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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 22

True story: when I rolled out "Laboratories of Autocracy" and "Saving Democracy," insisting that we have to fight for democracy in every corner of every state, I heard from a lot of you.

But the most important political figures in America?

I didn't expect to hear much.

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And with a few exception (thank you @HillaryClinton ) I didn't.

But do you know the most senior elected leader who called me out of the blue (after a Morning Joe appearance) to say she agreed with what I was saying?

One guess.

It was @vp Harris.

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We talked for 20 minutes about how we have to fight for democracy not only at the federal level, but in state after state.

We talked about some of the states I've visited, and she asked what I was hearing.

We talked about her visits with statehouse leaders after Dobbs...

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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 22

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“In the end, it’s not the years in your life but the life in your years.”

A 🧵on Joe Biden's Legacy

I’ve seen the above quote attributed to a number of historic figures, but at the moment, no one personifies it better than Joe Biden.

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Yesterday’s announcement means he will serve just one term as President

But he sure put a whole lot of life and a whole lot of service to this nation into that single term:

He defeated Donald Trump, and navigated our nation through the first attempted coup in our history.

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He returned a sense of service, professionalism and common sense to government after Trump had turned it all upside down.

He lifted our economy out of a deep recession, fueling the strongest recovery in the world. So much so, Republicans keep taking credit for it!

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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 20

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Monday’s Ohio Purge

A 🧵

Across Ohio, voters are routinely removed from the rolls because they move to another county in the states, or out of state entirely, and they documented that move through what is called the National Change of Address (NCOA) form.

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But a few years back, a number of voters from Cuyahoga County (Cleveland) filled out the NCOA form indicating that they were moving from one part of Cuyahoga County to another address WITHIN the County.

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One woman moved from Cleveland to Parma, for example.

Another moved from North Olmstead to Berea.

A number moved from one street in Cleveland to another.

On Monday, almost 160,000 voter registrations are supposed to be purged in the state of Ohio.

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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 18

False narratives: a 🧵

The media narrative on JD Vance has been absurd for years. As is the overall narrative about what ails the so-called “rust-belt.”

Both stem from a warped coastal view of the Midwest, looking for simplistic narratives, falling for the ruse…

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On Vance, just as an example: when he moved back to Ohio from San Francisco, the New York Times for some reason let him run this op-Ed, allowing him to frame his move back to the Buckeye State as if it was a patriotic sacrifice.

He was giving up so much, he told us.

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Huh?

When I moved back to Ohio right after (the same) law school, I saw it the opposite way. Sure, I could have gone to good jobs in other places as well; I had those offers too

But there was great opportunity to be seized right in Cincinnati;

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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 16

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I see some pundits are asking why Ohio should have a virtual DNC roll call for the presidential nomination process.

The answer involves an attack on democracy that only Ohio Republicans engaged in, and the DNC’s laudable willingness to stand up to it.

A quick 🧵

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Here’s what I wrote to a DNC member who asked me about it:

“Here is why I strongly supported what the DNC did re Ohio, and sticking to that position now:

For the first time in modern memory, Ohio Republicans attached conditions…”

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to legislation that extended the deadline for a presidential nominee to be placed on the Ohio ballot. In the past, including in 2020, this has always been done as a matter of course, and for nominees of either party. Ohio also appears to be the only state in the nation…”

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David Pepper

@DavidPepper

Jul 16

🚨 Did you know that JD Vance once attacked what he termed “the childless left”?

The guy literally said those without children have no “physical commitment to the future of this country”—“Why is this just a normal fact of … life for the leaders of our country to be people..

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…who don’t have a personal and direct stake in it via their own offspring?” He literally mentioned the names of a number of politicians who don’t have children.

I mean…Who. Does. That???

And then, of course, the guy also voted against protecting IVF both in the Senate…

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…and in Ohio.

He called universal childcare “class warfare.”

He praised Sandy Hook conspiracy theorist Alex Jones as “far more reputable source of information than Rachel Maddow.”

And he suggested women should stay in bad marriages, even violent ones.

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