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3 Mar, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Wow: a shock result in St Louis tonight.

The 2 most progressive candidates in the mayoral election have moved to the runoff. Cara Spencer, Tishaura Jones. (City council president eliminated.)

There were major contrasts in 4-way race on policing, criminal justice, housing. See:
Spencer and T. Jones were only candidates who ran on ending the notorious local Workhouse jail.

Jones faced attacks for supporting the decriminalization of sex work during the campaign.

Reed, one of the perceived front-runners, won’t make runoff. More: theappeal.org/st-louis-mayor…
This is at least 4th recent St Louis-region election where the candidates who won or advanced were those who’d ran the more strongly in the field on criminal justice reform/changing policing.

St Louis County prosecutor
St Louis City prosecutor
Cori Bush’s primary
Mayor’s race
Here are two older stories on some of the activism that’s driving changes in St Louis:

1/ theappeal.org/politicalrepor…

2/ huffpost.com/entry/st-louis….

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28 Feb
Big voting rights news in Virginia!

Both legislative chambers adopted a measure yesterday to restore voting rights to everyone not incarcerated.

VA would be 20th state to allow that, a HUGE turnaround: VA is now one of 3 states where law is *lifetime* loss for all felonies.
Two *buts*

1/ Measure has to be a constitutional amendment, so process is complex: it has to be adopted again next year, then put on 2022 ballot.

2/ State will continue stripping ppl in prison of vote. VA advocates mounted very focused push to end disenfranchisement entirely.
One reason it’s significant: states with*lifetime* bans, when they’ve reformed, have been adopting smaller measures that enfranchise ppl who complete a sentence — leaving many not incarcerated disenfranchised, confusingly.

VA jumped over that stage, at least. (As NV in 2019.)
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24 Feb
Portland's new DA just testified in the Oregon legislature in favor of the bill to abolish felony disenfranchisement, including when people are in prison.

(on the bill: theappeal.org/politicalrepor…)
I asked Schmidt about this when he was runnig last year. (And fwiw I believe I may have been the first person to get him on the public record on whether he supports this: he didn't seem to expect the question, which isn't often asked.)

theappeal.org/politicalrepor… Image
Oregon's Secretary of State, @Shemia_Fagan, also testified for the favor.

With this strong encapsulation of the case for it.

(An earlier testimony by Fagan was broadly supportive, but had a big qualifier. See exchange: )

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13 Feb
First Republican to vote to convict: Richard Burr.
Second Republican to vote to convict: Bill Cassidy
Third Republican to vote guilty: Susan Collins
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11 Feb
The Houston DA is getting a mountain of Eyes today for prosecuting a doctor.

She was up for re-election in 2020, & challenged by a few progressive candidates in a Dem primary that just didn't generate that much buzz & attention.

(Which is just to say, local elections matter!!)
ALSO, are you paying attention to 2021 elections for DA yet? Because things are starting to heat up. theappeal.org/criminal-justi…
Houston's Ogg secured the nomination in March with 55%, avoiding runoff. I've wondered how well she'd have fared in July runoff (after attn to George Floyd, police, inequality) had she dipped below 50%.

Austin's DA went from being down 44/41 in March to losing 68/32 in July.
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Taniel Profile picture
21 Jan
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))
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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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