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21 Jan, 4 tweets, 2 min read
exactly 2 weeks ago , at around this hour, Ted Cruz voted to disenfranchise every single voter of Pittsburgh (a city that went for Biden) by throwing out their state's electoral votes.
now that that's been said, I'll add: worse things to do than listening to the citizens of Paris when it comes to climate
(also watch out to see if Hidalgo runs for president in France next year))
The mayors of Paris & Pittsburgh, @anne_hidalgo & @billpeduto, both weighted in on the Paris accords today.

cc: @tedcruz.

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20 Jan
Georgia is transformed.

And this is not just happening in *federal* elections & policy.

Yes, the state is run by the GOP, still. But locally, just since Nov., there've been huge flips & changes toward Dems in general & toward progressive policy in particular.

Some examples. ⬇
Gwinnett & Cobb counties, populous suburbs of Atlanta, were long conservative bastions — & known for very anti-immigrant policies.

Two black Dems flipped both sheriffs' offices in November away from longtime GOP sheriffs.

And both VERY quickly ended ICE contracts this month.
Cobb & Gwinnett are important for 2 reasons: partisan shift at top of ticket also applied to local offices.

*And* these Dems ran on big meaningful transformations like ending ICE contracts, *&* kept their words.

That wasn't obvious at all. Took work. (theappeal.org/politicalrepor…)
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Taniel Profile picture
19 Jan
A big day in Georgia today: The new sheriff of Cobb County terminated the county's (287g) contract with ICE.

This used to be Newt Gingrich's base; it had a longtime GOP sheriff who targeted immigrants. But in 2020 a Black Dem ran on this, flipped office: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…
"Let me be clear: there’s a new day and a new era in Cobb County," the new sheriff (Craig Owens) said today. ajc.com/news/atlanta-n…

Indeed!

Here's what he told The Appeal in September on why he'd do this: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…
And 👀: this is 3rd populous Southern county that has quit ICE's 287(g) this month due to the 2020 races! (And there've been more since 2018.)

Gwinnett County (GA) & Charleston (SC) also just elected sheriffs who ran on this.

My thread on Charleston:
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18 Jan
big news in Virginia: a bill to abolish the death penalty passed the state Senate's Judiciary Committee, 10-4.

All Democrats voted yes. And one Republican voted yes.

(Just a year ago, the bill had failed in the same committee. So this was one of the clear obstacles.)
3 Dem senators who last year had voted to delay the bill (as well as one Republican) voted to advance it today.

The Republican who joined proponents of abolition is Bill Stanley, from the 20th district. [**corrected**]
Virginia is the likeliest state to abolish the death penalty in 2021, as I've said, & keep up the trend of yearly abolition.

But many steps remain.
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13 Jan
Many exciting things in Dems' updated federal voting rights bill.

Including online, automatic, and same-day voter registration mandates.

Another big measure: restoring voting rights to anyone who is not presently incarcerated. Would affect millions.
There's important organizing around the important idea of eliminating disenfranchisement altogether.

But the fact that Dems are coalescing so clearly around the idea that anyone not incarcerated should vote is itself recent, & a huge deal. 4 states got that done in 2019/2020.
(That's why I said it was so disappointing earlier this week for the VA governor to propose felony disenfranchisement reform that would not at least enfranchise everyone not in prison: It leaves many behind, *and* in a way that's far from the mainstream politics of the moment.)
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12 Jan
Very disappointing move by Virginia Gov. Northam.

He is proposing restoring voting rights to ppl who finish all their sentence, incl. probation & parole.

But 19 states already allow anyone not in prison to vote: Californians just approved that 60/40!

virginiamercury.com/2021/01/11/vir…
Since 2017 it's become default move for Dem-run states to pass laws enabling at least anyone who is not incarcerated to vote.

Nevada, Colorado, New Jersey, and California did this in 2019/2020, joining 15 states who already had these rules.

Virginia falls way short of that.
And not just Dem states! Ohio, Indiana, Utah, and other red states allow anyone who is not presently incarcerated to vote.

(Louisiana in fact just enabled some people on probation & parole to vote in a 2018 law.)

Will the bill pushed by Virginia Dems really fall short of that?
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10 Jan
It doesn’t work to say “even the president of the United States” to convey dangers that people’s account could be deleted, when whole problem is that the most powerful person in nation— “even the president of the United States”—is agitating for a violent overthrow of democracy.
Corporate monopolies over communication & media are absolutely a problem we should confront. But Trump having power & directing it against democracy is not what vindicates that diagnosis: it’s an urgent danger to be taken as a premise if you care about the other problem as well.
Especially when he has built that power in great part thanks to the world created by those corporate monopolies — from his ability to lie with no context, to the decimation of local media & investigative newsrooms, to the mutual dependence of ratings/views between him and them.
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