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Breaking: FL gov Ron DeSantis signs bill requiring people with past felony convictions to pay all restitution, fines & fees before voting. This is modern day poll tax gutting historic ballot initiative approved by 64% voters & could block 1000s from polls motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
DeSantis won by 30k votes when 1.7 MILLION Floridians couldn’t vote because of racist felon disenfranchisement law. Now he’s signing measure to keep 1000s of Floridians from voting in 2020 & blatantly undermining will of the voters who overwhelmingly supported Amendment 4
.@FLRightsRestore, which led the effort to pass Amendment 4, has started a new fund to help people pay off their fines & fees so that they will be able to vote wegotthevote.org
@FLRightsRestore Breaking: @ACLU files lawsuit against new FL law requiring people with past felony convictions to pay all fines, fees & restitution before voting, saying it "will have a massive disenfranchising effect" documentcloud.org/documents/6176…
@FLRightsRestore @ACLU Florida's racist felon disenfranchisement law, which Ron DeSantis trying to preserve, handed election to George W. Bush & created Supreme Court that is rigging democracy to enshrine GOP power motherjones.com/politics/2018/…
Here’s direct link where you can help @FLRightsRestore pay off fines & fees for people with past felony convictions so that they can vote wegotthevote.org/finesandfees/
@FLRightsRestore Federal court has scheduled hearing for July 5 on @ACLU lawsuit challenging new FL law requiring people with past felony convictions to pay all fines, fees & restitution before becoming eligible to vote electionlawblog.org/wp-content/upl…
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54 years ago today LBJ signed Voting Rights Act. He called it “a triumph for freedom as huge as any victory that has ever been won on any battlefield”

A reminder of a time when US president stood for civil rights instead of white supremacy
I can't stop thinking about how Toni Morrison passed away on anniversary of Voting Rights Act. When he signed law LBJ said "we strike away the last major shackle of those fierce and ancient bonds" of slavery millercenter.org/the-presidency…
Section 5 of Voting Rights Act blocked 3,000 discriminatory voting changes from 1965-2013 until John Roberts gutted law, ushering in wave of new voter suppression in states like TX, GA & NC
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Ari Berman
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25 debates in 2016 & 3 in 2020 and still not a single question about attack on voting rights

If we don’t fix our democracy we won’t fix our politics
There have been 40 presidential debates & forums since Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act & not a single question about attack on voting rights. This is media malpractice salon.com/2019/07/31/cnn…
Voter suppression

Gutting Voting Rights Act

Election interference

Gerrymandering

Rigged census

There hasn’t been a single question about voting rights in 25 Dem debates in 2016 & 3 in 2020. That needs to change
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Ari Berman
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It’s not just the racist rhetoric. Trump has a new plan to exclude huge numbers of people of color from political representation through his census executive order bit.ly/2xSxSGw
Trump surrendered on census citizenship question but GOP going full stream ahead with push for racial gerrymandering on steroids to preserve conservative white power for next decade motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Political districts have long been drawn based on total population but Trump wants to only count eligible voters. That would exclude a staggering 55% of Latinos, 45% of Asian Americans & 30% of African Americans from political representation motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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i’m at the northside library for the one millionth forum with hudson and galvin, candidates for the 57th district delegate seat. the primary can’t come soon enough.
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#poll If there was a Snap General Election, who would you vote for?

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1997: Blair 13.5mn votes
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removing Tory support -loss of voters due to old age

=> Lab will gain 100+ seats from Tories alone
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