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Ari Berman
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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

motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
One of the lame duck bills signed by Scott Walker today prohibits Wisconsin's newly elected Dem AG from withdrawing from GOP lawsuit challenging Obamacare motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Ari Berman
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Voter suppression tainted @staceyabrams race against Brian Kemp:

-1.5 million purged

-53k registrations on hold

-4.5 hour lines

-214 polling places closed

-Candidate overseeing own election

Voting rights will be major theme of her SOTU response

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Ari Berman
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How bout Mitch McConnell also resigns for this
How bout Republicans who support racist voter suppression laws also resign
How bout Steve King, a literal white supremacist in Congress, also resigns
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Very telling that Mitch McConnell, who's devoted his career to subverting democracy, is leading opposition to Dems democracy reform bill. He's admitting Republicans lose when more people vote motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Paul Weyrich 1980: "I don't want everybody to vote. Our leverage in the elections quite candidly goes up as the voting populace goes down."

Mitch McConnell 2019: Making Election Day a national holiday is "power grab" for Democrats
For the record, 65% Americans support making Election Day national holiday

Voting on Tuesday in November totally antiquated concept. Most democracies vote on weekends when far more convenient pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…
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