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9 Mar, 6 tweets, 3 min read
🚨ALERT: FIVE GOP Senators have announced that they will NOT seek re-election in 2022. In many of these states, Republicans have already proven they’ll suppress voters in order to win.

See for yourself👇
RETIREE: Senator Roy Blunt of Missouri

For decades, Missouri Republicans have tried to suppress the vote through the enactment of onerous voting ID laws. Take a look at this 2018 lawsuit👇democracydocket.com/state/missouri/

RETIREE: Senator Richard Burr of North Carolina

North Carolina is no stranger to bad voting laws. Thirteen different lawsuits tell this story, ranging from Republican challenges to early voting, attacks on vote by mail and aggressive gerrymandering👇
democracydocket.com/state/north-ca…
RETIREE: Senator Rob Portman of Ohio

Ohio Republicans find new ways to rollback voting rights
every election. Check out this 2018 lawsuit challenging the Buckeye State's burdensome restrictions on voter registration👇🌰
democracydocket.com/state/ohio/
RETIREE: Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania

As a swing state, Pennsylvania is now a major target of GOP voter suppression. In 2020, Trump and his allies used the courts to challenge every facet of the Keystone state's elections.

democracydocket.com/state/pennsylv…
RETIREE: Senator Richard Shelby of Alabama

With the imminent departure of Shelby, Alabama is ramping up its voter suppression legislation ahead of 2022. Currently, we're monitoring these bills:

✍️HB 285
✍️HB 314
✍️HB 396
✍️HB 399
✍️SB 200
✍️SB 29

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11 Mar
🎓THREAD: College students make up nearly 20 million eligible voters across the country and are often the target of voter suppression, especially students who move to another state for school. Let’s break down the ins and outs of student voting⤵️
✅Starting with the basics: College students can register to vote using their campus address. In 1979, #SCOTUS affirmed in Symm v. United States that blocking college students from using their school address to register to vote violated the 26th Amendment.
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🚨SOON: At 12:00 PM ET the House Administration Committee will meet about a petition for the #IA02 2020 congressional race. We'll be live-tweeting the meeting on this thread. Before the meeting starts, get the facts on the situation below⤵️
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🚨ALERT: The biggest voting rights case of the term is headed to #SCOTUS TOMORROW, Brnovich v. DNC. Here’s a breakdown of how this Arizona case got started and what’s at stake. THREAD🧵:
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9 Feb
🧵WHO'S WHO: Here are the players in Trump's second impeachment trial...
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PLAYED BY: Sen. Pat Leahy (D-VT)

PURPOSE: Tasks include receiving questions from individual senators and reading them aloud to either the House Impeachment Managers or Trump's legal team.
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