Thread by @benwikler

NEW: Wisconsin’s hyper-partisan Republican state legislators want total control. They need only 3 more seats in each chamber to get supermajorities—& power to re-gerrymander through 2032. But we have a plan to stop them: #SaveTheVeto. Chip in to help: SaveTheVeto.com/donate 1/

Wisconsin’s GOP legislative leaders just now (as in, BREAKING NEWS) asked our GOP-dominated state Supreme Court to block @GovEvers’ #SaferAtHome order. @RepVos wore PPE while telling voters it was “incredibly safe to go out." Well, he was just warming up.
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GOP Assembly Speaker Robin Vos holds office thanks to just 16,775 votes in a gerrymandered district. His goal: reign as God-emperor of Wisconsin.

Robin Vos led the power grab after Tony Evers beat Scott Walker in 2018. Now he wants to grab still more.
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Robin Vos is only Speaker because of gerrymandering. After 2010’s tea party wave, Republicans controlled redistricting. They gerrymandered the state so intensely that, in 2018, Democrats won 54% of the vote—but only won 36 out of 99 Assembly seats. gq.com/story/republic…

If we can #SaveTheVeto and block Vos’s goal of winning a supermajority, @GovEvers will be able to veto maps that are gerrymandered to engineer GOP control for another decade—and we’ll have a shot at real democracy in Wisconsin.

So, what’s the #SaveTheVeto plan? Use the strategy from our state Supreme Court victory—now in key legislative districts. Partner with our Assembly and Senate legislative caucuses to go on offense while defending key seats.
savetheveto.com

Massive organizing. Training. Research. And the resources candidates need to win. We’ve raised $2 million already to #SaveTheVeto. Much more to go. Chip in to help us score a win for democracy in America's must-win state: savetheveto.com/donate

Here’s what @GovEvers, who toppled Scott Walker in 2018 and is now the GOP’s obsessive target, has to say about #SaveTheVeto: wispolitics.com/2020/wisdems-l…

Wisconsin's Senate Democratic Leader, @jenshillingwi, has this to say:

And here's Assembly Democratic Leader @GordonHintz, who would be our Speaker if GOP gerrymandering weren't thwarting democracy in Wisconsin at this very moment:

We’ve got to fight for democracy every step of the way—as Republicans try to weaponize coronavirus to suppress voters, shred the safety net, and try to tear down protections that keep us safe. And we have to defeat them in elections.

Wisconsin is bright purple. Robin Vos and the GOP are trying to enchain its democracy, suffocating the state until it turns bright red. But a blue heart beats below our glacial moraines. Help us #SaveTheVeto and stop the out-of-control GOP: savetheveto.com/donate

In Wisconsin's Supreme Court race, we ran a massive organizing operation to help Wisconsinites vote by mail. It crushed all expectations—and toppled an incumbent Supreme Court justice for only the second time in half a century. Now, let's do it again.
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Here's what Robin Vos has to say about reforming Wisconsin elections to allow everyone to vote by mail. This man wants total legislative control of Wisconsin. Don't let him have it. nytimes.com/2020/04/21/us/…