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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
"I am where I am today only because men and women like Rosanell Eaton refused to accept anything less than a full measure of equality" Barack Obama said nytimes.com/2018/12/09/obi…
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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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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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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

motherjones.com/politics/2017/…
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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Spoiler: Trump may have jolted the liberals and moderates out of complacency.

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