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ONE political party + the #NRA are terrorizing us
#Americans demand
💙An end to the rule of the #NRA
#WTP deserve:
💙"LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
#WTP require
💙Politicians who keep us safe
#Vote for #GunSafety
#VoteBlueEveryElection
#VoteBlue2024
#DemVoice1
#Americans demand
💙An end to the rule of the #NRA
#WTP deserve:
💙"LIFE, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"
#WTP require
💙Politicians who keep us safe
#Vote for #GunSafety
#VoteBlueEveryElection
#VoteBlue2024
#DemVoice1
We're doing it again! @MomsDemand volunteers showing up strong at the Lafayette, CO city council meeting where officials will be voting on 4 local gun safety ordinances tonight. #ENOUGH #GunSafetyNow 
Local ordinances being considered: ghost gun ban, signage warning of the dangers of guns in the home (2x more likely resident of the home will die by homicide, 3x more likely resident will die by suicide), prohibit open carry in public places, no firearms on city property.
1st speaker @MomsDemand volunteer who went to Columbine HS, brother was at school the day of the shooting in 1999.
"Never mind that the same factions who have argued that mask-wearing and books about Tommy’s two mommies are unacceptably traumatizing for young children are now implying that kindergartners should be kitted out with makeshift body armor."
~@crampell
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~@crampell
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"Perhaps, with unlimited funds and an indifference to child psychology, every school could be converted to something akin to a maximum-security prison.
Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army ..."
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Perhaps a moat and a round-the-clock occupying army ..."
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"By the logic of Republicans resisting firearm restrictions, the only way to preserve innocent life is to also “harden” all those other “soft” sites that have been targeted before..."
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What does GOP policy protect: Our kids or the guns?
GOP policy protects the guns.
At the expense of our children's lives.
GOP policy protects the guns.
At the expense of our children's lives.
The GOP LOOSENS gun laws after shootings:
“Seven of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the US happened in the past decade.
And four of those shootings, including the Uvalde shooting, happened in Texas."
#Uvalde
#TexasSchoolMassacre
“Seven of the deadliest mass shootings in the history of the US happened in the past decade.
And four of those shootings, including the Uvalde shooting, happened in Texas."
#Uvalde
#TexasSchoolMassacre
You know how those Uvalde cops stood around & did NOTHING...
while the children of Robb Elementary were being gunned down?
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The GOP is preventing gun safety laws from even being discussed...
while American children are being gunned down.
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#EndTheFilibuster
#GunSafetyNOW
while the children of Robb Elementary were being gunned down?
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The GOP is preventing gun safety laws from even being discussed...
while American children are being gunned down.
😡
#EndTheFilibuster
#GunSafetyNOW
RIP Dr. Preston Phillips, an Harvard/Yale trained orthopedic spine surgeon, who was shot to death by a disgruntled patient in Tulsa, may your memory be a blessing for all. #GunSafetyNow
▪️Please call congress and your senators (202) 224-3121 - demand gun safety legislation.
▪️You can join everytown.org
▪️You can March on June 11 - find your nearest location here marchforourlives.com/march22/
▪️You can join everytown.org
▪️You can March on June 11 - find your nearest location here marchforourlives.com/march22/
▪️<300 elected leaders in America DO NOT represent the voice and concerns of a MAJORITY of Americans on gun safety issues. March, call, organize.
🧵 Imagine if 20 mins from now you had:
✅ Left a VM or sent email to Congress demanding new legislation for #GunSafetyNow
✅ Donated to @Everytown during the triple match happening now
✅ Asked self/fam/friends if guns are safely stored
✅ Volunteered with @MomsDemand
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✅ Left a VM or sent email to Congress demanding new legislation for #GunSafetyNow
✅ Donated to @Everytown during the triple match happening now
✅ Asked self/fam/friends if guns are safely stored
✅ Volunteered with @MomsDemand
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We need to talk about the bastardization of the 2A by the #GOP, the NRA, & the captured Supreme Court.
The INDIVIDUAL right to own a gun was NOT given by the Founding Fathers.
Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Burger 1991.
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#gunlaws #Texas
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The INDIVIDUAL right to own a gun was NOT given by the Founding Fathers.
Republican Supreme Court Chief Justice Burger 1991.
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#gunlaws #Texas
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His words...
"The gun lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime....
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#NRA @MomsDemand #MomsDemand
"The gun lobby’s interpretation of the Second Amendment is one of the greatest pieces of fraud, I repeat the word fraud, on the American people by special interest groups that I have ever seen in my lifetime....
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#NRA @MomsDemand #MomsDemand
..The real purpose of the Second Amendment was to ensure that state armies – the militia – would be maintained for the defense of the state...
Keep Reading 👇🏼
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#2A #GunReformNow #Uvalde
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#2A #GunReformNow #Uvalde
It’s morning. It’s time to act. I’ve just left VMs at offices of @SenatorCardin, @ChrisVanHollen, @RepKweisiMfume. I’ve confirmed my whole fam age 18+ is reg to vote, I’m donating to @MomsDemand & volunteering. #LetsGo #GunSafetyNow #RobbElementary
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Register to #Vote, confirm that you are registered, request a mail-in ballot, or find your polling place here: vote.org. Stop scrolling & act. Ask your friends & family too. Help them w/ the process if they need it. #RobbElementary #GunSafetyNow
And if you feel like your views & concerns are not well-represented by your elected officials, maybe it’s time for YOU or someone else in your life to @runforsomething. #GunSafetyNow #RobbElementary
Why I became active in #politics
#civic action #government
via #Memes #PhotoModeMonday
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Inspired by @Teri_Kanefield
#civic action #government
via #Memes #PhotoModeMonday
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Inspired by @Teri_Kanefield
2/ I was raised Catholic and believe in this (ctto via reddit)
Love thy neighbor.
All neighbors. No exceptions.
If I really hated them then I just did not hang out w them 🤷🏻♀️. No hateful speech or hateful laws.
Love thy neighbor.
All neighbors. No exceptions.
If I really hated them then I just did not hang out w them 🤷🏻♀️. No hateful speech or hateful laws.
3/ Most of my family in Texas is religious, republican, & single issue voters. Anti abortion, no matter what. Even if M@ga Trumpism breaks all the other 9 commandments.
I hate that I now have to discuss forced-birth issues w beloveds.
I'm a social entrepreneur #feminist
I hate that I now have to discuss forced-birth issues w beloveds.
I'm a social entrepreneur #feminist
“Justice Roberts has said that the Supreme Court can self regulate. That’s simply not true. We’ve got one sitting Justice whose wife has been shown to have been planning the insurrection at the Capitol on January 6.”
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
@MondaireJones @RepMondaire @KatiePhang
“Justice Clarence Thomas [at AEI 5/13/22] bemoaned the leak of the SCOTUS opinion that will likely overturn Roe v Wade, [claiming] that when you lose trust in an institution, it changes that institution fundamentally.”
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
@KatiePhang @katiephangshow #RoeVWade
“Out of 75+ scholar citations, only 4 are women. Out of 90+ judge/justice citations, 5 are women. ‘Justice’ Samuel Alito cites HIMSELF 6 times. And this [SCOTUS opinion] would effectively govern the bodies of millions.”
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
@MotherJones tiktok.com/@motherjonesma…
“We now have the evidence to support a story of the worst presidential political crime against the union in American history.” Jamie Raskin
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
@RepRaskin @January6thCmte @jamie_raskin #January6th
Laurence Tribe describes what “is being bandied about as the technique that they hope to use if they get Gorsuch and Kavanaugh and Alito and Thomas on board… to take the next election regardless of who wins.”
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
@tribelaw @JoyAnnReid @thereidout #TheReidOut
“In America, you have the right to seek the truth and speak the truth, even if it makes people in power uncomfortable… If Russian journalists [had such freedom] would they use it in the same way? Ask yourself that question every day.”
@Trevornoah #WHCD
@Trevornoah #WHCD
“President* Trump is wrong. I had no right to overturn the election… Frankly there is almost no idea more un-American than the notion that any one person could choose the American president.”
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
@Mike_Pence (on Feb 4, 2022) #LegitimatePoliticalDiscourse?
“If I run and if I win we will treat those people from January 6 fairly. And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons because they are being treated so unfairly.”
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
Donald Trump dangling pardons for insurrectionists, 1/29/22
“Lincoln said those who embrace sedition and turn backs on the Constitution threaten to ‘destroy the only democracy in existence and prove for all time — to both future Americans and the world — that a government of the people could not survive.’”@tribelaw
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
“The threat to our democracy is so grave that we must find a way to pass these voting rights bills. Debate them, vote… If that bare minimum is blocked, we have no option but to change the Senate rules, including getting rid of the filibuster.” @JoeBiden
“[President* Trump] was in the dining room, gleefully watching on his TV as he often did — ‘look at all of the people fighting for me’ — hitting rewind, watching it again…”
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
former White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham to CNN
“We must decide what kind of nation we [will] be. Are we going to be a nation that accepts political violence as a norm? Are we going to be a nation where we allow partisan election officials to overturn the legally expressed will of the people?” @JoeBiden
“727 insurrectionists arrested… Who else should be jailed for this unsuccessful coup?” @colbertlateshow
"We've seen a lot in these last 4.5 years of Donald Trump and nothing, in my experience, was more serious than this attempt to overthrow a lawful election, corrupting and weaponizing the Department of Justice. Absolutely horrifying."
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
@SenBlumenthal @maddow
"The very purpose of this law is to chill people. Not just abortion providers in Texas, but to chill the entire community of people who want to help women right now into second guessing whether they’ll be on the hook."
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
Dahlia Lithwick @maddow #WHPA #Bounty
“What I believe is unprecedented is for a member of House leadership of either party to be unable to condemn incitement of violence against a member of this body… What is so hard about saying that this is wrong?”
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
@AOC House speech, November 17, 2021
“What is it that caused thousands of people to assault this building and try to overturn the Constitution? …What is wrong with having some situational understanding about the country for which we are here to defend?”
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
Joint Chiefs Chair General Mark Milley
“Guaranteeing the right to vote and ensuring every vote is counted has always been the most patriotic thing we can do… John Lewis said, ‘Freedom is not a state; it is an act.’ …We WILL act… For our democracy, for America itself, we MUST act.” @JoeBiden
Tom Brady: “Not a lot of people think that we could have won. And in fact I think about 40% of the people still don't think we won.”
President Biden: “I understand that.
President Biden: “I understand that.
Trump: Day 727
-Day 27 of the #TrumpShutdown
-Blocks Pelosi Trip 2 Visit the Troops
-Lies, Hypocrisy & Pettiness in Letter
-Melania Flies 2 Mar-a-Lago 4 Wkend
-Directed Cohen 2 Pay 4 Poll Rigging
-Opposes $600M in PR Hurricane Aid
-1,000's of Migrant Kids Uncounted
-Day 27 of the #TrumpShutdown
-Blocks Pelosi Trip 2 Visit the Troops
-Lies, Hypocrisy & Pettiness in Letter
-Melania Flies 2 Mar-a-Lago 4 Wkend
-Directed Cohen 2 Pay 4 Poll Rigging
-Opposes $600M in PR Hurricane Aid
-1,000's of Migrant Kids Uncounted
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Day 832 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
Day 832 since Donald Trump admitted to sexual assault — yet he’s still in the Oval Office
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Day 683 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
Day 683 of NO EVIDENCE produced by Trump that his phones were tapped by Obama.
The FISA warrant Trump referenced targeted Carter Page. #TrumpLies
