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Democracy Diverted: Polling Place Closures and the Right to Vote civilrights.org/democracy-dive… via @civilrightsorg #RestoreTheVRA
In the 6 years since Shelby County v. Holder gutted key voter protections, more than 1,600 polling sites have been closed in 13 states. It's time for Congress to act: tell them to #RestoreTheVOTE and pass the VRAA! bit.ly/PassVRAA
Voter suppression in Texas. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
Voter suppression in Georgia. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
Voter suppression in Arizona. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
IOW folk are living in a dream world if they think we can turn red states blue and kick Trump out of the WH without forcefully confronting and dismantling the GOP’s racist disenfranchisement of Black and Latino voters across the country or securing the damn election system.
Voter suppression in Louisiana and Mississippi. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
Voter suppression in Alabama and North Carolina. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
Voter suppression in Alaska. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
It’s NO coincidence that the “megaclosure” states have been trending purple due to demographic change, the 2013 dismantling of the VRA was meant to be a lifeline for the GOP and Jim Crow. civilrights.org/democracy-dive…
In case you still aren’t catching my drift, this is why they don’t want Black or Latino people to vote in 2020 and why the VRA was weakened right after Obama won his 2nd term:
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Propane Jane™
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I’m done with Florida today, their fuckery never ends. 😩
It’s not even noon yet and I’ve already tweeted about a Florida man smashing 20 cars b/c Trump owes him money, a Florida teen hiring hitmen to kill her parents and now a Florida workplace mass stabbing. What the actual fuck though?
As a Texan I don’t have much room to point fingers and in general I get that so much of Florida’s dysfunction stems from Republican “governance” but seriously though that population needs to be studied and targeted with macro level intervention stat. It just ain’t right. 😔
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Propane Jane™
@docrocktex26
For every Proud Boy marauding the streets there’s at least a dozen White people who aren’t as overtly proud of their White supremacist beliefs but will quietly vote Republican til the day they die for the sake of White wealth, power, patriarchy and privilege.
In other words...
Really you could just skip cable news analysis of the Proud Boy vs. AntiFa showdown altogether and just watch BlacKkKlansman if you really want to understand what’s going on in the streets and how it translates into the broader sociopolitical climate.
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Propane Jane™
@docrocktex26
There isn’t a term or phraseology that won’t provoke defensive anger from ppl who’ve been steeped in a culture that teaches them institutionalized racism is a figment of non-White ppl’s imagination. Defensiveness is inevitable because fragility, repressed guilt & denial are too.
@jashtonhill Furthermore:
@jashtonhill Beyond all of the above, the defensive anger you’re describing is meant to end the conversation and prevent further direct confrontation of racism and implicit bias. It’s still a centering of Whiteness and an escape hatch.
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Vanita Gupta
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BREAKING: @civilrightsorg’s sister org just released a major new voting rights report. The analysis found 1,688 polling place closures in areas with a history of voting discrimination that were formerly covered by Section 5 of the VRA. democracydiverted.org #DemocracyDiverted
@civilrightsorg The report also analyzes polling place reductions in the years between the 2014 and 2018 midterm elections. It found 1,173 fewer polling places in 2018 – despite a significant increase in voter turnout. #DemocracyDiverted
@civilrightsorg The Shelby County v. Holder ruling paved the way for systematic statewide efforts to reduce polling places in TX, AZ, and GA. Quieter efforts to reduce the number of polling places without clear notice or justification spread throughout LA, MS, AL, NC, and AK. #DemocracyDiverted
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Wendy Weiser
@WendyRWeiser
1/ One of the principal legacies of the Roberts Court will be its systematic undermining of American democracy, greenlighting efforts to rig elections, ignoring gerrymandering, slashing voting rights, and shifting power from the many to the few. #Rucho #SCOTUS
2/ #Rucho is only the latest in a long string of recent #SCOTUS decisions undermining American democracy. Below are some of the biggies:
3/ In Shelby County v. Holder (2013), the Court struck down the heart of the Voting Rights Act, turning a blind eye to ongoing voting discrimination & preventing Congress from putting in place adequate protections against discrimination. #VRAA
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Michelle Guido
@heyyguido
THREAD:
When I hear a Feminist say "Women didn't even get the right to vote until 1920" I think to myself, well that's a very white feminist thing to say. Let's really think about it. (1/12)
Who got the right to vote in 1920? Not black women, not native American women, who were not even seen as US citizens at the time. White women got the right to vote in 1920. (2/12)
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Brennan Center
@BrennanCenter
TWEET THREAD (1/8) 📢 OUR NEW RESEARCH on voter purges — when election officials remove names from voter registration lists — has alarming findings, with major implications for the integrity of our #democracy: bit.ly/2O3bCAw
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Let America Vote
@letamericavote
THREAD: It's the 5th anniversary of Shelby County v Holder, the #SCOTUS case that gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act. #RestoreTheVOTE 1/5
As Justice Ginsburg said in her dissent, gutting the VRA "is like throwing away your umbrella in a rainstorm because you are not getting wet." 2/5
Since 2013, Republicans across the country have been putting up barriers to the ballot box, making voting harder for students, low-income Americans, people of color and seniors. 3/5
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John Neiman
@AlabamAppeals
THREAD: Apropos of @GDouglasJones saying he plans to listen, here's a story about my most substantial (but still pretty limited) interaction with our new Senator-elect. /1 #alsen #AlabamaSenateElection
Birmingham Bar held panel a couple of years ago on impact of Shelby County v. Holder. Almost everybody on it is now on twitter: @JoyceWhiteVance, @edwardstill , yours truly, and -- who was it, oh right -- the guy who prosecuted the 16th Street Baptist bomber. /2
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