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In WI, MI, OH & NC lame duck GOP legislatures brazenly stripping power from Dems, overturning will of voters & passing new laws making it harder to vote

This is outrageous abuse of power & should be huge national scandal

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Lame duck GOP legislatures brazenly undermining democracy:

WI cutting early voting & stripping power from Dem gov/AG

MI nullifying Election Day registration & undercutting Dem sec of state

OH blocking new ballot initiatives

NC passing new voter ID law
motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
One party believes in democracy, the other does not. That's most important thing you need to know about American politics right now

Exhibit A: unprecedented GOP power grabs in Wisconsin, Michigan, Ohio & North Carolina

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Between Republicans committing blatant absentee ballot fraud to sway Congressional election in NC & brazen lame duck power grabs in WI, MI, OH & NC, GOP contempt for democracy on full display motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Wisconsin Dems won races for governor, senate, attorney general, treasurer & secretary of state in 2018

Dem candidates for state assembly got 210,000 more votes than Rs

Republicans got 46% of votes but 64% of seats b/c of gerrymandering. That's how lame duck coup even possible
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Breaking: Scott Walker signs lame duck GOP legislative coup stripping his Democratic successor of power & making it harder to vote. This is the kind of thing autocrats do

A very dark day for democracy in Wisconsin
Scott Walker just signed lame duck coup brazenly stripping power from Dem gov/AG & making it harder to vote

Similar legislative coups underway in MI & NC

GOP shamelessly gutting democracy before they lose power

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Gutting unions

Lame duck coups

Extreme gerrymandering

Rampant voter suppression

Eviscerating campaign finance

This is Scott Walker's legacy in Wisconsin

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RIP to 97-year-old civil rights activist Rosanell Eaton who passed away yesterday

She passed literacy test to register to vote & then registered over 4,000 people. She was plaintiff in @ncnaacp lawsuit challenging NC voter ID law

A remarkable woman I was honored to know
Rosanell Eaton had to pass literacy test in 1940s to register to vote under Jim Crow

Then when NC passed voter ID law she had to make 11 trips to different state agencies to get right ID

NC just passed new version of voter ID law in lame duck session thenation.com/article/the-92…
As I wrote in my book Give Us the Ballot, civil rights hero Rosanell Eaton had to recite Preamble to Constitution to register to vote under Jim Crow

70 years later she was still fighting for voting rights in North Carolina & joined @RevDrBarber's Moral Monday movement
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Breaking: North Carolina GOP passes voter ID law in lame duck session before they lose supermajority & Dem gov can veto

Law targets voter impersonation, which is practically non-existent, while doing little to stop massive election fraud committed by GOP in NC09
Last time NC GOP passed voter ID law court said it targeted black voters "with almost surgical precision"

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
This is very important

NC's last voter ID law exempted mail-in ballots, where massive election fraud in NC9 committed, while targeting voter impersonation, which is basically non-existent

That's b/c Dems vote more in person while GOP votes more absentee

nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/…
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@POTUS Trump colluded with American people to #MAGA

The House Intel Committee concluded that Trump went out every single day to touch the hearts & lives of the working class & thats why @realDonaldTrump WON

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