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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/…
On House floor @RepCummings says Trump "admitted he wanted [census] citizenship data to implement partisan gerrymandering”

I wrote today about how Trump's census executive order could allow GOP to do even more extreme gerrymandering in 2021 motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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They haven’t gotten much attention but 2019 elections huge for voting rights:

KY could re-enfranchise 140,000 people

VA, KY, LA & MS could reverse GOP gerrymandering

VA could pass sweeping pro-voting reforms like automatic & Election Day registration motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
Want to know how Republicans rig elections? In Kentucky 300,000 people can't vote in Tuesday's gov race b/c of past felony conviction, including over 1 in 4 African Americans. Matt Bevin reversed policy restoring rights to non-violent ex-offenders, disenfranchising 140k
Impeachment & 2020 rightly dominate news but don't forget how critical state races are for democracy. “Presidential election is of existential importance but these state races are more important than any state races have perhaps ever been" says @ericholder motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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The vote of college students doubled from 2014 to 2018, so now Republicans are closing polling places on college campuses, enacting new residency requirements & not allowing students IDs. Despicable nytimes.com/2019/10/24/us/…
60,000 Florida students voted on college campuses in 2018 after federal judge overturned ban on early voting sites at state universities. So this year GOP legislature said all early voting sites must have “sufficient non-permitted parking” which most campuses don't. So absurd
The most egregious example of student voter suppression is still Texas, where you can vote with a gun permit but not a student ID
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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…
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