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Thread: Wisconsin voting today on completely brazen lame duck coup to strip power from Dem gov/AG & make it harder to vote

Here are all the ways Wisconsin GOP have gutted democracy under Scott Walker

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Wisconsin’s voter ID law disenfranchised up to 23,000 voters in 2 of state’s most Democratic counties in 2016. Trump won WI by 22,000 votes. Black voters 3x as likely as whites to be deterred from voting by law

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Wisconsin GOP planning to cut early voting in lame duck session

Last time they cut early voting in 2014 court said it was done to “suppress the reliably Democratic vote of Milwaukee’s African Americans”

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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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Russia plays a long game & was cultivating Trump as early as late '80s under Soviets, but they'd be foolish to put all eggs in 1 basket. Seems likely they'd have cultivated others. GOP field was large & perhaps Manafort gets sent to Trump when he emerges as most likely contender.
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Thread. #Wisconsin story. @jessieopie live-tweeted Gov. Walker’s announcement that he would sign all the legislation in the #WisconsinPowerGrab, & reaction from Governor-elect @Tony4WI. A couple of thoughts...
2. First, I don’t know how anyone who had lived in Wisconsin watching its politics over the last decade could have been surprised Walker approved what the legislature sent him. It is probable he was consulted extensively long before the legislature acted.
3. Scott Walker & Republican legislators in Wisconsin are served by the same campaign infrastructure, and serve the same large donors. They can disagree about some things, but must always be assumed to be of one mind on anything related to funding campaigns & winning elections.
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It’s like mainstream anchors will melt if they can’t create an equivalency for all situations
Hey @chucktodd, honest question: What’s an example of Democrats using a lame duck session to strip power away from an incoming administration? In any state?
8 hours later, and no response. It's seriously irresponsible for the host of a Sunday morning political talk show to just toss that out there without citing a single example.
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This Week in Statehouse Action: Ice Ice Baby edition dailykos.com/story/2018/12/…
So Republicans in Michigan and Wisconsin are super busy this week working on ways to undermine the Democrats who had the temerity to win more votes than their Republican opponents for gov, SoS, and AG last month
WI and MI Rs got their inspiration from NC GOP lawmakers. When Dem Cooper ousted McCrory in 2016, they
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