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This Election is NOT About Democrats vs Republicans 💁♀️
IT IS ABOUT⤵️
🔹Sanity vs Chaos
🔹Democracy vs Fascism
🔹Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life
🔹Social Security vs Zero Retirement Funds
🔹Climate Action vs Climate Denial
CHOOSE WISELY & VOTE BLUE 💙
#ResistanceUnited @staceyabrams
IT IS ABOUT⤵️
🔹Sanity vs Chaos
🔹Democracy vs Fascism
🔹Pro-Choice vs Pro-Life
🔹Social Security vs Zero Retirement Funds
🔹Climate Action vs Climate Denial
CHOOSE WISELY & VOTE BLUE 💙
#ResistanceUnited @staceyabrams
GEORGIA…FLIP THIS SEAT 🔴to🔵‼️
ELECT: Democrat Stacey Abrams for Governor
🔹She has worked for Georgians everyday
🔹Pro-Choice #AbortionIsHealthcare
REMOVE: GOP Brian Kemp
❌Passed Extreme Abortion Ban
❌Talking about Banning Contraception
⬇️Kemp is too Extreme for GA⬇️
ELECT: Democrat Stacey Abrams for Governor
🔹She has worked for Georgians everyday
🔹Pro-Choice #AbortionIsHealthcare
REMOVE: GOP Brian Kemp
❌Passed Extreme Abortion Ban
❌Talking about Banning Contraception
⬇️Kemp is too Extreme for GA⬇️
GEORGIA👉ELECT Democrat Stacey Abrams for Governor
❌GOP are Spending Big Money to Steal Our Democracy
💥This Election is ABOUT Democracy vs Fascism💥
💥Midterms Could Be Your Last Chance to Protect Your Rights
#VoteBlueDownBallot
#ResistanceUnited StaceyAbrams.Com
❌GOP are Spending Big Money to Steal Our Democracy
💥This Election is ABOUT Democracy vs Fascism💥
💥Midterms Could Be Your Last Chance to Protect Your Rights
#VoteBlueDownBallot
#ResistanceUnited StaceyAbrams.Com
“My top-level, expert legal analysis of the [Trump Mar-a-Lago FBI search] affidavit is: Why ain’t this dude in jail? What does this man have to do to go to jail?”
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
@ElieNYC @DrJasonJohnson @CrossConnection
#TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments #TrumpESPIONAGE
“Just the classification markings referred to in this [redacted Mar-a-Lago search warrant] affidavit — made the hair on the back of my neck stand up… Literally human lives can be at stake.” @FrankFigliuzzi1
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“There is a feeling here that [if] Merrick Garland decides not to prosecute Trump, how do you hold anyone else accountable for violating classification rules going forward in the U.S. government?”@JaxAlemany
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
@NicolleDWallace #TrumpStoleClassifiedDocuments
“This was not just extreme carelessness with classified material, which is still totally disqualifying. This is calculated, deliberate, premeditated misconduct — a cover-up [with] false statements and lies to Congress and the American people.” #LockTrumpUp
“Trump’s attorney, Alina Habba, says that Trump wants the Department of Justice to release the names of the witnesses who helped secure the search warrant for Mar-a-Lago.”@therecount
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
#TrumpIsANationalSecurityRisk #TrumpCrimeSyndicate
CPAC 2022: “We are all domestic terrorists.”
“#EspionageAct [doesn’t] mention classification at all. It talks about a specific type of information: national defense… The real question is, why would Trump WANT to declassify secrets that could harm the U.S.?”
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
.@AshaRangappa_ @TiffanyDCross @thereidout
“Trump has still not said a word of explanation as to why he took the documents, why he did not return them all, and what he was doing with them for over 18 months.” @AWeissmann_
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
🎶: #stilloneblackmansopinion tiktok.com/@stilloneblack…
“[Donald Trump] has betrayed our national security, and he will do so again… You will not change him. 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.” Adam Schiff
“WE COULDN’T BELIEVE there were enough people to walk alongside them. One morning we woke up from an uneasy sleep and there was no more laughter…It mustn’t happen again. We can’t let it. We simply can’t let it happen again.”
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
Twilight Zone 1963 #NeverAgain
“California [will] make our own insulin at a cheaper price, close to at cost, and to make it available to all…
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
Because in California, we know people should not go into debt to receive life-saving medication.”
@GavinNewsom @CAgovernor #Insulin4all #Insulin
“Freedom is under attack in [Florida]… In California [we] still believe in #freedom. Freedom of speech. Freedom to choose. Freedom from hate. And the freedom to love. Don’t let them take your freedom.”
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
Newsom DeSantis ad #IndependenceDay2022
@GavinNewsom:
1/ Short Thread
I’ve read & understood so called intellectual arguments against these facts. They were wrong than & they’re wrong now
Below is 100% factual
1. Americans didn’t VOTE BIDEN in as President in 2020. They voted out the Orange Jester with the nuclear codes.
I’ve read & understood so called intellectual arguments against these facts. They were wrong than & they’re wrong now
Below is 100% factual
1. Americans didn’t VOTE BIDEN in as President in 2020. They voted out the Orange Jester with the nuclear codes.
2/
2. If Stacey Abrams hadn’t pulled off a miracle the Senate would be Republican.
3. We the people didn’t do our job. The Senate was 50/50. Often Dem. Senators win in a Red district. We know those Dems don’t always vote with their party. That made us one Dem short …
2. If Stacey Abrams hadn’t pulled off a miracle the Senate would be Republican.
3. We the people didn’t do our job. The Senate was 50/50. Often Dem. Senators win in a Red district. We know those Dems don’t always vote with their party. That made us one Dem short …
3/
… one Dem short of the needed 50 votes
4. The house only had a 5 Dem. lead. We the people didn’t do our jobs. Another well known fact -the Dem party has a Progressive Caucus who doesn’t always agree with the centrists. Nancy Pelosi had to satisfy them to pass bills.
… one Dem short of the needed 50 votes
4. The house only had a 5 Dem. lead. We the people didn’t do our jobs. Another well known fact -the Dem party has a Progressive Caucus who doesn’t always agree with the centrists. Nancy Pelosi had to satisfy them to pass bills.
🧵1/ This #IndependenceDay, let’s talk about how to keep our democracy. This is not hyperbolic—right *NOW* the GOP is enacting an *ongoing* coup 50+ years in the making. #53PickUp #VoteBlue
2/ Odds are you don’t have a strong understanding of US civics because our government didn’t *WANT* you to understand it. The GOP’s most reliable voting block are uneducated whites. They want it easier to dupe voters with diversions & propaganda. 🧵:
3/ It’s also easier to fool people into thinking the Democrats are purposely or incompetently messing things up if your audience doesn’t know how civics works. The GOP & enemy countries have massive & effective propaganda networks to turn public opinion.
Pat Cipollone: The rioters have gotten to the Capitol, Mark.
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Mark Meadows: [Trump] doesn't want to do anything, Pat.
Pat: Mark, something needs to be done or people are going to die and the blood is going to be on your f—ing hands.
#January6thHearings:
Liz Cheney: The night before #January6th, President* Trump instructed Mark Meadows to contact both Roger Stone and Michael Flynn regarding what would play out the next day.
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
#CassidyHutchinson: That’s correct. That is my understanding.
#January6thHearings
Cheney: Did Rudy Giuliani [seek a] pardon related to January 6?
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
Cassidy Hutchinson: He did.
LC: Did Mark Meadows ever indicate that he was interested in receiving a Presidential pardon related to #January6th?
CH: Mr Meadows did seek that pardon. Yes ma’am.
“That could be their vehicle to impose a NATIONWIDE BAN on abortion—on the order of the U.S. Supreme Court… They will now wield [power] however they want…to change the country however they want without restriction, and you must do what they say.”@maddow
“What makes people think that this radical conservative Supreme Court…would allow Congressional law protecting #RoeVWade? I’ll tell you the answer: THEY WON’T…as long as we let these 6 conservative theocrats control our country…”
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
@ElieNYC @TiffanyDCross
“[Ben Wattenberg 1987 book says] ‘60% of fetuses that are aborted every year are white. If we could keep that 60% alive, that would solve our birth dearth.’ Does that sound like racism to you? And if it doesn’t, I want to know why it doesn’t.”
Jane Elliott
Jane Elliott
Most Americans forget that Roe was decided as a right to privacy issue, the privacy between a doctor and patient. In their ruling, the majority opinion basically stated that there is no right to privacy and therefore the right to an abortion was not guaranteed. The problem (1/4)
here is that the right to privacy is the basis for so many things Americans approve of and feel are part of their basic freedoms. Laws can’t work if certain basic things like the right to privacy aren’t applied the same way for many issues, therefore they’ve opened up the (2/4)
possibility that a large number of issues considered a right and a basic freedom by the vast majority of Americans can be voided. The law of unintended consequences is rearing it's ugly head and WILL bite us all, much to the detriment of the republic as a whole unless the (3/4)
Just 3 minutes after President* Trump’s #January6th tweet at 2:24pm about Mike Pence lacking “courage,” a mob of his supporters quickly filled the Capitol.
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thCommitteeHearings
“Dr. Eastman and President* Trump launched a campaign to overturn a democratic election, an action unprecedented in American history. Their campaign was…a coup in search of a legal theory.”
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
Judge David Carter 3/28/22
#TrumpCoupAttempt #January6thHearings:
“I've lost my name [and] sense of security—all because a group of people…scapegoat[ed] me and my daughter Shaye, to push their lies about how the Presidential election was stolen.”
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
Ruby Freeman, former Georgia election worker
#LadyRuby #January6thHearings:
“President* Trump…followed the course recommended by an apparently inebriated Rudy Giuliani—to just claim he won and insist the vote counting stop. To falsely claim that everything was fraudulent… Millions of Americans believed him.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“The Trump campaign knew these claims of voter fraud were false; yet, they continued to barrage small dollar donors, encouraging them to donate to ‘The Official Election Defense Fund.’ @January6thCmte discovered NO SUCH FUND EXISTED.”
#January6thHearings:
#January6thHearings:
“I said to him: ‘Are you out of your f—ing mind?’ I said, ‘I only want to hear two words coming out of your mouth from now on: ORDERLY TRANSITION.’”
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
White House lawyer Eric Herschmann to John Eastman 1/7/21
@AccountableGOP 🐼 #January6thCommitteeHearings:
“I made it clear I did not agree with the idea of saying the election was stolen…which I told [Donald Trump] was bullshit… The incumbent [cannot] stay in power based on its view unsupported by specific evidence there was fraud in the election.” Bill Barr
#January6thCommittee: “Did that affect your perspective about the election when Attorney General Barr made that statement?”
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
Ivanka Trump: “It affected my perspective. I respect Attorney General Barr, so I accepted what he was saying.”
#January6thHearings:
“Any legal jargon you hear about seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding, and conspiracy to defraud the United States — all boils down to this: January 6th was the culmination of an attempted coup.”
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
Bennie Thompson
#January6thHearings:
It was easier for a 13-year-old boy to buy a rifle from a private seller at a gun show than to buy beer, cigarettes, porn, and lottery tickets. (🎥:#RealSports 2014)
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
Gun show loopholes still exist.
Senate Republicans won’t even vote to DEBATE safety laws.
“We are at a point [where] we are going to have to mobilize a greater movement… Until the redemptive power of the love for all of our children is greater than the destructive power of the love of our guns and money, [nothing] is gonna change.”@CoryBooker
“Women and mothers have political power… We need to use our voices and our votes [to] demand change, and if our lawmakers don’t act, hold them accountable— [the] unglamorous heavy lifting of grassroots activism.”
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
@shannonrwatts @SymoneDSanders @MomsDemand
“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
Now that I know Donald Trump is leaving the White House soon, every day feels like a beautiful musical.
“Excuse me if I sing
My heart has found its wings
Searchin’ high and low
And now at last I know”
— Al Jarreau
“Excuse me if I sing
My heart has found its wings
Searchin’ high and low
And now at last I know”
— Al Jarreau
Joe Biden & Kamala Harris will take the mantle.
We can enjoy the victory now. The fruits of our labor...
But we can’t turn away from politics.
Those days of ignorant bliss are gone.
Our democracy needs regular nurturing and care.
We have so much work to do.
#VoteBlue
We can enjoy the victory now. The fruits of our labor...
But we can’t turn away from politics.
Those days of ignorant bliss are gone.
Our democracy needs regular nurturing and care.
We have so much work to do.
#VoteBlue
Let’s work together to take control of the Senate from Mitch McConnell’s cold, monstrous hands.
👉 It’s time to move this country forward.
👉 We can do this with Warnock and Ossoff. 👊
GA residents:
✅ Register by December 7, 2020.
#SenateSunday
#GASenateRunoff
👉 It’s time to move this country forward.
👉 We can do this with Warnock and Ossoff. 👊
GA residents:
✅ Register by December 7, 2020.
#SenateSunday
#GASenateRunoff
THREAD: @FoxNews has played the long game & it has very nearly cost us our democracy. When they started their slogan was “Fair & Balanced”. It implied that the rest of the mainstream news channels, which the majority of Americans believed & trusted, were NOT fair or balanced. 1/8
It also created a false equivalency, where the GOP & Fox News pundits could make increasingly outrageous & factually dubious statements that could be given the same weight as mainstream news reporting, which in the vast majority of instances was down the middle & fact-driven. 2/8
Fox News was the originator of “both sides” political reporting, not in that they reported both sides, but that they CREATED the very dynamic that one side’s political demagoguery was the equivalent of the other side’s earnest political discourse. 3/8
"My dad and I have a message for southern, pickup truck-driving, camouflage-wearing, Christian, gun-owning white people...you don't have to support Trump.
Somehow, there's been a conflation of identity, where people feel that to be "southern" means they must also vote republican, defend the Confederate flag, condone white supremacy, and hate democrats.
.But guess what - the best way to demonstrate your southern pride and patriotism is by denouncing unAmerican values like bigotry and hate.
Fellow Southerners - what is it that you think you have in common with Donald Trump that makes you so enamored by him? Seriously.
📷
Fellow Southerners - what is it that you think you have in common with Donald Trump that makes you so enamored by him? Seriously.
📷
💥 BREAKING TERRORIST INFORMATION: Nessel: Other groups across America planning terrorism, more arrests are expected.
#VOTE
#VoteBlueDownBallot
#VoteBidenHarris2020
#VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews
#VOTE
#VoteBlueDownBallot
#VoteBidenHarris2020
#VoteBlueToEndThisNightmare detroitnews.com/story/news/loc… via @detroitnews
“There remains a number of individuals, a number of groups that are out there and that continue to plan attacks of domestic terrorism, not just in Michigan but in a multi-jurisdictional fashion across many states,” Nessel told CNN’s Anderson Cooper Thursday.
“This is not just a Michigan problem. This is now an American problem."
The governor has been kept informed of the potential threat for a couple months, Nessel said, and authorities at times moved Whitmer and her family as a result of activities investigators learned of.
The governor has been kept informed of the potential threat for a couple months, Nessel said, and authorities at times moved Whitmer and her family as a result of activities investigators learned of.
