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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/…
@EricHolder Wisconsin Supreme Court election extremely close. Progressive-backed candidate Lisa Neubauer up by 2% with 73% reporting. Mostly rural areas still out, so will be nail-biter projects.jsonline.com/topics/electio…
Brian Hagedorn, extreme right-wing judge, is now up by 4,000 votes over Lisa Neubauer with 94% reporting in Wisconsin Supreme Court race. Whatever happens, Dems need to focus way more on down ballot races & not just obsess over presidential election a year away
Brian Hagedorn called Planned Parenthood "wicked organization" NAACP "disgrace to America," founded Christian school banning LGBT ppl & now he's narrowly leading Wisconsin Supreme Court race. This is wake up call for Dems. Need to focus way more attn on down ballot races
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🚨🚨New docs show that architect of GOP gerrymandering was behind Trump's push to add citizenship question to 2020 census, said it "would clearly be a disadvantage to the Democrats” & “advantageous to Republicans and Non-Hispanic
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Ari Berman
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Extreme gerrymandering & voter suppression paved way for GOP legislatures gutting reproductive rights

This is all part of attack on democracy & Dems need to focus on states to fight back motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Under Brian Kemp Georgia purged 1.4 million voters, put 53,000 registrations on hold, closed 214 polling places & had 4 hour lines in black areas

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@staceyabrams At least 22 states have passed new restrictions on voting & abortion since 2010

Women, young people & voters of color who support abortion rights most likely to be harmed by gerrymandering & voter suppression motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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GOP doubling down on voter suppression:

FL gutting historic ballot initiative restoring voting rights to ex-offenders

TN curtailing registration drives

TX criminalizing voting

AZ restricting polling places

This is huge crisis for democracy

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Last night FL legislature passed bill requiring those with past felony convictions to pay all restitution, fines & fees before voting. This is modern day poll tax undermining ballot initiative approved by 64% voters that could block 500k people from polls

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61 year old registered Republican who works as paralegal owes $59 MILLION in restitution. “$59 million—really?” she told Florida senate. “You think I can ever pay that? I’ll never vote in this state again, at this rate. That’s like a poll tax” motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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