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Rep.
@AOC
: He is doing this because he can't look a child in the face — he can't look this country in the face — and tell them why we are throwing them in cages.
#RacistPresident
#CloseTheCamps
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“The
#USPostalService
helped build this country by uniting Americans in the biggest cities, smallest towns, and most remote rural areas,” said PFAWF President
@BenJealous
. "Especially now, across America, we need our Post Office."
#DefendOurPostOffice
during
#coronavirus
.
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Last time Nancy Pelosi held the Speakers’ gavel, she led the most productive, progressive Congress since the New Deal. PFAW believes there is no one better to lead the House as we stand up to Trump and his ugly, extreme agenda.
#ForThePeople
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@SpeakerPelosi
: Our unity is our power, and that is what the president underestimated.
#TrumpCaved
#TrumpAddress
#FridayFeeling
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"As a member of my
@IndivisibleTeam
in
#GA06
we are working hard to Get The Vote Out for Jon because we need him."
-Kathy
#VoteYourOssoff
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"When you see lines of Black people waiting hours and hours to vote, you can largely thank John Roberts for these scenes of racism. And he hasn't gotten nearly enough blame for it," writes
@ElieNYC
.
#VotingRights
#CourtsMatter
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In 1999, Vanita Gupta fought for the freedom of nearly 40 wrongfully convicted people in the small town of Tulia, Texas.
She made their fight, her fight - and she won their freedom.
Now, we need to make
#HerFightOurFight
. Tell your senators:
#ConfirmGupta
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People For the American Way’s Voters Alliance PAC is proud to endorse Speaker of the House
@SpeakerPelosi
in the upcoming primary for California’s 12th congressional district.
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This is a LIFETIME appointment to the SUPREME COURT. The American people deserve and expect full review of Kavanaugh’s record.
Without it, we have to ask
@ChuckGrassley
and Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee:
#WhatAreTheyHiding
?
#SCOTUSpick
🏛️
Too much is at stake with this
#SCOTUS
vacancy. The American people deserve the full truth about Brett Kavanaugh's time at the White House. Without a full record, there is no way to evaluate his nomination for a seat on our highest court.
#WhatAreTheyHiding
#ReleaseTheRecords
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@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
@cmclymer
@thehill
@AFJustice
@UNITEDWEDREAM
@MoveOn
@CAPAction
@MuslimAdvocates
@LawyersComm
@Re4mImmigration
@RAICESTEXAS
.
@IlhanMN
: "We know Donald Trump would love nothing more than to use this issue to pit Muslim Americans and Jewish Americans against each other."
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@RepJoeKennedy
: The future belongs to a community that is engaged &caring & resilient & strong & will always live up to the values of our country... That day is not today and it is heartbreaking. But this must bring us together. And mark my words, we will win.
#NoBanNoWall
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@brianschatz
: Just 13 dudes rushing to pass a bill without women and
@SenateDems
and without input from the American people
#HoldtheFloor
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Thank you
@SenWarren
for showing up to support the coalition of women and allies who have gathered at the Hart Building to
#StopKavanuagh
#SCOTUS
#WhatAtStake
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If Amy Coney Barrett is confirmed, she'll "set back America for a century," warned
@SenSchumer
at today's No Confirmation Before Inauguration:
#WeDissent
Digital Rally.
Thank you, Senator, for leading the fight to protect our health care and
#OurCourt
.
#BlockBarrett
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If you're not responsible enough to have a Twitter account, you're not responsible enough to be the president.
Remove Trump now.
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MASSIVE crowd outside of the Supreme Court to stand for workers’ rights.
#WeRise
#JanusvAFSCME
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White supremacist, Nazi sympathizer, Islamophobe and… Trump advisor. Sebastian Gorka has got to go!
#FireGorka
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.
@RepJerryNadler
: "The information we requested is entirely within our legal rights to receive."
#Barr
#ContemptOfCongress
@HouseJudiciary
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Billionaires shouldn’t be able to buy elections, which is why the Senate must pass
#ForThePeopleAct
. To help build support, we’re sharing the stories of women of color who have run and won using small donor financing. First up: Rep.
@AthenaSalman
from Arizona.
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Constituents of
@lisamurkowski
have flown all the way here from Alaska to ask their senator to vote NO on Kavanaugh.
#StopKavanaugh
#Kavanaugh
#Kavanaughhearings
#BelieveSurvivors
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William Pierce was denied ASL interpreters and placed in solitary confinement. Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson took the time to understand his needs, and her decision helped ensure equal justice for all.
Tell your senators:
#ConfirmJackson
.
#JusticeForAll
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The first Latina Supreme Court Justice swore in the first Black, Asian American woman to serve as our nation's Vice President.
We just witnessed history, made.
#InaugurationDay
#Inauguration2021
#Inauguration
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Trump wants you to believe that there is a crisis at the border. But the fact of the matter is that any crisis at the border was deliberately created by him. And a wall won’t fix it.
#TrumpCaved
@SenJeffMerkley
has receipts👇
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Rep.
@Ilhan
Omar: This is a president who has pursued an agenda to allow millions of Americans to die from a lack of healthcare while he transfers millions of dollars in tax cuts to corporations.
#RacistPresident
#TheSquad
#ProtectOurCare
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Speaker Nancy Pelosi lays it out!
➡️Impeachment is about protecting the Constitution of the United States.
➡️The elections are about Trump's depravity in the face of millions.
#ImpeachNow
#TrumpIsNotAboveTheLaw
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“The fact is: President Trump must stop holding the American people hostage.” -
@SpeakerPelosi
#PresidentialAddress
#TRumpAddress
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@RepCohen
: "We're talking about the opportunity for Congress to do its proper oversight as described in Article I of the Constitution that is being trampled on."
#WilliamBarr
#ContemptOfCongress
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"The reason you monitor guys like that is not just because of their potential future impact someday on other people who have power. It's because of their power, and the damage they want to do."
@maddow
is right: this is why
@RightWingWatch
exists, and why we do the work we do.
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@JacksonLeeTX18
: "This is absolute lawless behavior by this administration."
#ContemptOfCongress
#WilliamBarr
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TODAY: We're rallying (virtually) to call on senators to protect our care and reject the nomination of Trump's anti-health care Supreme Court nominee
Hear from
@SenSchumer
,
@SenWarren
,
@SenatorBaldwin
,
@SenatorHassan
, and more!
Join us:
#WeDissent
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REp.
@AyannaPressley
: We are viscerally, vigorously & fundamentally opposed to the criminalizing, vilifying, mass detention and deportation of migrant families who are simply doing what is their legal, human right: That is to seek asylum.
#CloseTheCamps
#TheSquad
#RacistPresident
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BREAKING: Young people under the age of 18 were just taken away by the police for demonstrating in front of the White House for
#votingrightsnow
. Our movement for the freedom to vote is
#poweredbyyouth
- and we’re not backing down.
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Klobuchar: “We strive for a more perfect union. That means that everyone can vote, and that includes our communities of color. I would pass a bill to register every kid in this country when they turn 18 to vote.”
#VotingRights
#DemocraticDebate
#DemDebate
#PresidentialDebate
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"Your family and you speak to service, service, service. And I'm telling you right now, I'm not letting anybody in the Senate steal my joy" about your nomination,
@SenBooker
tells Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson.
#ConfirmJackson
#JusticeForAll
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Nothing the president has said tonight will put food on the table for the eight hundred thousand Americans AND THEIR FAMILIES about to miss their federal paychecks.
#TrumpAddress
#PresidentialAddress
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.
@SenJeffMerkley
knows that Gorsuch can’t be independent while connected to conservative supporters
#HoldtheFloor
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The insurrection did not start on January 6th.
Trump spent months priming his supporters for that moment.
Plaskett: "The truth is President Trump spent months calling his supporters to a march on a specific day in a specific time in a specific place to stop the certification ... that is why he must be convicted and disqualified."
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On January 6th, we all watched in horror as an insurrectionist mob stormed the U.S. Capitol in an all-out attack on our democracy.
We need a
#Jan6Commission
to unpack what happened, help us prevent another attack - and hold those involved accountable. .
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Rep.
@AOC
: We love all people in this country and that is why we believe healthcare is a human right. We love all children in the country & we fight for education for all children through college. We will focus on our agenda and we don't be caught slippin.
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@SenSchumer
: “I’d like Trump to go to one of his rallies and say “we don’t think we should protect families with preexisting conditions.” He wouldn’t dare say it, but... he’ll sneak a Supreme Court justice onto the bench who will do just that.”
#WhatsAtStake
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HAPPENING NOW: Representatives
@RashidaTlaib
@AyannaPressley
@AOC
@IlhanMN
are holding a news conference to respond to Trump’s racists tweets this weekend and statements today at the White House.
#RacistPresident
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Election Day is tomorrow! Make sure you cast your ballot in person or drop off your mail-in ballot for Reverend Raphael Warnock and Jon Ossoff by tomorrow!
Your vote is your power. And together, we can flip Georgia blue.
#gasen
#gapol
#georgia
#gasenaterunoff
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According to the
@washingtonpost
, postal experts warn that DeJoy’s latest
#USPS
restructuring plan could increase bureaucracy and slow delivery.
This is why we need the USPS Board of Governors to fire DeJoy and
#SaveThePostOffice
.
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So HR 1 is evil because it *checks notes* makes it easier for people to vote?
Tell us how you really feel about democracy, Mike Lee.
#ForthePeopleAct
#HR1
Sen. Mike Lee (R-UT) on H.R. 1, For the People Act, which makes it easier for everyone to register and vote:
"Everything about this bill is rotten to the core. This is a bill as if written in hell by the devil himself."
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Kristen Clarke helped the family of 2nd Lieutenant Richard Collins III fight for justice for victims of hate crimes.
She made their fight, her fight. Now, we need to make
#HerFightOurFight
. We need her leadership at the Civil Rights Division.
Tell your senators:
#ConfirmClarke
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@SenBooker
: Do you think government efforts promoting racial diversity are a "naked racial set aside"?
Kavanaugh waffles giving information about precedent, personal efforts to promote diversity, and wondering about the source, but refuses to answer the question.
#StopKavanaugh
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You can now track how Jeff Sessions is dismantling the Justice Department. Click to expand👉
#QuestionSessions
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We support the
@womensmarch
and the incredible coalition of organizations who have gathered here to peacefully protest and demand justice.
#StopKavanaugh
#BelieveSurviviors
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Congrats to Next Up Victory Fund’s
@JCarrollFoy
! We are proud to support young candidates like you.
#GameOnVA
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Republican lawmakers in Florida are trying to undermine Amendment 4, a ballot measure returning voting rights to 1.4 million Floridians.
@AndrewGillum
breaks down why this obstruction is so dangerous.
#Amendment4
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NOW: Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson has been named as our next Supreme Court justice.
Judge Jackson has always worked for
#JusticeForAll
. And now, we need to fight for her. Tell your senators:
#ConfirmJackson
.
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#TrayvonMartin
should be turning 25 today.
Instead we are just a few weeks away from the 8th anniversary of his racist killing.
In 2019
@DKBrooks45
wrote about Trayvon and about stereotypes like hoodies and blackface that uphold white supremacy ▶️
#BHM
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“All of these documents belong to the people of the Unites States.. and they will come out eventually, so shame on my colleagues if they conceal them now.” ���
@SenBlumenthal
#StopKavanaugh
#WhatAreTheyHiding
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THIS MUST NOT BE BUSINESS AS USUAL. We must not let Senate Republicans use the Supreme Court to rip away our health without a fight.
Thank you,
@SenSchumer
, for fighting this sham process.
#WeDissent
#BlockBarrett
I'm forcing a vote that the Senate has never confirmed a Supreme Court nominee this close to a presidential election day.
We aren't going to have business as usual while the GOP tries to use an illegitimate process to jam through a nominee to rip away health care from millions.
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NOW: Trump Supreme Court nominee Amy Coney Barrett just refused to say that all presidents should commit to a peaceful transfer of power.
This is absolutely stunning.
#WeDissent
#BlockBarrett
#WhatsAtStake
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@SenBennetCO
: People shouldn't have to choose between paying the rent, buying the food, or being on health insurance.
#ProtectOurCare
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Senators
@KamalaHarris
,
@SenBlumenthal
,
@amyklobuchar
,
@CoryBooker
,
@ChrisCoons
,
@SenWhitehouse
,
@maziehirono
&
@SenatorDurbin
continue to insist that the hearings are stopped until Kavanaugh's records are released. What is the administration afraid to show the us?
#StopKavanaugh
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"When you look at this video, please remember that there is a human, and millions of humans, who are counting on you to vote no."
Patient advocate
@morethanmySLE
calls on senators to protect our health care and reject this Supreme Court nomination.
#WhatsAtStake
#WeDissent
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Brett Kavanaugh thinks the president should be above the law. That's why Trump chose him for the Supreme Court.
Call your senators and tell them that you OPPOSE Brett Kavanaugh. 1-833-293-9454
#trumpisnotabovethelaw
#CollusionDay
#StopKavanaugh
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson's nomination "is a sign that we as a country are continuing to rise to our collective cherished ideals," says
@SenBooker
.
Let's revel in this sense of overwhelming joy so many of us are feeling right now.
#ConfirmJackson
#JusticeForAll
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Inspiring showing in Boston today, one week after Heather Heyer was murdered and many more injured in Charlottesville.
#FightSupremacy
Aerial view shows large crowd of counter-demonstrators marching through Boston ahead of planned "free speech" rally.
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"This is a president who has openly violated the very values our country aspires to uphold: Equality under the law, religious liberty, equal protection & protection from persecution. And to distract from that he is launching a blatantly racist attack.."
#RacistPresident
#TheSquad
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Big money doesn’t have to dominate our elections. Today, the US Senate will vote on
#ForThePeopleAct
, which creates a small donor program for congressional campaigns. Meet
@ChloeMaxmin
, a state senator from Maine, and a champion of small donor campaign financing. Share her story!
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“I am here today as a daughter of 3 generations of union household stability and today we stand shoulder to shoulder to say we will not allow our power to be stripped away.”
- Muthoni
@emilyslist
#JanusvAFSCME
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Shelly Simonds officially flips HD-94 in Virginia!
#FlipVAblue
#ElectionNight
In 2017, this race came down to a random drawing from a bowl. This year, it's decisive. CONGRATULATIONS, Delegate-Elect
@shelly_simonds
!!!!
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@IlhanMN
@RashidaTlaib
@cmclymer
@thehill
@AFJustice
@UNITEDWEDREAM
@MoveOn
@CAPAction
@MuslimAdvocates
@LawyersComm
@Re4mImmigration
@RAICESTEXAS
@jaredlholt
@nwlc
@Public_Citizen
@CommonCause
.
@RashidaTlaib
broke down in tears when discussing the fact that she was singled out as a Muslim women elected to Congress and denied entry to Israel and Palestine.
"All of us should be deeply disturbed."
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@SenSchumer
: The fact is, this is not a national emergency... Now [Trump is] trying to run around Congress in a desperate attempt to put tax payers on the hook for his wall.
#NationalEmergency
#FakeEmergency
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@SenSchumer
calls on Democrats to boycott Neil Gorsuch vote while Trump is under FBI investigation
#TrumpRussia
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BREAKING: The U.S. Government is now SHUTDOWN. Trump and Republicans are holding hostage
🔴800,000 DREAMers
🔴9 million children with CHIP, and
🔴disaster relief for hurricane and fire victims.
This is a
#TrumpShutdown
.
#GOPshutdown
#NoDreamNoDeal
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Happening now: hundreds of protestors are already gathered in front of the Supreme Courts as we rally to
#StopTheBans
.
#AbortionSolidarity
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@RightWingWatch
@cmclymer
@CommonCause
@LawyersComm
@nwlc
@Public_Citizen
@TheDemCoalition
@StandUpAmerica
@MoveOn
@actdottv
.
@JacksonLeeTX18
: "Does obstruction of justice warrant a lot of time in jail if you were to be convicted?"
Mueller: "Yes."
#MuellerHearing
#MuellerTime
#Mueller
#MuellerReport
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Period.
You mess with the mail, you’re messing with the American people. Period.
#DontMessWithUSPS
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“We will not allow the bigotry of two men to overcome the rights of millions of people.”
@RepJoeKennedy
#FarrOut
#CourtsMatter
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"My son Christopher, needs medicaid in order to survive and we are here today to continue to fight to save medicaid."
-Nancy
#SaveOurCare
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TODAY: We're rallying to call on Senators to protect our health care and vote NO on Amy Coney Barrett.
Hear from
@SenSchumer
,
@SenKamalaHarris
,
@SenatorDurbin
,
@SenAmyKlobuchar
,
@SenatorHassan
,
@SenatorBaldwin
, and more!
#OurCourtOurVoices
#WhatsAtStake
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"On the scale of justice, this is not even a close call. Do what’s right."
On his 99th birthday, People For cofounder
@TheNormanLear
calls on senators to do the right thing - and protect our right to vote.
#EndTheFilibuster
#ForThePeopleAct
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Meet Teresa Mosqueda, a 3rd generation Chicana who in 2017 was elected to serve on Seattle City Council. Because of public financing, she didn’t need to cozy up to wealthy donors to win, she was able knock on doors and rely on her community
#SmallDonorRevolutionaries
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19 Black Women Just Became Judges In Texas After Winning In The Midterm Elections
#ElectionResults2018
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.
@RepMGS
: "If you think there is no collusion and no obstruction, you haven't read the Mueller report."
#WilliamBarr
#ContemptOfCongress
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@BetoORourke
.
@kamalaharris
: IT IS NOT AN EXAGGERATION TO SAY WOMEN WILL DIE. Poor women & women of color will die because these Republicans legislatures..are telling women what to do with our bodies.
Let women makes the decisions about their own lives.
#DemDebate
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"The preservation of the special counsel is a matter of national security." -
@CoryBooker
#ProtectMueller
#nooneisabovethelaw
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VIDEO: “I will sleep with my cellphone next to my ear so if Trump is taking out Sessions, taking out Mueller, taking other actions to undermine the rule of law I will be on the first plane to Washington.”
@RepGutierrez
#TrumpRussia
#ProtectMueller
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“For..the future credibility of the Supreme Court in a world that is finally learning to take reports of harassment, assault & abuse seriously, it is time to find a nominee whose confirmation will not repudiate that lesson,” writes
@americamag
.
#MeToo
While we previously endorsed the nomination of Judge Kavanaugh on the basis of his legal credentials and his reputation as a committed textualist, it is now clear that the nomination should be withdrawn.
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“We, the people, demand the full report.”
We’ll be live tweeting the
#ReleaseTheReport
rally in front of the White House momentarily.
#ReleaseTheFullReport
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.
@SenSchumer
reminds us of Justice Ginsburg's final wish that the next president name her replacement.
Republicans' rush to confirm Amy Coney Barrett puts millions of peoples' health care and lives at risk. This is
#WhatsAtStake
.
#OurCourtOurVoices
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"This is a reasonable, modest check and balance on presidential power to ensure that no one is above the law." -
@CoryBooker
#SaveMueller
#NoOneIsAboveTheLaw
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“Judge Barrett would put millions of domestic violence victims like me - survivors - in direct danger by repealing the ACA,” warns Kate Ranta.
#BlockBarrett
#OurCourtOurVoices
cc:
@bradybuzz
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Robert Mueller: "If we had confidence the President did not commit a crime, we would have said so."
#Mueller
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When Trump called for a "wild protest" to support his election lies, Ali Alexander and Stop the Steal were critical in making it happen.
WATCH:
@RightWingWatch
dives deep into the role Stop the Steal played in the insurrection.
#Jan6Justice
#January6thInsurrectionHearings
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Watch
@SpeakerPelosi
talk about
#coronavirus
and how it's affecting our lives, economic livelihoods, and the life of our democracy -- and how they can all be safely supported with expanded
#votebymail
.
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Considering their records before joining the bench, "Trump judges are bad" should not be a hot take.
Me: Trump judges are corrupt and bad.
White Wing: not true!
Trump judge: [Issues demonstrably foolish decision getting panned by every serious lawyer everywhere]
White Wing: See, Elie doesn't know what he's talking about [ads very original Don King joke]
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“When I look in the eyes of dreamers...I see the future of America.”
@SenKamalaHarris
#DreamActNow
#TrumpShutdown
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Kristen Clarke fought for justice for the women of Con Edison. And at the Department of Justice, she will continue working to achieve the promise of equal justice under law.
Senators must
#ConfirmClarke
. Add your name at .
#HerFightOurFight
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