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In one week, #AbolishICE has gone from the activist fringe to the 2020 mainstream. Here's @melbournecoal + I on the new progressive rallying cry
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The #AbolishICE movement is another example, like Medicare for all or tuition free college, of the progressive grassroots community dictating policy positions to a Democratic Party apparatus that's often been slow to respond. Our story
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“This is just another one of those issues where we have to strong-arm them into listening to us.”

How progressives are pushing mainstream Democrats to embrace #AbolishICE nyti.ms/2IDp8al
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Scoop: More than 4,500 vote-by-mail applications have gone missing in Georgia's DeKalb County, a place critical for Nov.'s hotly contested Gov's race. The missing applications have further stoked fears of voter suppression + election mismanagement nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/…
GA Dem Party delivered more than 4,700 vote-by-mail applications to county elections weeks ago. County board tells NYT they only received 48. But on a phone call with state Dems, county elections chair acknowledged possible error, per sources familiar nytimes.com/2018/10/25/us/…
The impact: thousands may be disenfranchised in county critical to Abrams' hopes. Dems encouraging those affected to vote early in-person or request vote-by-mail ballot again. But the those out of state, traveling, or bedridden could be without recourse
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A new piece from me: On the story about race in the midterms few are talking about: Not Stacey Abrams or Andrew Gillum, but how the GOP has nominated their whitest slate of Governor's candidates in years. nytimes.com/2018/10/03/us/…
Republicans used to have a more diverse gubernatorial bench than Democrats in recent years, with people like Jindal, Haley, Sandoval, and Martinez. Now, after this midterms, the party's roster threatens to be all-white, and overwhelmingly male
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Some Republicans whisper that this is not an anomaly, but the direct result of the party's convergence around white interests, fueled by a Trump campaign and presidency that has focused its appeals on its overwhelmingly white electoral base
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For all our profession's both sides-isms, I wish we called this men's rightsy stuff "identity politics" in the same way we would if, say, a woman politician talked about her experience with sexism
Think of the last two days: the alarmist anti-immigration rhetoric at the TN rally, the ban on visas for diplomats in same sex marriages, and this men's rightsy rhetoric about Kavanaugh
Even if we take the conservative definition of "identity politics," which is roughly, governing with things like race/gender/sexuality overtly top of mind -- Trump, and his trademark rhetoric, fit the definition squarely, and are likely one of the practice's greatest proponents
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There seems to be some confusion over when the #AbolishICE movement began or who started it, so let's clear the record: The idea of eliminating the controversial agency has been pushed by immigrants' rights advocates for years.

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When ICE was created in '03, it alarmed some. But when Obama expanded and solidified its power, the idea of eliminating it became mainstream among immigration advocates thanks to the work of organizations such as @ConMijente, @UNITEDWEDREAM and more.

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Ana Maria Archila from @popdemoc told me it's good that #AbolishICE is being amplified by progressive activists. But she cautioned that without transforming it from hashtag to policy, the right wing will define what the movement stands for.

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THREAD: Amid all of the calls to #abolishICE, I found myself asking, where did it come from? Why did we do it? Maybe we made a mistake. I was there and remember it thematically, but I wanted to remind myself. Maybe it will help others. 1/
First source, this amazing article on how DHS came to be. 5 people debating the largest overhaul of the US government since the creation of DoD...and presenting it to the Cabinet as a fait accompli. 2/
At the center of the need to fix things was the border: how did 26 people come to our country and blow up buildings. Answer: a border where 7 different Cabinet agencies touched a traveler on any given day. It had to be fixed. 3/
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The *vast* majority of the heads of ICE's Homeland Security Investigations - 19 out of the subagency's 26 field offices - now support eliminating ICE.

You may ask yourself, well, how did we get here?

My write-up: courthousenews.com/push-to-abolis…

On President Trump labeling the #AbolishICE movement "extremist," the Southern District of New York - one of the nation's most important federal courts - has a Daniel Patrick Moynihan Courthouse.

Named after a late senator who moved to abolish the CIA. washingtonpost.com/archive/politi…
And of course, the right has been pushing for years to abolish the IRS.

thedailybeast.com/the-gops-phony…

Both of those other agencies are far older, created in 1947 (CIA) and 1846 (1846).

ICE is a post-9/11 creation from 2003, bloating from a $3.3B budget then to $6.1B in 2016.
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ICE abuses JUST LAST WEEK:
👉Arrested a man for delivering a pizza to an army base.
👉Deported father of 4, caretaker of 6 whose parents died in a car crash FLEEING ICE!!!
👉Prevented detainees from celebrating Ramadan.
👉Allowed a 33 yr trans wmn to die in custody.
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Pablo Villavicencio, 35, was doing his job delivering a pizza to an army base. He needed a visitor pass, requiring a background check waiver, revealing a deport warrant. He committed no crime, & had already applied for a greed card. This was in NYC!

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Ice has deported Celestino Hilario Garcia, father of 4, and caretaker of 6 nieces and nephews whose parents were killed in a car crash while being pursued by ICE. This kind of aggression would never be tolerated against white people. ICE IS RACIST TRASH.

bakersfield.com/news/ice-depor…
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1. I fasted, politically speaking, for most of the weekend. But I managed to catch sight of the latest Trump outrage. Not only had the admin decided to seize children from mothers crossing the border. It has lost track of approximately 1,500 of them, including babes in arms.
2. There has been and will be more to say about this in moral terms. I will leave moral judgments to others. I want to address the political dimensions of a federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement gone mad with rabies. Why?
3. It’s not enough to say this is wrong, though it is. It’s not enough to say this is immoral, though it is. Morality and politics overlap, as they do in this case, but they are not one and the same. Politics is about power: who uses it, when, why, where and how.
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#New PA cong. map increases D chance of winning the House majority by 4%. They only need a 6.8% generic ballot margin now (down from 7.7) to be favored.

Diff. will be closer to 10% in Nov when uncertainty from polls is ⬇️. Redraw is a very big deal.

One major reason the new PA map is such a big gain for Democrats is that it solidifies, not just tips, PA districts in Philly burbs. Also creates one additional vulnerable R district. (Easily seen in this map made by @JMilesColeman)
My forecasting model will have new PA map in the near future. This is not just a simple switch; it’s a coding redesign, restructuring of input, & drawing new geographic files. Takes a while (for me, a student).

In the meantime, just add 3-4% to the model: bit.ly/2018_house
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