On March 7 1965 John Lewis brutally beaten marching for voting rights on Bloody Sunday in Selma

56 years later Republicans have introduced 253 new voter suppression laws in 43 states

This is why we need to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act
At time of Bloody Sunday in March 1965 only 2% of Blacks registered to vote in Selma. You had to name all 67 county judges to get on voting rolls 

Because of incredible courage of John Lewis & civil rights activists, LBJ introduced Voting Rights Act 8 days later
On anniversary of Bloody Sunday Biden issues executive order making it easier to vote

“elected officials in 43 states have already introduced more than 250 bills to make it harder for Americans to vote. We cannot let them succeed” whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/…
This is 1965 moment for Dems

They can eliminate filibuster to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act to stop GOP voter suppression

Or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade

Stakes couldn't be higher motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

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8 Mar
Breaking: Republicans in Georgia Senate just voted to repeal no-excuse absentee voting, which 1.3 million voters used in November, including 450,000 Republicans

Georgia Republicans wrote mail voting law & defended until Dems & Black voters started using in large numbers
Georgia Republicans passing largest rollback of voting rights since Jim Crow, targeting mail voting, early voting & automatic voter registration

"every single metric of voter access that has been a good in Georgia is now under attack” says @staceyabrams motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
It’s more important than ever for Dems to pass For the People Act & John Lewis Voting Rights Act to stop GOP voter suppression

“Republicans unchecked are creating an existential crisis for democracy” @staceyabrams tells me motherjones.com/politics/2021/… Image
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3 Mar
New: @amyklobuchar tells me she supports ending filibuster to pass For the People Act

"we have raw exercise of political power going on where people are making it harder to vote & you can’t let that happen in a democracy because of old rules in Senate” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
HR1 would be largest expansion of voting rights since passage of Voting Rights Act in 1965:

-Automatic & Election Day registration
-2 weeks early voting
-Expand vote by mail
-Stop voter purging
-Independent redistricting
-Public financing elections
Dems can eliminate filibuster to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act to stop GOP voter suppression

Or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade

Stakes couldn't be higher
Read 9 tweets
1 Mar
Breaking: Georgia’s GOP-controlled House passes new voter suppression bill #HB531 cutting weekend voting, restricting mail ballot drop boxes, adding voter ID for mail ballots, giving voters less time to return ballots & dramatically limiting runoff time after Dems won in Nov/Jan
"Georgia is ground zero for the GOP’s escalating war on voting, targeting the voting methods that were used most by Democratic voters in 2020 and which contributed to flipping the state blue and electing two Democratic senators" motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
Dems have a clear choice: they can get rid of filibuster to pass John Lewis Voting Rights Act & For the People Act to stop GOP voter suppression

Or they can allow GOP to undermine democracy for next decade

The stakes couldn’t be higher
Read 7 tweets
1 Mar
In 2013 Supreme Court gutted Voting Rights Act & unleashed wave of voter suppression in states like GA TX NC

Now GOP pushing 253 new voting restrictions in 43 states & trying to kill what’s left of VRA before SCOTUS tmrw

This is huge threat to democracy motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
In early 1980s John Roberts led effort to weaken Voting Rights Act at Reagan DOJ

In 2013 he wrote opinion gutting heart of VRA

Now Republicans trying to finish what Roberts started so they can pass even more egregious voter suppression laws
Ted Cruz & Mitch McConnell tell SCOTUS Section 2 of Voting Rights Act is unconstitutional

This is a truly extreme position

They want to kill what’s left of VRA so Republicans can enact unlimited # of new voter suppression laws
Read 6 tweets
26 Feb
Republicans on Georgia’s Senate Ethics Committee just voted to repeal automatic voter registration, which 5 million of state’s 7.6 million voters used to register. More egregious voter suppression in Georgia
Georgia Senate Ethics Committee also voted to repeal no-excuse absentee voting, which 1.3 million people used in 2020, including 450,000 Republicans. Republicans trying to undo everything in state that makes it easy to vote ajc.com/politics/senat…
Press releases from Brad Raffensperger brag that Georgia has “gold standard" trifecta of automatic voter registration, early voting & no excuse absentee voting

Georgia Republicans have now passed bills through committees to repeal or restrict all 3 motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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26 Feb
67% of Americans support raising minimum wage to $15 hour but it can be filibustered by 41 GOP senators representing just 21% of country. This is why we need to abolish it
Abolish the filibuster
US Senate ridiculously undemocratic:

-split 50-50 but Dems represent 41 million more people

-15 states with 38 million people elect 30 GOP senators

-California with 40 million people elects 2 Dems motherjones.com/politics/2021/…
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