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David Pepper Profile picture
@DavidPepper
Sep 30, 2020 • 6 tweets • 3 min read • Read on X
THREAD ON HOLDING TRUMP ACCOUNTABLE FOR HIS LIES IN OHIO

I’m live from Cleveland, and here’s the plan, @OHDems and friends who want to help turn Ohio blue

There’s no way @JoeBiden can fact check every one of Trump’s lies tonight. That would be all he does.

But...

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...WE can all hold Trump accountable for his lies tonight. We can make each lie painful for him. And that’s our plan tonight:

It’s become clear....Ohio can end the Trump presidency, and end his plot to undo the outcome before it even starts.

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A blue Ohio saves our nation.

So our plan tonight? Every time Trump tells a lie right here in Ohio, let’s hold him accountable right here in Ohio

Every time he lies, make him pay.

Make him feel it

By giving to our effort to turn Ohio blue

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We have created a special page for this. And every time Trump lies (if we can keep up) we will call it out and link to our page.

And each time, we hope you will consider holding him accountable for each lie by giving $10 (or more) through the page.

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secure.actblue.com/donate/cledeba…
We will keep everyone posted on how much we are holding him accountable.

Bottom line: the more he lies IN Ohio, and about Ohio, the more we want to hold him accountable right here in Ohio.

And we will, by winning here, w your help.

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secure.actblue.com/donate/cledeba…
Let’s not force Joe Biden to fact check every lie.

Let’s hold Trump accountable ourselves.

It’s On!

Who’s ready?

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PRESERVING OUR LIVED MEMORY

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One of the most dangerous aspects of the passage of time amid dark moments like now is how quickly the collective memory of Americans evolves, and can fade entirely.

This adds an especially weighty responsibility on those of us..

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of a certain age: to preserve and pass on our lived memories of how liberal (the classic definition of the word), representative democracy operates in its best days.

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Resolute: 8 Reasons that Keep Me Going

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An email arrived in my inbox early this week, from a friend I’ve come to know in recent years who also happens to be an expert in democracy and the rule of law, in the United States and globally:

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“Hi, David--

I am in a state of deep sadness--but more than that, fear. I think the [T]rump guys are totalitarians--even madmen.  I have never felt anything like this before. It's like the end of the world as we have known it..."

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Nov 22
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This week, I wrote a 🧵 about my trip to Robertson County, KY, where I asked people why Kentucky’s smallest county (which also voted 80-20 for Trump) also was the most opposed to a referendum to bring school vouchers to Kentucky.

Here were the 2 big lessons learned:

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Lesson One: On the attacks on public schools:

“One town, one school.”

How clear is that?!

Robertson County School is the prized centerpiece of this small community. Its beating heart.

And the people of the county feel connected to it in deeply meaningful ways:

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they graduated there, their kids or grandkids go there, they work there—or worked there. They know and respect those who work there. They respect what the school and those who work there do within and beyond the classrooms.

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Nov 20
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ROAD TRIP: The Most Anti-Voucher County in Kentucky (and it voted for Trump 80-20)

A 🧵 on lessons learned (way beyond education)

The Kentucky Amendment to add private school vouchers was absolutely routed: 65-35. (Trump won Kentucky 65-34).

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It lost in all 120 counties. And by 60-40 or worse in all but 9 of those counties.

And—it did the worst in Kentucky’s smallestcounty: Robertson County. Population, 2,033 (as of 2023). It lost there 74-26!

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As context, Robertson County also voted 80-20 for Donald Trump.

And yes, a key plank of Trump’s platform is to extend states’ failed universal voucher experiment to the federal level, which means vouchers could soon show up in all 50 states:

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About a year ago, I wrote a review of Erik Larson's "In the Garden of Beasts," an account of the US Ambassador to Germany's tenure there in the early-mid 30s.

I shared lessons from the account that feel more relevant now than ever.

Here is a snippet of them:

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1) Do not allow everyday acts of violence to become normalized;

2) Do not allow increasingly vile & inhumane and violent and disturbing rhetoric and ideas to become normalized. Call them out (ie. thank you to those who marched in response to the neo-Nazi march in Columbus!)

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3) Do not dismiss the most bizarre, ostentatious and odd happenings as too outlandish and irrelevant to be taken seriously;

4) Do not dismiss those engaged in vile and disturbing rhetoric as mere clowns or buffoons who...

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To those who just ran and didn’t succeed:

Thank you.

You just performed the highest level of service you can in our democracy.

And if you ran in a tough/gerrymandered district, thank you even more.

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Running in a one-sided district in order to engage voters, lift turnout and hold an incumbent accountable is an act of patriotism of the highest order.

Your entire run for office was an act of public service. And courage.

Again, thank you.

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