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Dad, husband, state senator for Fayetteville. Senate Minority Leader for the 94th General Assembly.
Fayetteville, AR
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Fifty-four white supremacists arrested in Arkansas a month ago, and the story came and went.
Seems like an appropriate day to revisit it—and to remember that in 2018, Arkansas had the eighth-highest number of hate groups per capita in the US.
We’ve got to talk about this.
54 white supremacists have been arrested in Arkansas for multiple violent crimes, including attempted murder and kidnapping.
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Democrats are *still* picking up seats that were too close to call last Tuesday, including the California 48th (held by Congressman Dana Rohrabacher for 30 years) and (almost certainly at this point) a US Senate seat in Arizona.
The story developing as the full picture of Tuesday's results comes into focus is significantly more favorable to Dems than the narrative that emerged on Election Night.
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We’ve never seen a shutdown under one-party control.
If the government shuts down this weekend, it'll be the first time a real shutdown has happened with a single party controlling the White House and Congress.
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The
#Alexandria
shooting will get a lot of attention—but it's just one of more than 50 incidents of
#GunViolence
in the last 24 hours.
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Phenomenal week for Razorback athletics:
Soccer: Won the SEC title
Women’s cross country: Won its *seventh consecutive* SEC title
Women’s basketball: Started its season ranked 22
Football: Won the coin toss
#WPS
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To trans kids all across Arkansas: You are wonderful, you are loved, you do have friends and allies here at the Capitol, and we’ll keep fighting for you.
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Just in case anybody doesn’t know:
- *All* 135 seats in the Arkansas legislature are up for grabs in 2022.
- All 135 districts (100 House, 35 Senate) will look different once redistricting is completed sometime this fall.
- The qualifications to run are, uh, low.
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It took Arkansas the first 83 days of the pandemic to record more than 7,900 known cases.
In the last four days alone, we’ve recorded 7,931.
Wear a mask.
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[Sighs. Closes eyes for a moment. Tops off drink.]
Someday, Arkansas.
Minnesota Governor Tim Walz has signed a law guaranteeing free breakfast and lunch for all students in the state, regardless of how much money their parents make. Tens of thousands of food-insecure kids will benefit.
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Arkansas’s 2nd in child food insecurity, 5th in child mortality, 7th in child deaths by firearms, 16th in teen suicide—and the very first bill your Arkansas Senate passed this session was this nonsense.
Arkansas Senate approves ‘drag performance’ bill, advances it to House
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I'm reading the stories shared on the
#BlackatUark
hashtag today. All Arkansans should.
I'm also listening. As the state senator for Fayetteville and a University of Arkansas graduate, I commit to doing all I can to help. Don't ever hesitate to reach out.
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Hoo boy. Look at this crowd gathered tonight in a Jasper, Arkansas, school cafeteria to voice their concerns about the
#BuffaloRiver
.
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Another 1,400-something known cases today, more than 6,000 known deaths now, and my dude here thinks he’s winning a fucking game.
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They’re gonna try to distract you with the tax cuts, and if you bring up their tearing up FOIA, they’ll say it’s in the name of security—but it’s not.
It’s just not.
It’s about hiding public information from the public and making it harder to hold state government accountable.
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So you're saying the solar industry can put more Americans to work than the coal industry can?
Inconvenient energy fact: It takes 79 solar workers to produce same amount of electric power as one coal worker.
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I’m leaving tonight’s protest in downtown Fayetteville.
A crowd of 2,000 or more listened to remarks, knelt silently for nine minutes, marched peacefully, and got FPD officers to kneel with them.
Proud of Fayetteville every night, but especially tonight.
End it well, everyone.
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The Houston Chronicle endorsed the Republican nominees for president in 1984, 1988, 1992, 1996, 2000, 2004, and 2012.
The
@HoustonChron
endorsed Senator Cruz in 2012.
That’s a hell of a “left-wing” record.
Vote
@BetoORourke
.
#TeamBeto
The left-wing Chron—to the surprise of nobody—endorsed every single Dem they think has even a prayer of winning. They endorsed Beto b/c is an ”unapologetic progressive,” supporting open borders, gun control & impeaching the President. Plus (unmentioned) higher taxes on oil & gas.
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I've heard some version of "it's not the gun, it's the person pulling the trigger" a dozen times this evening.
Yeah. I get it. I know how inanimate objects work.
I also know today's shooter wouldn't have succeeded in killing 17 kids if he'd wielded a stapler.
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Trans kids are kids. Attacks on them are attacks on kids—and they face challenges enough without us adding to them.
To all trans kids here in Arkansas: You're incredible, you have friends here at the Capitol, and we'll keep fighting for you.
#LetKidsPlay
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A gentleman speaking against
#SB9
just said to the committee debating the bill: “The people of Arkansas are about to learn: Do you represent the people, or do you represent the governor?”
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Less than an hour after Governor Hutchinson signed Act 562 into law, a Republican colleague read on Twitter that the new law would allow guns at Razorback football games.
He looked at me. "We didn't do that. Did we?"
"Well, I didn't," I told him, "but you did."
@DeniseforAR
@dunekacke
@gregleding
@CollinsARK
It got so messy at the end I don’t think they knew what was in the final version of the guns everywhere bill. They just railroaded it thru and were genuinely shocked to learn they had just put guns in daycares, churches, Razorback stadium. Piss-poor legislating.
#arleg
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Peggy Noonan worked for President Reagan. The Wall Street Journal is owned by Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp.
Noonan writes that the case for impeachment has been “clearly made,” and the WSJ saw fit to publish her piece.
.
@Peggynoonannyc
: “As to impeachment itself, the case has been so clearly made you wonder what exactly the Senate will be left doing. How will they hold a lengthy trial with a case this clear?“
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Senator Elliott, Senator Tucker, and me, as we ask our Senate colleague if he’s heard about El Dorado Public Schools voting to require masks.
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The NCAA has announced that it won’t host championship events in states with laws targeting the transgender community.
That would include Arkansas.
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Nice work, Mississippi.
Hey, Arkansas: We’re up.
NEW: Mississippi Flag Commission chooses this ‘magnolia flag’ as the final state flag design- which will be on the ballot for voter approval in November.
The now-discarded flag bearing the Confederate flag was adopted in 1894.
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Texas today reported 10,351 new cases of Covid-19.
That’s equivalent to 1,056 cases in Arkansas.
We reported 1,061 new cases today.
Wear a mask.
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“This is just a group of people looking for something to complain about.”
That’s our governor, dismissing Arkansans’ concerns about transparency and accountability and why, among other things, her office paid $700 for a WiFi-enabled ice maker.
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Several students from Little Rock Central High showed up to share their concerns about
#SB294
when Senate Ed met today to concur in the House amendment. This was their last chance to share their concerns in committee before tomorrow’s final vote on the Senate floor. (1/3)
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Mr. Deputy Chief of Staff to Our Governor, given the legislature’s schedule and the schedule of the typical school week, when would you recommend teachers who wish to show up to advocate on behalf of their students and schools do so?
Or is your point that they shouldn’t?
#ARpx
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The Senate approved
#SB10
earlier this morning, sending the bill to the House.
While it doesn’t gut our state’s FOIA law as badly as others would have, it’s still not great.
I voted no.
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Come a listen to my story ‘bout a man named Chuck / Got himself elected with a little bit o’ luck / Thought he’d be a hero to Wayne LaPierre / So he passed a crazy law that put guns everywhere
In Arkansas, that is. Classrooms. Public parks.
You need to do more research.
@gregleding
can update you on my
#arleg
campaigns & campus carry bills since 2010...
#arpx
history...
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no sentence has ever fayettevilled harder
A small fire broke out on the roof of the Fayetteville Public Library last night.
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A clear, achievable goal for 2022: Break the Republican supermajorities in the Arkansas legislature.
This means helping Democrats add at least four seats in the House and three seats in the Senate.
It’s tough but doable—and it’d give Democrats at least *some* leverage.
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They've promised to do it for seven years.
They control Congress *and* the White House.
Nice work,
@IndivisibleTeam
, et al.
JUST IN: GOP abandons plan to vote on ObamaCare repeal before Trump's first 100 days
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Arkadelphia. Batesville. Bryant. Camden-Fairview. Conway. Eureka Springs. Forrest City. Hope. Hot Springs. Lake Hamilton. Mountain View. Jonesboro. Strong-Huttig. White Hall.
These districts and more have made the tough but necessary call to require masks.
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Today’s tragedy in Jacksonville, Florida, is the 234th mass shooting of 2018.
Today is the 238th day of the year.
#TheLandingMassShooting
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Our governor’s quoted here blaming President Biden for the federal government shutting down this weekend, but President Biden and Speaker McCarthy reached a deal back in May.
This ain’t on Biden.
It’s the fault of far-right House members and weak Republican leadership.
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Sanders, state agencies preparing for possible federal government shutdown
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Forty-five mass shootings in the last month.
Eight people dead in one mass shooting alone last night.
An 18-year-old with an AK-47 was arrested at a Times Square subway station this afternoon.
And the NRA, bankrupt both financially and morally, is a big part of the problem.
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I'll be voting for Mr. Harrington for US Senate.
Our state's junior US senator is more interested in visiting other states than he is in coming home to the one he serves.
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With nothing positive or constructive to contribute, Sarah falls back on lies and hate.
Schools aren't closed.
Teachers are teaching kids every day.
Nobody's indoctrinating anybody.
And nobody's preparing kids to be dependent on the government.
Don't buy any of it.
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Arming teachers is surrender.
Arming teachers is shrugging off all of the opportunities to prevent gun violence before it happens.
Schools should be places of development and discovery, hope and optimism.
There are so many better and safer options to protect our schools.
Nearly three times as many American parents fear for their child's safety at school than they did after Sandy Hook, but a majority of them oppose arming teachers, a poll found.
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CAPES now says they believe they cleared the minimum number of signatures required after taking the night to look at their data.
If they’re right, then there’s still a chance LEARNS could wind up on the ballot in 2024.
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My wife just texted to say our five-year-old just got her first Covid shot.
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Just gonna leave this here.
#ARpx
When you're attacking FBI agents because you're under criminal investigation, you're losing
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To all trans kids here in Arkansas: You're incredible, you have friends here at the Capitol, and we'll keep fighting for you.
#LetKidsPlay
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If we’re letting restaurants and bars run at full capacity in Arkansas, their staffs—BOH, FOH, everyone—*must* be made eligible to get the Covid-19 vaccine.
Please, Governor
@AsaHutchinson
.
Following
@AsaHutchinson
’s announcement— restaurants across central Arkansas can begin operating at 100% capacity.
Manager at Texas Roadhouse in Benton says every seat is full and they’re on a 1.5 hour wait.
#ARnews
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Two family members who’d held out getting vaccinated both got their first shot today.
Keep reaching out to people.
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With Fayetteville now on its fourth-straight snow day and fifth snow day of the academic year, a lot of parents have reached out to ask why alternate method of instruction (AMI) days are no longer a thing for public schools.
It's because of the LEARNS Act.
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Ever wake up and just want to abolish the Electoral College?
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Let’s be clear: Vouchers don’t and won’t give anybody the right to pick their school; private schools’ll pick which students they’ll accept—all while public dollars are drained from public schools.
“The answer is NOT defunding public schools & that’s what you’re doing. You’re defunding public schools.”
@GregLeding
“It’s not parents & students choosing. These private schools choose which students to accept.”
Don’t accept the defunding of public schools. Say NO to vouchers.
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Credit to every member of the Fayetteville School Board for unanimously making a tough but absolutely necessary decision.
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Odds are that CAPES came just short of the signatures they needed, but by their own final count, they fell just a few hundred short—meaning a bipartisan group of volunteers, with few resources, collected nearly 54,000 signatures in just 55 days.
Arkansas’s not happy with LEARNS.
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We made it, everybody.
@TheOnion
’s picked up
#lecterngate
.
$19,000 Lectern For Arkansas Governor Sarah Huckabee Sanders Draws Scrutiny
#WhatDoYouThink
?
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✅ Fund public schools
❌ Don’t ask Arkansans about their genitals
This shouldn’t be this hard.
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Did this one break? Did we lose it? Did it also cost almost as much as a semester at the UA?
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More than a billion (with a b) for high-speed internet all across Arkansas, thanks to the Biden administration—and not a single member of our congressional delegation voted for the bipartisan legislation that made this possible.
#ARpx
The Biden-Harris Administration announced that Arkansas will receive $1,024,303,993.86 to deploy high-speed Internet service across the state.
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Well, this is dumb. There’s no partisan stare-down. Republicans control both branches of Congress and the White House. A group of senators offered a bipartisan solution. If there’s a shutdown, it’s because Republicans are incapable of governing.
#ARnews
#ARpx
A bitterly divided Congress hurtled toward a government shutdown this weekend in a partisan stare-down over demands by Democrats for a solution on politically fraught legislation to protect about 700,000 younger immigrants from being deported
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Arkansas teachers routinely spend hundreds out of pocket to provide supplies, food, clothing, and more for their students.
And they already make too little.
And we have trouble recruiting them in some places.
So I don’t think asking them to double as armed guards is gonna fly.
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I would ask you, Governor, to please spend even a few minutes with the trans kids and their parents who pleaded with different committees this week not to pass bills—
#SB199
and
#HB1156
—that put trans kids at greater risk of harm.
It’s not a joke to them.
It’s International Women’s Day – a good time to remember that Democrats can’t even tell you what a woman is.
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Maybe the single most damning day in all of this was Wednesday, June 10—the day the governor announced we’d move on to Phase 2 even though we hadn’t met the criteria.
It told those who’d sacrificed that it hadn’t been necessary.
It told those who’d resisted that they’d won.
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So Arkansas lawmakers are headed to a special session next Monday to tear apart our state’s Freedom of Information Act.
Who’s got questions?
#ARlegAMA
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Welp. We’ve made The Onion.
Arkansas Legislator Warns Loophole In New Law Could Still Allow Trans Youth To Exist
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School districts are free to protect kids.
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I don’t remember
@TysonFoods
saying one damn thing about any of the hateful laws targeting trans Arkansans that passed earlier this year.
I do remember getting a call from Tyson asking me to support the gutted “hate crimes” law passed as a desperate face-saving measure.
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Last night, I learned that some of my conservative colleagues didn’t know what dental dams are.
Today, a lobbyist railing against reproductive rights opposed condom negotiation without knowing what it is.
Really think they should all get behind the sex ed bill I filed.
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Okay so maybe for today and today only we’ll go by Ar-Kansas.
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Today!
JB Hunt is hosting a free vaccine clinic from 8:00a to 4:00p at its headquarters in Lowell. The event is open to the public, and the health care professionals working the event will be distributing the Pfizer vaccine.
Please get vaccinated.
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Let’s talk about how selfish it is not to wear a mask in public:
It’s incredibly selfish.
If you can get a mask and are able to wear one, and you aren’t, you’re being unbelievably selfish. And weak.
And if you want a mask but can’t get one, let me know, and I���ll help you.
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This isn’t a partisan issue.
There are Republicans who think this is moving too quickly, Republicans who have concerns about vouchers, Republicans who have concerns about the hit to the state budget, Republicans who didn’t vote for this today.
#ARpx
(1/2)
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For those affected by last night's tornado in Springdale:
- Jose's Bar & Grill in Springdale is offering a free hot meal to those displaced. No questions asked.
- The Treehouse Pantry has food bags available for pickup at 802 W Allen Ave between 9:00a and 4:00p.
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LEARNS was not on the ballot. When Arkansans voted last November, there was no LEARNS Act. There were no public details. Even many lawmakers didn’t see details until the bill was filed halfway through session.
CAPES is a bipartisan effort to repeal what many see as a flawed law.
LEARNS was already on the ballot.
This is an effort to repeal teacher pay raises, school safety trainings, literacy coach hiring, and our new maternity leave program.
This is an effort to maintain the failed status quo.
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It's absolutely no one's business why someone might need or want an abortion.
If you consider yourself anti-abortion but support exceptions, then you believe it should be a person's choice—and *it's absolutely no one's business* why someone chooses.
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So a special session's coming Monday. It'll (very likely) move super quick, meaning by midday Wednesday—maybe even before many Arkansans even know their lawmakers are at the Capitol—there could be big changes to our state's Freedom of Information Act.
Not great.
#ARpx
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All our lives, we're told to cover our mouths when we cough or sneeze—so you'd think more people would get the importance of wearing a mask during a pandemic.
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Let’s make automatic voter registration a reality here in Arkansas.
Who’s with me?
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Just saw some right-wing hand-wringing over the fact that (apparently?) more than half the CAPES signatures came from just five counties, four of which are the most populous counties.
Where would *you* go if you had just about 50 days to get more than 54,000 signatures?
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AK is Alaska.
Arkansas is AR.
“Then what’s Ariz—“
AZ.
And while we’re here: Alabama is AL.
It's our favorite day: Election Day! Retweet & encourage your friends in AK, GA, KY & TX to cast their ballots.
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A reminder that as hostile, armed white men stormed a state capitol today, a 25-year-old black man was shot and killed in Georgia while running.
That’s it. That’s all. Ahmaud Arbery loved to run and was running, an act that drew the attention of the two white men who killed him.
Two white men chased and fatally shot Ahmaud Arbery, a 25-year-old black man running through a Georgia neighborhood. A prosecutor said the pursuers were justified because of the state’s citizen’s arrest law.
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Arkansas shouldn't be a right-to-work state.
Arkansas should be a state where workers can form unions, and where those unions can thrive.
Arkansas should be a state where unionized workers can push for stronger wages, better workplace policies, and greater work-life balance.
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Instead of restricting rights,
What if we instead
Considered supporting
Comprehensive sex ed?
#ARlegValentines
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When someone says his "thoughts and prayers" are with the latest victims of
#GunViolence
, hear it as "apricots and pears".
Means as much.
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Lot of Republican voters out there angry about Republican lawmakers looking to gut FOIA.
It’s understandable.
But if you’re a GOP voter angry at GOP lawmakers for gutting FOIA (or something else), you gotta be ready to vote for an alternative—else what are you teaching them?
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An audit last week backed up the Arkansas Board of Corrections' decision not to add prison beds right now.
The audit found that five Arkansas prisons lack the staff and infrastructure to handle hundreds of new prisoners.
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I love this city.
Happy
#Pride
, Fayetteville.
Thanks to Justice of the Peace Evelyn Rios Stafford (
@everiosstafford
) for inviting us to walk with her in this year’s parade.
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Governor Hutchinson just said, "We're not worried about what's happening on campus, because that's a controlled atmosphere."
He must not have heard about
#soapgate
.
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Governor Hutchinson is reinstating a public healthy emergency, effective today, for 60 days. Under a new law, the legislature will need to review the governor’s declaration.
Don’t like it? Go get vaccinated, and let’s put this shit behind us.
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Getting vaccinated and wearing a mask aren’t personal choices.
To let your own house burn might feel like a personal choice, but it threatens the homes of those around you.
These aren’t personal choices.
We’re in this together.
Get vaccinated, and wear a mask.
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Still hung up on our governor turning down $146 million in federal rental assistance because “there’s jobs aplenty.”
Arkansans face higher prices at grocery stores and gas pumps—but, hey, don’t worry, “our economy has returned,” so no worries about making rent, y’all!
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Today your Arkansas legislature advanced a bill to teach creationism in public schools and overrode the governor’s veto on the country’s first bill banning health care for trans youth—so it’s been a real banner day for us.
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The Covid relief bill passed by the US House will cut child poverty by nearly half.
In Arkansas alone, 48,000 children will be lifted out of poverty.
Forty-eight thousand kids!
And each of our four Republican members of the House voted against the bill.
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Our daughter’s school told parents today that an employee tested positive for Covid-19—and that the Arkansas Department of Health “advised” the school to do its own contact tracing “due to a backlog in the state.”
This is where we are, 104 days since our first confirmed case.
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