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22 Mar, 3 tweets, 1 min read
Wyoming has 578,000 people, is 92% white and has 2 senators

Washington DC has 712,000 people, is 46% Black and has 0 senators

DC should be a state
House Oversight Committee holding hearing now on HR 51 to make DC 51st state #DCStatehoodNow
"The only way to reverse minority rule is through big structural reforms like abolishing Electoral College, eliminating filibuster, ending partisan gerrymandering, passing HR1/John Lewis Voting Rights Act & giving statehood to Washington DC & Puerto Rico” motherjones.com/politics/2021/…

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Arizona Republicans introduced more voter suppression bills than any state except Georgia

But @SenatorSinema wants to keep Jim Crow filibuster instead of stopping new wave of Jim Crow 2.0

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38,000 gun deaths a year in US: who needs gun control?

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56 years ago today LBJ introduced Voting Rights Act before joint session of Congress & said, "It is wrong — deadly wrong — to deny any of your fellow Americans the right to vote." It was known as "We Shall Overcome" speech, one of greatest ever by US president
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10 Mar
New: @staceyabrams tells me Senate Dems should exempt bills protecting voting rights from filibuster in order to pass HR1 & John Lewis Voting Rights Act

“the right to protect democracy should not be thwarted by minority imposition" she says

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“if we do not protect the participation of voters in our election system, we will find ourselves losing our democracy” says @staceyabrams
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"we have to make certain that a minority of people cannot be in power in the Senate, and therefore deny the basic principles of citizenship to millions of Americans"
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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
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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
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