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Adding one piece of historical context here: The massacre happened in early November, just after the election, because a pre-election campaign of voter suppression and intimidation was deemed by political and business leaders to have not been successful enough #ncpol
From this: media2.newsobserver.com/content/media/…
And it worked. After killing a bunch of people and forcing the elected town council to resign at gunpoint, the mob leader appointed himself mayor, and nobody did anything about it
Anyway, it’s good to keep history like this in mind when you see pre-election headlines in 2020 like this
Or this
Or this one that I wrote back in the 2018 elections amp.newsobserver.com/news/politics-…

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Breaking(ish): Federal judge strikes down NC voter ID law for 2020 for being racially discriminatory

We knew this was coming, but not in such a sweeping fashion. And she struck it down for the entire election cycle, not just the primary #ncpol #ncga newsobserver.com/news/politics-…
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Here's my latest article on those investigations, ICYMI newsobserver.com/news/politics-… #ncpol #ncga
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