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Impeachment very important but also pay attention to this: Trump has new stealth plan to preserve white electoral power by excluding millions of people of color from political representation. This is next front in GOP war on voting.

My new feature story motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
After SCOTUS blocked census citizenship question Trump issued exec order that could let GOP states draw districts excluding 55% of Latinos, 45% of Asian Americans & 30% of African Americans from representation. This is racial gerrymandering on steroids
Political districts have long been drawn based on total population but Trump wants states to only count eligible voters, excluding kids & non-citizens from representation. This would be huge power shift to GOP areas, undoing decades of demographic change & minority representation
The same people who convinced SCOTUS to gut Voting Rights Act now want to overturn “one person, one vote”

Conservative activist Edward Blum told me Republicans in 5 states have called him to express interest in Trump’s plan to exclude non-voters from political representation
GOP gerrymandering could be even more extreme in 2021:

-First redistricting cycle in 50 years without full protection of Voting Rights Act

-SCOTUS says federal courts can’t review partisan gerrymandering

-Huge numbers of people of color excluded from political representation
Trump's plan to exclude millions from political representation underscores why it’s so important for Dems to focus on taking back state legislative chambers in 2020 before next cycle of redistricting begins in 2021 motherjones.com/politics/2019/…
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Ari Berman
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Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act, more than any other state

72% of closures came in 50 counties with fastest growth of blacks & Latinos

And last night Democrats & minority voters in Houston waited 6 hours to vote

motherjones.com/politics/2020/…
1,688 polling places closed since 2012 in states previously subject to Voting Rights Act. 750 closed in Texas, which had 6 hour lines last night

This is among best evidence I've seen for why Congress needs to restore VRA. House has passed bill but McConnell refuses to hold vote
Hervis Rogers waited 6 hours and 20 minute to vote last night in Houston

High turnout, lack of poll workers, old machines, long ballot contributed to long lines

But don’t forget Texas closed 750 polling places after SCOTUS gutted Voting Rights Act

📷via @edlavaCNN
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Ari Berman
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Democratic Party electorate is 40% non-white but the first two states are 92% white. This is a travesty
NH is 4th whitest state in US. IA is 6th. The stated principles of Democratic Party totally at odds with the two states that go first
I’m still thinking about how unfair it is that two rural states that are 91% & 93% white have so much power to shape the outcome of Democratic race
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Ari Berman
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Mind-blowing stat: 48 Senators who voted to convict Trump represent 18 million more Americans than 52 Republicans who voted to acquit
48 Senators who voted to convict Trump of abuse of power represent 170 million people

52 Senators who voted to acquit represent 152 million people

In US Senate majority represents minority

Here is math via @imillhiser docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d…
@imillhiser 52 GOP Senators who represent 18 million fewer people than Dems/Romney, in a body where Wyoming has 68 times the voting power of California, blocked impeachment of president who lost popular vote by 2.9 million. American democracy is badly broken
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Mother Jones
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Donald Trump's new stealth plan to preserve white electoral power bit.ly/389xPGk
After the Supreme Court blocked his citizenship question, Trump made a move that could still turn citizenship data into a political tool to boost the influence of white Repub­lican areas.

Our voting rights reporter @ariberman explains: bit.ly/30p7Ho8
@AriBerman The GOP has long sought to exclude noncitizens from the redistricting process. Now Trump wants to go further, suggesting anyone who is not eligible to vote, including children, don't have to be counted toward apportioning representation at the state and local level.
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Peter Daou
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#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE:

1. House Dems can #ImpeachTrumpNow with their majority. No more evidence is required.

2. Senate Republicans will almost certainly vote to acquit.

3. Trump will be impeached for history but not removed.

4. Dems can then focus on sweeping in 2020.
#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE (2)

The only remote possibility of Trump leaving office early is if #McConnell and other GOP leaders think he's too much of a liability to their rightwing power grab and push him to resign.

But like I said, "remote."
#IMPEACHMENT MADE SIMPLE (3)

Arguments for waiting to schedule a vote are:

1. Gather more facts.
2. Exert more pressure.
3. Get more evidence against his accomplices.

None of those outweigh the fact that he harms people every day and #impeachment is an urgent moral imperative.
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Lindsey Boylan
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THREAD — #IMPEACHMENT 101

OK, let's cut through the noise on impeachment.

First, let's state the obvious:

Donald Trump's entire presidency is an impeachable offense, an affront to basic human values, an insult to common sense and common decency, a threat to the rule of law.
#IMPEACHMENT 101

The #MuellerReport found multiple instances where Trump obstructed—or attempted to obstruct—justice.

He has violated the emoluments clause of the Constitution by using the office to enrich himself and his family.

He coddles dictators while alienating allies.
#IMPEACHMENT 101

Trump has repeatedly undermined the First Amendment (which he's sworn to defend) by inciting violence against the free press and calling them "enemies of the people."

His party has launched an unconstitutional assault on women’s reproductive rights and health.
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Shannon McNamara, MD
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This whole Little Mermaid controversy is disappointing and has brought out another round of Rage Feeding Robots.

Important life lessons, friends!

Learn to:

1) Spot the Bots!
2) Don’t feed the trolls!
3) Block & Report!
After the last election, it’s all of our patriotic duty to pay attention to how social media was manipulated to divide & conquer. These accounts are used to sow chaos & division & exploit our weaknesses.

Again:
1) Spot the bots!
2) Don’t feed the trolls!
3) Block and report!
An important reminder to pay attention to our real life relationships.

Make eye contact & say hello to our neighbors.

Talk to people who you think we have nothing in common with. Embrace nuance & complexity.

Be curious. Be creative. Be courageous. Do the work.

Onward. 🌿
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Peter Daou
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#IMPEACHMENT IS **NOT** JUST ABOUT #MUELLER

Donald Trump has violated his oath to "preserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States."

He has done so by repeatedly attacking the free press as "enemies of the people," a direct subversion of the First Amendment.
The sycophants cowards, and right-wing extremists of the GOP will never have the courage or principle to follow in #JustinAmash's footsteps. And sad to say, the Democratic Party leadership is still dithering, refusing to do their constitutional duty.
So has anything changed today or is #impeachment still on hold? And if so, WHY?
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