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27 Jan, 5 tweets, 1 min read
Absolute must read. The GOP is on track to gerrymander themselves into a House majority next year. Trump is on track to be reelected with a trifecta after that. If you want to avery that catastrophe, Dems have pass democracy reforms NOW.
And it'd be helpful for Twitter to pass reforms so I can edit the "to" into the above tweet.
And "avert." Sigh.
This is Indivisible's top priority, and we have a whole guide and nationwide campaign around getting in done. Find a way to get involved locally to make it happen. indivisible.org/democracy-guide
of course the tweet with two typos gets traction. ughhhh

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19 Jan
LOLOLOLOLOLOL! Too bad Mitch, if you wanted that you shouldn't have lost the senate. Elections have consequences.
Unfriendly reminder that Mitch used his GOP votes to gut the filibuster twice when Trump was president - once to expedite nominees and once to install reactionary conservatives on the Supreme Court.
Literally lesson #1 from the new Indivisible guide:

***Expect the GOP to obstruct, delay, and engage in bad faith BS***

Read the rest here: indivisible.org/democracy-guide
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19 Jan
Get ready to shift how you think about congress. (quick thread bc Zeke’s asleep)...
For 10 years, it was a safe bet that congress would accomplish nothing. Congress was defined by dysfunction, gridlock, or outright white plutocracy under Trump.

But there’s a Dem trifecta for the first time in a decade now, so it's time to make new bets- and make them fast.
Usually congress moves slowly or not at all. Historically though, when a Dem trifecta comes, there is a brief window of opportunity - usually measured in months, not years - where legislative progress suddenly speeds up.

A quick trip through the last 100 years of this:
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30 Oct 20
Hoover got 40% of the vote for his reelection in 1932. Here he is with massive crowds at a campaign rally a week before the election. I note this for 3 reasons:
1) We remember Hoover as a historic loser, and 1932 as FDR's landslide. But 4 in 10 voters chose Hoover. Millions upon millions of Americans enthusiastically supported his reelection.
2) While there are many things not-normal about Trump, the fact that he draws crowds at his reelection rallies is not one of them. Incumbent presidents, regardless of how disastrous, draw crowds!
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27 Oct 20
Last year, Leah & I wrote a book subtitled, "A Blueprint for Democracy After Trump." The plan:
1) Win a trifecta
2) End the filibuster
3) Pass democracy reform, Voting Rights Act, DC statehood, self-determination for territories
4) Reform the courts
goodreads.com/book/show/4500…
Further down the list, the blueprint includes other democracy reform ideas not yet really on the national agenda:
-National ranked choice voting
-Proportional representation in the House
-Historic investment in local and public media
If we win that trifecta in a week, we can enact every one of these reforms quickly through simple legislation. All we need is a majority vote in the House and Senate, and the president's signature. Literally all of this could be the law of the land next year.
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26 Oct 20
Zeke's asleep so real quick here's why next year is gonna be awesome. I'm a fan of presidential scholar Stephen Skowronek. He's got a "political time" theory about presidents - basically, their personality is less important than their place in time. (*great* polisci to follow...)
Some presidents get to establish multi-decade regimes - Jefferson, Jackson, Lincoln, FDR, Reagan. The coalitions & political agenda of these presidents define the contours of political debate for decades to come.

Skowronek's book on the subject: goodreads.com/book/show/9046…
Other presidents of the same just party innovate off the current regime.

Truman, JFK, and LBJ were all FDR-acolytes pushing their own brand of FDR liberalism.

Both Bushes were Reaganites pushing safety net cuts, religious judges, deregulation, and big military spending.
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22 Sep 20
Y'all, Texas is winnable. Here's the key: the turnout MACHINES are the down-ballot candidates. They're spunkier, less well known, & lower on cash. Every dollar of donation and hour of volunteer time to them goes to getting out the voters we need to win the state. Short thread...
.@candacefor24 has one the strongest Indivisible groups in the country rallying around her. TX-24 is a winnable R+9 district near Dallas full of voters we need to win statewide. Rated "tossup"! She's out with her first ad today - get behind her.
.@JulieOliverTX incredible, inspiring candidate who in 2018 came closer to unseating the reactionary Republican incumbent than anyone in his career. This is round two. TX-25 is a R+11 district stretching from Austin to Ft. Worth. Watch her ad:
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