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NEW: The Democratic Party of Wisconsin endorses the call by civil rights groups & mayors across Wisconsin to postpone our April 7 election & remove barriers to safe voting by mail. We’re in court NOW. If judge doesn't act, legislature must. Help us fight: wisdems.org/forward
The GOP has intervened in court battle after court battle to shut off paths for voters to safely request absentee ballots & mail them in. Election is now scheduled just 6 days from now. Huge electoral stakes--see thread--and a public health emergency.
Republicans running our state legislature have aggressively cemented their control of Wisconsin's electoral system. The two ways to change the rules here are federal court and the legislature. We urge the court to make this critical election safe for all to vote.
No matter what the judge rules, no matter what the legislature does, we're running a huge organizing program to help people get and safely cast absentee ballots before the deadline (which we want extended). If you can contribute, we're grateful. If you can volunteer, please do!
The contribution link is at the top of this thread—which will help us scale up our organizing not just now, but also for November. And you can sign up for a virtual phone bank here. Just choose the community where you'd like to call voters: wisdems.org/2020
This election in Wisconsin will be like nothing anyone alive has ever seen. Polling locations are being closed and consolidated in real time. The National Guard is being called up to work polls. Let's help everyone possible cast votes safely.
jsonline.com/story/news/pol…
Why does WI have an election? It's not just a primary—there are 3,831 state and local offices on the ballot, including a critical state Supreme Court justice and 1,596 county supervisors and officers. We need an election. But it should be postponed to give time to do it safely.
So many of our current election rules make no sense in the context of a pandemic. We hope and urge the court to grant relief to voters like Sally. If it finds that it cannot, the legislature must act, and act fast.
washingtonpost.com/politics/wisco…
A donation of any amount goes extremely far right now, with our election just days away! Wisconsin will vote on a Supreme Court seat which could tilt November’s entire election, & we need the funds to both fight now and beat Trump in the fall. Donate here: WisDems.org/Forward
If you have some time on your hands on Friday, April 3, sign up now to call voters and let them know about the extension we just won in court—Wisconsinites now have an extra day to request an absentee ballot!
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Ben Wikler
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Yesterday, @GovEvers called a legislative special session for 4pm today and urged the GOP legislative leaders, @SpeakerVos and @SenFitzgerald, to pass a bill delaying Tuesday's election until May 19 and mailing every registered voter a ballot. It is now 4pm. 1/
It is now 4:21pm. Per @patrickdmarley's in-person reporting, not a single Republican senator showed up. The special session lasted 5 seconds. The assembly session is expected to begin soon, and end similarly. The GOP leadership just flunked its test.
And now it's official: GOP Assembly, led by Robin Vos, is refusing to heed the governor's call to postpone and mail ballots in an election Tuesday where dozens of poll workers and hundreds or thousands of in-person voters are likely to have COVID-19.

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Ben Wikler
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Yesterday, @JoeBiden endorsed @judgekarofsky!
"The stakes are too high for Wisconsin workers and families to have Scott Walker and Donald Trump’s handpicked choice on the bench for the next decade. I’m proud to endorse Judge Jill Karofsky for Wisconsin Supreme Court.”
Jill Karofsky has now been endorsed by Biden, Bernie, Pete, Warren, Castro — and many other leaders who believe that courts should deliver equal justice, not GOP and special interest giveaways
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Yesterday, Trump was asked about the call to delay the Wisconsin election, and said it was probably a response to his tweet re-endorsing Dan Kelly. Which is totally false. But shows that Trump is literally thinking about how to help Kelly when he should be dealing with COVID-19.
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30 seconds ago, the deadline passed to request an absentee ballot in Wisconsin’s Supreme Court election. What we do next could decide whether Trump gets another four years as president. Every dollar now makes a huge difference. Donate here, RT, & read on: wisdems.org/forward
The WI GOP has refused calls to delay the election & switch to vote by mail, despite the obvious threat to public health of in-person voting. But 1.2 million Wisconsinites have already requested absentee ballots. Now our sprint begins to get them returned.
We have one of the strongest field teams in the nation, now working virtually, around the clock, to follow up with people who requested absentee ballots and help them return valid votes. And to mobilize an army of volunteers to do the same. By every possible non-in-person means.
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Matt Weil
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We should expect to see more talking head recommendations for how to alter the #voting process to address #coronavirus concerns. Voting by mail is going be a part of the solution.

Here's why I don't think it can be the whole solution for the #2020election

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States should move to allow more voting by mail independent of recent developments. The @BPC_Bipartisan Task Force on #Elections recommends just that. We support moves by our friends at @voteathome to ensure all Americans have the option to vote by mail

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That doesn't mean all states have taken the important steps to update laws and technology to administer an #election with a very high % of #voting by mail, and it's unlikely many can get up to speed before the #2020election. Many state legislatures have already adjourned
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Austin Zinkle
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*sigh* It seems the timeline is once again interested in questioning the Southern Strategy. For whatever reason, the claim that this GOP political strategy was a myth made up by “leftist academics” has taken off in the last 5-10 years. Let’s talk about this:
First off—no, the Southern Strategy is not a myth. It was a specific political strategy by the GOP to gain electoral ground in the South after losing national elections in 1960 and 1964.
1964 was especially important because Republican Barry Goldwater was able to win 5 southern states, which traditionally had been a solid block for the Democratic Party, because of his opposition to the Civil Rights Act
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🏆In the astonishingly corrupt world of politics in Washington today, it is important to acknowledge people that do the right thing no matter the consequences. I think we should acknowledge the 58 members of the 115th Congress who did the right thing.

#ImpeachTrump
🥇These members of the 115th Congress didn’t think about the political ramifications, their reputations or the timing; they just voted honorably not to table the measure to impeach a prez who is clearly not abiding by the law or representing our country the way it deserves to be.
🏆Most of these members of the 115th Congress are still in Congress, but some are Governors or in new positions. One member, Louise Slaughter D-NY, sadly died in 2018. More on her later.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Sure, let's do this.
As I've noted before, focusing solely on Southern Democratic politicians who officially switched parties -- instead of ordinary voters, as scholars emphasize -- intentionally misses the thrust of the party realignment on matters of race and civil rights:
But, sure, let's ignore what scholars have written on this and meet this question on D'Souza's own chosen ground -- racist Southern Democratic politicians who switched to the GOP.

No, 200 politicians didn't switch -- that's a laughably high bar -- but there were plenty.
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Kevin M. Kruse
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Usually, the popular debate over the partisan realignment over civil rights focuses on southern Democrats, but it's just as instructive to look at the first wave of southern Republicans.
If you missed it, I covered the larger shift in the Democratic Party here:
And as I noted in this follow-up thread below, Democrats led the way on all the major civil rights legislation of the 1960s, but with Republicans serving as a vitally important junior partner in every step of the way:
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Eric Jotkoff
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Some thoughts on the stuff about @JoyAnnReid. I don’t know all the details nor ins and outs of what people are claiming but I do know she is anything but homophobic or bigoted. Long thread warning...
I first met Joy in 2008, shortly after I started as the spokesman for the Florida Democratic Party. As someone who used to read her blog religiously, this whole thing is nuts.
Florida reporters will likely recall, I used to circulate her writings often because I found them to be smart, provocative, and well written. While I didn’t always agree with her, she was one of the smartest voices writing about Florida at the time.
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