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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
How bout the President who called white supremacists "very fine people," refused to rent to black tenants, falsely accused Central Park 5, questioned citizenship of first black president & called Mexicans "rapists and murderers" also resigns
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Ari Berman
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My quick takeaway from oral arguments in census case: same conservative justices who gutted Voting Rights Act now claim citizenship question needed to better enforce Voting Rights Act. What a farce. 5-4 decision upholding citizenship q would have devastating impact on democracy
It’s complete farce Trump admin argues citizenship question on 2020 census needed to enforce Voting Rights Act. Trump DOJ hasn’t filed single lawsuit to enforce VRA & has strongly supported GOP efforts to make it harder to vote motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Census citizenship question would most harm communities of color that Voting Rights Act supposed to protect, by leading to undercount of Latinos, other minorities & shifting economic/political power to whiter & more Republican areas motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
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Ari Berman
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Trump could rig American politics for next decade if SCOTUS upholds citizenship question on 2020 census. Would be as devastating to democracy as anything in Mueller report. Pay attention to oral arguments Tuesday motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Wilbur Ross repeatedly lied about why he added citizenship question to census:

1. Said needed to enforce Voting Rights Act (it’s not)

2. Said DOJ requested q when he did

3. Said didn’t discuss w/ Trump officials when Bannon put him in touch with Kobach motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Citizenship question will:

Cause 6.5 million people not to respond to census

Increase cost of census by tens of millions

Redistribute power to whiter & more Republican areas

motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Ari Berman
@AriBerman
Very important election today for Wisconsin Supreme Court

GOP candidate defended Scott Walker's attacks on unions & voting rights, called Planned Parenthood "wicked organization" NAACP "disgrace to America" & founded Christian school banning LGBT ppl motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Conservative majority on WI Supreme Court upheld Scott Walker’s attacks on unions, voting rights & illegal dark money fundraising

If progressive candidates win race today & in 2020 they can reverse extreme gerrymandering, voter suppression, lame-duck coup motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
GOP candidate for WI supreme court called Planned Parenthood “wicked organization” NAACP “disgrace to America" & Roe v Wade “worst & most unjustifiable decision in history"

"To put that person on highest court in the state is dangerous” says @EricHolder motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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PFAW
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Steve King’s comments and the resulting outcry (he was not censured) did not come out of thin air. He has a long history of spewing hatred and bile as a U.S. representative.

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Research by @RightWingWatch
We called for Steve King's censure in November 2018 after he told the The New York Times that he didn’t understand why the terms “white nationalist” and “white supremacist” became offensive. That censure never came. bit.ly/2W4CbJ4
Also in November 2018, Steve King was taped referring to immigrants as “dirt” bit.ly/2FmgH5S
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🌸🌺Ellie🌺🌸 #WhereAreThePesos
@ellievan65
Rep Steve King has said

“ We can't restore our civilization with somebody else's babies"

“I'd like to see an America that's just so homogeneous that we look a lot the same”

”No group has given more to civilization than white people”

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2/7 Cont

Steve King has

Praised the border patrol for deporting a 23-year-old DREAMer.

Said the Confederate flag "hasn't been a problem for 150 years" while refusing to condemn White Supremacists in Charlottesville.
3/7 Cont

Steve King has

Said he wanted to stop allowing automatic citizenship for people born in the U.S.

Said letting people use birth control will lead to a “dying civilization.”

Met with members of a far-right Austrian party with historical Nazi ties
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Wajahat Ali
@WajahatAli
Republican Steve King is trending. Im going to do a quick thread on his rich history of racism. In Oct 2018, he endorsed white supremacist & anti-semite Faith Goldy for Toronto mayor. She attended the Unite the Right rally & promotes the White Genocide conspiracy theory. 1/
In Oct 2018, Steve King defended his association & support of the far-right Austrian Freedom Party, started by a Nazi & whose current leader is popular in neo-Nazi circles. “If they were in America pushing the platform that they push, they would be Republicans,” King said. 2/
In Dec 2017, Steve King tweeted "Diversity is not our strength." He also sahres the quote of Viktor Orban, the anti-Muslim, anti-immigrant, authoritarian leader of Hungary: "Mixing cultures will not lead to a higher quality of life but a lower one.”

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Angus Johnston
@studentactivism
Note to editors: You may now refer to Rep. Steve King (R-IA) as an avowed white supremacist. Update your style manuals.
The phrase “white supremacist” without qualification remains accurate as well.
(For those saying King has been openly racist for a long time: Yes, I know. What I’m referring to here is his embrace of the term “white supremacist,” which I haven’t seen from him before. Thus “avowed.”)
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Michael Green
@andmichaelgreen
#VOTE like you remember family separation.

#Vote like you remember Kavanaugh.

#Vote like you remember “Fine people on both sides.”
#Vote like you remember Helsinki.

#Vote like you remember Khizr and Ghazala Khan.

#Vote like you remember the fake Blind Trust.

#Vote like you remember their vow to take away your health care.
#Vote like you remember “alternative Facts.”

#Vote like you remember his tax returns.

#Vote like you remember the dismantling of the EPA.

#Vote LIKE YOU REMEMBER EVERY MEMBER OF THE GOP CONGRESS WHO ALLOWED ALL OF THIS TO HAPPEN.
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Vanita Gupta
@vanitaguptaCR
Five years ago, five justices on the Supreme Court invalidated key provisions of the Voting Rights Act that for decades protected voters in states with pernicious histories of voting discrimination. Don't forget what happened in the immediate aftermath of this appalling decision:
Within 24 hours of the decision, the conservative justices prompted a deluge of voter suppression legislation. Texas and Alabama announced plans to plow ahead with restrictive and previously blocked voter-ID laws. Weeks later, N.C. passed its monster voter suppression law.
Five years later, the landscape is worse: The Republican voter suppression campaign now has the enthusiastic endorsement of the nation’s president – a president who is stacking the federal courts with the very people who cheered the dismantling of the Voting Rights Act.
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