Ed will be joining our next Blue Ohio brown bag lunch, THIS Friday, to share more and take questions
Sign up here:
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VIDEO: Youngstown’s Ed O’Neill (“Al Bundy”) on
@JoeBiden
Please RT to spread the word, and please support our effort to turn Ohio blue (it’s tied—every vote is going to count) by giving whatever you can here:
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Remember: Trump really wanted Ukraine to ANNOUNCE an investigation. That’s all they needed for their political purposes.
Just did it again w Barr.
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IMPORTANT THREAD
Ohio Republicans just showed that the Trump activity in Ukraine—demanding an investigation into an opponent—is a key part of their disinformation playbook.
All of us need to learn from this, including the media, who are too easily duped into the tactic.
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THREAD — THE ATTACK ON USPS IS A FELONY IN OHIO
Folks, we need to get this right.
The battle over the USPS is not a budget battle. A policy battle. A legislative fight.
It is a crime in plain sight.
And not just a federal crime.
It is an open-and-shut felony in Ohio.
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Painful but needed reminder: tomorrow, 15 members of Congress (the entire Ohio delegation) will enter office via a map of districts that violates the state’s Constitution.
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I've said it privately, I've tweeted it some, but I'm going to lay it out bluntly. Please listen.
Too many insiders continue to categorize certain states as "tipping point" states as if we're in a normal political environment.
But we're not in a normal moment...
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Pro tip: If you find yourself flying your employees out of the state where they work so they can control their own healthcare decisions, stop giving money to the extremists who are making that travel necessary.
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The Tragic Case They Tried to Erase
A THREAD (long, but worth it):
It’s a horrifying story that sums up so much of today’s politics of extremism. Which means it’s one we should not only never forget—but one that should spur us to action.
In fact, it already has!
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THREAD -- let's do some real originalism, shall we?
The Guarantee Clause: Art. IV, Section IV of the Constitution.
Maybe the most important clause in the Constitution no one pays attention to.
But at this fraught time for our democracy, we must! Congress must!
Read on...
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WATCH: One common sense solution to voting in a pandemic is to expand vote drop boxes, where people can drop off ballots directly (not in mail), throughout counties
They're safe. They're easy. Fewer delays. No stamps
Other states use them broadly. We should too
RT if you agree
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A couple datapoints from OH-12:
👍 D turnout was up 122% over May primary; R turnout up 48%
👍 D turnout higher than '14 general election turnout; R lower
👍
@dannyoconnor1
margins were better than '16 in all but Balderson's home county
Bottom line: organizing matters!
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They were ok covering up the truth with Russia interfering in 2016.
They were ok covering up the truth with Trump shaking down Ukraine to boost his 2020 election.
They’re ok covering up the truth with January 6th.
This is not just about Trump.
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🚨 🚨
NEW WHITEBOARD
(most important yet, so please watch/share)
The two sides of today’s battle view/approach the battle very differently. A major reason that those supporting democracy keep losing
Until the pro-democracy side sees this, the results won’t change
WATCH:
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One question: WTF is happening at the Ohio Supreme Court?!?
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Just when you thought the ethics meltdown at the Ohio Supreme Court couldn’t get worse….
…we’ve got a conflict so egregious that even Clarence Thomas might shy away from it.
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They tried to rig the rules so that today’s Issue 1 would only pass if it hit 60%.
That’s how scared the extremists are of the majority.
So be sure you show up today and live up to their worst nightmare.
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Justice Thomas will be weighing in on a case about an insurrection that his wife was a leading participant/advocate in.
He will take the side of his wife’s allies in that insurrection.
As tainted as any moment in Supreme Court history.
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Yesterday’s Ed O’Neil video was just the warm up.
Today’s clip is the main event.
Sit back, grab some 🍿, and enjoy.
And to join our Blue Ohio
@ISTBlueOhio
virtual lunch w Ed this Friday, sign up here:
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…in today’s gerrymandered world, people can ride to the highest levels of power without being in a real election their entire careers.
Which means they can be complete extremists and never face accountability for it.
Johnson’s career is the perfect example of this. 👇
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🚨 The Texas Nightmare
A 🧵
What played out in Texas in recent days sums up the nightmare brought on by Dobbs in countless states, and faced by millions of women: A woman being forced to endure excruciating delays as she confronts a serious risk to her health and makes…
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Ohio: we don’t have two Senators.
We have one. Sherrod Brown.
Trump has the other. And it’s so painful to watch him every day. Stains a seat once held by Glenn and Voinovich.
Vance on what he would've done on January 6: "If I had been VP I would've told the states like Pennsylvania, Georgia, and so many others that we needed to have multiple slates of electors, and I think the US Congress should've fought over it from there."
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BREAKING: Ohio Dems Step Up, Running All Over
A 🧵
Last week, I shared the phenomenal news that in North Carolina, Texas, Arkansas and Arizona, leaders, activists and candidates are all acting on the “run everywhere” mantra.
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Ohio’s Yost chose to go on national television to sow doubt about a 10-year old victim of rape. Whipped right-wing media into a frenzy.
Truly stomach-churning behavior.
And it turns out, he had no idea what he was talking about.
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Today, a lobbyist and former head of the Ohio GOP accused me of engaging in a 'one-man rant' against Portman.
I confess I’m passionate about ethics and the rule of law.
But I really hope it’s not just me.
Please RT if you too are appalled by Portman’s actions re Ukraine.
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🚨 🚨 NEW WHITEBOARD VIDEO:
THREAD
When you hear GOP Senators talk about the “federal takeover” of elections today, know that they are not only defying the clear words of the Constitution, but they are using the most effective play from the 50s/60s segregationist playbook.
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Who wants the angry parents down the street determining what YOUR kids read?
It turns out, not many people. Book bans are really unpopular.
Stand up to them wherever they’re attempted, and you will likely win. And run against politicians who want to ban books.
WATCH
“Almost 60 percent of K-12 parents polled said they oppose book bans from school boards, and two-thirds said they oppose state lawmakers’ bans.”
A small govt solution to respect parents’ rights: allow parents to set individual restrictions for their child
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If you didn’t learn anything new, then you knew way too much…
Jim Jordan says the J6 hearings so far have been pointless because nothing new has come out that we didn’t already know.
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How do you walk away from this question?
Reporter: Are you supportive of the court decision that prevented Kate Cox from getting an abortion after she learned her fetus was not viable?
Ted Cruz: Just call my press office
Reporter: I have for 2 days with no answer
Cruz: Thank you
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Methinks this is why they wrote the Disqualification Clause….and assumed it would be enforced….
Trump: Now, If I don't get elected, it's gonna be a bloodbath. It's going to be a bloodbath for the country.
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Fact: Jim Jordan currently sits in a Congressional district that VIOLATES the Ohio Constitution.
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“Whose House?? Our House!!”
The people oppose this outrageous power grab!!!
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WATCH: Confused by Trump’s behavior today? Every day?
No worries. Youngstown native Ed O’Neill is here to explain.
For more from Ed and many others, sign up for our
@OHDems
Convention on Saturday:
#OHDemsConvention
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🚨 BREAKING
Holy 💩
The Chief Counsel and Ethics Officer(!) of the Ohio Attorney General was CAUGHT by an Ohio Court giving legal advice to the Defendant (in the State School Board case) when she was supposed to be representing the plaintiffs (suing to stop the takeover):
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As Trump comes to Ohio today, remember:
2019 was the worst jobs year in Ohio since 2009, the Great Recession. We lost manufacturing jobs. Construction jobs. Farm bankruptcies spiked.
All before COVID hit.
And now it’s only worse.
Trump failed Ohio.
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Republican AGs Hiding Their Tracks on Jan. 6
A 🧵
Yesterday was a big day when it comes to potential accountability for January 6. (Like most of my readers, I still have a hard time seeing Trump ultimately disqualified, so we should plan and prepare accordingly.)
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Hey US Supreme Court. You said that the people should decide.
In Ohio, we did.
And now our corrupted statehouse is trying to overturn it. And strip away power from courts themselves to uphold rights.
Can you bring the rule of law back to the country?
Asking for a state
Laboratory of Autocracy, hard at work in Ohio.
The nation’s most corrupt statehouse now floating idea of removing courts from interpreting Ohio’s new right to reproductive freedom, and assigning a different body to interpret the new amendment: themselves.
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Want a concrete example of how a state loses its rule of law?
This is a case against the Ohio Redistricting Commission. One Commission member is Mike DeWine, the Gov.
This decision dismisses the case. One Justice in the 4-3 decision is DeWine’s son.
Yes, that’s corrupt AF.
Another day, another blow to democracy and the rule of law in Ohio.
Years of serial lawbreaking and election-rigging rewarded today. By Justices whose very place and appearance on the ballot was manipulated by parties in an ongoing case.
Here’s some of Justice Brunner’s…
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This was Day 1.
It felt different then.
And the energy never dissipated from that opening salvo.
Today built into the most important day for Ohio’s democracy in my lifetime. The people of Ohio saw it, and stopped a shameful attack.
And NOW it’s time to go on offense!!
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🚨 🚨
NEW WHITEBOARD
Repeat after me: They gerrymander BECAUSE of what happened in Kansas. They KNOW their positions are toxic & would lose in a fair democracy.
So we MUST repeat last night by going after extremism at every level, everywhere.
WATCH, then a 🧵 w action steps
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Stay. In. Line.
A line down the street and around the block at 3:14pm on a sunny Sunday in August at the Cuyahoga County BOE. There are crowds across the street playing music, thanking folks for voting and reminding them abt November. Lots of first-time voters too. People are motivated.
#vote
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Lots of media and other belly-aching about Biden’s speech last night.
But I ask, what would we do if we saw the following things all happening in another country somewhere?
🚨 the rigging of legislative districts so that 99% of election outcomes were guaranteed:
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But it gets WORSE.
The same body lawlessly rigging that map also changed the rules of how Ohio elects Supreme Court justices for THIS year, to favor their candidates. And their clear goal is to ignore the current court’s orders for long enough, that their new election rule…
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Everyone unfollow Trump.
Pass it on.
I just unfollowed Trump.
From this point on, he needs to be ignored.
This country desperately needs leadership, and the sooner
@JoeBiden
and
@KamalaHarris
have our full attention, the better.
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THREAD — why Kanye and Trump are converging in Ohio and how you can help
In consecutive days, the same Ohio firm that represents Trump submitted signatures for Kanye West; and then Trump himself is back in Ohio.
Coincidence? I think not.
Read on to learn more, and help:
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…gets them a partisan and favorable court, that will retroactively undo the rulings they are violating.
And national Republicans are sending millions in Ohio to get that done.
THE entire sequence is a blatant attack on the rule of law you’d expect to see in another country…
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If Issue 1 fails, Ohio will be stuck with one of the most extreme bans in the nation.
Don’t let it happen. Vote Yes on 1!
Ohioans will vote on
#Issue1
for abortion rights on Tuesday. “The default, if Issue 1 fails, is not some status quo. It's the abortion ban. No exceptions for rape or incest.” says
@DavidPepper
. “If you vote yes, you're voting to give Ohioans a right to make their own decisions.”
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Young Americans see right through the corruption that is gerrymandering.
Here’s a great first-hand account from what happened in North Carolina this year:
“Republicans surgically sliced North Carolina into 120 misshapen pieces with an audacity…
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Stop the steal!
More stuff (appears to be Abe Lincoln bust) leaving the West Wing this afternoon.
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If you see this photo, and all you think about is the Time Magazine cover, you are unfit for office.
That TIME Magazine cover was huge threat to national security. 🙄
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A small group of police officers saved our country, and leading national figures of both parties, from an armed mob that greatly outnumbered them.
At some point, we need a major commemoration to their heroism and bravery.
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Look at him. Watch him. It’s painful, but do it.
Then think what an absolute fool so many are destroying their legacies for.
It really is mindboggling.
An absolute fool—a national embarrassment—and so many are tanking their careers to cover for him.
Trump muses about serving more than two terms and becoming a dictator: "A lot of them say, 'you know he's not leaving' ... So now we have to start thinking about that, because it's not a bad idea."
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Amazing that a former president is in court arguing that he can commit crimes as president without any accountability, while the sitting president (who would be granted immunity if the former president wins) disagrees
Says everything about the 2 people, as well as their parties.
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Ohio’s Pelican Brief: A 🧵
Stick w this. It will stun you.
Remember the book/movie The Pelican Brief? Where one case explained an entire plot involving the makeup of the US Supreme Ct?
Well, that’s happening right now in Ohio. But the victims are not pelicans…
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@ChrisRGibbs
is an Ohio farmer who lives in Jim Jordan’s district. As the former chair of a GOP county party, he knows the man well, and watched his entire rise.
So when he tells you key reasons why Jordan should never be Speaker, we best listen to what he has to say 👇
I know I’m just a farmer and don’t know much bout nothin cept corn and cows, but I do know this, Jim Jordan’s career path must not lead to the Speakership.
@RuralVoicesUSA
@RuralGroundGame
@RuralOrganizing
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The fact that we’re interviewing presidential candidates polling at 1% who spew whatever they can to get to 1.2%, while not focusing on the assault on democracy in state after state, is a BIG part of the problem.
CHUCK TODD: Are you confident that you know gender is as binary as you're describing?
VIVEK RAMASWAMY: I am
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VIDEO — wrapped around the statehouse, standing up for the people.
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Warning: you will lose 4 CLE credits if you watch all of this.
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The average age of the hospitalized COVID patient in Florida is 42 years old. Wow.
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Tick. Tock.
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Incredibly, that first run for office was unopposed. There wasn’t even an election
He assumed power without ever having faced the voters in a general election
No wonder he thinks we’re not a democracy!
Once in office, he got to work on his extremist agenda, pushing a law…
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Bottom line: the now-Speaker of the House is the perfect example of the modern extremist
He’s spent his entire career in a world devoid of democracy, and of no accountability
It’s how he entered—his initial entree unopposed (that’s pretty rare, actually. Not even a primary)
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