(1/8) Sigh. All the in-fighting about $ spent & which orgs were effective & which weren’t. IT CLEARLY TOOK ALL OF US. We will learn in weeks ahead what moved the needle the most & where. But this isn’t a one-size-fits-all country & Democrats can’t be a one-size-fits-all party.
(2/8) In deep red southern states like mine, I’m inspired by the voter protection and grassroots mobilization efforts led by @staceyabrams. We need it desperately! Folks are curing ballots and fighting to count every vote here as I type.
(3/8) And in this deep red state, Democrats are in the superminority, & the largest party affiliation is independent. So we need organizations that reach crossover & fiercely independent voters. We can’t just excite Dems (there aren’t enough of them). We have to cast a wider net.
(4/8) Here, we need investment from groups who help train, educate, & support women running for office, particularly Black women who have carried Democrats in the South for decades. The women we have elected have proven to be incredible public servants, but we need a pipeline.
(5/8) I could go on and on. But I know that what we need here may be different entirely from what is needed in a blue, urban state, or a purple state in the rust belt. In deep red states, we know this is a LONG game. We are blue drops trickling up.
(6/8) But in other states like Georgia, a blue wave is cresting. They figured out what worked there & they WORKED. And Georgia will tell us what it needs to win these Senate runoffs. We must listen and deliver the resources and support in whatever form they are requested.
(7/8) State by state, region by region, there is no one formula. There is just all of US... focused, organized, mindful, doing our part in our vastly different communities to make life better, safer, more just and equitable for all.
(8/8) We know what the consequences are if we don’t.
Well, here's Gordon Brownwell's letter to Harry Dent. Dent worked for Strom Thurmond, Goldwater, Nixon, Ford, Reagan, and George H. W. Bush.
Here's Strom Thurmond who stumped and strategized with the Goldwater and Nixon campaigns (excerpt written by former Republican Congressman Paul N. McCloskey, Jr.) huffpost.com/entry/republic…
Here's Kevin Phillips who worked for Nixon (excerpts from Venomous Speech: Problems with American Political Discourse on the Right and Left) amazon.com/Venomous-Speec…
Thread (1/28) Today, @Hulu drops the 1st episodes of #MrsAmerica which tells the story of our failure to ratify the #ERA in the 70s/80s. I know this story-You should too. Why? B/c it explains the 2016 election. Really? What does the ERA have to do with Trump’s win? Glad you asked
(2/28) “At one time, ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment seemed like a foregone conclusion. In fall 1971 and spring 1972, the #ERA sailed through the House & the Senate by votes of 354 to 24 and 84 to 8” from my piece in @washingtonpost#MrsAmericawashingtonpost.com/outlook/2019/0…
(3/28) On 3/22/72, the #ERA moved to the states for ratification with a 7-year timeline. It needed 38/50 victories to become the law of the land. 3 states passed it in less than 24 hours (HA, NH, DE)! 5 more passed it by the end of month (IA, ID, NE, KS, TX)! #MrsAmerica
Found the kid playing with her dog instead of Zooming with her teacher. She told me not to worry. She took a screenshot of herself “paying attention,” then cut her video & replaced it with the picture. “It’s a gallery view of 20 kids, mom. They can’t tell.” She is 10. #COVID19
(1/5) Thanks for the LOVE folks! A few things: 1-she was still listening & they weren’t doing a lesson just checking in. We’ve talked about when it’s inappropriate. She gets it. She’s always pushed the limits, but her heart is big.
(2/5) She says she took a full-screen screen shot, cropped it, made it a virtual background, and covered the webcam with a sock. Yes, I’m both proud and scared.
THREAD: (1/11) 3 years ago, @ewarren read Coretta Scott King's letter opposing the 1986 appointment of Jeff Sessions to a fed'l judgeship. @ewarren thought King's objections remained relevant in 2017 as the Senate considered the confirmation of Sessions as the US Attorney General
(2/11) In her letter, Coretta Scott King was critical of Jeff Sessions' actions as a US Attorney in the early 1980s, and she did not want him to have a lifetime appointment to the federal bench. For example, she wrote:
(3/11) King's 1986 letter and testimony to the Senate Judiciary Committee should have been entered into the Congressional Record. However, the Chairman, Senator Strom Thurmond (SC) (who ran for Pres. in 1948 on the Dixiecrat segregationist ticket) apparently forgot to enter it.
(1/7) Since @DineshDSouza refuses to do"takebacks" (despite getting schooled daily by @KevinMKruse & his fellow #twitterhistorians) & since I still can’t believe that @CandaceOwen denied the GOP’s Southern Strategy, I’m reposting this short thread of evidence to the contrary.
(2/7) In a 2005 speech to the NAACP, the former head of the GOP, Ken Mehlman, apologized for his party’s Southern Strategy. At the time, Bob Herbert called it an empty apology in the @nytimes because it was still going on. It still is. nytimes.com/2005/07/18/opi…
(3/7) Some quotes: Scholars Murphy & Gulliver on Nixon: he “hoped to woo Southern support so ardently that there might once again develop a solid political South—but this time committed as firmly to the Republican party as it once had been to the Democratic party.” @KevinMKruse