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1/ A few years ago, a GOP pundit insisted to me that there was no way Elizabeth Warren could’ve risen to Harvard Law on her merits. He was sure she got hired bc of claims of Native Am heritage.

Total BS. @AnnieLinskey has the astonishingly complete story: bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20…
If there’s a way that a fair-minded person can fail to be convinced by the ultra deep reporting of this article, I can’t imagine it.
Huge kudos to @elizabethforma for the courage to put everything on record this transparently, and to @AnnieLinskey & @BostonGlobe for reporting this so thoroughly & compellingly. Plus, this article is worth it for the vintage photos alone.

bostonglobe.com/news/nation/20…
I remember when a Massachusetts senator ran for president against a disastrous Republican incumbent and got relentlessly smeared—but the decisive debunking of the smear didn’t come out until October 14 of the election year. Glad we’re moving faster now.

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A great aspect of @AnnieLinskey’s article: the explanation of how affirmative action worked in faculty hiring. There’s a white-conservative fantasy that AA means hiring unqualified people. But docs here show AA as affirmatively looking for “equal or better” minority candidates.
There’s so much good reporting here. Read it all. But if you don’t, know this: the claims alluded to by Trump’s “Pocahontas” smear have been definitively eviscerated. The remaining tatters are nothing more than Trumpian racism. This debate is over.

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At the Tony Evers/Mandela Barnes inaugural ball in Wisconsin, Tammy Baldwin takes the stage to open up the program. For six years, she kept the light of progressivism alive here. Tonight, every constitutional officer in the state is a Democrat.
Lt Governor Mandela Barnes compliments Senator Tammy Baldwin’s inaugural garb: “I love those coattails!”
(Get it? Like, political coattails helping downballot candidates get elected? It’s an excellent joke, people.)
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"May we be willing to do what’s best for the next generation, rather than the next election." – @Tony4WI
Wisconsin's newly elected Democratic governor, Tony Evers, just concluded his inaugural address this way: "Let's polka tonight, and get to work tomorrow!"

(He really does polka, and will do so at the inaugural ball tonight)
madison.com/ct/entertainme…
Sarah Godlewski took her oath of office today as State Treasurer of Wisconsin—after successfully leading the fight against the GOP effort to eliminate the office. She's dynamite. Keep an eye on her.

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Kids’ inaugural gala for @GovEvers and @TheOtherMandela!
When you elect a teacher governor, he doesn’t just use little ones as props. He throws a gala at the Children’s Museum and talks directly to the kids.
Q&A with kids. Child asks Tony Evers what he, as a kid, wanted to be when he grew up. Answers that he first job was scraping mold off cheese, which taught him what he *didn’t* want to do, so he became a teacher. #KidsGala
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#HotTip for all! Be your own fact checker, use link below, think of it as the google of gov docs. You type what you’re looking for into the search bar and dig in, it populates court docs, archives, data and all past press releases from the Hill.
foia.gov/search.html
#ProTip 🧠 If you know exactly what you’re looking for, out it in quotes. Some of the info is repetitive but if you’re crafty enough you’ll find gems. Once you’ve done a search use search bar at top of page to look for other info.
Long story that I was going to attempt to thread one day but since we’re here I’ll just explain it. A few years ago McCabe and FISA court sued search engines to NOT populate this data, it was under the guise of National Security of course but pretty sure it had darker intentions.
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Elizabeth Warren in a recent speech:

“I’m not a person of color. I haven’t experienced anything like the prejudice that you may have experienced just because of the color of your skin.”

Also Warren:

"My Indian parents were forced to elope because of white racism"

Seriously.
Also Elizabeth Warren submitted multiple recipes for the Indian cookbook “Pow Wow Chow” and signed her name, “Elizabeth Warren - Cherokee”
Also, Elizabeth Warren used offensive, racially charged language to defend her claims of Native American heritage, declaring that her family had “high cheekbones” like “all the Indians do.”

Here is video of that moment:
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#GOP salivating over someone 6yrs older than Trump with reams of oppo on him and a phalanx of haters among Democrats does not equal "a lot of people." Sanders polls at 12% & #Midterms were about women & POC.

A Lot of People Want Bernie to Run in 2020
theatlantic.com/politics/archi…
As I wrote a few weeks ago for @damemagazine, 2020 won't be about one term, but two. Any Democrat running for 2020 must be prepared to be an incumbent for 2024. Sanders will be 83 going in.

damemagazine.com/2018/09/04/how…
The reality that neither Bernie nor Biden wants to face is how neither of them looks all that different from Trump on a debate stage. But the counterbalance between Trump and a woman, especially one 20yrs his junior, would be incredibly stark.
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#VoterSuppression has been a big part of the story of this #Election2018, with attention focusing on the statewide issues in Georgia and North Dakota in particular. We should also remember that voter suppression is--and always has been--especially potent at the local level.
Efforts to remedy discrimination often take the form of state or federal laws, which can distract us from the fact that the problems them aim to rectify very often originate with the block captains, poll workers, and local party bosses who intimidate potential voters.
Voter suppression was endemic in the Jim Crow South--the Klan, Citizens Councils & other whites terrorized African Americans who registered to vote, voted, or ran for office. The Civil Rights Act of 1965 was a federal response to that systemic disenfranchisement.
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