Tomorrow evening at 6pm eastern, @ProfCAnderson@jimdowns1 and I will be returning (virtually) to @librarycompany for another discussion about voter suppression, past and present.
That discussion was turned into a terrific book, edited by @jimdowns1 for @UGAPress -- a transcript of our discussion and a number of important essays on voting rights and voter suppression.
Now, a year and a half later, we're getting (some of) the band back together to discuss how things have somehow gotten even worse and talk about how we might make it better.
Oh, Ratcliffe is leading off. Well, that inspires confidence.
The guy who was originally turned down for DNI because he lied about his resume is here to warn about disinformation.
Ratcliffe says that Iran is trying to meddle to hurt Trump, but then mentions the emails threatening voters — ones saying they’ll release info on them if they don’t vote for Trump — but doesn’t mention Trump there. Well done.
I know there’s a lot of horrible things going on and there’s much more important stuff to worry about and the NFL season is surely doomed, but I still feel the need to announce the return of YOUR REIGNING SUPER BOWL CHAMPIONS, THE KANSAS CITY GODDAMN CHIEFS!!!!
As I've noted repeatedly on here, the first wave of Southern Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s largely showed the same support of segregation as Southern Democrats.
Texas Republicans in the 1950s and 1960s fit that pattern well.
For instance, when the Brown ruling was handed down in 1954, the Texas GOP nominee for governor attacked the Court and promised he would preserve segregation if elected.
He went so far as to criticize Texas Democrats for failing to take a "positive stand for segregation."